Geeks in Space: Recent Episodes
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda is a legend... like Big Foot. But less harry and more interested in science fiction and technology.
RobChrisRob linked up once again for an abbreviated episode mostly to smoke test if OBS streaming from a Mac is viable... but we also talked about animating QR codes as an air gapped data transfer mechanism, Quake turning 30, going full spoiler on the new Spider-man, and then oops someone has to leave early for secret reasons.
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RobChrisRob link up once again from pretend low earth orbit to talk about a new film released on VHS, Birds building nests out of fiber optic cables left as waste during drone warfare, the pilot who flew thousands of miles without a license, the sale of the original Airplane prop Otto the Autopilot, Xsnow protestware, and Meta caught doing something shady, which is just so shocking. We also talked about Opus, Obsessions, Supergirl, Nuremburg, and They Will Kill YouDiscord, here: https://discord.gg/NcG7DWt
Bullworth. Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
Grogu, Death Watch, and Good FortuneJoin our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob unified their brain power to talk about the EA private equity acquisition and how that will be totally fine, the YouTubers who slung together a dozen 56k modems to stream youtube to early 2000s computers, the samsung ring that swelled up and hurt a fingee, a new show 'I Kill the Bear' from the maker of Letterkenny & Shoresy, Windows 7 marketshare rising as Microsoft abandonds Windows 10, someone bought 40,000 steam games, the World Worming Championships, the new & old Toxic Avenger and the marketing that erases medical debt, discord leaked 70,000 govt IDs, China will be punishing the pessimists online, films 'Toxic Avenger Unrated', 'Steve', and 'All of You'. Good times.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob returned from their brief adventures in the real world to talk about the nearly half million dollar auction for an original wood boxed Apple I, the Fish rigged up to a Nintendo Switch that managed to identity theft(?) or bank fraud(?) or something... but also it beat Pokemon... all a Zebra Cow that repels flies won an Ig Nobel Prize, and SCANDAL has rocked the rock skipping world championships and even the RING OF TRUTH can't settle it. Also Gen V, Alien: Earth, and Life of Chuck.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob returned from parts unknown to chat idly about matters of little import ranging from YouTube pagecount shenanigans, doom running on an Anker battery, a hack that uses lid angle sensor information on a macbook to audibly creak on lid movement, google heroically dropping support for the Lynx browser, a webserver running on an old vape pen, Angela Collier's video on Dyson Spheres, sun activity on the rise, and a few films including Matinee, Honey Don't, and Secret Mall Apartment.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob linked up mostly, with one of us represented only by an infinitely looping video to discuss our hopes and dreams for next weeks Alien: Earth TV series directed by Legion creator noah hawley, the hacked flipper zero firmware that can unlock car doors and brick your keyfob, the latest techniques in thwarting poachers with radioactive horns, the zoo that will take your old pets to feed their animals, and the US military is going to buy cybertrucks for... target practice. Because driving them offroad isn't ideal. We also talked a little about South Park and Jurassic World.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob unified after far to many moments spent apart to talk about matters of limitless cosmic significance starting with South Park's $1.5B deal, their ratings spike, and their season premiere... we also talked about the lady who gets hundreds of seat covers delivered to her house by amazon and they just won't stop, the furry robots vs florida snakes, the funeral home that sent human brains back with the family by mistake, the GamerCard handheld emulator based on the raspberry pi, the YouTuber in trouble with the law for talking about emulators, Darth Vaders laser sword up for auction, Fantastic Four, Superman, Star Trek, and whatever other media we consumed since we last met.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob linked up for an abbreviated episode where we talked about a CD burner program designed to engrave images onto the physical surface of the CD, a seattle acting troup that puts on Star Trek episodes as outdoor plays, a $2M investigation to decide if DEI causes plane crashes, eerily realistic brazillian baby dolls, Florida's record setting snake problem, Poker Face, the Greasy Strangler, and The Surfer.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob returned from their various locations scattered throughout pretend low earth orbit to talk about Cockatoos that have mastered drinking fountain technology, the Ukrainian IP address space changing due to the invasion, the trailer for Alien Earth, the world's tiniest violin, nuking the Ocean to save the environment (what could possibly go wrong?) , disney wants to create an animatronic Walt and his granddaughter repeats history, a 200 year old erotically decorated condom is now on display, as well as Poker Face, Deadly Friend, Once Bitten... Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob started off with a correction regarding last weeks discussion of the paraglider fall, then talked about Bobcats (which are not the same thing as jaguars) not being fooled by laser pointers, a robot attack dog that... pees? Then we explored how much robot dogs cost on Temu, the collapse of builder.ai apparently triggered by the revelation that it was actually not AI and was instead just... people, scientists are giving cocaine to flies, Films Novacaine, Bit, Last of Us, a Magical Evening with Beverly Luff Linn, and so much less!Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob grouped up virtually to discuss trivialities such as the revelation that the CIA ran a Star Wars fan site for years to give agents a back channel to hide communication, Tom Cruise kinda wants to make a les grossman movie (but not really). Motherboard manufacturers are at long last addressing the real problem of getting slightly poked by the metal bits on the back of motherboards, AI resorting to blackmail as an act of self preservation, the Amazonian tribe suing the Times for smearing its members as porn addicts, Japan cracking down on weird baby names, a chinese paraglider surviving an 8,000 meter accident, Some random babbling about video games, films The Day of the Fight, and Psycho Therapy.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob linked up from their various locations to discuss the ohio family that did the coolest thing imaginable when they built a full sized concrete stargate that probably doesn't work, but we should test it just to be sure, The Onion bought Infowars which caused an irony feedback loop, the DNA tracking company that... disappeared, using strobe lights to distract sharks from surfboards, and someone dressed in a bear costume is breaking into cars as part of an insurance scam... also L'empire & Megalopolis.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob returned from a break during a slow news week to talk about the Remarkable Life of Ibelin, Super/Man, the re-activation of Voyager 1s decades old S-band antenna, The Substance, Kinds of Kindness, and intel finally returning free coffee to the employees which will definitely right the ship over there.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob gathered together once again to talk about a giant armadillo fossil discovered in south america, a woman who was killed taking a selfie in front of airplane propeller, the Apple magic mouse that was updated to include USB-C but forgot to move the port off the bottom of the unit, the Vatican has an official anime girl mascot, a researcher accidentally found another buried mayan city, a japanese city that is building creepy puppet dolls to combat population decline, and troubles with Orion's heat shield.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob unified once again to discuss Euclid's first released images of the far far away, Doom finally running on a RedBox so we can all put our minds at ease, Alien: Romulus will be getting a VHS release so you can pad out that shelf, a dude got busted for cheating at Conkers which is a sport, Elno was sued by Blade Runner 2049's producers for using AI to ripoff the design for a tesla ad, Boeing Made intelsat exploded in space, creating more space debris which won't be a problem ever, Kamala Harris has earned the endorsement of the Insane Clown Policy and thus locked up the Juggalo vote and all but guaranteeing her win in november, and the controversies surrounding russian devs on the kernel getting the boot in response to sanctions. Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob linked up to spend some quality time talking about the 'demastered' re-release of the Green Day hit album 'Dookie' (which is actually very well done and quite funny), the hacked robot vacuums hurling racist slurs around the homes they are cleaning, SpaceX caught a super heavy with its mechazilla arms, NASA launched Clipper to jupiter, and Ward Christensen, inventor of the BBS & Xmodem back in the 70s died at 78.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob linked up from their various locations to talk about parasitic wasps, the woman who should have stopped feeding the racoons, losing the .io domain name, the robotic finger that will cough examine you in the future, the pink floyd themed Ham Slicer, Pud's hilarious artisanal headphones, Rubidium, Science Glassware, Agatha All Along, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Sing SingJoin our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob battled technical difficulties for a somewhat abbreviated broadcast where we talked about an unexploded WW2 era bomb that exploded under a Japanese runway, the ISS has admitted that it sprung a leak in 2019 that has been growing ever since, a kid finally wrapped tetris's level counter back to level 1, LGR is on hiatus due to hurricane damage to Clints house which sadly contained a museum's worth of retro computing, the LAPD was surprised when they tried brought guns into an MRI room, a paralyzed man's exoskeleton battery is out of warranty and yay capitalism, NORAD & the Pentagon had to remind Canada that contrails aren't a thing, and a maintenance worker in a museum in the Netherlands through away the art thinking it was just empty beer cans. Oops. Also Rob kept disconnecting and then Chris had a phone call so shit got weird.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob picked up right where they left off to talk about the USPTO finally killing the joint DC/Marvel trademark over 'Super Hero', the fact that 23andMe is on the auction block means millions of people's DNAs is for sale, Fidelity cut their valuation of their investment in xitter by 79% since elno took over, Big Foot Conferences, Library Trucker Bombs, Happy 100th Birthday Jimmy Carter, a malfunction on the most recent Falcon 9 launch is being investigated, a Y Combinator startup has been accused of cloning an open source project, California has banned legacy admissions which will definitely work, and Deadpool is out on streaming this week.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob unified once again to talk through a working LEGO turing machine on the ideas website that I'm sure we'll never see into production, the russian drone shot down over Ukraine with a Starlink antenna, Elno dumping space trash on Cards Against Humanity's property, AI discovering new Nazca lines, the WordPress drama, OpenAI Shenanigans, and a bit of Agatha All Along.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob returned from abroad to talk about the Nintendo Pocketpair lawsuit, using Glass as an Antenna, photographing secret satellites, Mulaeny's roast of the AF at Dreamforce, and relatively little else... Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob linked up to talk about Pseudo-CGI in films like Escape from Mew York & Max Headroom, the engineering keeping Voyager thrusters firing, Doom played on a Volumetric Display, the 2024 Ig Nobels, Otter Attacks, the carpet at at seattle's airport, and of course the Dragon Con carpet that inspired much cosplay
RobChrisRob reunited at last to talk about the Starliner's uneventful albeit uncrewed return to earth, the death of legendary actor James Earl Jones, Michael Crichton's widow suing Max over a doctor show that stars an ER actor, Raygun officially ranked #1 for the b-girl world rankings, the Florida IT company that accidentally hired a North Korean hacker, and then a lot of rambling about names that work for both My Little Ponies or Gangsters, because this is what we've come to people!Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob regrouped to talk about the AirTags used to uncover sham recycling, covid vaccination misinformation still rampant, bed bugs found inside chromebooks, the relative nature of 'Blue' vs 'Green', Elon vs Brazil, the Haunted Starliner Capsule, Angela Collier's amazing Picard teardown, using a 486 as a video game console, the Navy chiefs that rigged up a rogue Starlink on a ship, Emily the Engineer's Benchy, a cursed mushroom that learned to crawl with a robot body, a Dye that makes skin translucent, and cheap headphones that have a wire... but also use bluetooth.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob linked up from their various pretend locations in low earth orbit to talk about matters of great importance including the accidental crumpling of a Bezos rocket, the Beastie Boys playing their gold record for Paul's Boutique and discovering that it was in fact.. NOT Paul's Boutique, a lady mailed an AirTag to herself to catch a mail thief, the trailer for the remastered goat simulator is fire, NASA has finally decided to send the Starliner home uncrewed & stranding the the astronauts for another 6 months, RFK drove 5 hours to cut of a whale's head with a chainsaw (wait, what?) the disability advocate who never existed, 3D Printing a Benchy in under 2 minutes, HDMI Forum blocking AMDs 120hz 4k HDMI Linux Driver because we can't have nice things, an explanation for the famous 'Wow!' signal has been found, Xitter warns users that NPR might be unsafe.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob linked up their communication arrays from their disparate orbits to discuss the influence of AI on Swifties, DJTs Campaign, and Journalism, as well as the latest in 3D printing homes, and a brief dissing of the final season of Umbrella Academy before going super spoilerific on Alien Romulus.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob returned from adventures near & far to discuss Xitter's latest legal shenanigans, the Cybercrime rapper busted for... cybercrime? Pong that runs on your mouse's firmware, the latest in the Boeing Starliner strander at the ISS, SpaceX's plan for a manned polar orbit, Waymo's late night mating calls keeping SF neighbors awake, fonts rendered using Subpixels, and Disney's bonkers argument that the arbitration agreement for their streaming service exempts them from responsibility in food poisoning someone to death.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob avoided tornados and space debris to talk about the STarliner capsule still stuck at the ISS, the Space Shuttle's 59lb printer, the WASD evolution of PC gaming controls, the fuse filesystem that uses Google Calendar as the backend, the original artwork from Andy Warhol's Amiga demo has been found RFKs insane bear story, and the disappointing unfinale for this season's House of the Dragon.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob gathered together the courage to talk about the news in August... the nightmare month when the world is on vacation and news dies. So we talked about an F-16 accidentally dropping its fuel tanks in Michigan, Intel laying off over 15,000 people, Dungeons & Dragons releasing their 2024 rules under a CC license, as well as brief movie mentions of I Saw the TV Glow, Problemista, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Bottoms.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob returned from a couple weeks of travel & refurbishment to catch up on a host of weird old news including the Cloudstrike crash, Intel's CPU shitshow, whale attacks, AI Lawyers, testing for so-called 'Motor Doping' at the olympics, a rise in orbital debris, Google's licensing deal with reddit removing it from rival search engines, deepfakes vs CEOs, hiding fish in your sleeves, Kirk's original phaser up for auction, Red Hulk, Thelma, Robert Downey Doom, and of course a bit of Deadpool & Wolverine.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob linked up to play the soon to be classic game 'Put the DVD Logo in the Corner', Henry Cavill's Highlander is shooting, repairing the highway damaged by a tunneler, a middle school tiktok mob torments their teacher, using Wattaburger's app to monitor power outtage after a hurricaine, the first trailer for the Captain America: Brave New World, Wendell's video on Intel CPUs that seem to be failing, Chris went off on how this is actually impacting their game, finally we talked a little about Acolyte, House of the Dragon, and when new content damages the brand. Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob achieved enough signal integrity to link up to talk about the ISS astronauts having to take cover in their escape pods b/c of another 'Event' in space, we played Super Moxio Bros, a mario clone with graphics and sound effects based on an ancient piece of tech known as a 'typewriter', the gamer who flew a thousand miles to hit a fellow gamer with a hammer, only to be defeated by a parent, Paul Allen's living computer museum is getting sold off, Wizards of the Coast accused of using Hillary as a Paladin model, a giant sinkhole opened up in a soccer field, a korean ISP installed malware on 600k customer PCs to stop bittorrent piracy, a live ranking of airlines by lost luggage... and finally getting the world record in 'Hatetris', the tetris clone that always gives you the worst piece. Chris got a 0. He's doing great.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob linked up despite keyboard failures and power outtages to discuss Starliner's delayed return to earth, the Vision Pro bug that allows bats to leak into your augmented reality, the truetype font with a built in LLM, tesla troubles including locking a toddler in a car when the battery died and the breaks and accelerator disagreeing about the speed a parked cyber truck should travel, Harper's AI powered Office, drone sailboats, and a bit of Furiosa.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob returned from the edges of the universe to talk about the genyus idea of polishing a cybertruck, JWZs new privacy policy for XScreenSaver, all 3 consoles have no abandoned Xitter, Pharma Bro is back in the news for copying the Wu Tang clan album, NASA accidentally broadcast a distressed astronaut simulation, concerns for Boeing's Starliner capsule currently docked to the ISS with various leaks and malfunctions delaying its return, Curl in 22,734 steam games, Tetris as a Font, New York banning addictive feeds for teens, Mandy the TV Show, Mandy the Movie, The Baby, The Acolyte, The Taste of Things, and whatever else we felt like yakking about.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob pulled it together and spent the morning chatting about Para Social relationships we form with Youtubers and their relative social worth compared to real relationships with friends and families... we mentioned that Project Hail Mary is filming, Paramont & Skydance are merging (which will have Star Trek implications), Zen 5 is faster than Zen 4, a lady found a glitch in her gas card but got busted for buying $28k worth of fuel, Starliner successfully launched and docked with the ISS despite helium leaks and thruster problems, Starship launched, splashed down and released some awesome video, Hubble's down to 1 gyro, China's tallest waterfall has a secret pipe behind it, the Acolyte is mixed, Boba Fett action figure sold for an insane amount at auction, and the Tokyo government is releasing its own dating app to help drive up the birthrate which immediately derailed things dramaticallyJoin our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob gathered together from their pretend locations in low earth orbit to mourn the loss of Kabosu- the Doge meme dog, the Washington Post shifting to AI, the official shutdown of ICQ, feral chickens, AI headphones, Tom Bombadil coming to Rings of Power, playing Snake on a Switch, Umbrella Academy's final season trailer, the sexy sexy popcorn bucket for Deadpool & Wolverine, the man with a suspended license who was driving on his zoom call with the judge, Furiosa and The Fall Guy.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob grouped up to talk about the efficacy of Shadowbans, and for once spoke about something about which they actually have great expertise, then we talked about AppleTV's Time Bandits TV show, Faxing code to a compiler, Google's genyus AI telling people to glue their pizza toppings on, Voyager 1 is sending science data again, Scientists are brewing beer with killer bees, a kid got busted for cheating at a science fair with a huge scholarship prize, a Self Driving Tesla nearly hit a train, Drone footage of a tornado, the Boeing Starliner on indefinite hold (astronauts breath sigh of relief?) and movie The Iron Claw, Star Trek Discovery winding down (at last) and the secret hidden in unused sectors of the space quest 2 floppies for decades!Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob linked up to talk about the summoning salt video on Tetris World records, the recently found Enterprise model caught up in a legal controversy, Scarlet Johanson has beef with OpenAI for maybe cloning her voice, Microplastics found in every tested testicle gives me an excuse to write the word 'Microplasticles' and I'm just so thankful, kids new dumb thing: Smellmaxxing, Flavor Flav is going to be the official hype man for... US Women's Water Polo (yeah girlz!) FDA approves a second Neuralink implant patient... and then things seriously derail as we talk about a dude got caught trying to have sex with... a pink tesla. Because... eww.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob circled up to talk about news that Nicholas Cage will reprise his Spider Noir char for a live action amazon prime show, the Dublin/NY video portal thing got shut down because people were being idiots, Supergirl getting a summer of '26 release date, the security vulnerabilities in smart intersections, Dune Prophecy, iOS 17.5 apparently undeletes your nudes, the Streisand Effect rears its ugly head on an australian mining billionaire's unflattering portrait, Happy Gilmore getting a sequel, turning your dead relatives into chatbots, and Tokyo vs RacoonsJoin our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob hurridly met up to defeat hard IRL deadlines to talk about the visual and tractor related fallout from last weekends massive solar flare activity... we also talked about Orphan Black getting a sequel show, Sigourney Weaver joining the Mando/Grogu movie, the FCC is definitely for sure going to prevent monopoly bandwidth/content providers from forcing fast lanes onto the internet, the poor dude who got charged for not refilling the gas tank on his rental tesla, and then one of the Robs went on a crazy rant about the film Hundreds of Beavers and perhaps to a lesser extent about The Lake Michigan Monster, both of which are awesome.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob linked up to talk about the enshittification of amazon prime video and youtube as both are screwing with screensavers and pause screens to make media consumption less pleasarable, Peter Jackson is producing a Gollum focused LotR film, Deepfaking dead relatives is already a thing in China, The Fantastic Four finds their Galactus, NOAA is forecasting a huge solar storm for tonight, and then a bit of a tangent on the most recent Ghostbusters trainwreck, The Marvels, The Eternals, and so much more.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob unified to talk about Episode I's return to theaters, Sony changing their mind on requiring Helldivers 2 to use a Playstation Network account to log in, Pokemon Go players are monkeying with the public map databases to try to spawn rare beach pokemon, the browser plugin that turns your calendar into Breakout, the crewed Boeing launch was scrubbed last night, but will be trying again soon (and our general fear over Boeing being in charge of anything involving human lives), the Solar Orbiter got some sweet video of the day star, and mad genius scientists have created cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using ultrasonic waves and Rob really hopes someday this yeilds a less messy kitchen.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob linked up their pretend orbiting space station communications arrays to talk about matters of urgency including the unlicensed spa that gave 3 women HIV through a procedure known as a 'Vampire Facial' which is grosser than you might think, evidence that someone or somethign is cloning threads on reddit fake engagement, Chris played a little bit of Spacewar! running in a browser emulator, the Psyche Probe managed to sustain 25mb/s data streaming to earth from 140 million miles, Russia cloned wikipedia, edited it, and banned the original, the Rabbit R1 is mostly just VNC, BASIC turned 69, Sony/Apollo might buy out Paramount, Sparkles the most terrifying robot, and experimental puppetry if you happen to be in Atlanta...Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob talked about For All Mankind picking up another season, a plugin that will protest Reddit licensing their content to the AIligarchs by replacing all your posts with new content that definitely shouldnt' be copyrighgted because it would be a shame if all that valuable user created content was re-appropriated, made fools made a robot dog with a flamethrower that you can buy for $10k, Post Malone & Michael Bay are working on a movie where an 18 wheeler from heaven fights zombies in medieval europe, DOS 4 is getting a source code release, and DC pulled the covers from a few comics after being accused of generating them with AI- but the artist produced sketches, so who the hell knows?Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob circled up to talk about Lord & Miller going forward with Project Hail Mary starring Ryan Gosling, The engineering wizards at NASA have got Voyager 1 communicating updates to earth again, the ISS has an unknown drug resistant bacteria on board which is probably no big deal, a mom found a jawbone in her kids Rock Collection, a guy who's body naturally makes its own alchohol was cleared of drunk driving charges by a Belgian Judge, and Deadpool & Wolverine have a new trailer, so we talked a bunch about how Liefeld ain't so hot at drawing feet...Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob regrouped to yammer about Dan Harmon coming on board the live action One Punch Man, the couple who got accidentally divorced thansk to computer error, the 1950s Panavision 70 stylized Matrix trailer, a new security camera that shoots paintball, Linus inserting tabs into code to break badly coded kconfig parsers, the Putty encryption security hole, NASA confirmed that the florida house WAS hit by space junk a few weeks ago, $10M in gold disguised as painted machine parts, a web page chronicling an unending stream of failures to properly center things in user interfaces, Elon Musk announces plans to charge to post on Xitter, and Tesla's truck apparently don't fare so well in Car Washes... we also ended up by heaping praise on the new Fallout TV show which.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob reunited to talk about Roku patenting an HDMI man in the middle attack to insert banner ads between your devices and their TV because they are bad and they should feel bad, Vampire Drones that can steel recharging using electricity from overhead powerlines which will definitely not be used by the AI machines to take over the world, a UEFI IRC client so you can chat like its 1995 without even booting an OS, Chechnya is banning musing that has tempos outside government approved parameters, scientists tweaked some mouse genes and figured out how to grow legs where genitals should be, AMC execs are a little embarrassed about that Dune Popcorn Bucket, and one of the Robs saw Kong x Godzilla and has thoughts....Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
Your favorite pieces of space trash RobChrisRob linked up to talk about the white house wanting to create a time zone for the moon, the Matrix 5 getting Drew Goddard as a director, Dark Star turns 50, a sad girl sings the MIT License, Tekken's director wants to know why Americans want Waffle House as a location for Tekken 8, a chunk of real space trash might have gone through Florida Man's roof, Botswana threatening germany with a delivery of... elephants... and then a whole extended discussion on our AI generated 'Space Trash' TV show which for some reason ends up with us returning to a planet populated by puppet people. Perfect.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob linked up their communications arrays (although one Rob managed to make his stupidly quiet) to spend some time talking about the recent news that xz was used to create a backdoor into major linux distributions, caltrain employees are turning train stations into housing, the 2024 hugo finalists, Russia looking to spin up its own game console to circumvent sanctions, the kind person who confused a hat for a hedgehog and was worried when it wouldn't eat, and the shocking news that Discord is going to start showing ads.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob linked up their disparate communications arrays to discuss the Canadian strategic maple syrup reserve hitting a 16 year low, the dating app GPS bug that is trying to bring Israeli & Lebanese together, the Hawaiian landowner who discovered a $500k house built on her lan, Harvard will remove the human skin book binding from a book make in the 1800s, the Nigerian woman who faces jailtime for a bad review of tomato puree, and the man who got the neuralink brain implant used it for... civilization 6.Join our discord to talk along or the Subreddit where you will find all the linkshttps://discord.gg/YZMTgpyhBhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TacoZone/
RobChrisRob overcame adversity to talk about chimeric kidneys, the latest in Godzilla news, Mapping rooms through walls with WiFi signals, the florida city known as 'Nub City' for the worst reasons, and finally just a bunch of complaining about the Unity licensing hub-bub that made lots of folks pretty grumpy yesterday.
RobChrisRob gathered together albeit someone briefly to celebrate the release of the trailer for Fractured Veil, the game that Chris & Rob have been working on for many years now. The trailer looks great and you should definitely watch it and add the game to your steam wishlist immediatelyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjNd3QQnENUWe also talked a bit about a dude arrested for trying to cross the Atlantic ocean in a giant hamster ball, a man being hugged by a boar, watched the video of a murderer escaping from prison, talked about the gore of the Gen V trailer that has us all super excited, and were shocked SHOCKED that there is something sketchy about the reviewer scores on Rotten Tomatoes.
RobChrisRob gathered together as is their practice to watch RVs try to escape the mud pit of burning man, discuss the Radioactive Boars in germany that show evidence of WW2 and Chernobyl in their meat, Lidl forced to recall Paw Patrol snack packs when an expired domain on the packaging redirected to exactly what you might expect, the current status of a 4% link tax in canada and the problems between the news media & the aggregation industry, we talked about Tesla's lithium ion batteries 'sploding after exposure to salt water during huricaine idalia, a kickstarter watch that shipped after 10 years, rental e-scooters to be banned in Paris, as well as a bit on The Meg 2, and Joy Ride.
A trio of RobChrisRob gathered to exhaustedly trudge through news including AI generated Mushroom Foraging books that might lead to death, Elno's genyus decision to turn Xitter into a Xitcoin service, the Dungeons & Dragons inmates on Death Row, Hulu cancelled 'The Great', Henry Cavill's Highlander reboot, as well as our idea for Highlander Babies, a quick review of Blue Beetle, and the greatness of Clancy Brown.
RobChrisRob returned from countless hours of power outtages to talk about... power outtages & food truck apologies, followed by the Clearspace-1 debris cleanup getting turned into MORE debris, a new Ape skull challenging human origin theories, the Chandrayaan-3 rover rolling down onto the moon, the new 20 armed antarctic super starfish thats probably gonna kill us all, the latest blue tick mark scammers on Xitter, porting Linux to the c64, the return of the Fyre Festival, neutron analysis of the Arecibo cables, and the Kaiju of the Meg 2.
RobChrisRob regrouped to mention the return of Shoresy & Express skepticism for Zak Snyder's Rebel Moon, we also talked about Bambu 3D printers going rogue overnight and breaking a bunch of units, Fruit Flies that scientists found riding carousels for fun, the Microsoft AI written travel guide that suggested you go to a canada food bank with an empty stomach, Lawsuits over Bored Ape auction sales, Pink Floyd recreated using brain scans of listeners, time lapse photography of Tempest, the successful moon landing by the Indian Chandrayaan-3, A plethora of avoidable Xitter dumpster fires including accidentally deleting all the media from before 2014, Block vs No-Blocks, and the Name Change causing SEO and App Store Ranking to plummet, and finally we talked a bit about Ashoka, Killing It, and a few other shows keeping us busy.
RobChrisRob gathered together for the 800th episode of the oldest podcast on the internet and started off by talking about the controversies coming out of Linus Media Group and the Gamer's Nexus criticism piece... we followed up by talking about White House plans to crowd source cybersecurity, The Roblox Hamilton Crossover your 12 year old is dying(?) to see? The Italian Cheesemaker crushed by cheese, banks sued for dodging regulation by using end to end encryption on Signal & Whatsapp, Elon's Xitter throttling redirects to websites critical of him, the MLS Database under cyber attack, Life discovered under hydrothermal vents, a third humasn lineage, way more blackholes found at the edge of JWSTs view, and the supermarket AI that definitely suggests a recipe for chlorine gas!
