Category: Podcast
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Episode 089: Immaculate Lunar Conception
This episode contains: Working double shifts at the law factory, turnover at work, cool kids at work, job security Update: Volkswagen scandal, 44,000 healthy years lost in Europe, illegal emissions, couple of hours per person, tobacco industry, LA gas leak, forgetting about important issues due to news cycle, Devon’s skepticism, what’s the point?, #nolivesmatter http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160203090940.htm…
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Episode 088: Nationally Notifiable Condition
This episode contains: “Lumosity” correction, tardigrades correction, early Futurama quote, Steven’s baby learning new words, Episode 4-7, Undercover Boss at Starkiller Base, Solo family comic strip, Devon’s grandma saw Ep 7, memory and getting old Please Don’t Kill Me Evil Robot Skynet Overlords: Google taught computer to play Go, 2,500 year old game, no brute…
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Episode 087: Reasserting Planetary Dominance
This episode contains: Pocket Mortys, Poke Mon, Rock-Paper-Scissors, rookie mistakes, freemium games, rewards for watching commercials, Black Mirror, Clash of Clans, pay-to-win This Week in Space: a new ninth planet in our solar system, demotion of Pluto, @Plutokiller, Kiuper Belt objects, odd orbits, clustered orbits, new planet explains orbits, 10K to 20K year orbital period,…
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Episode 086: Raid the Arcade
This episode contains: Star Wars Battlefront, raid the arcade mix, Armada by Ernest Cline, time signatures, Devon’s reaction to heavy metal, ring tones, Green Day base lines, Crank, Steven playing less video games Brain Matters: Luminosity being fined by the FTC, brain games, study comparing Luminosity to Portal 2, Steve Novella, effectiveness of brain training,…
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Episode 085: Black Mirror, White Christmas
This episode contains: More awkwardness, weekend date, X-Wing Miniatures game, Steven’s project, what Steven has Brain Matters: wired for gaming, the brains of gamers, internet gaming disorder, the gaming chair, DSM-5, predisposition?, specific links in the brain, impulse control, addiction, phantom vibration syndrome http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151221194124.htm “Sit Boo Boo, Sit. Good Dog”: dogs and jealousy, owners paying…
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Episode 084: What Kind of Year Has It Been
This episode contains: Drinking through a straw, throw it on the ground, last ep of 2015, distance traveled through the universe, travelling in time and space, Stuff You Should Know Podcast and the Philadelphia Experiment, secret naval technology, degaussing, Almost Educational Podcast ep. 62, Devon sent in a correction, analysis of geek culture and sports,…
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Episode 083: Legs From Here to Tuesday
This episode contains: The force awakens again, 2D v. 3D, why 3D at all?, 3D TV and video games, times seeing the force awaken, IMAX, The Dark Night, Happy Feet, quick Steven Star Wars story, listen to BS Podcast for a full review of The Force Awakens Brain Matters: How the Brain Wakes You Up,…
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Episode 082: Scared in a Low Polygon World
This episode contains: Return of the harmonica, Miles Greb and After the Gold Rush, getting sh*t wrong, grinding in RPGs, listening to podcasts while playing video games, Everquest, Fallout, science v. science fiction segments, Thor is a god, dice and ability mods Guest Item: Domesticating canids, 3,000 year difference, Bronze Age, genome evidence, genetic drift,…
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Episode 081: Briny Sublimation
This episode contains: Posh dinner party, spices, scuba diving classes, enriched air diving, oxygen in the atmosphere, breathing pure oxygen, Twister and Michael Crichton, J.J. Abrams early career, no interview/guest The Week in Space: Ceres bright spots identified, Nano-Mercury Terminators From Outer Space, Dawn spacecraft, salt deposits, briny solution, haze above spots, briny sublimation, Ultima…
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Episode 080: We Don’t Need No Education
This episode contains: Jerky for dinner, Nick Offerman, videos to not drinking alone, science or drinking show, Batman v. Superman, if it is above 70% on RT then Devon will see it, out of words, lame corporate x-mas party, Batman becomes Ironman, powered by pain and justice, Batman should be dead Untitled: water bears have…
