To start with, welcome back and hello to the new listeners, we hope everyone is having fun and taking care of themselves. So this week we find out that NASA forgot to pack enough clothes for the astronauts and that by doing this we failed to see history being made. That’s right folks, we had the first all-female space-walk in history planned and someone messed up. We roast the folks at NASA for messing this up. Hopefully it will be able to happen next time and become a regular practice. Also for those in Brisbane the Queensland Museum has an exhibit of space suits and other items to spend some time dreaming over. Next up we look at the latest on this year’s Video Game Hall of Fame nominations, some are looking good and one is surprising. We take a look at the games already in the Hall and try to find out which is the favourite. Unfortunately Leisure Suit Larry isn’t on the list, neither was there any of the Police Quest, Space Quest or Outrun for Buck. Oh to be so old and to have played so many games as our resident geriatric. Lastly we review the new movie coming out for Dora the Explorer and try to figure out if it is working out to be great or just another in a long line of failures. One thing though is Danny Trejo is involved and we don’t think he has a machete in this movie. Oh well, I guess it is safe for kids to watch then. As usual we have the regular list of shout outs, remembrances, birthdays, and events of interest. As usual we have a lot of fun bringing you this latest episode of mayhem, so settle in with a cup of earl grey and a biscuit while we bring you some of the news this week in Nerd pop culture. Remember, take care of each other and stay hydrated.
EPISODE NOTES:
All Female spacewalk fiasco - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-26/nasa-cancels-first-all-female-spacewalk-no-fitting-suits/10942166
World Video Game Hall of Fame finalists - https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/world-video-game-hall-of-fame-2019-finalists-1203169062/
Dora and the city of Gold trailer - https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/first-trailer-dora-lost-city-gold/
Games currently playing
Professor
– Wargroove - https://store.steampowered.com/app/607050/Wargroove/
DJ
– Didn’t play
Buck
– The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - https://store.steampowered.com/app/22320/The_Elder_Scrolls_III_Morrowind_Game_of_the_Year_Edition/
Other topics discussed
Astronauts driving Corvettes
- https://jalopnik.com/why-americas-first-astronauts-all-drove-corvettes-5799011
Queensland Museum host NASA spacesuits
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-21/brisbane-hosts-nasa-space-suits-in-world-first/10911452
Apollo 13 space mission
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13
World Video game Hall of Fame
- https://www.worldvideogamehalloffame.org/
Dune 2 (1992 game)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_II
Centipede (1981 Atari game)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede_(video_game)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7XEmf02zEM
Lesuire suit Larry (game series)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry
Command & Conquer Rivals (2018 Mobile game)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Rivals
Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017 game)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Battlefront_II_(2017_video_game)
Danny Trejo (actor)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Trejo
Dark Universe (movie franchise)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Classic_Monsters#Dark_Universe
Bride of Frankenstein (Reboot)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_of_Frankenstein#Reboot
Alex Kurtzman (Director)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kurtzman
Second Take Media podcast
- http://www.secondtakepodcast.com/
Elder Scrolls IV : Oblivion
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_IV:_Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls : Arena
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls:_Arena
Picture of an Iron Lung
Buzz Aldrin punches Bart Sibrel
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUE4VGWAap4
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Killer_Tomatoes
Umbrella Corporation (Resident Evil reference)
- https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Umbrella_Corporation
Encino Man quote: The cheese is old and mouldy
- http://www.moviequotes.com/repository.cgi?pg=3&tt=92687
Shoutouts
26 Mar 1953 – Salk announces polio vaccine - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/salk-announces-polio-vaccine
26 Mar 1989 – USSR later known as Russia conducts its 1st election, 190 million people voted which resulted in Boris Yeltsin winning the election. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Soviet_Union_legislative_election
28 Mar 2019 – Batman turns 80 - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/arts/design/batman-80th-anniversary.html
Rememberances
26 Mar 1892 – Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collectionLeaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. He died of pleurisy at 72 in Camden, New Jersey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman
23 Mar 2019 - Larry Cohen, American film producer, director, and screenwriter, best known as a B-movieauteur of horror and science-fiction films — often containing a police procedural element — during the 1970s and 1980s, such as It's Alive (1974), God Told Me To (1976), It Lives Again (1978) . After that, he concentrated mainly on screenwriting, including Phone Booth (2002), Cellular (2004) and Captivity (2007). He died at 82 in Beverly Hills, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Cohen
23 Mar 2019 – Ryan Brant, American game designer, founder of Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two Interactive. Ryan Brant founded Take two in September 1993, looking to become a major publisher in the video game area. The company went public in April 1997, and later acquired the publisher and developer behind Grand Theft Auto, through which it formed Rockstar Games and Rockstar North and other labels such as Bungie. He died at 49 after suffering a cardiac arrest in Palm Beach, Florida - https://www.shacknews.com/article/110865/take-two-founder-ryan-brant-dies-at-age-47
Famous Birthdays
26 Mar 1931 - Leonard Nimoy, was an American actor, film director, photographer, author, singer, and songwriter. He was known for playing Spock in the Star Trek franchise, a character he portrayed in television and film from a pilot episode shot in late 1964 to his final film performance in 2013. Nimoy's public profile as Spock was so strong that both of his autobiographies, I Am Not Spock (1975) and I Am Spock (1995), were written from the viewpoint of sharing his existence with the character.[5][6] In 2015 an asteroid was named 4864 Nimoy in his honor. Born in Boston, Massachusetts - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Nimoy
- Leonard Nimoy asteroid - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_planets:_4001%E2%80%935000#864
- Details about the asteroid - https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=4864
- More details about the asteroid - https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=4864#content
26 Mar 1941 – Richard Dawkins, English ethologist,evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. Dawkins first came to prominence with his books such as “The Selfish Gene”, “The Extended Phenotype” and famously “The God Delusion”. Dawkins is known as an outspoken atheist. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist, and that religious faith is a delusion. Born in Nairobi,British Kenya - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
26 Mar 1973 – Larry Page, American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin. Page is the chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc. (Google's parent company). After stepping aside as Google CEO in August 2001, in favour of Eric Schmidt, he re-assumed the role in April 2011. He announced his intention to step aside a second time in July 2015, to become CEO of Alphabet, under which Google's assets would be reorganized. Under Page, Alphabet is seeking to deliver major advancements in a variety of industries. Born in Lansing, Michigan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page
Events of interest
26 Mar 1804 - Jefferson presented with a “mammoth loaf” of bread - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jefferson-presented-with-a-mammoth-loaf-of-bread
26 Mar 1958 – "The Bridge on the River Kwai" wins Best Picture, Joanne Woodward & Alec Guinness win Best Actress and Best Actor at the 30th Academy Awards - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30th_Academy_Awards
27 Mar 1998 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sildenafil
27 Mar 2012 - Canadian filmmaker James Cameron becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth in over 50 years - https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120325-james-cameron-mariana-trench-challenger-deep-deepest-science-sub/
Intro
Artist – Goblins from Mars
Song Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)
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