Fascinating Gadgets, Gizmos, and Gear Based Technologies

Tenet is a movie about the idea that you can reverse the flow of time by reversing the entropy of an object.  This is a fascinating way to look at time travel, although it happens in “Real Time” so you have to live the events in their entirety (forwards of backwards) instead of jumping over them to arrive way in the future (or past) a la Back to the Future.  We break-down how this woul...

The mystery of human attraction remain unsolved, but Love Potion No. 9 attempts to solve it through the the voice.  This is a movie about a substance that when sprayed onto your vocal cords, it affects your voice in such a way that the opposite sex will find you undeniably fascinating, while the same sex will find you uncontrollable aggravating.  This has very little to do with love, but when mixe...

Could you imagine being stuck in a time loop, reliving the same day over and over?  Where you remember everything, and everyone around you remembers nothing?  This is exactly what happens to Phil Connors in the classic movie Groundhog Day.  While living without any consequences is fun at first, once Phil realizes he is stuck seemingly forever, things get pretty dark, pretty quick.  This week we ta...

When one thinks of world domination, two people should immediately spring to mind:  Pinky & The Brain.  These two genetically enhanced mice attempt to take over the world on a nightly basis, and have come devastatingly close on several occasions.  In this episode, we examine some of those plans from the latest season, and offer some insights on how to make them better.  We will discuss robotic...

As they say in the cinematic classic “A Christmas Story”, every Christmas-celebrating child’s year revolves around December 25th.  It is on this day that Santa Claus travel across the entire world on a flying reindeer-powered sleigh to deliver presents to all the good little boys and girls.  The real question is “How does he do it”?  The feat seems impossible, and at...

Every Year on Dec. 25, Santa Claus takes to the skies to deliver presents to all the good little girls and boys in the world, but that one day takes 364 days of preparation to pull off.  A naughty/nice list must be compiled, millions of toys must be assembled, and the entire delivery route must be mapped out.  This level of coordination requires a large, dedicated staff.  How does Santa surveil th...

When it comes to Christmas, Santa typically gets all the credit, but it turns out he has a crack team of elves that work behind the scenes.  One such team is called Prep & Landing, and their job is to prepare each house for Santa’s arrival.  Listen as we discuss the exploits of Wayne and Lanny, as they use various gadgets to make Santa’ job easier, including temperature reading hap...

If there was a pill that could give you a random superpower for only five mins, but there was no guarantee you would survive, would you take it?  That is the question asked by the movie Project Power.  The superpowers granted by the pharmaceutical are random, and are typically some form of augmented biology, such as Octopus Camouflage, Johnny Storm like heat generation, or an Elsa like ability to...

What would it be like for a human to be raised exclusively by a robot in an underground bunker?  This question is explored in the movie I Am Mother.  An automated bunker houses an AI powered robot named “Mother” and this robot is responsible for the last remnants of humanity, which are stored as embryos in a large cryogenic freezer.  The robot decides to artificially grow a female huma...

We are all familiar with The Hulk and his ever increasing strength, but where does this power ultimately come from?  Is it somehow tied to his psyche?  Is there an altered biological reason for this transformation?  In this episode we take a look into mind of Dr. Banner to see if it holds the key to The Hulk.  We also compare this duo to the most famous doctor/monster combo of all time: Dr. Jekyll...

In nature, some bird species will try to get another bird species to raise their young by secretly laying eggs in their nest.  This is called brood parasitism.  The movie Vivarium takes this concept and applies it to humans.  Tom and Emma get trapped in a weird subdivision called Yonder, and are given a baby to raise.  It quickly becomes apparent that this baby is not human, and they have to figur...

Blade is a BA vampire hunter, who also happens to be half-vampire himself.  His mom was bitten while pregnant, which bestowed upon Blade all of the vampire strengths, but none of the weaknesses…sort of.  He still has to drink blood which while not a physical weakness per se, is definitely a social weakness.  At his disposal is a varied arsenal of silver & garlic infused weapons including...

