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on today's show we deep dive into smart toothbrushes and whether or not they are really necessary racing drones with the power of your mind and a plant sphere that will probably kill us all then special guest TJ Fixman stops by to tell us about writing for videogames and movies it's fun we also have a very special package about drone racing the drone racing league is here it is really cool and producer Logan got to check it out so you do not want to miss that don't miss it daily tommorrow daily the best eat rocks on their own universe I'm Ashley Scott and I'm Jeff Kanata oh my gosh it's not part of the week it's my favorite part of the week we can do dive I wish we could do an hour every day but it's really hard to book guests you guys Wiig Angus would have to be our guest three out of four days of the week and he is not very talkative so I don't think that would work out but we got a lot to cover it's episode got a lot of really cool stuff definitely a hundred percent stick around for all the things we have in store what's at the headlines okay and break it down Ashley let's discuss gunplay young play turning your mouth into a playground isn't that is that not what they call themselves that should be the tagline if it's not they can you guys have it ok smiling he's brushing his teeth he's playing an instrument is that the weirdest way to hold him toothbrush I mean I have never seen anybody hold a toothbrush like that but okay so this is an attachment a smart attachment internet-of-things attachment that you stick on to the end of a toothbrush any toothbrush that will fit the attachment it looks pretty standard there it is right there so easy and then you sync it up to an app and the app has three different things on it up and mouth news now the monster so mouth band you play a little musical instrument like kind of cool as though yeah I'm gonna play the drums and that's like as you're brushing yeah he really is not even look like he's pushing down that hard and then there's mouth news where it's like three minutes of customize news and then there is mouth monster which is one where you like fight against your cavities and your plaque the question here is and this was you guys had a lot to say about this honestly I think some most the maybe the most feedback we've ever gotten about a story in a long time it's it's it's a lot using that hashtag TV yes what are some of the comments well we we asked the question in the episode on Monday does everything need to be smart yeah and wow you guys really adamant about your answers our sin I don't you adamant about my answer maybe yeah we're gonna get into that we Jeff might actually go on a rant so stick our sin wrote in and said smart toothbrush seems like it'll target children users and parents it'll make daily brushing fun for the children okay I don't disagree with that I don't disagree I think anyway you can get kids to actually sit there and brush their teeth good thing Derek wrote and said I want to play Star Wars dental front there you go shooting up evil imperial plaque troopers and facing down Darth dentists Dark Lord of the drills that Plex too powerful for blasters it's true I like John's answer he said gunplay could be a great way to get my four-year-old to brush see similar idea on America's greatest makers use the floss Luke come on Gavin wrote in and said not everything should be smart who will want smart toilet paper nobody I want my toilet paper to be as dumb as possible yeah I think so and then bed jam wrote and said I definitely don't think everything should be smart there's something about using your own brain that just makes you feel human and I thought that was interesting not not makes you feel right makes you feel it human like I really like that choice of words so good point there so the idea here is that we are not willing to brush our teeth unless there's some sort of game or entertainment or beautifying it by again gamification is like a big thing there's like the art life RPG right where you can do your whole oh your habit and I get that I like games I'm a big fan of games I like game of fine stuff and turning things into games but by the way could they not get a single person that knows how to hold the toothbrush and their toothbrush in Japan maybe that's how they teach you I don't know might be of course I'm a cultural divine guy sending your phone agra fee and show us how you hold your toothbrush this month's theme brushing your sake right now no we're not are you in favor of this actually are you are you are you Pro toothbrush games okay I'm gonna say this I am Pro toothbrush games because I think people don't realize how long you have to brush your teeth for like if you actually sit down and put a timer on like brushing your teeth and you have it over timed it you're probably not brushing for as long as you need to it's true um but but I I have a real problem with wanting to connect everything because it's so cranky like it's if you're gonna do it I mean I know that we have to go through all this awkward phase of internet of things not all communicating with each other but it's like if you're gonna do it it needs I I don't know I I do like that it's sort of an attachment so it's like you don't want to use anything you just take it off it's fine but I say no like I don't don't make everything smart like because then it'll just make us dumb like I don't want to do that don't make us dumber it's because if you enable people to not take care of themselves like if they rely on a machine to take care of themselves like