With the wind rustling the trees, a faint hint of the bouquet from the honeysuckle on the air, the moon moved from behind the cloud. It was hard to accept that this was still the same group that everyone knew and liked (loved is suck a strong word and with Buck involved we might be stretching it a bit). The utter shock of it all is beyond belief; we are almost at that time folks. Yes, we really are almost at the 2 year mark. Tell your friends that like Keith Richards we have refused to stop going, like an aging rock band we are here once again. The Nerds are back!
First up this week we have a segment about QTIME, what is that you ask? Well it is an amazing device to help when gaming is more important than life, but you still have to pay the bills. It is awesome for those parents that want to guide their dirt urchins out into the wide blue yonder and do their chores around the house. It is also the perfect way to destroy a room full of sports fans. Want to know exactly what this miracle device is, listen in and hear the Professor tell us about it and Buck hatch evil ideas.
Now there are restaurants that have monkey waiters, cafes where you can cuddle a cat or puppy, there are even sushi bars with trains. Now we give you Cat Robots! Yes folks it is that time of year when the biggest collection of Nerds and Geeks gather. It is the CES once again and Buck has found that there are Cat Robots, also a super important and special bot for those times when you stuck needing a roll of paper. This is important and we invite you to tell us your favourite exhibit at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) we only discuss a couple, there are some many things it would require a special episode of its own.
Next up we have DJ telling us about the news that Studio Ghibli are planning to release 2 new movies. The special part of this is we have an expected release date of….Listen in and find out when. Also we discuss what the movies theme is going to be. We don’t want to spoil it for you and tell you everything now, but we are sure you will enjoy it as much as we do. Lastly, we have the usual game played, shout outs, remembrances, birthdays, and special events. Until next time, thanks for listening, take care of yourselves, look out for each other and stay hydrated.
Qtime : Limiting Gaming Time - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/10/23/father-son-create-app-parents-shut-childs-video-consoles-remotely/
Cat Robots in Restaurants - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51003084?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology&link_location=live-reporting-story
Studio Ghibli making 2 movies for 2020 - https://www.cbr.com/studio-ghibli-two-new-films-2020/
Games currently playing
Professor
– Final Fantasy Adventure - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Adventure
Rating – 5/10
Buck
– Desert Order - https://www.desertorder.com/
Rating – 3.5/5
DJ
– Watchers - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124980/Watchers/
Rating – 3.5/5
Other topics discussed
QTIME official website
Court dress (style of clothes prescribed for courts of law and for royal courts._
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_dress
YouTube Challenge - Hey Jimmy Kimmel I Unplugged the TV During the Game
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMmqqKV49cg
YouTube Challenge – I Turned Off the TV During Fortnite
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPTXkp4pPeI
CES (Consumer Electronics Show) and its info
- https://metro.co.uk/2018/01/08/ces-stand-dates-held-7212783/
Cat Cafes in Brisbane
- Lucky Cat Café - https://www.luckycatcafe.com.au/
- Cat Cuddle Café - https://catcuddlecafe.com/
Charmin’s Rollbot unveiled at CES 2020
The Good Place (American fantasy comedy television series created by Michael Schur.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Place
How Do You Live (1937 novel by Yoshino Genzaburō. It follows a 15-year-old boy named Junichi Honda, nicknamed Koperu, and his uncle as the youth deals with spiritual growth, poverty, and the overall experience as human beings.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Do_You_Live%3F_(novel)
Studio Ghibli 25 Years Concert - Joe Hisaishi in Budokan
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY1XtWyKlJA
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest pledges $70 million bushfire relief and recovery donation
Four Wedding and a Funeral (American romantic comedy web television miniseries, based on the 1994 British film of the same name written by Richard Curtis.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Weddings_and_a_Funeral_(miniseries)
Stephen Fry (English actor, comedian and writer)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry
Hugh Laurie (English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian and author.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Laurie
1st episode of Q.I. starring Hugh Laurie, Danny Baker & John Sessions
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lmJ15QvMZE
James A. Garfield (20th president of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881 until his death by assassination six and a half months later.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield
Musicals Taught me Everything I Know (TNC Podcast)
- https://thatsnotcanon.com/mtmeik
Shoutout
4 Jan 2019 - Tom Long passed away. Tom Long an Australian film and television actor. He played court official and avid surfer Angus in the late 1990s TV series SeaChange and Brendon Abbott in the 2003 Australian TV movie The Postcard Bandit. He was also in the movie the Dish as Glenn Latham, Comedian Jane Kennedy, a writer and producer for The Dish said Long was "one of the most modest and talented human beings I have had the privilege to work with". He died of encephalitis at the age of 51. - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-06/tom-long-seachange-the-dish-actor-dies-aged-51/11843328
5 Jan 2019 – Hayao Miyazaki celebrated his 79th birthday. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a film and animation studio, he has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and as a maker ofanimated feature films, and is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished filmmakers in the animation business. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki
