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on today's show we deep dive into jetpacks Tesla's autopilot limitations and a Japanese actress who just happens to be a robot we also talked to author David Goodman about his new book the autobiography of james t kirk only one of the greatest Starfleet captains of all time and also Jeff and I take a trip down to blizzcon 2015 to check out the eSports scene get ready guys it's our new set it's tomorrow daily greetings citizens of the Internet welcome to tomorrow daily podcast geek talk show in the known universe it's actually talk show this time that's just it one person talking at the camera yeah yeah one person talking in a show by themselves there's two people here I'm Ashley's gotta join me for the first time in our lawn show format jeff cannata i am so excited to be here Ashley this is awesome it's been fun doing the the small shows during the week but being here hanging out with you we get to talk about stuff deep dive into stuff it's gonna be good yeah yeah so basically if you have not been watching if this is your first time checking out tomorrow daily welcome to the show and secondly if this is you know you're coming back after a while we have a new thing now so monday through wednesday jeff and i each host a short version of the show we kind of hand off the short versions and that's kind of like homework for the thursday show that's i'm gonna call it homework but it's fun homework yeah it's a it's homework if without the work it's just what's home play yeah home play like it's home play and then you're gonna and then you can come join us on Thursdays where we deep dive into our three favorite stories of the week and we're going to talk a little bit more about what they mean and why we like them and what's so interesting about them beyond just the news itself which is all we can get to during the short shows plus we're gonna have guests we're gonna have fun other stuff going on calculus yeah it's a much longer cooler show and so I don't think that'll be a good complement to each other the the bite-sized stuff and then the full meal yes and can we just take a quick second to appreciate our brand-new set which I have to say uh it was an extremely amazing job done by the team at CBS com and also some other crews here inside the building um this set went up in about a month yeah and it is amazing all of the panels in the back are actually they can be changed the color can be changed them at any given time unfortunately we don't have anybody running the lighting board because producer Logan is in the control room so but it can change and then we also have our robot friends joining us on the show think of it as our studio audience yeah we got Genghis of course Genghis always here we have the portal gun hanging out ha applause and then we have Wally we got a MIT robot we have a sony Poochie over there which is old school and then we also have Eva from wally and then of course bb-8 I need to get an r2d2 I think they should all this thing should rotate in and out I think it should know a no car using robot well habitat changing we can change this to whatever we want we got a portal gun back here it's not necessarily robots so so you have great stuff and we're really excited about this and we hope you like it and ho and and if you don't have time to listen a long show listen the short shows during week but if you have time now you can listen to us yeah if you want to see your robot on our show send a truck send it to us we need to hit a p.o box all right guys let's hit the headlines obviously number one story the way for me is jet packs well anytime we can talk about jet packs is a good time as far as I'm concerned yeah and this is good jet packs yeah I've seen jetpacks before in most the time when you see a jetpack it's the size of a small car and very loud and noisy and very impractical and it's not the jetpack dream that we've all had which is easy and compact and Rocketeer like yeah Rocketeer lay and that's for me why I was so excited to see the jb 9 from jetpack aviation so here it is you're looking at it that is the inventor and CEO David Mayman he's taking a spin fighting crime I think he's fighting crime is that what you're doing I I like to think that that is probably what he went and did later that night in New York City in Manhattan Gotham if you will I think that's probably what needs to happen he's just patrolling the city for super villains right now but none of the supervillains have his awesome yeah yeah and no one's coming to attack the Statue of Liberty fortunately so he flew around the Statue of Liberty that thing looks really agile look at me that's amazing that is amazing that is the dream guys that is the jetpack dream I love the fact that I'm hearing about this on our show and and our audience is hearing about on our show but I kind of wish I heard about it by just being in New York and seeing him fly free just feel like there's a man and look up in the sky it's a bird it's a plane ya know what to do to jetpack amazing yeah um ok so let's discuss the jb 9 because i think this is worth some discussion he says that they flew this thing very conservatively ok so uh they can unleash this thing to go about a hundred and sixty miles an hour how much do we have to pay him to unleash it uh we should he says he won't because he's like I'm no I'm too scared to do it but he said you could theoretically there's somebody that'll do it oh I'm sure like felix baumgartner guy who jumped out of the jumper face like let's he'll do it that guy there's nuts you totally do it I bet redbull could pay him a lot of money do it so I think I would do it the flight times about 10 minutes depending on the way to the pilot that's not a lot of time to fight crime in no that's a very quick crime-fighting flight and then to me the interesting thing is they're already working on the jb 10 and the jb 10 they said can go over 200 miles an hour right because nobody will go as fast as this one will go so let's make a faster one yeah exactly like let's make it quicker uh and and also this is my favorite total favorite part of the story he says that someday he wants to eat ok so he doesn't want the jetpack to end up in the wrong hands and he means that from a safety person it means that from a supervillain perspective let's be honest no I probably yeah they see safety from supervillains I'm assuming that's correct um so he so he says I don't want it to get into consumers hands too soon because this is a direct quote which is my favorite he's like um I'd want to feel