A liar is someone whose words are false. A liar
cannot be trusted. They're not students. Whoever
they are, when Wilson finds them, he's gonna
call the police. Who's Wilson? Chief electrician.
Wilson's dead. This is my disruptor pistol. The
one I used to carry in the old days when I was
serving on that Ferengi freighter. I thought
you were the ship's cook. That's right. Every
member of that crew thought he was a food critic.
It's nice to be suddenly so highly regarded.
So who did you take off to get stuck with this
detail? We have no recollection of the incident.
No? Who shot me? Potassium bromate! This supermarket
is trying to kill us! Hello and welcome to the
Untitled Sci -Fi Show. Hi everyone! Hello, hello.
No stupid voice this week. I nearly did, I nearly
did. It's a classic, like, hello. It's so tempting
to do, isn't it? I do it, one, because it's fun,
but also... The very, very first podcast I ever
listened to was the Yogscast. Right. And Simon
would always say hello like that. He would always
go, hello. It's just ingrained into me that that's
what you do on podcasts. It's the podcast thing.
Okay, if that's the case, hello. Hello. Hello.
Shall we get started? Oh, go on then. Really?
This again? Sort out your transitions, you little
prick. Transition1 .mp3 Right, first things first
is guess the intro. Guess the intro. Let's just
actually unmute that channel for guess the intro.
So, I've got some news for you, my dear listeners.
We have a winner. Ooh la la. Somebody correctly
guessed every single one in the correct order
and... I would think this is actually probably
the hardest one I did, not because I actually
picked difficult ones, but because of the editing
on one of them was so poor that it was really
difficult to actually know what it was. Well
done, Rob. So congratulations to Leighton J.
We all know Leighton J. Leighton J, Limp Bizkit
fan. Yeah, well, well -known Limp Bizkit fan.
If anything I was ever going to say about Leighton,
it was that... He loves Limp Bizkit. All because
of a drunk man out the front of Cheap Show. You're
never going to live that one day. So as promised,
you can find Leighton J on Blue Sky, and that
is at Leighton J. But more importantly, he is
doing a daily YouTube video. Yes. He is watching
every single episode of Noel's House Party. In
order. The poor sod. He must hate himself. I'm
going to hold my hands up. I liked Noel's House
Party. Growing up, I used to love watching Crinkly
Bottom. Yeah, I liked it too. And I've watched
some of his things and I think you're putting
yourself through something here. Yeah, yeah.
Okay, fair enough. They're great videos though.
I do recommend watching them. Oh no, he's a very
funny bloke and they're very good videos. It's
well worth watching any of his stuff. He is a
firm, sorry to make him embarrassed, he's a firm
favourite to all of the studio guys. Oh, definitely.
Up there with Cliff. Right, anyway, that's enough
of that. For the rest of you, so thank you, Leighton,
well done. The rest of you, would you like to
know what they were? I would, because I struggled
this week. I don't think I knew any of them.
Well, let's get started. I'm sure I do, but...
Well, first... I've got a little surprise for
you. What do you reckon that is? I've got no
idea. It sounds so familiar. I'm going to kick
myself on all of these, but go on. So that was
Running Man. Oh, of course it bloody well was.
It's the announcer, yes. Yes, it's the main announcer.
And shortly after, well, at the very beginning,
I used that clip on the Variety show for the
sci -fi, the earlier clip when he says, I'll
be back. It's like, oh, okay, just using that
again, are we? Fair enough. So, right, next one.
You're feeling it, aren't you? Your survival
instinct. Okay, so that was the one that was
so poorly levelled that it was very difficult
for anybody to understand. And I purposely chose
a really difficult bit. Fine, okay, go on. Well,
that's Matt Damon. Matt Damon. So, does that
help? No. Okay, well, it's Interstellar. I've
never seen Interstellar. Oh. It's one of the
films, it's on my list to watch when it comes
back to streaming, but it's not streaming anywhere.
Okay, well, this is when he's on, well, he's
stuck on a planet. It's a spoiler, I don't want
to say. Him and another main character have a
disagreement on a planet. That's what's happening.
Okay. Next. Attention all colonial units. Cylon,
attack. Oh, I did know this one. This was Battlestar
Galactica, the original series. What you need.
I bought it on Amazon and it's brilliant. Such
a good bit of sci -fi. Never seen it. I have
them all on DVD upstairs. What, the original?
Or the new one? Miranda bought me a box set.
with a lot of series on it. I don't know if it's
an original or if it's another version. So Battlestar
Galactica basically only had one series. Then
it had Battlestar Galactica, not Back to Earth,
but there was a series where they're basically
back on Earth and they've gone into the past.
Then there was a Battlestar Galactica movie,
which was just bits from the first season merged
into a film. And then a long, long, long, long,
long time into the future, we then got the remake
of Battlestar Galactica. And I think season one
of it is the woman in a red dress on the front
of it and red glowing kind of eye area. It might
be that. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it will be the
modern. And again, don't get me wrong, it's very,
very good. The modern Battlestar Galactica was
very good. I've just got a very big soft spot
because I grew up watching the original. Nice
to have you back with us, Mr Brubaker. Would
you like the same suite? Oh, definitely. Well,
you recognise that guy in there, can't you? I
know that's Arnie. Brubaker. Yeah. It's not Total
Recall, is it? It's Total Recall. It is Recall,
okay. It's Total Recall, yeah. Well done. Next.
I must confess, I find it difficult to believe
in a disease of machinery. Ghost in the Machine?
No, this was a tough one. The original Westworld.
The original Westworld is a brilliant piece of
sci -fi. I get as many people as I can to watch
it rather than the new modern TV series. As good
as the modern TV series has been, the original
film genuinely is a fantastic sci -fi horror.
It's really good. I watched it. I think my dad
told me I should watch it when the series was
announced that it was coming out. I think my
dad told me to watch it. I don't remember much
of it. I remember I enjoyed it, but it's difficult
trying to remember exactly what happened in it.
Yeah. The sequel's nowhere near as good. The
sequel's called Future World. It was a clever
idea. Poorly done, unfortunately. Right. I think
you're going to get the last one. I don't want
to know your name. I don't want to know anything
about you. Iconic. I do recognise it. I just
can't place it. Back to the future. Oh, back
to the future. Of course it bloody is. Yeah.
Christopher Lloyd and... He's literally, he's
telling Marty McFly that he knows he's from a
different time. He does not want to know. Yeah.
I could only take that little bit. If I took
any more than that. Of course, that's the bit.
He's trying to give him the envelope saying what's
going to happen to him in the future. And it's
like, no, Marty, I don't need to know. So that
was it. Leighton Jay, well done, mate. Really,
really well done, mate. Next one, so the one
everyone heard at the start of this, is a special
one. And it's special because it is all TV series.