it's just that is a slippery slope it ends badly I think yeah can I have like two minutes of my life where I'm just doing the one thing I don't have to meet multitasking that's yeah exactly it's like man it's like listen I get it like sometimes I like to you know read while I am eating or like but just focus I don't know I mean I like the idea of motivating kids to brush their teeth longer but you know what else motivates kids to brush your teeth longer brush your teeth longer feedings Tasers morale improves yeah I mean I'm just there's certain things about self-discipline I have to you know like night yeah we just like people right exactly there's there is a self discipline aspect here that is very important and I think that not everything's fun yeah not life is hard this is the most important thing we're gonna teach you on tomorrow dailies that life is not always fun sometimes life is hard I mean listen we get to have fun here 45 minutes but the rest of our lives are terrible what a lot of work and hard hard work that is not necessarily like in a traditional sense goes into making this part of the show 45 minutes of doing the show literally every other minute of our lives is just brushing our teeth yes all we do you think it's easy to get on camera and not have brushed your teeth for 17 straight hours that's all we do every person you've ever seen on television brushes their teeth the majority of their day all the time but yeah I mean I think that's that's what that's all I can say to you guys that's all I can say to you sometimes life isn't fun and you have to learn that through things like brushing your teeth and being bored out of your skull also tonight tomorrow tonight when I brush my teeth I'm gonna hold it very beautifully it does look very delicate it doesn't very delicate okay really quickly let's touch on racing drones with your mind I was not here I was filming tabletop that's right I'm a guest on tabletop season four very excited about that played codenames was very exciting game but you got to you got to talk about this which is really cool this is a whole bunch of students that were able to race drones with the power of their mind with their brainwaves yeah so how cool is that these focus on making it go forward and it goes forward and yeah okay so they're looking at this little object on a screen yep and then basically it's like okay focus on making the object go forward and then they sort of animate it moving forward as you're thinking about it and the software recognizes what parts of your brain are firing while you're thinking of that idea and that's how it they use it to control the drones yeah and this is all these kids are this is the Ender's Game all these kids are then they didn't realize they were actually fighting in the real intergalactic war oh I just spoiled a 30 year old spoiler alert ya know I thought this was really cool that they're developing this I know that there were a couple people who just briefly like looked at the headline and it was like well that's dumb like racing drones with your brain seems really stupid but the goal is and this is the important part if they can get people to be able to control things like drones with their brainwaves they can also get people to control things like prosthetics toothbrushes toothbrushes wheelchairs robots holding toothbrushes to brush your teeth with ya know that it actually could be a very powerful tool for people with disabilities which I think all this sort of expanding it out getting large datasets getting P lots of different people to wear these things and try them out now this it's funny how this relates to the first story that we talked about because this is a way to use fun as a method to sort of gather large data samples get people to do with a thing you know sitting there and concentrating on a thing on a screen is not fun but if you make it fun now all of a sudden you're incentivizing so maybe we're backtracking a little bit on not everything should be fun cuz this actually seems like it should be fun at first toothbrushes it really is raah groans brush drone tooth brushing it really does um I like that we're tying this all together and becoming hypocrites in the process so our last story that we wanted to talk about is is sort of ecology in urban areas yes through whoredom machina b which i think is amazing thank you this is this is a bunch of architecture students and they basically created this it's kind of cybernetic it's a plant ball geodesic sphere which if you it looks like it looks like playground equipment which it is I mean it's judy's you see those at playgrounds and then inside it has these panels that have plants on them and then yeah you can see it all expands and stuff and then it's like if the plants can go to the edge or it can it can it can retract all the way in and so it can move it's got actuators in it that chain is not gonna scare anybody I mean it sort of reminds me of for some reason as I was watching this did you ever see the movie rubber the tire that kills people you won't ever see a rubber what okay terrifying I saw a giant ball of plant roaming around on its own this is what this needs okay it needs a microphone and a speaker inside it to where the person controlling it can be like hey what's up man yeah or like I need Missy more yeah exactly I mean I would love it if we played music like beautiful relaxing music as it rolled around town I could I want I actually think this is a really cool concept and an idea of making making taking the idea of Technology and organics and kind of fusing them together into something really new