RobChrisRob returned from a lengthy absence to get into critical matters of great importance LK-99, the superconductor that isn't, the iPad that Emulates PalmOS to IMAX half of Barbenheimer, Marvel VFX employees unionizing, Even Zoom won't WFH any more, Taylor Swift Fans earthquake, and homemade Pit Droids.
RobChrisRob synchronized their communications arrays to talk about the twitters getting the (not so) surprising endorsement from the Taliban, which led down a whole rabbit whole of discussion about Threads, Twitter Traffic declines, the Elno Plane Tracker moviing to threads, and the absolutely insane name calling from a man who is still somehow respected by lots of people... we also talked about the legal difficulties of AI Voices being used by mod creators, Water Sommeliers, Smash Rooms where you can do what you want to old printers, and the MyHouse.wad Doom II mod that is really an extraordinary achievement in... something?
RobChrisRob did the thing they do a couple times a week, but this time specifically talking about a really impressive cycle accurate emulator for XT, Macron blaming video games for French riots, mechanical turk workers using AI to do their job, the Wisconsin governor who used his veto to remove a couple digits and a hyphen to change a bill, baby octopuses, Elon threatens Facebook with a lawsuit for hiring the employee, Guardians 3, and SO MUCH MORE!!
RobChrisRob talked about the death of Google Reader, and the ongoing collapse of Reddit & Twitter, the trailer for Zom 100, Fue5, the AI that screws with telemarketer, the Philippines tourism trailer that got caught using stock footage from NOT the Philippines, a machine that lasers weeds instead of using herbicides, Elon's genius idea to give people who drive on the wrong side of the car a stick instead of giving them the car they want, iPhones calling 9/11 because it confuses dancing with car crashes, and finally a brief discussion of Indy 5 and then it gets spoilery so you should nope out!
RobChrisRob synced up their communications arrays from their locations in pretend low earth orbit to talk about the restaraunt that hired a fake priest to hear employee confessions, a browser designed to rewrite thumbnails & headlines on youtube to avoid clickbait, Reddit's latest embarassing decisions to replace moderators and just generally make the internet just a little bit worse, the titanic sub wreckage field was found, Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg cage match is definitely happening, Eve Online integrates with Microsoft Excel, Kraven the Hunter's trailer, a grizzly using a shed as a scratching post, and a brief chat over just how boring the premiere episode of Secret Invasion was, and maybe just maybe it will pick up the pace.
RobChrisRob successfully avoided Starlink Light Pollution to talk about the epic Oner that opens Extraction 2, a 5.7tb 3D navigable map of mars, the trailer for Squirrel with a Gun, the tragic disappearance of a tourist submersible en route to visit the titanic wreckage, a really amazing drone airshow, the ongoing slow motion collapse of reddit, and a brief discussion of The Flash concluding in a bunch of spoilers so you should nope out if you really care about the handful of cameo's that Warner Bros forgot to spoil already by just sticking them into the ads.
RobChrisRob briefly discussed the return of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to the air, but then mostly mired in the sadness of watching Reddit implode upon itself knowing full well that no matter what happens, the internet at large will be worse off when the dust settles. We also talked a fair bit about the worsening of google search results, the general enshittification of the internet, the bummer news that the Bab5 animated return is a time travel story, our general hopefullness for the return of The Boys, hackers that stole bitcoin from Russia, and an IBM quantum computer that for sure definitely is going to change everything definitely ok sure.
RobChrisRob dodge surface to low earth orbit power transmission beams from california to talk about Protosteroids, a new world record of solving Rubiks Cubes, Trailers for Star Wars Outlaws and Cities: Skylines 2 (where we go on an extended discussion about the inevitable Stephen King mod), rumors that the Monsterverse TV show will be shot in 3D for the Apple VR Helmet, we talked for a fair bit of time about the Reddit collapse currently underway over API changes on what was arguably the last large/good platform of this sort still online, we talked for awhile about a refinery explosion, Fast X, and ChatGPT updates including lawyers blaming the AI for lying to them, and a church that used it to write a sermon.
RobChrisRob pretended once again to orbit our glorious planet, but while talking about Windows 11 accidentally identifying zip files as 'Postcode Files' to UK english installations, a stable diffiusion project that transforms QR codes into art, the 2023 film Blackberry and how it represented the dot com era techies, a mechanical watch made from an actual apple watch, a tiktokker who was arrested for trespassing into a busch garden aligator pit, a lot of discussion of what should be done to him, and theme parks in general, K9 dogs not always used appropriately by law enforcement, and the first new nuclear reactor in 40 years going live in Georgia.
RobChrisRob return from beyond to catch up, talking about a Connecticut bear caught on tape stealing 60 cupcakes from a bakery, a netflix trailer for the new Skull Island animated series, the New Zealand Pizza Parlor that will let you buy a pizza in exchange for payment when you are dead...we waxed nostaligic about Computer Shopper and celebrated the brave soul who has taken on the task of scanning in many issues of this giant tome, the new NASA laser link capable of bursting 200gbs from orbit to ground, the awesomeness of Sisu, a few minutes raving about Across the Spider-Verse, and wrapped up by expressing
RobChrisRob did battle with the packet monsters and lag beasts and survived, but not before talking about a $200 8088 laptop & Rob's ancient Toshiba Libretto, The Strange New Worlds Season 2 Trailer, TikTok getting banned in Montanna and what that means for the first ammendment, the Texas Prof who failed his class because ChatGPT told him that it wrote their papers, a Cocaine Shark movie, Pink Floyd "Fans" who didn't know that the most famous album cover of all time had a rainbow on it, how to change a battery in a Pulse CD, Orcas sinking boats in europe, and John Wick 4
RobChrisRob spin up into pretend low earth orbit for a bit to talk about the AI girlfriend pulling down $71k in a week, the new .zip TLD and the risks it poses, a tiny handheld 386sx that yes will run doom, climbing a wall like Spider-Man, cutting the lawn with chainsaw boots, and a whole slew of new moons discovered around Saturn.
RobChrisRob talekd about crashing the ISS into the ocean, using deepfakes as a court defense, a pixies track that is cancelling google alarms, robots that play soccer and other robots that swim, edible batteries, the app to help people cancel meetings, X-Ray specs, the Wendy's chatbot that will take your order, Moderator Mayhem: the game for moderation, the meg 2, Fishing Scandals, and the Utah author who killed her husband and then wrote a book about grief...
RobChrisRob got together to talk about the Dune 2 trailer, the Jury finding Ed Sheeran did not infringe on Marvin Gay, which led to a lengthy discussion about AI scriptwriting, the trailer for Silo, Smart toilet seats, a new Spider Verse trailer, and Babylon 5 coming back as an animated film... we also spent a lot of time using ChatGPT to write our own TV Pilot...
RobChrisRob returned from elsewhere to talk about WotC using the pinkertons to hunt down a youtuber who unboxed stolen Magic cards, a Pizza Chain commercial generated by AI that boggles the mind, Netflix's password Policies in Spain and what it means for the future, a plugin to remove verified tweets from twitter, a huge plot of land in sydney, eating a banana as art, the new transformers Beast Wars trailer, Parrots socializing over zoom, Picard, and then Chris went on an unstoppable rampage over The Ark.