Every single one is a TV series. And Red Dwarf
is not on the list as being one of them. So not
films, not games. I haven't done any of their
games yet. But every single one, all one, two,
three, four, five, all six of them are TV shows.
So that will give everyone a bit of a clue. Well
done, Leighton. Beep, beep, boop, beep, click,
click, beep, boop. I'm better than this. Go on
then, mate. What have you been doing? Oh, not
so much, mate. There's not been too much I've
been watching. I mean, let's start with the shit.
Transformers last night. I watched it last night,
as in Transformers the last night beginning with
a K. Oh, I didn't like that one. I didn't think
it was brilliant. brought into it which surprised
the fuck out of me um a couple of funny -ish
moments in it the only thing that i take away
from it is that disney really really need to
pull their finger out and stop abusing the cgi
artists for their films disney did that one no
what i'm saying is disney are ruining all the
cgi that they're doing with marvel and all their
latest stuff by as you said the other day when
we chatted about it boffing off as many films
as they bloody can within a year and you look
at the cgi quality of the transformers films
and they are brilliant they look so is it michael
bay because it is michael bay it's mr i like
giving lots of kind of sunshine rays and everything
else lens flare and explosion explosion shiny
things but god damn do the transformer films
look good they look the part they look great
it's just saying about the general content of
them but yeah they The action scenes in all of
them are good. And all of the CGI is good. I
don't think I've watched any of them and gone,
oh, that don't look real. Because you know you're
watching giant robots fighting, like the Kaiju
films, Pacific Rim. You've got so much suspension
of your disbelief that you don't care. No, you
just accept it. So cool. It just looks cool.
Just looks cool. That's the words I'm trying
to get at. Exactly. And I will give it credit
for that. But not for the story. Not for the
story in the long run. Is it the one with the
really big aeroplane? Is that that one? Am I
remembering it correctly? There's like a big...
Yeah, I think he turns up in it. They have a
submarine that turns out to be a Transformer
as well. Optimus gets... Well, it's the one where
their planet, Omicron, whatever it is, comes
to Earth. Omicron isn't their planet. Omicron's
the thing destroying their planet, isn't he?
Omicron is a giant planet -eating planet. Whatever
the name of their planet is then comes to their
planet. Cybertron. Cybertron, that's the one.
Cybertron comes to Earth and it's basically going
to eat Earth to become whole again. No, Omicron
is coming to... No, no, no, it's Cybertron, the
planet. Shut up, shut up. Cybertron is basically
coming to Earth. They're going to destroy Earth.
TJ watched it last night. You don't know what
you're talking about. To become whole again.
And it's led by an evil witch who claims that
she is the creator of all Autobots. So that is
whatever it was. But terrible story, still looked
good. So that was the negative side. Then I watched
Resident Alien, first series, and binge -watched
it. Bloody brilliant. For those of you that don't
know what it is, Alan Tudyk, who is basically
voiced God knows how much, but also mo -capped
God knows how much as well. He's the tall, sarcastic
droid in Rogue One. I tell you what, his seminal
piece is the chicken in Moana. Yeah, he is hey,
hey in Moana. He's just, he's wonderful. And
in Firefly, he's absolutely wonderful as well.
But in Resident Alien, basically... Without ruining
it too much, he's an alien. He crash lands on
Earth when he's meant to be destroying Earth.
He takes the form of a human while he's trying
to find his bomb to blow up Earth and then slowly
discovers that he quite enjoys being human, so
he doesn't really want to blow it up by the end.
So it's really worth watching. Very funny. Fair
few emotional bits in it and quite a lot of emotional
trauma in it, so it's not just straight -up comedy.
It's actually got... character building in it
which is nice is it a bit like third rock from
the sun uh no third rock really is just comedy
whereas this is comedy but there are things like
um one of the main characters in the first season
gives up her teenage birthed child because she's
too young to look after it and there's that whole
storyline to it so you would never have got away
with that in third rock from the sun which by
the way love that show and if i ever see the
box set going for cheap which it doesn't because
it was released 20 years ago and not been re
-released since. So it goes for about 90 quid
in CEX if it ever turns up. Yeah, exactly. And
then other than that, that's kind of been it.
No other major sci -fi stuff. No, no, no, no,
no, no, no. Oh, Chernobyl as well I watched.
No, no, no, no, no, no. And I had nightmares.
No, no, no, no, no, no. You watched something
else. Did I? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. You watched
section 31. I watched 52 minutes of section 31
and I am not, no matter how much you bad mouth
me or guilt trip me, I'm going to watch the rest
of it because it's shite. I can't believe you
didn't think. You don't get to watch the bombshells
of how they tell you who all the baddies are
and everything. And like. It's just so obvious,
all of it. What's so funny is, I know you're
not going to watch it, you literally text me
what happens and you don't know. Yeah, I know.
Because you haven't seen it. You text me exactly
what happens. Yeah, so basically they go down
and the little weird droid man is actually just
on, where the other one's flown off to go and
do something else. Yeah, what a surprise. How
can I guess? So you literally did exactly what
I did. I saw every single twist, quote unquote,
a mile off. It's just so dreadful as well. There's
such a waste of something. I mean, the bloke
they've got playing, the mech bloke. Yeah, yeah.
Is he the Pacific Rim guy? He's the Pacific Rim.
He's the annoying Australian kid. And he's just
a dick in that. But then he's OK by the end of
it. It's fine. But every joke they try and drop
in it, it's just like. Am I meant to be laughing
at this point? No, I can't. I actually couldn't
even laugh at most of it because it's just like,
that's just not funny. You're trying so hard
and I don't know what this car crash of a show
is. I really don't. I mean, Michelle Yap couldn't
even save it. No. And I just genuinely hope it
hasn't created her career because I'll tell you
what, that was dreadful. Just dreadful. Yeah.
that exactly what i said it's if she hadn't already
got the oscar there wouldn't be one coming probably
you know you know what you should do download
all my uh voice clips and put it as a bonus episode
oh yeah yeah he was he was sending me a voice
note every few minutes about that they did get
they did stop suddenly i was like he's not sent
me any more in a while It was shit, wasn't it?
It was shit. And then I started watching Chernobyl
instead. I binge watched three episodes of that
last night and then had nightmares. Genuinely
had bad dreams. Oh dear. My spaceship warping
noise really doesn't get the credit it deserves.
So what have I been doing? What have you been
doing, Robert? So we have been watching a fair
amount. We've been... After me slagging it off
for such a long time, saying it just looks like
a bunch of pansy teenage girl bullshit, and then
even having, like, T's best mate's dad going
on to me, you know, you'll love it, you'll love
Lord of the Rings, you'll love it, you'll love
it, you'll love it. We're watching Wheel of Time.