I think it's cool the end result is a little terrifying and weird what's really big things that that's a thing but I like the idea of nature moving around in the city just like people like you that's sort of context yeah because the thing is if I'm in a city usually there's like some gardens that you could go see or like there are places you could go to see plant life or ecology or something green to relax remind you of being in the outdoors but I like this because at any given moment in your day you could be pleasantly surprised crushed by a rolling garden no you'll go right through it because there's holes I'll roll right on you just Laden it'll just go just have like leaves in your hair I was just in a wonderful way by a plant and now what that is if it's cut Amar'e Damacy it is it's like a cat it's like a plant Katamari love it I love it um fear us wrote in use hash hash tag hey TD and said not sure who's gonna take over humans first robots are giant plant balls man I don't trust the giant plant balls I don't know I don't I don't know how first they come for our toothbrushes it's true then they come for our brain powered drones then they come then they come for everyone but I just saw they were just all like inside the plants you know no we become the plants that's the end of the Twilight Zone episode we're gonna write you I think are the plant ball I think we just wrote an episode of The Twilight Zone we did and pretty person is called balls of plants plant balls plant balls we're not good at title maybe somebody can think of a good title that would be great by the way breaking news Alicia vikander is gonna play Lara Croft oh I see a bike and ER I think it should be a TV show I agree with that but I mean they like the movies and it's a really big franchise it's a really big franchise but it feels someone is I love the idea of like episodic adventures that Lara wasn't going on I agree I I did I'm kind of shocked I thought Daisy Ridley was a lock for it so Alicia vikander she was in Elysium I can was in it right she played oh wow Eva she's Eva Eva I was like yeah that one yeah um yeah great stuff so that is it for our headlines we will be there's a tweet that I was looking for that I he didn't tag it hey TV and both of us and I said I'm gonna save this for Thursday show and I'm so sorry that be a lesson to you person who I promised your tweet would be on a show I don't know where it is there's no hate eat eat at hashtag you may as well have just been rolled up in a plant ball and rolled down the street and we don't find it and rolled off the edge of the earth because they're gonna find it it goes flat yeah exactly um so that is that is headlines I really enjoyed that that's great tonight we will be right back we have TJ Fixman ah he's gonna come in and he has written Ratchet and Clank games he's writing the new Popeye movie he's got a whole bunch of stuff going on guys a whole bunch of static around and he's going to talk to you about writing videogames and movies so yes as jeff says sick rant welcome back to the show our guest today is a real-life paid Hollywood writer not just some Rando in a coffee shop working on his magnum opus uh you might know him from such games as Ratchet and Clank and he's also a creative consultant for Hasbro we are excited to welcome TJ Fixman thanks for being here man don't you have me so good um so okay a lot of people out there first of all love videogames many many people love video games love Rochon klinken you you've written Ratchet and Clank games how many of them oh god yeah you know I have to go to IMDB to be sure but I think it's either 7 or 9 it's it's up there it's up there how great is it that Ratchet and Clank is back at the top of the charts again with an amazing installment I mean I think people that are playing really good well even alive when the first one came out I think I mean they're I think the first one came out in 2002 so yeah this is and this one is a sort of reimagining of that first game so it's very cool it's phenomenal I mean I am loving it I just got my job back oh nice jet pack on gas bar um so they have a film and there's a film yeah great are big and backhand ready this weekend the movie comes out um but I wanna a lot of people really wonder what it takes to be a video game writer because I think that's sort of a job that like has a lot of mysteries because in early days of gaming there was just sort of like well let's just have our producers kind of come up with something we'll have some bear coat you know our programmers come up with something let's have sort of a basic thing and then you ended up with you know the end of ghosts and goblins where where is this or you don't get to the end of ghosting that's true nobody ever did that um but now we are seeing very much so in the last you know 10 or 15 years of video games we've seen really screenwriters people who are actually invested in story structure format you know things like that coming into gaming you got into video game writing kind of in a really weird way and it's one of my favorite stories of starting in that industry and I like can you tell our viewers because I think they'll enjoy it as much as I did yeah sure I mean I came out to I came out to Los Angeles with a degree in computer animation and hopes of writing and and the the degree of animation was very much my safety fallback because I knew the odds of becoming working with plan B so I ended up out here simultaneously like writing and trying to develop like a 3d animated show by myself one person in the room which is well I said because it's impossible I'm