Tremors is about a group of people in the tiny Nevada town of Perfection who encounter large, subterranean worm-like creatures called Graboids, which are attracted to sound.  In this episode, we attempt to explain the biology of these creatures, including their incredible locomotive abilities, bulletproof head, and mouth tentacles.  We also take a look at seismology, and how sound can actually tel...

Phantasm is one of the most unusual sci-fi forror movies of all time.  The movie follows a boy, his big brother and an Ice Cream peddler named Reggie as they try to uncover the mysterious disappearances centered around their local cemetery.  It turns out, the truth involves an inter-dimensional alien called The Tall Man, flying spheres capable of draining an entire body of blood, a portal to anoth...

Last Action Hero is one of Schwarzenegger’s most unusual movies because it plays with the physical conventions of three distinct worlds.  First, we have the our world which operates under conventional Newtonian physics.  Then we have the movie world where the main character Danny lives, which follows movie physics, and then we have the cartoonish physics of the movie within a movie where Sch...

In the future, it is possible to have memories implanted in your head so you believe you went vacationing on another planet.  This is what happens to Arnold, which opens up a whole adventure.  This movie is really about two major scientific phenomena:  Implanting memories over memories, and traveling to Mars.  These seemingly unrelated occurrences are intertwined in a strange way, which is what ma...

The T800, the unstoppable killing machine from the Terminator franchise is probably Arnold’s most iconic role.  In the most recent sequel Dark Fate, a T800 is sent to kill John Conner and succeeds.  After the mission is complete, he live a normal life with a family, completely fitting in to human society as a drapery cleaner.  On top of that, we have an augmented human who can push her body...

When Arnold and his elite paramilitary group are brought in on a rescue mission in Central America, they thought the most dangerous part would be the heavily armed guerillas.  Little did they know that a technologically advanced alien had come to Earth to hunt.  In this episode, we discuss all the cool gadgets The Predator has, including a cloaking device, a triangulating targeting system, a shoul...

Los Angeles 2017: Prisoners have talent agents, people are manipulated with deepfakes every day, and you can fight for your freedom on a nationally televised game show hosted by Richard Dawson.  This is the world of The Running Man, our first entry in Schwarzenegger September.  This movie was very forward thinking, and not only because it stars two future governors.  We are going to explain how th...

The movie Snowpiercer (and the TV show of the same name) follows a gigantic train as it traverses the icy post-apocalyptic landscape, carrying with it the last vestiges of humanity.  It is the quintessential traveling biosphere, containing everything the human race would need to survive (and many things they do not).  Listen as we discuss how feasible it would be to maintain a hydroponic farm, or...

The 2011 movie Limitless explored the possibilities of dramatically expanding ones intelligence.  Not only does the main character increase the processing power of his brain, but he suddenly has access to every memory he has ever stored.  This is a remarkably powerful combination, especially when used in conjunction with his new found ability to mimic any complex physical move just by watching som...

In the television show Castlevania, Dracula is the keeper of advanced scientific knowledge, which sometimes appears as magic.  His scientific acumen is so great that he trained his wife to be a doctor, his castle teleports, and he uses mirrors as both a communication device, and as a portable hole!  We explain these devices, as well as a morning star whip that makes monsters explode, the physiolog...

Welcome to FGGGbT Quick-E!  On this show, we will tackle the stuff we don’t have time for in the regular podcast, be it science, pop culture, or both! This week’s topic comes from Twitter fan @Tweetacularmatt He asked what we thought of 3D food printing and how it would taste.  We had some predictions. FGGGbT On Social Media Facebook Twitter

If you have ever considered faking your own death via a pretend vat of acid, you really need to listen to this episode.  It turns out, there is a LOT to consider.  You have to be able to breathe underwater, construct rat bones on the fly, and be prepared to melt a ladle should anyone try to verify the acidity of the liquid.  We also discuss a gadget that allows you to save your spot in time &...

Welcome to the first episode of our new show FGGGbT Quick-E!  On this show, we will tackle the stuff we don’t have time for in the regular podcast, be it science, pop culture, or both! Our first topic comes from our new fan on Twitter  @MasquearteMX!      He asked what we thought of Vibranium VS Beskar.  This is our answer. FGGGbT On Social Media Facebook Twitter