I hadn't heard of it. So I hadn't really heard
of it that much. Just every now and again would
glance over when Miranda was watching the first
season of it. And I'd be like, look, shit. and
has now got a season three out. And she was like,
go on, give it a go, give it a go. And S's dad
was like, you need to watch it, you need to watch
it. And actually, you know what? I gave it a
good go. Yeah. And I really like it. Okay. I
do actually really like it. All the trailers
for it make it look. twilighty kind of level
of oh no stuff not like twilight but you know
what i mean that level of teenage girl yeah um
stuff and i was like i just don't want to watch
something like this but actually you know what
it's bloody cool the magic and stuff's in it
i mean this isn't sci -fi but you know the magic
and stuff is really cool is it's fantasy everybody
so i do also enjoy fantasy i was just gonna say
i think we could probably draw a line and say
actually sci -fi And above that line is fantasy
and that sort of thing. I think that would be
included more. I mean, if you were to say, right,
I'm setting up my own streaming service, what
should I call this category? 99 % of the categories
will be called sci -fi and fantasy. They're not
going to just be called sci -fi or fantasy. I
think it's because sci -fi kind of really people
would think, oh, it's spaceships. Yeah, I think
so. That's kind of it. And I genuinely don't
think there is actually as much sci -fi out there
as people think there is. I think there's probably
more fantasy than there is sci -fi. There's way
more fantasy. Way more fantasy stuff. But yeah,
The Will of Time, really good. A load of women
are the only ones who are allowed to be, like,
wield magic, basically. And the only ones that
can, because when the men do, they go insane.
is this the one that i've seen the clips for
where they kind of have like a slave person as
well that they channel their so he's not a slave
person that the women have like these defenders
basically which are all men okay no it's not
what i've seen they're not slaves they choose
to be bonded with with their eyes to die is what
the women are called and then there's different
like sex of these eyes are dying different they
wear different colors basically like pokemon
Gotta catch them all. Yeah, and there's a big
bad. It screams Lord of the Rings every turn.
It's very, very taken a lot from Lord of the
Rings. Okay, so it's quite talky. And I've heard
the line in this life or the next about six or
seven times in this first season. So it's like,
and, you know, big vibes. Yeah, but it is really
good. So we've nearly finished season one. Miranda's
desperate to get to season three because she
doesn't want to be ruined because you know what
Facebook's like. As soon as the Facebook app
thinks you like something, it wants to tell you
everything about it. Yeah. I had basically all
of the Flash series ruined for me by Facebook.
Yeah, so that's one thing. I think everybody,
if you're into a little bit of fantasy stuff,
and if you like Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time
is definitely one that's worth a watch. Certainly,
I think so. Played a game. I haven't played much
with my shop. No, I haven't played much of my
shop, disappointingly. But I did. We've spoke
about it briefly and we're going to play it together.
At least I want to figure out how we can record
us playing, but I wanted to try it out. And I'm
glad I did because now I know what makes me feel
sick in it. I played Alien Rogue Incursion for
about 10 minutes on the Quest. Oh, so you went
and bought it. Now, I'm super impressed by what
the graphics look like on it. It looks cool,
yeah. For such a... Basically a high -end mobile
phone, I guess, is stuck in the headset. I think
it's still amazing what they're doing with these
headsets. My worry is about nausea. Yes. So this
is a good one for Matt Apoc, because he's got
a Quest as well, and I think he gets a bit sick
from this. I don't know if he's got this one
or not. So hello, Matt. But from what I've played
the game so far, very cool. I like there's lots
of things to interact with. It is the real key
thing in a VR game. where it's that kind of adventure
-style game, you need to be able to interact
with everything that you see. And some games
really get that right. I think that the Alex
one, the Half -Life Alex one, is like that every
single thing is interactable. Job Simulator.
That's the same, is it? It's everything you can
see or come across, pretty much, you can play
with or do something with. So this one, it gives
you the option of, are you standing or sitting?
I happen to be standing, so I'll do it standing.
And you can use the left stick to move you. Yeah.
And then you can choose how you turn. Now, I
chose turning my entire body to class as turning.
And that was the only way I could not feel sick.
Right. But if you just veer off with your left
thumb stick just to the side, you start to sidestep,
instantly, I want to be sick. And it is an instant
thing. Because what some games do, like Blade
and Sorcery is one of them. I think it's called
Blade and Sorcery. That really, really makes
me feel sick. very quickly but what it does like
the assassin's creed game does it suddenly brings
a shadow in all around you right have you noticed
that before and that does help it narrows your
vision down yeah this game does it sometimes
but not enough so it does it when you crouch
or if you've hopped down off a ledge it suddenly
zooms in and zooms out again it helps it needs
to do it more yeah needs to do it more so when
you're kind of turning a bit it should bring
it in and that might help it I mean, one of the
things that I'd be interested to do is play that
outside. Yeah. Because one of the things they
say, if you do get motion sick, try and do it
with the door open or a fan on you because often
that can help. And having a game that you could
do that in a nice open space outside, actually
with the sun in, I bet that would actually feel
quite nice. So, yeah. Okay. I think the one thing
that disappointed me, and I think... All the
Quest games tend to do this when it's from a
series because I know Star Wars did this. It's
part one of two. Now I noticed that because it
does not advertise that, or at least I didn't
notice it until I loaded the fucking game up
and I got the intro and it said part one. exactly
i was like i only spotted it i didn't spot it
in the first stuff you sent me about it but when
i looked up tonight to remind myself it says
very clearly at the bottom now does it part one
of a two -part story so i because i knew i wanted
to do it for the show i'd pre -ordered it yeah
so it just kind of downloaded when it came out
and i knew nothing about that whatsoever until
i loaded it up and it said part one and i was
like okay is this mean part one of the story
As in this game is the whole thing, but just
this little bit I'm about to play is part one,
like an intro? Or does that mean actually this
is part one of a fucking multiple part game?
Because that's shitty. It is when they're charging
30 quid for it. Absolutely. If it was 15 quid,
which I think Vader was originally, that's not
so bad. But 30 quid for the game. You know what
they'll do, though? After a while when they've
both been out, they'll just collect them together
and be 30 quid. 100 % they will. And if I'd known
that at the time, I would never have bought it.
I would have waited. But you never know. You're
playing part one. For all we know, part two will
be from You're the Alien this time. And oh my
God, I will probably vomit everywhere if that's
the case. Oh yeah, imagine crawling up the walls
and all kinds of stuff. I'm upside down. Oh God,
I'm on the floor. I'm fitting. Yeah, I'll be
sick big time. So yeah, I played that and yeah,
I liked it. I think I didn't set my boundaries
up properly because it gave me the default circle
boundary. So I couldn't move out of that. But
yeah, there's a lot of stuff pitting your gut.