saying it's impossible to do after like two years I've done almost nothing done and I was I was working at insomniac games as a QA tester and this was on back in the resistance fall of man days back with a ps3 I just come out and my contract was wrapping up I'd sort of finished the game and I was ready to leave and I didn't have any job lined up afterwards I you know I had an agent I've been taking meetings I've been trying to get my scripts out but like nothing was hitting so like I was looking at my bank account I'd $250 left of my bank account I had no backup plan I think a lot of people don't realize as a QA tester that in gaming like you don't stay at the company usually when you're done testing that particular game like you're on a contract and when that game is done being tested you are also done yeah it's a contract job you know that going in and so so like it's so like I finished the game it was very much time to say okay you know so long and thanks for all the fish and sure and I'm at and I was I was packing up my desk and I did I was unaware of the time but right that was on wrench and flank tools destruction at the time for whatever reason it wasn't working out between him and insomniac so they're gonna part ways but he had somehow read some of my scripts and like we've talked in the hospital but I didn't show him anything I guess just the scripts sort of get around in this town Wow I mean he's like I'm sorry that I didn't work out but actually I've read that guy stuff and it's really good you sure like film spec scripts unit spectrums that I'd written and apparently he he'd read some woman he recommended me so as I'm packing up my stuff pH our director came out to me and asked if I would come back on Monday an interview for the job as a writer Wow so I spent that entire weekend unemployed you know two inches nuzzle my bank account like talking to my parents but how I'm going to be able to basically have to move home and figure out my new jersey I couldn't afford the move so I wasn't sure how I was how to get yeah yeah and Monday I came in interviewed for it and they gave me the job and I think I started like on Wednesday so that was that's incredible and you know a working writer ever since yes yes yes ever since oh yeah and I stayed in something for a good long time I think was like seven or eight years and then I moved on in 2013 now I've been sort of contract mostly doing feature work but doing of course the Hasbro stuff as well so what is the difference between writing for interactive entertainment as opposed to writing for films and TV I mean it's it's it's a totally different ball wax and it's super interesting I always tell like writers who are coming in like if you ever want to sort of see what you're made of like boot camp is like video game writing is boot camp essentially because imagine hiring everybody at once the director the actors the production team without a script ready and just saying everybody go right I'll catch up exactly selling down the track space leaves the train is coming through Wow so it teaches you to be agile teaches you not to be too precious which is a big like it's tough for a lot of writers today's the idea that you know just submit a script and it's just right you know like sighs I never finished but I think it's more it's more so video games where nothing like you can write the perfect third-act twist and this is the example it was usually wait the perfect third-act twist the designer can come up to you like but I'm so sorry we just cut that level yeah how can you just make it work yeah sure a lot of this right never seen oh no we don't have any more any more time for scenes just make it work just find some way of sort of tying it together my question to you about that because as a player you you feel that right and I wonder if you feel like games need to get to a place where that is more valued like the narrative experience is more valued and and there's a shift in of priority as as far as well video games are made right today like this is a great script let's make it into a game like this is a great game script or great you know sort of synopsis or log line for a game like let's make it that I think I think there are I think nowadays there are studios that are getting more and more story conscious like if you look at a rational with like kind of you know whatever Bioshock if you look at what a behenna did with the Uncharted series there are more and more students who are adopting that philosophy yeah but production is always against us like there's always gonna be something this happens in features to them to a smaller degree except it starts with misses the story but like with with videogames it's always going to start with the tech so if a video game studio finds that they can do zero-g really well well guess what kind of game you're ready that's so interesting to me about it's like well we have this really great we developed this really great technology like let's craft a game around it and it's like I said it's a mechanic something that we've developed and it's like man we have to use this in a game like let's make that work well look so interesting look at portal like like portal is the best example that portal had one mechanic right which is this week and it was amazing Academy they built this amazing story around it was like all set in one location with like one and it was amazing so I feel so like you know it sounds when you lay it out doesn't sound like the ideal way to work but it's very much the way that the entire industry operates into a small and a great features and you just learn