We’ve discussed how to build your own underground bunker, but what if you let a company like Vault-Tek do that for you?  In the world of Fallout, Vault-Tek is not the most trustworthy company.  They blew up the entire world to eliminate their competition!  While I do respect their hustle, it does leave the world […]

We’ve discussed how to build your own underground bunker, but what if you let a company like Vault-Tek do that for you?  In the world of Fallout, Vault-Tek is not the most trustworthy company.  They blew up the entire world to eliminate their competition!  While I do respect their hustle, it does leave the world […]

As a species, our main goal is to live forever, whatever that means.  We will live for centuries in underground bunkers in a nuclear holocaust, we will freeze our bodies when we die with the hopes that one day we will be brought back to life, and we even store our DNA to make sure […]

From the first time you lay eyes on the Mogwai Gizmo, it is hard to imagine that something that adorable has the potential to unleash a horde of evil gremlins simply by disregarding a few rules.  I mean, how do you exist as an animal if you can’t get wet?  Everything has to drink water […]

Indiana Jones is the man credited with making archeology cool.  A professor by day and a bullwhip toting, fedora wearing, idol snatching adventurer by night, he has more in common with a superhero than an academic.  He also gets himself in a lot of danger, and this movie is no exception.  Listen as we explain […]

If you are looking for a movie with adventure, treasure maps, pirate ships, crazy gadgets, and an organ made out of human bones, then The Goonies is exactly what you are looking for!  We kick off “Spielberg Spring” with this classic about a group of kids who go looking for a fabled treasure stash in […]

Phineas & Ferb are two kids who, along with their brilliant friends, are able to build some incredible technology.  They are only rivaled by Dr. Doofenschmirtz and his “inators”.  While discussing their latest movie “Candace Against The Universe”, we get into some really fascinating science, including a mind-controlling plant, a gigantic juggling robot, fungus-filled alien […]

In our WonderCon WandaVision panel, we covered a lot of the science behind the hit marvel show, including a brief history of television shows, the power of magic runes, and the ability to rewrite reality.  That was MOST of what went on inside the Westview Anomoly, but we thought it deserved a little more.  This […]

Scooby Doo and his crew are part of a company called Mystery, Inc., and they go around solving capers, crimes, and other oddities of high strangeness.  Typically the villain is a real estate developer who is masquerading as some sort of supernatural being.  Given the skeptical nature of Fred and Wilma, how are the Scooby […]

The Flintstones have been dubbed “The Modern Stone Age Family”, and it is absolutely true.  Despite the fact that they appear to be living in a prehistoric civilization, they have all the conveniences of the modern world, albeit slightly altered to match their resources.  Specialized animals make up the bulk of the work force, including […]

The Jetsons was a show about living in the space age, and all the atomic-powered technology you can fit into one futuristic apartment. George Jetson had everything: robot dogs fueled by nuclear energy, a sentient robot maid named Rosie, and a 3D food printer that was operated with punch cards. He even had a three […]

This is our first episode taking a close look at the physics of the cartoon world of Hanna-Barbera.  Tom & Jerry have had a tumultuous relationship for as long as they have known each other and their uneasy truces quickly dissolve into all out combat.  The physics of that combat is what is really intriguing.  […]

In the latest Wonder Woman movie, a new and reality bending item is introduced:  The Dreamstone.  All someone has to do is touch it, and it will grant one wish.  This is a powerful promise, one that even Wonder Woman falls victim to.  In this episode, we take a look at the way reality is […]

We have all considered the famous Haddaway quote “What is Love?”, but no one has solved it…until now.  Using the tv show Quantum Leap as our inspiration, we will attempt to prove that love is a simple case of macro-level quantum entanglement.  But the interesting things about this cult favorite do not stop there.  We […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

At it’s core, “A Christmas Carol” is a story about redemption.  How one man’s life (and those around him) was changed for the better, and all it took was a trio of ghosts operating in the middle of the night, showing all of one’s failures to scare Scrooge straight.  One would think that this was […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Inspired by the latest Mission Impossible movie, The Brain Trust discusses a worldwide computer virus that can hack into all, cameras, microphones, computers, etc.  It could be the ultimate blackmail machine.  So how do you stay hidden from an entity like this?  We give you advice on how to limit your digital footprint, and if […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.  […]

Everybody loves a good time travel story, and Star Trek has MANY to choose from.  Whether it’s Red Matter, Black Holes, Anti-matter, or performing a slingshot technique around a giant planet, if you make a major mistake, there are many ways to fix it.  In this episode, The Brain Trust looks the original series and […]

When is comes to hologram technology, Voyager really perfected the application of this into their everyday lives.  They were the first series to have a hologram crew member:  The Doctor.  As the Chief Medical Officer, he outranks the Captain on matters of health and well being, which is odd because he doesn’t physically exist. Not […]

Deep Space Nine was the first of the Star Trek series to be set on a space station, and not on a traveling space ship.  The stories centered around a battle between The Federation, and The Dominion.  This is important, because The Dominion was a race of people who used genetic engineering to both enhance […]

TNG revived in the Star Trek franchise and lead it in all new directions, including the introduction of one of the most iconic Star Trek enemies:  The Borg.  Listen as we discuss all the cybernetic advancements this series introduced, including the advantages of a cubed ship, removing biological parts in favor of superior technological ones, […]

The original series of Star Trek premiered in 1966, and even then it was ahead of its time.  From machines that create food out of thin air, to medical devices that can diagnose you with the wave of a wand, Star Trek has accurately predicted several technological advancements.  The Brain Trust takes a look at […]

The sci-fi series “The Foundation” is about a mathematician who creates a formula predicting the end of civilization.  Normally math is a pretty boring topic to discuss, but you know how much we like our doomsday conversations.  Also it is important to note that this world is ruled by an emperor, or more specifically a […]

Have you ever noticed a sudden shift in a friend’s demeanor, or felt like something about them was a little off?  It is quite possible that they fell asleep close to an alien plant, and were replaced with a similar, albeit insidious facsimile.  How could this happen?  If Invasion of the Body Snatchers is any […]

Even in the rising tide of Flat Earth theories, one thing we do know for certain is that the Earth is solid and not hollow.  However, if it was, what would it be like to adventure there?  That is the exact question Jules Verne asked over 100 years ago.  The result:  One of his masterpieces […]

Logan’s Run is a classic 70’s Sci-Fi in every sense.  It captures the hopes and fears of the future, the carefree 70’s culture, and the outlandish fashion that made this time period stand out.  There are also a ton of technologies to discuss, including a real life chat roulette, a tube-based transportation system, and a […]