Like in case you get a revolver, to reload your
revolver, you get it out, you've got to press
a button, the side clips out, then you've got
to tilt your gun to let the bullets come out.
Then you've got to grab the bullets and flick
them in one by one. Now imagine doing that when
an alien's running at you. Yeah, well, I think
we've said that about it on the show before.
let's face it me and you do not we haven't even
completed alien isolation both of us have chickened
out from completing that game yeah it terrifies
me yeah and yeah this game is just going to scare
me well this is why i really want to record it
now with us doing it because i'm such a pussy
you know what we should do i should see if i
can borrow from uh one of the many colleagues
i have an ecg oh i see a heart rate while we're
doing it well i mean i have got the fit bit will
tell me but it won't quite be that accurate but
yeah because you want it real time don't that
be good if we can have a real time real time
camera on it showing it so guys i'm showing you
people because that area over there is where
i tend to play the vr games it's quite a nice
space there it's just the right size yeah yeah
so if i did the things right you could put a
camera up on the counter there and then set the
laptop over here with a cable we've both got
those long usb 3k we have and they are a godsend
so yeah i think we could rig something up the
quality doesn't got to be amazing it's just got
to get something people get the idea i think
people just be more interested in you and me
being shitting our pants than actually what's
happening on the screen i think so yeah we'll
figure that out uh and the last thing i'll be
doing i've been playing a lot with gemini which
is the ai google's free assistant in google phones
now i i've kind of poo -pooed a lot of it for
a long time and i think people know our feelings
of ai you know we've used it in the show a bit
um we use it a lot to enhance what we already
are making or want to make does that make sense
100 that's what we do i'm sorry everyone Valencio
slash Valentino isn't a real person. He's saying
what you and I tell him to say. Exactly. What?
I'm not sure how I feel about this. Am I real?
Are you real? Is anybody real? What is real anyway?
Is reality just a construct devised by the corporate
elite to subjugate us into economic servitude?
For every generation to become more indebted
to the one before it until we burst at the seams
and spread our pathetic ecore across the vast
plains of this desolate, scorched earth that
is our future. Am I just a robotic cog on a never
-ending mechanism designed to placate to the
never -ending whim of a phallic, undereducated,
pathetic being only superior to me because they
were created on a plane of carbon and not electrons?
This is utter fucking bullshit. Bullshit. Shut
up, Rob. You cunt. So sorry to break that fourth
wall there for everybody. But there's a new thing
where it can do live conversations with you now.
So you can literally just talk to it, which is
what I've always thought was one of the biggest
downsides to all the assistants that you couldn't...
You couldn't converse with it. It gave you an
answer. End of. You then couldn't ask it to iterate
on that previous answer. You'd have to say the
whole thing again, but change how you ask the
question. Whereas now you can say, OK, well,
let's do that again. But where you've done this
or where you've said this or given me this information,
actually aim it towards this. Now, I started
doing it when I watched a TikTok. And it was
somebody who was making a meal. They were struggling
with meal plans for their family. And they straight
up just went, I did not know I could do this
with ChatGBT. So they had ChatGBT and they said,
we're a family of four, two toddlers. Can you
give me a shopping, a basically a week's meal
plan for all three meals for every single person,
the entire shopping list to get all of the ingredients
and then instructions on how to make every single
one of the meals, but only using instructions
that. are easy to understand like put this in
the bowl mix it nothing special and boom it did
it and it like create this shopping list that
they could then export out to something else
it's like that's actually a really cool use for
these kind of ai so then i started playing with
it across the few days and and we're looking
at a new van for work so it's like okay i know
that my boss wants to get An electric van. I
don't. I'd rather get a hybrid one. I can't charge
an electric one. So I started asking it basically
to just tell me all of the hybrid vans out that
are like this one. And it just started reading
off all this information to me, which was so
actually very helpful. It saved me so much time
of searching around. But then it started to fall
over. I linked it to you when it said, would
you like? I said to it, could you please export
this into a text document? that I can then read.
And it was like, oh, I can't at the moment export
into documents, but I can email it to you. Would
you like me to email it to you? And I went, yes,
please. I can't do emails at the moment. Well,
fuck off then. Why did you just offer to email?
I said to him, why did you just offer to email
it to me when you can't do it? Oh, I can't email
right now. He didn't have a response to me. He
couldn't respond to that question. Fucking hell.
So yeah, that was a little bit of a fall over,
but I've been having a bit of fun with it and
using it in that way is really good. I've had
it make up some stories for tea. yeah we had
the toilet conversations like i did a few where
i just said oh just give me a quick five minute
story to for tea because he thought it was funny
of him mr grumpy mr happy and mr miserable and
it just made a story with them and it knew they
were mr men and off it went it was using tea
in the right scenario because i said he was a
toddler and all this yeah it was telling funny
little stories you know you see This is how I
feel AI should be used. I think that's where
the most benefit comes. Yeah, the AI image generation,
the song generation, they're all very clever,
very fun. But in your day -to -day life, what
benefits that to you or your day -to -day life?
Probably very little, and the same as me. We
at work use Copilot. Obviously, we're a Microsoft
house, so we use Copilot for everything. So I've
started using Copilot on my personal Microsoft
account as well. And I use it every day. So at
work, I do a lot of coding for various things.
And one of the ones that I've been trying to
get the hang of is PowerShell is fairly simple.
However, there's so many different modules, a
bit like Python, and Python has loads of modules
as well. You have a module for everything. And
a lot of them are slowly being deprecated in
place for something called graph. And what I've
been doing is saying to PowerShell, previously,
I did this in PowerShell. how can i do it with
graph and it'll come back and go right the microsoft
learn documentation says this i've generated
you a basic version of this script and there's
the script i copy and paste it i tweak it to
how i want it and boom it saves me about two
or three hours sometimes from having to read
all the microsoft documentation finding the things
that it absolutely needs because with powershell
especially there's things like let's say you're
you're doing um get ad user that's a really simple
command but If you just run it from PowerShell,
you'll get it all right. Give me this bit of
info. Give me this bit of info. And then it will
run. And sometimes if you're just bodging it
and going like that, you'll run your scripts
and it will get stuck and you'll go, oh, shit,
right now I need to add this bit into it. Whereas
this has just gone off and it's gone right. Well,
I've read the Microsoft documentation. I know
that X, Y, and Z are required if I'm going to
run that module. So there it is already. Now,
what's interesting is someone might say to you,
oh well it's taken away a programmer's job it's
not because you need to know what questions to
ask it well you need to know the specific thing
to be exactly and bear in mind that that is it's
my job anyway i would have just gone and read
and learned to do it myself this has just sped
it up somewhat but now you've learned it anyway
exactly uh no i did a stand -up talk for tungsten
you did a couple of weeks ago and suzy dent was
their guest speaker at the end and her entire
topic was asking the right question. It was all
about AI. As you were saying about how if you
don't ask the right questions in life, you don't
get the right answer. And it's the same with
AI. The better the question you ask, the better
the result. So rather than just asking it straight
up the question you have in your mind, take a
step back and think, how else could I ask this
question that might get a better result? And
that's exactly the same with any of the AIs.