to deal the end and it that's what you need to learn as a writer regardless of a night you going to video games whatever you have to learn not to be precious well I like your work with Hasbro is probably from the same vein because you start with an IP right you start on send and you have to build a world around that exactly that's the thing that I love doing the most I got like when people ask me if I'm a writer I always sort of say yes I'm weird a bit also a world builder because there's something fun about not just building a building or like a three-act story but saying here's how the world works here's how the characters interact with each other that's really really fun so to get to go into Hasbro who has all these amazing IP like transformers and GI Joe and micronauts and like and get to sort of play around with that fear have a little connect like that that's that's really cool I feel like I feel kind of Tom Hanks and Big Boy's its game it all together yeah it's cool and you know they give me lots of toys which is always a plus and you know yeah now you mister zircon is I think one of my favorite Oh evil robots HK 47 I mean I just really love them in gaming and so mr. zircon also a favorite but it can be really difficult I remember we're talking about this the other day it's really difficult to continue to come up with one-liners he has to constantly have these you know quips in the game as you summon him and it's like they have they can't be too repetitive yeah so over the course of however many seven to nine Ratchet and Clank games like how many lines mr. zircon would you say you've written usually 500 easily but and probably closer to a thousand under start thinking like what probably what made it into the game right and the funny thing with like mr. zircon was that like when we first started him he was just like a little bot that would sort of fly around you and he didn't look he didn't look like he did now he looked what we call a consumer Bob just one of the bots that sort of flyer in the levels they did snack with the ranch and I have to credit to Brian Allgaier for this was Brian elegant my creative director was like you know something like we can give personality to this thing so let's give it a name it's called mr. zircon we're gonna overhaul its looks and there's what would you do with it and I was like what if he just thought everything was stupid what if we talked to the third person and he trash-talk but it was just in the most like obvious like sort of Chuck Norris style yeah or like mr. zerkin doesn't need nanotech to survive in the face with bullets like I mean yeah he will give you a concerto of suffering it's like that way to write it it looks dumb and when you recording like that sounds dumb but let's someone when you get in the game you're like that's actually just words but it's really funny I became like this fan favorite ever since so so I you know I I take it as a source of a great pride that it's become this big you know a weapon in the game that I don't think they would do a red flag in but that one now it's kind of the groove at right now the people yeah people just expect it associated with the characters yeah yeah personality so you you came into the industry in such a roundabout way what would you say is your advice to people who want to get in starting QA and then just hang around I just secretly drop scripts next to the writer well the thing that people do incorrectly is they they go to school for I can get like a degree in game writing and they apply for it and they look for game writing jobs game writing jobs really aren't advertised online maybe that will change and like I've seen a couple pop up here and there but really that like they gain studiously their hire from within or they'll they'll reach out to people who have representation of an agent or have done a lot of samples but either way the trick is to have lots of samples ready to get a degree or some sort of experience inside a game studio or a computer animation agree let's say or like a design degree because it you know I think one of the reasons why game studios lean in towards producers or people who have game experience or animation experiences because they understand what the other departments are up to you understand that process yeah and it's a very complicated like process with tons different departments all working you know 60 70 hour weeks to get this game so like I think when people just sort of get a degree in writing and just expect to go in there and pitch a game idea them all that that doesn't do anything for against you because kids do this or not it wants a lot like they've got plenty of their ideas and you can find people who can read stuff but what they need is somebody who understands the different departments so if you've got a design degree if you've have even an art degree or an animation degree you're gonna be ahead of where just a you know I was somebody with a writing background if I if I was had just been a writer and didn't have the background in in computer animation I don't think I would have gotten a job because while I was doing resistance fall of man they needed somebody who from QA who could handle collision or who could handle what they call nav machine which is a sort of mapping out where enemies can walk I think they've got programmers that can do this automatically now but back in the day yeah you have somebody yeah sit in an office until I four in the morning actual work yeah so like I think while I was doing that it was sort of proving to the people who I worked with like okay like he's not just a