6 Jan 1994 - Washington State University’s research moose, Morty, who strolled to fame in the opening credits of the CBS-TV series 'Northern Exposure,' has died. The moose died of cobalt and copper deficiency. - https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/01/07/Northern-Exposure-moose-dies/1000757918800/
6 Jan 2019 – Australian comedian Celeste Barber has raised more than $46 million dollars for The Trustee for NSW Rural Fire Service & Brigades Donations Fund. - https://www.facebook.com/donate/1010958179269977/2477326602586291/
Rememberances
6 Jan 1990 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Soviet physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934. Cherenkov observed the emission of blue light from a bottle of water subjected to radioactive bombardment. This phenomenon, associated with charged atomic particles moving at velocities greater than the phase velocity of light, proved to be of great importance in subsequent experimental work in nuclear physics, and for the study of cosmic rays. Eponymously, it was dubbed the Cherenkov effect, as was the Cherenkov detector, which has become a standard piece of equipment in atomic research for observing the existence and velocity of high-speed particles. He died at the age of 85 in Moscow,Russian SFSR. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Cherenkov
6 Jan 1990 - Ian Charleson, Scottish stage and film actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell, in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. He is also well known for his portrayal of Rev. Charlie Andrews in the 1982 Oscar-winning film Gandhi. He performed numerous Shakespearean roles, and in 1991 the annual Ian Charleson Awards were established, particularly in honour of his final Hamlet. The awards reward the best classical stage performances in Britain by actors aged under 30. Ian McKellen said Charleson was "the most unmannered and unactorish of actors: always truthful, always honest". He died from AIDS related causes at the age of 40 in London. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Charleson
6 Jan 1997 - Catherine Scorsese, American actress, and the mother of director Martin Scorsese. Of Italian descent, she began acting when her son Martin Scorsese cast her in his film It's Not Just You, Murray!. She frequently played the role of an Italian mother, and is perhaps most well known for her appearance in her son's film Goodfellas, as Mrs. DeVito, Tommy's mother. She acted in films other than her son's. She was married to Charles Scorsese. Her father, Martin Cappa, was a stage co-ordinator and her mother, Domenica, was a shop owner. She published a recipe book, Italianamerican: The Scorsese Family Cookbook. She died from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 84 in Manhattan, New York. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Scorsese
Famous Birthdays
6 Jan 1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman and a pioneer in the field of archaeology. He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeological excavator of Hisarlik, now presumed to be the site of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad reflects historical events. Schliemann's excavation of nine levels of archaeological remains with dynamite has been criticized as destructive of significant historical artifacts, including the level that is believed to be the historical Troy. Schliemann's famous finds include Priam's Treasure, a cache of gold jewellery discovered in 1873. Schliemann was also the excavator of the bronze age site of Mycenae in North Greece, where he found the so-called "Mask of Agamemnon" in 1876. He was born in Neubukow,Mecklenburg-Schwerin. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Schliemann
6 Jan 1954 - Yuji Horii, Japanese video game designer and scenario writer best known as the creator of the Dragon Quest series of role-playing games, supervising and writing the scenario for Chrono Trigger, as well as the first visual noveladventure game Portopia Serial Murder Case. In Chrono Trigger, Horii appearing in one of the endings with the game development staff. He was born in Sumoto, Hyōgo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuji_Horii
6 Jan 1955 - Rowan Atkinson, English actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder and Mr. Bean. Atkinson first came to prominence in the BBC's sketch comedy show Not the Nine O'Clock News, receiving the 1981 BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance, and via his participation in The Secret Policeman's Ball. His other work includes the James Bond film Never Say Never Again, playing a bumbling vicar in Four Weddings and a Funeral, voicing the red-billed hornbill Zazu in The Lion King, and playing jewellery salesman Rufus in Love Actually. Best known for his use of physical comedy in his Mr. Bean persona, Atkinson's other characters rely more on language. Atkinson often plays authority figures speaking absurd lines with a completely deadpan delivery. He was born in Consett,County Durham - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_Atkinson
Events of Interest
6 January 1873: Crédit Mobilier of America scandal investigated, this led to the censure of Oakes Ames of Massachusetts and James Brooks of New York. This scandal showed how corruption tainted Gilded Age politics, and the lengths railroads and other economic interests would go to assure and increase profits. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9dit_Mobilier_scandal
6 Jan 1912 - German geophysicistAlfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift. He hypothesized that that the continents are slowly drifting around the Earth. He suggested that the continents were once a single landmass and gradually drifted apart, either because of the centrifugal force of the Earth’s rotation, or astronomical precession. Wegener also originally thought mid-ocean ridges might play some role, since the Atlantic seafloor “is continuously tearing open and making space for fresh, relatively fluid and hot [material rising] from depth.” But he eventually abandoned those notions. - https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201901/history.cfm
6 Jan 1950 – The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China presently known as Taiwan severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_in_China
Intro
Artist – Goblins from Mars
Song Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)
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