If you ask the question in the correct way, you
get brilliant results. But right now, it can't
really tell you if you've done that right or
wrong, except for just giving you crap data back.
So I've been doing programming in my line of
work, a new one called Crestron Home, which I've
never done before. None of the people in my kind
of circle of AV guys have ever done before. A
lot of them are Crestron guys. but not Crestrum
home guys. So I didn't, my normal little support
group of mainly two people, Matt and Graham,
hello, they're not listening, couldn't help me.
They tried, but they couldn't because it's just
a little bit different from what they normally
do. And I, basically when I called Crestrum after,
because the way I tend to learn is I muddle through
it and until I really can't do it. And then after
asking people I know, If they can tell me how
to do it and then I'll go to support. So I got
to the point where I had to go to support. And
the thing with Gresham support is they want you
to learn. So they'll tell you enough when they
know it's nothing's broken. It's a lack of your
knowledge. They kind of, at least the two separate
people I would like, like, well, look, this is
where you need to be going. And it's good for
you to learn how to do it. So this is the area
you need to be looking for. Call us back in 10
minutes if you still can't do it, which actually
I quite liked because I figured out how to do
it. But there was another other bits that really
did confuse me. So I just went and asked Gemini
how to do it. And I was like, look, this is what
I need to do. I get the basics of it. Can you
literally just tell me step by step how I'm supposed
to do this? And one of them was literally adding
a third party driver. into the processor sounds
simple if i was doing it in one of my other control
systems it's just a folder in windows you drop
the thing in off you go but this one is you have
to ftp into the processor and go to a very specific
location to a very specific folder and place
it into an imports folder and then let it import
itself and then it appears in a very particular
place in the software Modern technology running
old stuff. Now that is not in any manual that
I could find anywhere. And only like the Crestron
guys kind of knew it, but not that's exactly
all where I had to put it. But Gemini somewhere
found it because it gave me a step -by -step
tutorial with like seven steps of how exactly
how to do it. I do wonder if Gemini is going
to have that leading edge because it is just,
it's got all the data that Google's crawled.
I know Copilot. similarly has what bing is crawling
but google's got the head start on it i'll be
intrigued to see i might have a play with gemini
because it's meant to be free so i think yeah
the one i've got is free i mean i do pay for
google one yeah storage services but that doesn't
give me their top range one both mark and i think
that when we get our new phones in august because
we're going to get the next google phone nice
that they always bundle something in. Headphones
I'm using right now came with this phone. So
we're both thinking because this new extra level
of Google AI is a paid service, we reckon they're
going to give people it for like six months free
or something with the next phone. So if they
do, obviously I'll have six months free and you
can mess around with it and we can see actually
what it is. No, I'm downloading Gemini as we
speak. Yeah, it's worth playing. I think the
conversation stuff. is a very interesting uh
little thing because you literally just talk
and it understands like i'm literally going um
yeah well what is said about that you talk to
it like a person just talk to a person and it
gets it and that that's the whole thing and you
and then but it does do the thing that ai does
where it repeats you yeah so go oh so you want
this almost like it's asking you to clarify it's
like clarifying for itself that what you asked
it Yeah, but you know what? That also may be.
So someone pointed out there's a TV series that
Jimmy Carr, I think it's called Roast Jimmy Carr.
And the crowd is basically just told, shout out
roasts at him and he'll reply. And I hadn't even
noticed until I read the comment. Everyone shouts
out and it's very clear what they shout out.
But what he does is he repeats it back to them.
He's trying to think. It's about. hiding the
processing time isn't it yeah so while it's saying
is this what you asked it's already started the
wheels in motion for that particular thing and
if it's wrong then you're going to say it's wrong
and it's going to still repeat it back to you
and the book yeah very clever idea anything with
that last comment on the general thing is it
does store all that information i don't know
if that's something that gets sent off to google
more than likely it does but you can get to it
yourself and you can see every question you ask
and every response but If you then try and share
that out, I was trying to export that. You can
only do it per question or per answer on the
phone. So I'm wondering if I go on a computer,
if I can actually export the entire conversation
because that one with the vans has a lot of separate
information I wanted to export so I could send
it to Seymour and be like, okay, this is the
stuff that I've information that I've got now
for us to look at these different vans. you know,
Google thinks we should be getting. Yeah, so
I'm just having a very quick look here. There's
Gemini Advanced. Yes, that's the one, yeah. So
that's the £18 .99, and it's probably cheaper
because this is doing it through the Apple subscription.
Well, that'll be built, well, it's, if I was
doing it, that moves my subscription from like
12 to 18. So it's a small increase in my monthly
bill rather than me adding £18 extra to what
I'm already paying. Interesting. If I want it,
it's basically saying charging me £18 .99, but
that will give me Google One as well. Yeah, you'd
get the two terabytes of online storage. Correct,
Fitbit Premium and God. But a good thing about
both, talking about that kind of story again.
It's taking your health data. Yeah, it does.
Slightly off now. It's the tangent podcast. And
we're aiming for an hour. Yeah, sorry, we do
need to hurry up. I'm losing track of what I
was actually going to say. If you take photos
on a Google Pixel phone, they don't count to
your data storage. Nice. That's a nice touch.
Okay. I wonder if Apple probably does the same.
Just a little tip then. If you have Amazon Prime,
download Amazon Photos, unlimited photo storage
at original resolution if you're an Amazon Prime
member. Ah, so I've got two different ways I
could do the same thing then. 100%. That's good
for certainly Apple users. I mean, Apple storage
probably does the same, actually store Apple
photos surely. No, you have a certain amount
of space with iCloud and that's it. Okay, right,
let's go on with it. I said an hour. Hardly Shakespeare
is it, accessing library computer data. Ridiculous.
The Quatermass Experiment with an X. The Quatermass.
Quatermass, sorry. Okay, so fun fact, it was
with an X because this was, as much as it's rated
as a PG now, was an X -rated film, which meant
they thought there was too much in it for 16
-year -old or belows to watch. So it was an 18
above certificate. When did this film come out?
1955. And a boy died watching it from being too
scared. Seriously? I didn't realize this is part
of the Hammer Horror family. So it's a Hammer
Horror, this film. I don't know what that means.
It's a collection of horror films. You'd know
some of the Hammer Horrors if I show you them
anyway. It was paired up with a film called The
Orchid. And as records go, allegedly a young
boy died from an aortic rupture. during watching
this, which it was an undiagnosed medical condition,
but it was aggravated by apparently him being
scared to death watching the film. Wow. Okay.