RobChrisRob gathered together from their pretend orbiting platforms to talk about SpaceX crowding in on their turf, Curiosity getting a software update, lasercutting Doom WADs, the uninvolved guy who's face ended up in a documentary about a hatchet wielding hitchiker, writing book reviews to reduce prison time, John Deere kill switching stolen tractors, grounding B-17s, the astounding graphics of Unrecord, killing cats in new zealand, fake trash pickup for Mayor PR, the next Godzilla movie, and a discussion of the finales of Mando & Picard.
RobChrisRob got distracted for a bit talking about their childhood jobs until we looped back to talk about the Seattle Airport construction Woes, the trailer for The Marvels looking pretty solid, the new NASA director swearing in on a copy of Sagan's Pale Blue Dot and what books WE would swear oaths on, the Chinese moon mission has discovered a new source of water on the moon- inside glass beads, 3D Printing a selectric printer ball for comic sans, an automated swatting system causing problems, a GPT4 model running on a TI84, and Chris told us about his ridiculous new laptop
RobChrisRob gathered together to discuss a plethora of film trailers (Barbie, Ghosted, Extraction 2), to tease Chris for a bug that put his face all over the place in Fractured Veil, Elon screwing around with twitter's signage and brandage, criminals who cut through a bathroom wall to steal iPhones which are totally untracable, an actual oled keyed keyboard, film reviews of 65, Quantumania, Shazam 2, and the news from Star Wars Celebration.
RobChrisRob linked up their communications array to talk about Chris's BFF Carol Baskin moving her cats out of Florida, Futurama chars visualized as 80s fantasy film chars, a 'Coherent' radio signal detected coming from a planet 12 light years from earth which somehow devolved into a conversation about using target gift cards as a form of interstellar currency, ChatGPT tricked into generating Win95 Keys, how effective the AI Pause is gonna be, and the most ridiculous laptop we've seen in awhile
RobChrisRob gathered together in pretend low earth orbit for another broadcast of the oldest podcast on the internet... we talked about the trailer for the upcoming Wes Anderson film Asteroid City, the discovery of a new giant black hole, the cancellation of E3, Meth Pigeons making deliveries into a canadian prison, Samsung AI adding teeth to baby photos, Scott Pilgrim's original cast returning for an Anime series, a Principal in florida fell for an Elon Musk scam, Meatballs made from mammoth DNA, and the inevitable success that will come from tech leaders asking us to all just pause AI for a few months and think about it for a bit.
RobChrisRob talked about the real world situation where farmers are now able to use Farming Simulator to evaluate real world products... this led into a tangent discussion about VR in general and the killer apps that we've yet to see for platforms existing and unannounced. Then we talked about a trailer for another War of the Worlds movie, a man busted for donating sperm so many times that he has fathered 550 children, a religious war in Lebanon over... daylight savings time, the Museum of Failure in Brooklyn which pokes fun of classics like the Hula Chair, the Segway, and Google Glass, and we wrapped up talking about MIT testing Oreos for science reasons.
RobChrisRob started off hot talking about the mad respect for the fashion and innovation obviously present in a group photo of the mid 90s MIT Wearable Computing Project... then we talked about a D&D Monster Manual with a goal of raising awareness for endangered creatures... I talked a little about the monsters of Shazam 2, then we talked about Unreal's facial animation capture system, a dating sim that really does file your taxes, Utah declaring Brine Shrimp their official state crustacean, the 3D Printed Rocket that almost but didn't quite make it to orbit, and finally a bit of Mando and a bit of Picard.
RobChrisRob kicked things off by remarking that the spam problem has been solved by the FCC and we don't have to worry about SMS spam any more. Cough... GPT-4 tricked a human into solving CAPTCHAs for it, Rolls Royce got cash to develop generators for the moon, but so far basically just created a really dumb render that looks like it was made by AI, we talked about the Open Sauce convention and the terrifying works of the I did a thing youtube channel, a paper about goblin sharks debunked as the evidence was a kids toy shark, people injecting botulism in their guts to lose weight had bad results, weird walking robots, ocean algae plums set to overwhelm beaches, and Glen Howerton starring in a movie based on Blackberry that doens't look awful...
RobChrisRob discussed Aldi's Easter marshmallow oopsie, an ambient temperature superconductor (assuming you can apply bottom-of-the-ocean levels of pressure to it, Mario Sized boots, mosquito clouds that kill Livestock, a Queen Maeve memoriam released as part of the marketing run up to the next season of The Boys, and finished up by talking a little about the Silicon Valley Bank crash.
RobChrisRob linked up their pretend orbital platforms to dig deep into the pressing topics of the day, including the upcoming slate of cocaine animal based films, the WWE trying to get state regulators to allow gambling on their pre-planned results, the shocking news that seized narcotics imported into the US are more Viagra than Fentanyl, Rob actually really enjoyed this weeks episode of Picard (Best Episode Ever!) there's an asteroid that will kill us all but sadly not until 2046, and the Silicon Valley Bank run which totally is not the harbinger of the badness yet to come....
RobChrisRob gathered together once again after several vacations and power outtages to discuss blowing up beaver dams with tannerite, the government shooting down hobbyist balloons with missiles, Twitter losing $60M a year to SMS bot spam, a gadget that verifies your LOLs, Canadian super pigs, Everything Everywhere All at Once Hot Dog Fingers Auction, Warners planning a LotR reboot, FBI recommending Ad Blockers, Toberone Redesigns, our mixed feelings on the latest season of Picard and the Season premiere of The Mandalorian...
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.
RobChrisRob sit back and chat cheerfully about matters of varying degrees of significance ranging from SF Police getting to watch private surveillance camera, the alleged GTA6 hacker arrested, James Earl Jones sells his voice to DIsney so Vader can live forever, Stable Diffusion's inevitable ending of the world, Trombone Champ, Russian airline repairs, the voice hautning American Airlines, Dart smashed into an asteroid (on purpose), Shameware apps, Nude Chess vs Cheaters, and Andor Impressions...
RobChrisRob spin around the world for a bit and yak about using Stable Diffusion for image compression with actually effective results, mechanics using DOS and eBay scraps to keep the Bart Running, JWST capturing glorious images of Neptunes rings, Signal getting blocked in Iran, Kittyhawk Shutting down operations, a Chinese Firm that cloned and Arctic Wolf, the latest internet fad of cooking with NyQuil (Don't Do that!), a proof of concept taking eyeglass reflection from zoom calls to recreate your computer screen, and the ever increasing weight of GPUs putting insane strain on the poor old PCI slot.
Despite sickness, RobChrisRob gathered together in pretend low earth orbit to gab about the hacking of Rock Star, and the leaking of GTA6 related materials, then we talked a bit about the US Appeals court case banning the tech industry from moderating... anything? So I'm sure that will be fine... we also talked about the evolution of Battle Bots, Loab- the internet's new meme darling, a food delivery robot going under police tape during what was thought to be an active shooter incident, but thankfully turned out to be a hoax. Lastly we talked a bit oabout the Jon Hamm Fletch reboot, HotD, and Rings of Power.
