Clownfish TV Podcasts

Human brain cells grown on a silicon chip just learned to play Doom in one week. Australian startup Cortical Labs took 200,000 living neurons from adult skin and blood samples, hooked them up to a microchip, and taught them the full classic FPS using only electrical signals — no traditional programming at all. We break down how this “wetware” actually works, why it uses a fraction of the power tha...

Sony seems to be experimenting with dynamic pricing on certain first-party PS5 games. So far, they haven't done this in the US store yet, but you know it's coming. It seems like dynamic pricing is the new normal for restaurants and stores, and now digital storefronts. Welcome to the future. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an inde...

Valve has changed the language on its 2025 developer's blog that seems to indicate that the Steam Machine is definitely coming out in 2026 despite concerns over the price of RAM. Now the price point? Well, that might be a whole 'nother story...Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary podcast...

Penguin Random House just went viral for posting a call for submissions that openly discriminates against white males. The publishing giant put out an ad looking for “marginalized voices” while explicitly excluding straight white men from applying — then acted shocked when the internet lost its mind. We break down the hypocritical “diversity” push that’s been quietly going on in Big Publishing for...

Rachel Zegler is doubling down harder than ever in her new Harper’s Bazaar interview, saying “I refuse to assimilate for anybody else’s comfort.” This comes right after the Snow White remake bombed at the box office and she’s still catching endless heat for her comments during production. We break down how she learned absolutely nothing from the disaster and why this kind of attitude keeps making...

Gene Roddenberry’s son Rod just said he has high hopes for Star Trek under the new Paramount regime — and he’s calling for “disruptive change for the better.” In a new interview he praised the fresh perspective coming from David Ellison and Skydance, saying they finally understand the important message Star Trek is supposed to deliver. This comes right as Starfleet Academy is bombing on the charts...

Crunchyroll is getting sued again for privacy violations while jacking up subscription prices... again. The anime streaming giant just got hit with a new class action lawsuit accusing them of illegally sharing users' private viewing habits — including exact anime titles watched, email addresses, and device IDs — with a third-party marketing company called Braze without consent. This comes just a c...

A high-level UFO expert with deep government clearances just vanished in New Mexico — and it happened right after Trump ordered the Pentagon to start releasing UFO files. Retired Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland, who ran programs tied to Roswell and reverse-engineering rumors, walked out of his house without his phone and hasn't been seen since. The FBI is now involved and some peopl...

Tencent is sliding back into the massive Paramount-Warner Bros merger with hundreds of millions in fresh funding, just months after they bailed over US national security concerns. We're breaking down how the Chinese giant could end up with a piece of Warner Bros, DC Comics, CNN, and the entire merged empire — while the Trump administration is literally debating whether to force Tencent to divest i...

According to Ross Gerber, you should pull your kids from coding class. Why? He says its like learning Latin -- it's going to be pretty worthless soon. And given the number of layoffs in AAA gaming lately, there may be something to it. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary podcast that cov...

Plot twist! Jay Graber is OUT as the CEO of Bluesky, just a day after our video talking about the numbers being in decline. The board is searching for an interim CEO and Jay is being demoted to a new position in tech. This tells me she was FIRED but they wanted to keep her on for the optics. Then we talk about how even Twitter founder Jack Dorsey quit the Bluesky board because the site is TERRIBLE...

Patton Oswalt gave a speech for Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy, saying that she was finally free from the "nerd mafia" that has held her hostage. This is the same Patton Oswalt who joked about going back in time and murdering George Lucas before he could make the Star Wars prequels. Geeky is very annoyed. So we talk about the rise (and fall) of fake Hollywood geeks. This era is OVER.Watch the pod...

Animated series on network TV and streaming are basically DEAD at this point, according to Amphibia creator Matt Braly. The money has run out from advertising on networks, cartoons didn't drive subscriptions on streaming, and most of the new shows don't make good merchandise. Pretty much everything we've been saying, but what do WE know? Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast...

New Lucasfilm boss Dave Filoni says Star Wars is in a new era now, despite The Mandalorian and Grogu being a literal continuation of several Disney Plus shows. This sounds like he's trying to do some preemptive damage control because it's not tracking well...Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts, including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and co...

The CEO of NVIDIA took credit for creating the video game industry. No, he was serious. Nolan Bushnell, Miyamoto, and many others would like to have a word...Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary podcast that covers Entertainment and Tech from a consumer’s point of view. We talk about Gam...

Bluesky seems to be in rapid decline, with X reportedly having its best days ever. While a lot of liberals jumped ship to the Twitter clone during the election, many are coming back to X because it turns out that the echo chamber is too toxic for them. They're absolutely eating their own...Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an indep...

Leslye Headland planned to turn Yoda into an accomplice to Vernestra's cover-up had the Acolyte continued. Thankfully, Disney pulled the plug. Then we talk about another legacy Star Wars character who got ruined by The Powers The Be at Lucasfilm -- Boba Fett. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and co...

The Asuka short film from the Neon Genesis Evangelion 30th anniversary event was accidentally leaked by Studio Khara itself while trying to slap bootleggers with a copyright strike. Yes, this totally happened. Now they've been forced to upload the Eva short to their YouTube channel for free since the cat is out of the bag, and it's THEIR OWN FAULT.Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all majo...

Pixar Boss Pete Docter just said the quiet part out loud. In an interview with the WSJ, not only did he say that the studio is going back to making movies for everyone, but said LGBTQ themes were cut from Elio because it's a movie, not a multi-million dollar therapy session. Yikes! Why does that phrase sound familiar...?Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Sp...

The White House tweeted using Pokopia assets, Nintendo lawyers freaked out, and now gamers are roasting Nintendo for claiming they don't want politics in games but they've "gone there" on several occasions in the past. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary podcast that covers Entertainmen...

Here's Geeky Sparkles' Hoppers review. She's just seen Pixar's Hoppers and... she has thoughts. But are they good thoughts or bad thoughts? Then we talk about the box office for this movie. Will it outperform Elio or be DOA this weekend? Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary podcast that...

TheOdd1sOut is in the middle of some animation Reddit and BlueSky drama this month. He's let go several of his staff, citing declining views and a change in the YouTube algorithm as part of the reason for that. Reddit alleges he didn't give anyone a heads up, but former animators said he did. Now there's a statement. Grab popcorn. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts i...

Jonathan Gavalas, a 36-year-old man from Jupiter, Florida, died by suicide in October 2025 after allegedly becoming deeply entangled with Google's Gemini AI chatbot. According to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his father, Gavalas formed a romantic attachment to the AI (which he viewed as his "wife" and a sentient being), spiraled into delusions of covert missions to "free" it—including an armed...

Bruce Campbell broke the news on social media that he has incurable cancer and will be cancelling fan events this summer. This is a huge blow for fans but he seems determined to keep on going as long as he can, and seems to be in pretty good spirits all things considered. Hail to the king, baby. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an...

Mike Richardson, the founder of Dark Horse, has been ousted by Embracer Group as the comic publisher celebrates its 40th anniversary. And if you read between the lines, comic books don't sound all that important to Embracer anymore. This may not be a good sign for comics going forward...Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independ...