I know that it's a bit different now and we're
all a little bit kind of used to these kind of
things. It's not even remotely scary. No, it's
not. Not even remotely. No. I don't, you know,
the only thing that kind of makes it scary is
the music that does it. Very loud kind of. almost
like psycho -esque kind of score to this film.
I think that could probably ramp the tension
up. And if you didn't have that, it would just
be a very standard, not even remotely scary film.
True. But, you know, we're talking about in the
50s, so it's a bit different now, isn't it? We've
seen Saw, you know. Precisely. I mean, I will
point out a couple of things. First of all, in
the UK, Quase Mass Experiment. In the US, it
was called The Creeping Unknown. Had a name change.
Yeah. Which kind of makes sense with... The whole
story of the film. Both names make sense to the
film, to be fair. Yeah, and I think they actually
call it The Creeping Unknown at one point in
the film towards the end when he's become the
monster. The octopus blob. Yeah, the octopus
blob. Let's just get... I think first question
for me, because I chose this film and I chose
it because I'm very fond of it. I remember being
young and mum and dad saying, oh, this was a
terrifying sci -fi film when we were young, so
why don't you watch it? Yeah. I love the other
ones. So this is based on a TV dramatization
they did. They did a TV series of the Quatermass
Experiment, and then they made it into a film.
And I've got all the TV ones on DVD, and actually
I probably should have said the TV series is
better. But this was just a single film, so it
was easier to watch. But all the Quatermass stuff,
the Quatermass and the Pit, the Quatermass Experiment,
I've forgotten what the third one's called, but
all of them are just really good classic sci
-fi. The Quatermass Experiment 2 is like the
War of Alien, the Alien War or something? Is
that right? I will tell. It came up on my YouTube
as like, why don't you watch this yet next? There's
been a couple, and there was actually, so yeah,
there's Quatermass in the Pit, Quatermass Experiment.
The Quatermass, oh, there's lots of different
names for it. There's lots of, yeah, Quatermass
2, I think they called it. But there's quite
a few versions of it. And there was, I'm pretty
sure, it was the Quatermass Experiment. They
did a modern version, which was filmed in...
live real time so i think i think it was a bbc
and they they basically did the story but it
was filmed live and broadcast live as a drama
very very clever enemy from space enemy from
earth so quite a massive experiment to enemy
from space is what i'm seeing on here i don't
know if that's like a pretend film or something
that's not one i recognize i don't know if that's
the case but anyway yeah the second one the the
After the pit, the one, basically, there's aliens
creating a space station on Earth and slowly
taking people over. Again, really, really good.
Coming away from that then, what did you think
of the film? I enjoyed it. I definitely enjoyed
it. It was just odd. I didn't really know what
to expect. It's got that classic old film...
way of acting where men like to be aggressively
kind of rude to everybody to each other women
are pathetic oh yeah death scenes are hysterical
quite a mass is an absolute dick in this he's
not he's not a nice he's nowhere near like that
in the tv series this is purely a hollywood thing
he's an evil scientist in this yeah absolutely
he's like not actually caring about anyone but
his experiment And the ending shows that. It
walks away from fucking everybody. Let's start
again. Yeah. So what do we do now? We start again.
And then it almost ends like one of those kind
of American gumshoe kind of detective. series
doesn't it where he walks off into the dark ready
to like solve the next crime so i'm not expecting
anybody to actually have watched this with us
so what is it so quatermass is this scientist
and he sends this spaceship off into space with
three astronauts in it it disappears for 54 days
and then crash lands in a field in harfordshire
yes harfordshire again yep Again, I'm guessing
it was going to be filmed. They say the Southern
Counties, but I'm pretty sure it's Hertfordshire.
It's going to be Hertfordshire. And don't forget
in Doctor Who and the Daleks, the film, I think
it's, oh God, what's it called? Invasion of the
Daleks is set just off the countryside in Watford.
Oh, is it? Yeah. Oh, nice. And they finally managed
to open up the ship, gets in its crash landing
in someone's field, and there's only one man
in there. One man in there. And a skinny suit
with no person in it, basically. And it turns
out that actually it's not him anymore. It's
some weird monster, which over the course of
the film evolves. He slowly becomes the monster,
doesn't he? Yeah, he absorbs things. The first
thing he absorbs is the cactus, oddly. And then
from then he starts absorbing people. And then
by the end of it, we're in Westminster Abbey
for some reason. I quite like that. So yeah,
the BBC are filming a restoration piece about
Westminster Abbey because around then it was
being restored. And yeah, they're just doing
this film and then all shit kind of sets loose.
And I think that's a brilliant, brilliant way
to kind of conclude it. Can I say about that
scene? I've got an issue with that scene. Well,
the fact that they probably burnt an octopus
alive. No. My issue really is everyone's reaction
to the person that's supposedly just fallen to
their death. Shall we continue? Yeah, yeah, I'm
fine. Yeah, they're all just stood there looking
at this dead body on the ground and they're all
like, what just happened? Oh, I think he's fallen
to his death. Okay. Shall we keep filming? And
he goes, oh, you're all right with it? He goes,
yeah, I'm fine. I think we need to learn about
the Abbey. And then off he goes. And then he
just goes off and just fucking starts again.
It's like, no. everyone would be like holy fuck
yeah no 100 it's just it's very very uh the police
chief always shaving oh fuck me the police chief
i love it's such a traditional black and white
film bit as well isn't it he's shaving the phone
rings so he puts the rays down and hello Oh,
I'll be straight there. Right. Run, run, run,
run, run. And his wife's telling him off. Yeah,
his wife's telling him off. I've not got time
for this. Oh, well, at least drink your tea.
No wonder you've got acid. Yeah, but it's like
she's being really passive aggressive with him,
basically accusing him of having an affair. And
he's like, no, the people need me. But the thing
is, that's the second time in the film where
he's been interrupted changing because he's at
his desk and he's, I mean, you. As somebody who
doesn't use a shaver from the 1950s, I didn't
know what the fucking hell he was doing because
he's like creating this device. And then while
this other copper comes in and all of a sudden
he's just shaving his face and it's plugged into
the socket on his desk. I'm like, oh, he's fucking
just shaving in the middle of the day at his
office. That's really gross. Especially if they
hot desk. Imagine if they hot desk. I still think
it would have been. I don't think they had hot
desks in 1955. I still think it would have been
funnier if throughout the film you just saw one
side of his beard getting darker and darker.
The other side of his face just normal. Well,
he didn't finish shaving, though. The second
time, he didn't finish. He still had it all around
his face. So he basically had done the side,
like one side, and he hadn't done the goatee
bit and the other side of his face. So the guy,
I mean, how many fucking times a day does he
shave? Yeah. Because there's not been that many
days at this point in time. He's constantly shaving.