RobChrisRob try to avoid any real work by talking about a new generation of thinner ATM skimmers, the Shuttle Airstream Van sold at auction for $20k, the Blue Origin accident, Alabama's latest Execution Plans, Blade Runner 2099 green lit for a show on Amazon Prime, paying $75k to make your legs 3 inches longer, and the filmography of Aubrey Plaza
RobChrisRob orbit high above the planet earth and chat about who's gonna run the show at DC, JWST photographing a star from 28 billion lightyears away, Amazon will or will not buy EA, Scuplting Butter, the Twitter Whisleblower, the Netflix Wednesday Addams teaser, a Bioshock Movie, the SNL Grouch Sketch, as well as Armageddon and other 90s schlockbusters.
RobChrisRob started off by complaining about self checkout lanes in grocery stores, but also managed to find time to talk about the JWST taking a sweet new picture of Jupiter, how Netflix's camera standards cause their shows to share a visual aesthetic, Ferris Bueller might be getting the most unlikely spinoff ever, the works of Nicholas Cage, Sandman, and House of the Dragon.
RobChrisRob survived early technical drama and successfully managed to discuss laptops that crash when they play certain frequencies, and the unsurprising hack that "fixed" it, the human population getting to 8 billion, something called Orbital and its scientific flaws, the Zapata flying, flippable deck chair, a LEGO lighthouse, the JWST running JavaScript, screaming at your data center, and the 8 year old girl who successfully radioed the ISS. Finally we briefly touched on the premiere episode of She-Hulk, Attorney at Law
RobChrisRob to discuss matters of minimum import including updates regarding a John Wick prequel TV series now destined for Peacock, Adam Neuman from WeWork somehow getting MORE money for a venture from Andreeson Horowitz, John Deere tractors hacked to run Doom, SpaceLink terminals hacked to run... well, we don't really know yet. But also we talked Sandman, Rick & Morty S6, and so much less!
RobChrisRob synchronized their communication arrays once again to talk about the John Wick 4 teaser, The Sandman on Netflix, Max Headroom & Roadhouse reboots, the Russians leaving or staying on the ISS, the Saudi Arabia plan to build a giant sideways building that just doesn't make sense, getting fined for internationally distributing McMuffins, Tesla remotely cutting battery life, Warners Batgirl announcement, the Alien TV Series, the Prey movie, the Michigan bigfoot convention, and keeping spam under lock & key...
RobChrisRob talk Doom running on Doom, The Boys spinoff 'Welcome to Gen V', Dune 2 in production, murderous chessbots, hypertapping into competitive tetris, Bots and the Snyderverse, and the various Phasing of upcoming Marvel projects.
RobChrisRob gather together to discuss the merits of Thor 4, Breaking Bad getting statues in Albuquerque, Squirrel Contraception, JWSTs First Images, Playstation taking away customers purchased movies, simulating a human body being thrown through a jet engine, Elon breaking up with Twitter, Orphan Black returning....
RobChrisRob group up and discuss matters of relatively little importance including manly water, Windows 11 requiring a webcam, Tensorflow ported to the c64, engineering test photos from the JWST, detecting deep fakes using monitor light spill, and the Clerks 3 trailer.
RobChrisRob got right down to business talking about Kyle Maclachlan's casting in the upcoming Fallout series, Putin fat shaming world leaders because he's a super hunk, Our general feelings on The Gorn and recent Star Trek, School Vouchers, the Wet Wipe Island redirecting England's second longest river, the incredible nearly half a billion dollar budget for the Amazon Lord of the Rings series, and a bunch of new particles discovered by the LHC.
RobChrisRob talk about which Meg Ryan movie would be most improved by the addition of Godzilla, swearword matrix for reddit comments, Dune 2 delayed to 2023, Jeff Bezos' Yacht can't get to see because of a historic bridge, the FTC wants TikTok removed from the Google & Apple app stores, the price of comcast, and using Deepfakes and stolen credentials to get jobs...
RobChrisRob synchronized their communication arrays to talk about the 40th Anniversary of Blade Runner, Carol Burnett taking a turn on Better Call Saul, the mystery rocket that left a double crater on the moon, the Sleepless Hotel, Nigerian Scammers switch to Organs, John McAfee's... corpse?
RobChrisRob squandered an hour of their lives talking about Whiskey made from invasive Green Crabs, Starlink complaining that 5G is going to blow out the bandwidth in the 12ghz band, The biggest Bacteria Ever(?), a giant capsized floating restaraunt in Hong Kong, the latest Jenni Nicholson video on the church play cinematic universe, Kenobi, The Boys, Electrocution of birds starting forest fires, and the dangerous playgrounds of the 1900s...
RobChrisRob synced up their communication arrays to talk about Flying Cars, a Jon Snow series getting developed for HBO, The Boy's 'Chimps Don't Cry', and researchers thinking that maybe humans developed fire a little earlier than we thought...
RobChrisRob do their thing talking about employees formally objecting to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's behavior on twitter, Amino Acids discovered in the asteroid sample retrieved by Japan, a Beaver knocked over a tree and took down a big chunk of Canada's internet, Ryan Gosling's "Ken", Free Floating Black Holes, Quake ported to the GBA by crazy (awesome) hacker, Walking Dead set 'Alexandria' for sale, and finally wrapped up by talking a little about RRR, Kenobi, and Star Trek.
RobChrisRob gathered together from their various orbital positions to talk about Sentient AI, a trailer for a sweet looking Troll based movie, gameplay footage from Blizzard's upcoming Starfield game, a pair of long lost shipwrecks, Sexy trash cans, and the Musical Stylings of Floppotron 3.0
RobChrisRob gathered together from their remote secret orbiting platforms to talk about a researcher building an AI bot to flood 4chan, trailers for Black Adam and Prety, the first episode of Ms Marvel, the JWST getting struck by a meteorite, and the new netflix release of the insane action comedy film RRR.
RobChrisRob came together from around the globe to transmit urgent chit chat about Elon Musk backing out of the twitter deal, japan testing giant turbines to generate power from ocean currents, Sandman's release date, the Beavis & Butthead movie,
RobChrisRob scrambled to squeeze out a few minutes together on a very busy day... but we made expert use of our time to talk about that time the military shot hundreds of millions of needles into space, the largest airship ever being built, someone animated a 10 minute LEGO battle of Verdun, Boris Johnson getting Booed, Animal Brains vs Human Brains, and finally a quick recap of the golden age of TV we are living in this weekend with Kenobi, The Orville, The Boys, Stranger Things, and Strange New Worlds all being varying degrees of "Good" in addition to just "New"
RobChrisRob were soon joined by Cliff and discussed the 65,536 die, the virality of tiktoks, various movie trailers, Peach Tree Dishes, and Wars Both Star & Link, in the form of the kenobi show, and destroying starlink satellites, working at the Penguin Post Office,
RobChrisRob link up their respective communication arrays to talk about the US Government's strategic Cheese reserves, how to murder your husband (hint: Don't write a book about it first), Ancient Amazonian cities discovered, Andor's first looks at Star Wars Celebration, and a bit of Kenobi to get you through your day.
RobChrisRob joined forces to discuss the latest trailer for Thor Love & Thunder, the latest developments in Scallop Fishing, Starliner's adorable little stowaway, and Everything Everywhere All At Once!