writer but he also understands yeah he understands what the other departments are up against so you're not just sort of coming down from your ivory tower saying here is my script yeah maybe so understanding of like when your as you're writing you can think of you can keep other departments in consideration where you say like if I'm writing something like how are they ever going to program this like this is not realistic you can actually edit that down in a way that a writer not experienced in the games industry would not be able to do absolutely that's animation as well because there's there's there's things that like I'm dealing with like on pop by now because I'm gonna pop out for certain animation where if you know what's an intensive animation scene of what's not the production team will love you for it like I know that I can't write all crowd scenes because it's tough it's expensive it's time intensive and a pisses animators often if you can just say hey reaction shot well something happens off-camera it's like people will see like okay like you understand that you can't just flow from your the people you work with in a narrative way which I think a lot of people don't really a lot of people don't grab onto that as much as I think they like you see things or people go well why didn't they just write a scene like this like you know you see all these like yeah it's like they see armchair quarterbacks on line they go well they should have written this scene then it's like we have to consider all of the different departments that would have had to have contributed to that scene and how expensive it would have been and you know and is that part of the budget and is it this and it's like there's usually a good reason for why something didn't exist oh yeah I mean like we live with these games for you know anyways between one years and three years so we with every we've had many many meetings about every single possible iteration of a scene that can possibly be but you know like I remember seeing one common where someone's like why aren't like you know Ratchet and Clank sequence is more like a final fantasy I'm like Final Fantasy will have a 500 person team we're like everything that was done that insomniac was done in-house which is which is very rare yeah you know like so it yes like there are certain things who want that we wanted to but it's always about picking your battles and saying okay like what is this story really about is is there something that we're putting in just for the sake of flash or is there something that that we think we're saying really matters yeah yeah I'm excited for a great I mean I haven't seen it's ever since the Robin Williams when I've been like one of them what am I gonna made it pop oh yeah I'm excited about that well we'll wrap things up we'll let you go I'm sure you you are very busy man be on this show for like two months I have so many meetings I'm sorry I'm so busy I can't huh but we're really excited you can check out Ratchet and Clank the movie drops in theaters this weekend which which is cool you wrote the first draft for that and and then also you can of course check out wretch and click the game which Jeff and I have been greatly enjoying it is really and if you've never met mister zircon well just let me tell you you're a treat and and then you can follow TJ on Twitter just add two to Fixman TJ Fixman and thank you so much for coming on the show we'll be right back with an amazing package about drone racing and that producer Logan put together so stick around it's tomorrow daily welcome back friends the TJ fellows were pretty fun what a delight yeah he's like a big old bowl of ice cream looks so great so we had the enormous pleasure and honor of attending drone racing I'm so jealous I didn't get to go to this Logan and I went to the drone racing leagues second I believes a third qualifying match a race in Los Angeles called LA pocalypse and producer Logan put together this just spectacular piece so take a second and watch the drone racing these piece that he did FPV drone racing is already a huge hit amongst RC hobbyists and at the sport continues to grow in popularity so do pro circuits the drone racing league or DRL is trying to take the sport to the next level with awesome looking race track designs innovative tech and some of the coolest broadcast equipment we've ever seen this is Dr Al's first official season and we got to go to their second qualifying event level 2 la pocalypse set in a real abandoned shopping mall near Los Angeles PRL CEO and founder Nicolas Corbett Chesky gave us a walking tour of the enormous post-apocalyptic track this is a very cool setting for a drone race because it allows us to use the full three-dimensional elements of racing so the drones go up they go down they come around and those drones aren't just flying up down and through simple hoops DRL worked with Hollywood special effects company legacy effects to create a one-of-a-kind environment their experience working on films like Jurassic world Ironman and Pacific Rim really shows in this elaborate course design not only does DRL have to consider how pilots from all over the world will fly through a track but also how spectators would be able to see the drones which travel up to 80 miles an hour at times do this they borrow cable system called the bat cam which follows long and even gets ahead of the action so the back cam is a cable cam that runs over the length of the course it can go a hundred miles an hour you got a 100 mile an hour camera chasing an 80 mile an hour zone so it's a it's pretty exciting when they're