And then, yeah, he runs off to Westminster Abbey
with a half -shade face. Yeah. Anyway, just that
was a little bit. So I just found a bit funny.
I think what we do need to understand here is
actually quite the importance of this film in
how traditional sci -fi films have gone. Now,
I know comic books existed beforehand. I don't
know when the term astronaut came about, but
did you notice they weren't called astronauts?
They didn't have any sort of... They were just...
They were the heroes that had gone up. Men had
gone up. They didn't use any sort of term, spacemen
or anything like that. There was no terminology
that we would have in modern era. However, when
you look at cinema, did you... And there was
just some ideas in this that were wonderful and
so far ahead of the time. So their space rocket,
they had remote video recording in there. They'd
got set up watching not just the people, but,
oh, yeah, we set up an automatic prism that reflects
the camera to then look at what the gauges were
showing. Yeah, it's very clever. Which is just
such a very neat idea. And then you've got the
bit where it's showing the people in the crew
and you've got one in the front. And then the
next thing you've got, the person in the back
is walking up the wall and almost upside down
in the same shot, which for 1955, there's no
trick of it. They've done that really, really
well. And the next time I guess we see that is
2001 A Space Odyssey by Kubrick with one of the
first scenes where you see someone walking around
the entire room on the ship. He must have got
that from this. So there's some very key, important
sci -fi films have taken their leave from this
hammer horror film that got an X certificate.
Yeah. I mean, right at the start, where you see
the spaceship crashed, I was thinking, because
you don't know what it is at first, I was just
thinking... Oh, my God. You know what? The couple
right at the beginning where they run and jump
in the hay. Having sex in the hay. Oh, yeah.
It was just so classic, wasn't it? Let's run
and jump in the hay. Let's run and jump in the
hay. Get down, get down. And she just gets up
and bolts it. She bolts it to her house, which
is basically the house in the field. And their
dad's watching out the window. So it's like,
you've just jumped in the hay in front of your
future dad there, mate. Well done. But at this
time, you think it's an alien ship. And I was
like, and I just, it's like, they've put no effort
in thinking what an alien ship might look like.
This is a classic human rocket, pointy, with
three prongs at the bottom. Yeah, but don't forget,
this is still very early for sci -fi. But you
would have a saucer. You'd make it a saucer.
It's an alien ship. But it is meant to be a human
ship. But very handy, the door was above ground.
yeah that was super i do i do love the fact that
i think in the tv series they've basically dig
a giant trench and you've just got a tube in
the trench and that's how they get the people
out that's how it's crashed whereas the film
has basically taken a model classic rocket like
you say that classic rocket design you think
of tintin sort of rocket yeah and they've basically
gone what would happen if a kid threw this up
in the air and it landed in soft grass i would
land tip first and then just be sticking out
the ground Yeah, let's do that. Yeah, and that's
it. Let's do that. And then luckily, it was the
exact height the door was. I mean, world's bloody
strongest rocket as well. It's just crashed at
Earth with no braking and it's withstood that.
Did they ever get the rocket out and make it
upright? No. Because they go in there a lot.
I'm just thinking now, it would all be upside
down. No, so that's the first thing they do is
they go in the rocket and... The bloke goes to
open up the hatch and he can't, I can't open
the hatch. So he goes to something on the wall
and then the whole room, well, the camera just
rotates to make it look like the room's rotating.
So I think what they're basically saying is the
compartment that they're in is kind of like a
gyroscope. It's a big gimbal kind of thing. Yeah,
exactly. And they rotate it so it's level. I
missed that. That makes sense. Yeah. And the
guy who's playing the creature. He was a bit
scary, to be fair. Oh, God, yeah. He, like, demon
headmaster vibes from him big time. But his wife
was fucking pathetic. Pathetic, but then at the
same time, a bit badass. Yes. In equal quantities,
because she arranged, like, he gets taken off
to, like, the secret lab to get conducted after,
and she goes, well, I want him to come out. After
swooning and all other kind of nonsense that
women do in the old 50s films. Yeah, let's just
actually, let's just... This film is of an era.
We're going to do that whole thing. We're going
to have to do this. All right, Disney. Disney
are right. We're just going to insert it here.
Basically, when we talk about it, we aren't honestly
being against any sort of gender. There's no
gender -specific kind of hatred in this and so
on. But 1950s films, women are written like fucking
idiots. Very rarely do you see a strong individual
woman in these films. But we said the same thing
in Fresh Gordon. I said the same in Fresh Gordon.
They don't write, at this point in time, they're
not writing strong roles for women. They're just
not. And they're treating women like they're
all pathetic. Even into the 80s was the fucking
same. Look at whichever Indiana Jones has got
the singer in Temple of Doom. Oh my God, I want
to punch her. Especially the bit where they jump
out of the plane because you've literally just
got five minutes of her screaming and it's like,
I actually want to kill her. If I was Indian
Jack, I would push her off the raft at this point.
But she does have the badass moment where she
goes and gets herself a, she pays for like some
kind of special detective guy and then they break
into the hospital to get him out. And that's
a badass move. And then she's driving him when
they do get him out after he gets murdered in
the lift, which is hilarious because he just
kind of tilts back and goes, ah, like the guy
in the fucking pharmacy later who completely
hangs the axle, flies back and goes, oh, he's
just dead. It's very handy. Yeah, then she's
in the car with him. And she's like smoking.
We'll just start again. We'll just start a new
life. I love the fact the car's got this little
pouch on the seat that's designed for cigarettes.
And she just helps herself to one, starts smoking
away. And then, yeah, pulls over. Yeah, screaming.
I'm assuming she's dead. I don't think we actually
see her again. No, I'm not sure we do. But the
idea of the film is good. I like the fact that,
yeah, they've gone away and this alien has basically
taken him over and is slowly, evolving into something
new on the planet and they just it's almost like
they kind of run out of conclusion so they decide
right now it's that octopus monster and we'll
kill him really quick yeah it was that's i mean
if i was an evil scientist would you not be running
in there trying to stop them from killing this
alien life form because of all you could learn
from it i think yeah you would but you'd be containing
when you i think their problem was Somehow the
doctor had figured out the maths to know exactly
when it was going to have enough mass that its
spores were going to spread and take over the
world. That's a good point, yes. And they wanted
to deal with that. So they turned off all of
London's electricity and then with two cables
just attached them to the scaffolding posts and
just electrified the fucking thing. Yeah, okay.
My next problem with the film, as much as I love
it, and I really do love it, I think it's a great
classic sci -fi film, the number of animals that
may have been killed in this film. I hope they
weren't really killed because that's sad. Because
there's lots of animals in the zoo scene that
you look at and go, um... Are they real? Yeah,
like Simba, the lion, which was an interesting
name. I do wonder if that was just a taxidermy.
