This episode contains: Ben and Steven brave the spring sunday morning to bring you a 100% pure podcast experience. Where is Devon? Who knows?! Ben attended a symposium for work, and his badge did not work. Total Benergy. There was a live coding exercise where taco emoji were added to a website. Good? Bad? Who knows?! Steven is gearing up for a Fallout Wasteland Warfare game day and he is super excited to use his Gunner faction to melt some heads. Steven also has a double Disney trip coming up soon. Again?! Why?! We also talk some X-Men ’97 and Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire.
https://www.theverge.com/23794032/kizazi-moto-generation-fire-disney-plus-animation-streaming
Rama-lama-ding-dong: Montana traffickers illegally cloned Frankensheep hybrids for sport hunting. Conspirators used the genetic material of Marco Polo argali sheep from Kyrgyzstan to breed entirely new animals. We talk about how this real life John Hammond created his own private Sheep-rassic Park and then got caught. It’s illegal if it’s not on an island 120 miles west of Costa Rica.
https://www.popsci.com/environment/sheep-hybrid-hunting/
Let’s Talk: Speaking without vocal cords, thanks to a new AI-assisted wearable device. The adhesive neck patch is the latest advance by UCLA bioengineers in speech technology for people with disabilities. A thin flexible device adheres to the neck and translates the muscle movements of the larynx into audible speech. We also take this opportunity to talk about AI speech in movies and how hopefully in the future you’ll be able to have a Darth Vader voice all the time.
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/speaking-without-vocal-cords-ucla-engineering-wearable-tech
Movie Trailers: Here’s a bunch of links to the trailers we talked about!
Alien: Romulus
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The Penguin
House of the Dragon (Black)
House of the Dragon (Green)
Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Star Wars: The Acolyte