both going full speed since racers require our constant video signal from the drones fpv camera to see where their quadcopter is going at all times DRL had to create a lot of the tech they use the drum racing league has designed and built our own radio frequency equipment from the ground up and it allows us to put on rage courses on a scale it's never been seen before each drone is also built from the ground up by DRL this is our second model drone it's called the racer - it's all carbon fiber and it's designed for speed and maneuverability but also for visibility for the audience you'll see it's covered in these LED lights that when they're on are brightly lit and each in a different colors you know which pilot is flying which drone DRL provides its own drones for pilots because of that racers can push the limits of their quadcopter and compete on true pilot skill as opposed to technical enhancements ro is taking chances we want to go as fast as we can and you know get that adrenaline rush up so you need to do so as we live for as pilots we often say to the pilots if you're not crashing you're not racing part about watching drone races feels like you're in a science-fiction film and if the race comes to your area get a ticket you won't be disappointed I wish that I'd been part of that I really we didn't know it when you guys got invited to this we were all like yeah that looks awesome the way the broadcast cameras I mean they really are gunning for a super high quality experience and I think that they've achieved it I I can't wait for the day where they're unfortunately because of laws that dictate you know drone flying us up they have to be indoors yeah so I think that there's got to be the one thing I wish I had like I love that it's indoor I agree we loved the abandonment it's a real abandon mom's amazing we have to walk around in it I think that the one thing they really need and cuz they do have the glasses that you can sort of check out and then you put them on and you can watch from the drones point of view which is really cool but I think they need some kind of like Jumbotron or a big screen to sort of like switch we need somebody live switching those qualifying matches to get the crowds really pumped about it and not so much you know because they're kind of watching and then it's like you can kind of see some stuff going on I do have a scream it it's like it's not the same I kind of want this to take off and become a bigger thing I think people would I super skeptical when I first heard about it but it really looks like a fun spectator sport it's way more exciting than I thought too we got there and I was just super I was really shocked at how excited I was and how much I was into watching the drones race really brilliant of DRL to put a special LED lights of every color for each pilot yeah for sure it's really really cool so thank you to the drone racing league for letting us go do that I really appreciate it and we can't wait to check out what the finals are before that I think they did their first qualifier was inside an abandoned nuclear plant oh my god okay I think upstate New York they had said there was one in Miami and that was very like slick and futuristic and colorful and stuff and then they did la apocalypse they'll have I believe they said six races this year so if they end up coming to a town near you you should definitely check out what they have going on uh so that is just about it for the show do you want to talk about into it though let's do it Jeff what are you into I'm into a movie this week I mean we are on the precipice ladies and gentlemen of the summer blockbuster season yes civil war looms as the official kickoff I would call that the official kickoff of the summer blockbuster I think so I think so but before you get excited about that and you should be excited about that there is a small movie that I think you should watch now this is a very rated are very violent very intense movie but if you are a person that likes those kinds of things I cannot recommend green room higher this is from the same director that did blue ruin this is if I told you Ashley what if Quentin Tarantino got to write a die hard movie I'm excited about that I be into that this is kind of like that basically it's the idea of these these kids that are part of this punk band and they get a gig at a neo-nazi club like this underground neo-nazi club and then things go real bad real fast and there as they tend to do at neo-nazi cool yes and they're kind of trapped there and it's like what do they do how do they get out what's gonna happen to them it is absolutely a Patrick Stewart isn't it he plays a neo-nazi you've never seen Patrick Stewart card play a villain like this it is one of the most intense one of the most thrilling one of the coolest movies I've seen all year I'm certain it will be in my top 10 at the end of the year it is that good Wow I was on the edge of my seat exclaiming at some of the things that would happen the violence comes out of nowhere is intense and awesome and the coolest thing about this movie and the my favorite thing about movies that are kind of like die hard is the characters are smart they handle things in a very smart way and you love that when you feel like you're in this situation with these characters you're like oh my gosh what would I do there and they'll always want to feel like that was a really smart thing that they did yeah yeah great great movie wow I'm getting sort of Walter White vibes off of like Patrick Stewart yeah yeah yeah yeah hey Walter I'd say Heisenberg like later seasons again like and