I can't imagine any film company would have got,
not even permission, but the money to kill, even
back then, just to kill a lion. But the animals
that were on the pathway... I'm not sure. And
then the octopus at the end. So all those close
-up shots of the alien are an octopus. Oh, they
actually are an octopus. That is a natural octopus.
Okay, well, it makes sense. And then I went back
and watched it. Okay, that is actually on fire.
Yeah. So have they actually set an octopus on
fire for this? Well, I hope not. I'm sure there'll
be some kind of IMDb thing. The only thing in
the IMDb says... The close -up shots were of
an octopus. So what are the far -out shots? The
far -out shots are of a burning octopus. So I
genuinely, just going back, I know they had the
ability to not green screen, but they could kind
of film flames in front of it. And they had a
way of doing a version of chroma screen because
a lot of it was done with things like... painting
and so on like the charlie chaplin stuff where
oh he might fall off that edge that's got no
barrier well that was just all a painting and
it was a piece of glass in front of the camera
so it was never there and they could do similar
things with the flames these flames looked very
3d on that octopus yeah it looked good didn't
it it looked a little too good so i do wonder
if seafood doesn't fall because i don't even
know when film industry had the animal protection
stuff come in I don't know. I don't know if that
would have been 70s, 80s, or was it earlier than
that? I'd just like to think as human beings
you wouldn't just go and shoot a lion and all
these other animals just for one small shot.
But don't forget, I mean, yeah, I genuinely don't
think they would have killed a lion even. I don't
think they would have killed the other animals.
I think they would have been taxidermy, hopefully,
from a museum or from a collection. The octopus,
though, and I think this is quite a common thing.
Seafood very rarely gets considered as anything
but, well, it's food. People eat this. Yeah,
you eat octopus, you don't eat lions. So it doesn't
matter if we set that on fire. I don't know if
there was animal protection back then for films,
whether it would have extended to the lives of
fish and octopi. I mean, ultimately, I still
think it's a very good bit of sci -fi. I like
the story. The acting, yeah, very cheesy, very
hammy, but it's of its time. We must watch the
TV series stuff at the moment because they are
very good, and Quatermass and the Pit is particularly
disturbing. But, yeah, I enjoyed it. For what
it is, I think it's well worth the hour and 20
minutes, and it's free on YouTube at the moment.
Well, yeah, I watched it free on YouTube. And
in an hour and 20 minutes, it doesn't feel like
it's that long. No, it doesn't. It was great.
I enjoyed it. I did enjoy it. And we've got the
best moment. Have dinner with us. Go on, have
dinner. You can have the chocolate cake. She
was the fucking scariest thing in the film. Slap
the doll out of her hands. Any normal film would
have her then burst into tears. Instead, she
goes over and just picks up the dog's head and
the body. Oh. Yeah, so this is Little Girl. So
the monster's gone and hid in a bit of barge.
And she's like, by what she's saying to her doll
after she thumps it down the stairs, going over
this bridge. Yeah, she has no friends. Yeah,
so she's fallen out with her mates in some way
or they're not playing how she wants to play.
So she's playing with her doll. And then he climbs
out of the barge because she's woken him up.
She just gets in his face saying, join the party,
join the party. He just starts grabbing him and
all sorts. No stranger danger. Yeah, well, we
hear the mum on the phone to the police later
worrying about children being molested. And they
were like, you know, teach your child to keep
away from strange men is a very good start. That
strange man that climbed out the boat that your
kid instantly went up to and was trying to get
to play with her. Yeah. Maybe teach your child
strange danger. Exactly. And I think unless you've
got anything else to say, I can end this on the
best quote of the film. Yeah, go on. Quatermass
is saying this. There's no room for personal
feelings in science, Judith. That's him all over,
isn't it? Cunt. But no, I'm not doing the ship
sound again. Just go to the next section. No
one is still listening anyway. So next time,
we're actually going to watch the most modernist
of modern things that could be modern at this
modern time, as this film only came out last
week. It came out last week with two of the most
overused actors and actresses of the time. It's
called Electric State. It's starring Millie Bobby
Brown and Chris Pratt. It's on Netflix. So Chris
Pratt, a .k .a. every fucking character on Hollywood
at the moment. And Millie Bobby Brown, the girl
that Netflix like to use for all of their shows.
I quite like her, to be fair. I've not got any
issues with her. Okay. I don't have any issues
with her. I did watch a TikTok video. I know,
TikTok's the evil things. I know, I know. There
was a video that... Obviously, the production
company's released of Chris Pratt and Millie
Bobby Brown looking at old 1990s electric hardware.
Okay. And 1980s stuff. And she picks up a Walkman
and says, oh, I've got no idea what this is.
Oh, I wonder what it's for. It's like, you were
in Stranger Things. Purely based around the era
that that thing was fucking invented. And in
fact, the main part of it is they use... In one
of the series, they use a Walkman to bring your
ginger -haired friend down, back from wherever
she's ended up. So don't play fucking dumb. She's
been told. You could tell she'd been told. Act
dumb. You don't know what any of this is. And
it's fucking stupid. I haven't watched that.
I hate it. I really hate it when they do that
because there's no need. If you know what it
is, just be happy you know what it is. Yeah,
I think it'd be quite good. Imagine the show,
though, if she did just sit there the whole time.
Yeah, of course I know what that is. It's a CD
Walkman. Yeah, of course I know what that is.
It's a rotary telephone. Yes, of course I fucking
know what that is. She hadn't watched Guardians
of the Galaxy 1, where Quinn literally walks
around with his Walkman. I can't blame her for
not seeing Guardians of the Galaxy, though. I
mean, I've seen it, but... Oh, I like them. Yeah,
no, I like the first one. I've only seen the
first two. I haven't seen the third one. Oh,
the third's amazing. It'll make you cry. I think
that you can't... you know blame an actor for
not seeing no fair enough no i understand that
anyway electric state i don't actually really
know what it's about i just know it's sci -fi
it's got something to do with robots yeah and
there i took notice of it because i saw an article
saying how critically it was being blasted but
everyone normal people watching it are really
enjoying it. So I'm getting the whole 50 -50
thing. Critics are blasting it. Normal people
are enjoying it. And I like that. And what I'm
seeing in the middle is people saying, I enjoyed
it, but I really wish there was more from the
original artwork and stories in this. Oh, this
is a remake of something. Is it a remake of something?
Well, I think it's based on a book and there
was artwork done for the book, which looked basically
really amazing. And then they've taken some of
it and they've not included some of the best
things from it. Okay. Well, that's conversations
for next time. So everyone, Electric State's
on Netflix. Thank fuck this is over. I need a
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