RobChrisRob gathered together from their secret orbital platforms to discuss matters great and small, such as League of Extraordinary Gentlemen getting a series, the first She Hulk trailer and its lacking CGI, Voyager 1 having some telemetry troubles, For All Mankind getting a season 3 trailer, DCs Wonder Twins Movie... Deactivated, a silly keyboard with an integrated screen, Musk getting into lady trouble, Chip & Dale's rescue rangers being a Lonely Island thing, and Rob still hasn't watched Everything Everywhere All At Once (But he will!)
RobChrisRob came together from high above at least 3 different points on the globe to talk about matters of great import, such as... Cheese Fraud & the RFID trackers that stop it, the NSA TOTALLY pinky swearing that they DEFINITELY don't have backdoors into their next gen encryption standards, The Kids in the Hall returning from the great beyond, the inevitable porting of the 'Active Windows' watermark to linux... trailers for The Orville and The Boys s3, and finally a bit of ranting about the current state of Musk's Twitter acquisition.
RobChrisRob portaled into whatever earth this is to discuss a 477 lightning megaflash, Christopher Walken joining the cast of Dune 2, attempts to grow plants in lunar regolith, scientists releasing "pictures" of our galaxy's B-Hole, a non-pilot who successfully landed a plane after his pilot passed out, Russian tanks using appliance microchips, Firestarter reboot w/ a Jon Carpenter soundtrack, a Big Foot conference in between the robs, James Cromwell protesting non dairy milk pricing by supergluing his hand to a Starbucks counter, the we wrapped up talking about our general happiness with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and ended with a few Multiverse of Madness spoilers.
RobChrisRob returned from the edges of the universe to chit chat about Portugal building Europe's largest floating solar park, Hyundai's weird walking Car, the Westworld Season 4 trailer, AI software that 'deepfakes' you into a better hair day & suit, and Frontier being forced to install fiber in california after lying about speeds, as well as the Mars Helicopter taking a little nap to recharge during the martian winter, and a rant about unethical dark patterns used in cookie consent forms... because technically correct is the best kind of correct (sigh)
RobChrisRob link up their communications array intending to talk about Jurassic World 3, the Obi-Wan trailer, The Weird Al movie, and the end of a season of Picard and the start of a Strange New World.
RobChrisRob summoned all of their courage to brave the scary void of space and talk about Avatar 2 getting named, JWSTs latest baby step towards unravelling the secrets of the universe, an API that produces Owen Wilson 'Wow' samples on command, a font created by carving trees, and outlining the glyphs as they heal, the space hotel that totally definitely for sure is gonna be taking customers in 2025, the new Canadian Moon Crime laws, Zambonis bursting into flames, and Picard collapsing into ashes.
RobChrisRob are joined by cliff to discuss plans for their horror movie "Murphy: Don't go to bed Angry." the story of the demon possessed murderous murphy bed, but also to talk about Elon & Twitter, Burger Flipping Robots, Another Patinson Batman in the works, Shoresy officially coming to Hulu in May, and Finally feelings on this weeks Moon Knight.
RobChrisRob and then also Cliff beamed transmissions from around the globe to talk about the hubbub about the latest oligarch to own twitter, the unlikely plans for a Spacehub in the Michigan Upper Penninsula, a malfunction ejector seat, and the viability of culturing meat from your own cells to ethically turn your closest friends into cannibals. Because of course we did.
RobChrisRob returned to discuss the Anxiety of Office Birthday Parties, The Value of Dorsey's NFT, Thor trailing, catching a rocket booster with a helicopter, JWST getting cool, Jason Momoa in Minecraft movie, ST:TMP getting a theatrical re-release to coincide with the 4k remaster, the FAA says a YouTuber crashed his blame for likes, New Car Smell, Exploding Kittens getting a TV show, the Peregrine lunar lander, Ezra Miller having more troubles, and The Oreometer doing important work.
RobChrisRob talked about flaming cheetos getting banned in germany, a device that lets you feel pain in VR, the questionable construction of the Tesla Cybertruck, Stranger Things S4, Spotlight protesters on the russian embassy, the sinking of a russian flagship, the strange tale of moondust collected on Apollo 11 by Neil Armstrong that ended up in private hands, Elon Musks bid to take twitter private, and Wikipedia being forced to lockdown edits from Apple's VPN exit nodes.
RobChrisRob gathered together for a quality break from their day to talk about some cool footage of a drone flying through a tesla factory, a cosplayer bridging Star Wars & Back to the Future in the most adorable way, Cops pulling over a AI driven taxi, the retiring of the oldest park ranger, and an interstellar object that exploded over earth in 2014.
RobChrisRob perform their geekly ritual and talk about a drone swarm that flew a QR code over dallas, claims that the US hijaaked a russian botnet, SpaceX is having regulation troubles over their Boca Spaceport expansion, various opinions on Doctor Strange's latest trailers, Rob saw Morbius, Picard, and Severance.
RobChrisRob gathered together from their disparate interplanetary locations to talk about the revelation that John Cena actually played the piano on last weeks Peacemaker, JWST alignment is underway with the first photons detected, sending emails directly to spam for totally legit reasons, SCOTUS nominees and Wikipedia shenanigans, MAMES 25th Birthday, the generative system for 70s Sci-Fi book covers, The Orville trailer, predicting metaverse abuses, DNA test reveals sperm mix-up, Florida Sheriff disables Facebook comments b/c people kept commenting instead of calling 911, and the totally legit Florida home being sold as an NFT.
RobChrisRob gathered together to discuss the recently announced plans to end of life the international space station in 2030 or so, the newly redesigned mail trucks that get really horrible mpg and aren't really electric either. Then we talked a bit about Peacemaker, delved extensively into Boba Fett spoiler discussion, and made our plans to try to catch ISS wreckage before it lands in the pacific.
RobChrisRob did their things from their locations, talking about a new availability tracking service for raspberry pi's: what was once just for GPUs is now for everyone... yay? We also talked about Russian Numbers Stations getting jamed with memes visible in the spectrum visualization, the return of Space Force (and it vs Avenue 5), Bungee selling for billions, and a general appreciation for the latest episode of Peacemaker.
RobChrisRob linked up their communication arrays from their various pretend orbits to talk about AppleTV getting rights to a Godzilla and the Titans TV series, a truck crash releasing lab monkeys into the wild, several stories about NFT topics ranging from skepticism to gross, 'Sideways' impact on the california grap supply, the current state of de-pixelizing redacted videos, Peacemaker, Vanilla Fraud, the village in antarctica where nobody is allowed to have an appendix, the michigan school that had to clarify that no they in fact are NOT putting out kitty litter for furry students, the smart toilet seat that monitors your heartrate, and the various efforts to militarize dolphins to protect military targets
RobChrisRob pretend for 40 minutes that they are in tiny space ships, and squander their time talking about the ancient sitcom 'Wings', a vendor essentially selling lootboxes with a 2% chance of a good GPU, Daniel Radcliff has been cast as Weird Al in an upcoming biopic, an insane engineer built a piano grill car and it's just as awesome as you imagine, Chris demonstrates his ignorance of middle earth, Ben Stiller is making a new sci-fi show starring Adam Scott, California is going to fight crows with lasers, The Batman is gonna be way to long, and Meat Loaf died as he lived... like a bat out of hell I guess? So we talked about Rocky Horror and Fight Club and were generally not very respectful despite the fact that I really love that Bat out of Hell album.