Berg vibes off of Patrick Stewart in this so yeah that looks really good it's awesome I'm gonna do a video game this week oh so as as we all know I love indie video games love small video games little anecdote before I tell you what game it is but when I got my PlayStation 4 it was at launch and and there wasn't a whole lot of launch titles I was super interested in but there was one game on PlayStation 4 PlayStation Plus that was free and it was resogun oh great game and and my PlayStation 4 was legitimately a resogun machine for about 4 months housemarque the developer who made resogun made the game I'm into this week it's called alienation mm-hmm I don't know if you've seen anyone yes I just got a review code last night I asked I beg I was like please just give me a code I didn't even I was like I'm begging you please it kinda reminds me of Diablo high reminds me of Helldivers and that sort of it's a dual stick shooter it's guys like that 3/4 top-down look to it but it's so colorful which is unlike a lot of the top-down shooters we've seen like Helldivers very d saturated the habló desaturate this is full color craziness I mean unbelievable action going on you can play with your friends it's online co-op you can do all the things um I just dug into it last night but I'm really really into it right now I can't wait to play more I will be I'll be splitting my time between that and a certain major triple AAA game that will be dropping on May 10th that Shall Not Be Named be talking about yet but yes that might rhyme with like one blurted yeah that smarted but I I wouldn't be splitting my time because this game looks super fun and I I have been I did a tutorial and the first area last night and I really really liked it and I'm really into it so housemarque so far so good really looking forward to playing more and digging deep into alienation and it's I think it's like like 15 or 20 bucks I'm very very cool those are some good into it's to keep you excited over the weekend keep you keep you tied it over until Civil War next weekend then you're gonna see that over and over and over ok we're all gonna be doing together alright so as is tradition on tomorrow daily how does a tradition so weird let's start better front agra for the day this is where we do our regular ritual our phone target of the day today is Andrew our very last of monuments places of interest landmarks took shot this on his iPhone 6s and said this is my photo at Capilano Park in Vancouver BC thank you for having your talk show and seen it by the way I took this photo on my iPhone 6s camera you have permission to use it um he did he did all the right things gorgeous picture and and the reason why I picked this is because I felt this was a great argument for vertical photos oh I was just gonna say that I wish that he had done it landscape no but I think the verticality of the trees really lends itself to a vertical photo and that's why sometimes a vertical picture is better ah is so good I think the framing of this is so good the bottom third has the river then you got the middle thirds trees top third is the sky it's great photography this is I'm not going to argue that that's not a great feature and I'm really pleased that he sent it in but team landscape and Rio until I die high fives for me I say in landscape unless you can get a better more beautiful ratioed picture and that was are these cases it's a lovely picture and you can have your picture on our show as our phone talker for all you have to do is send it to tomorrow at cnet.com yes and make sure you do these great things tell us how to pronounce your name if it's a difficult name which most names are for us assume we're not bright is what we already otherwise just say tell us just how to pronounce you secondly give us permission he's your picture on the show cuz we need that also tell us a nice little story about your picture even if you made it up we just like stories it could be fiction we're not we're not saying it has to be true and then the last one is of course tell us what device you took it on because it is phone tog refer the day and we want to know what phone you took it on or little things you got to do also next month's theme we decided is spring spring so any springy pictures you want to spring on us we don't appreciate ya and interestingly enough Yanni wrote an email to us and had said honey Yianni not Yanni live at the Acropolis that would be amazing if Yanni was like guys you have no idea whom we're talking about and that's okay I once went to Halloween as Yanni Wow next week I will actually amazing okay I'm really looking forward that guys look up who Yanni is and then you'll be ready for that picture um did you have a glorious mustache I did I didn't have a glorious no she has long hair and a vest that had like harps and guitars all over it it was amazing and I had a real open shirt like open white oh yeah we sure have to because that's that is Yanni our our viewer Yianni wrote in and said why don't you do like like balloons or flowers in psychics everything's in bloom where I am in so and I said congratulations we actually fix exactly that thing is spring so send us your favorite pictures of blooming flowers and all of those other great things or you know a slinky Springs what every activity will be appreciated yes well we're saying that is it for today's show we will be back next week I think you're gonna be out for the first couple days next week but beyond that we will be back with future tech science fiction science fact all the great stuff that you like from from us but until then be good humans you