like we have an infrastructure to train them we could technically just send them the unit in a box and say good luck but it's jet pack or jet pack I don't I want to be part of the jet pack or said but it's not necessarily going to end well if you're doing 200 kilometers an hour 5 feet off the ground you know like we have no idea you're doing right yeah we're not going to that would be a trained super soldier program yeah of jet pack or we should call it The Rocketeer University I'm right I'm ready I'm ready sign me up please I'm yet my favorite thing about this you told me about it that it's actually powered by kerosene yeah it seems a little steam punk to me it okay so they actually are calling this jetpack aviation is calling this the the a true jetpack and the reason why is because it uses turbine engines as that's what powers it and so there are competitors like the martin jetpack this is that's the enormous one that's the really big one and the martin jetpack uses a piston engine so it drives a bunch of fans so it's not really like a true jet pack right back it's a fannie it's a family pack yeah it's really as a fanny pack and also it's huge and this particular jet pack the jb 9 is able he said you can store it in the backseat of a car you strap it onto bassett that would drive to your jetpacking location no no you don't want to do that because that's that's your the feedings of the purposes yeah you're completely to be in the purpose but he says and then also the guys in Dubai who do the jetpack flying have you ever seen those videos no but I'm going to be searching from them as soon as I get yeah they're amazing so these guys who fly over dubai which we've seen on the show before actually use they use turbines but they don't use them for hovering they actually just use them for thrust so they have wings that they use those like they look like flying squirrels fly around us up but they use turbines just for thrust to go forward not not hover this guy can can fly he can hover he can I mean he did a little pirouette in front of the Empire State they are disabling goodbye this uh he says not yet he but the Martin jetpacks gonna go on sale next year for 150 thousand dollars oh I gotta start saving so I'm saving for that putting away that cash a lot he does well I anticipated he does say these two things before we move on the next thing he says someday they want to get to a point where you're gonna be able to put on the pack press a green button and immediately hover suspended hover Oh from naps I just want to hover and dig a nap just lightning how comforting it you'd only get a 10 minute out I could do that and then uh and then he says he also wants to put together jetpack races I I know that's that's the face everyone's making right now come on I would jetpack races forget horse racing let's just get rid of that it's that it's literally that the luge of the sky I know so I think ABC should really pick up on this and we should have BattleBots paired up with Jack racing in the summer programming the only problem is the massive death count that jetpack great the thing is undoubtedly gonna heal listen they know the risks that's all I'm saying uh I have another story for you there is one of my favorite things I'm ready for this as much as I'm ready for jetpacks I am ready for self-driving cars everyone in la is ready for a self-driving car yeah I I don't understand people that say no I don't want self-driving car give it to me I'm ready one of my really close friends is leasing a Tesla AA jaana he has the autopilot feature he showed it to me it's amazing I'm ready for this this is amazing but just like everything else on the internet the autopilot feature is getting ruined by people on YouTube maybe abusing the privilege of having autopilot yeah it turns out that Tesla's going to have to do some sort of management of this because people are posting videos of themselves doing some really reckless things I saw very interesting video it's this one right here this is Estonian Anonymous which I'm assuming as a cousin of kale kale a kill anonymous an estonian anonymous this guy from the Netherlands um he climbed into his backseat and let his tezel drive him around I kind of love this seems like a really bad idea but I don't like the fact that it's on YouTube for he's ruining it for all the all of us no no I'm polishes on youtube because now Tesla's like hey we're gonna limit this but it's awesome like that's what I want I want to be able to just hang on the back drive you lay down you you be you wouldn't be able to do this okay I feel like this is the first major move forward in technology that is that scares me isn't as an old person like the crazy thing today yeah it's out of your comfort zone it's out of my comfort zone so so this is the first bit of Technology where i'm like i would genuinely be terrified maybe because I'm a control freak that's probably why yeah I'd be terrified to give up control of my car because car culture is so big in LA like I live in my car me like it but you know what's better than driving cars than you computer bots yeah totally and and so i get the value of it but i'm really scared of the idea like it's gonna take some getting used to like give up control in a car and be like okay okay siri take me home and series like I got you and like take I'm convinced that our kids generation and their kids generation are going to be mystified that we ever let humans drunk oh why do we let there be like wow people drove those did anybody die oh yeah lots of people died all the time it's gonna be like hard we hear about leaching in the Middle Ages or something it's gonna feel insane and I think we just need two cars are the fourth biggest killer of humans yeah if somebody came to you and said I have the solution for the fourth biggest killer of humans you'd go let's do it sighs what's a fifth like if they said hey listen we figured out heart disease involves dropping a little robots to clean up your arteries all you gotta do is release little control in your life see ya that's hard for people they don't like that and I think it's tough for some people who have dr mean who'd driven cars our lives I'm I'm I'm a lifer in the commuter sense like I mean I've always driven yeah and so for me it's it's scary it's really scary what do you think they're gonna do to like curb this that's the problem is now that now that's on YouTube they want us to I don't think they should stop it i think this is what we want to get to i want to do is look in that but i think that's probably going to have some sort of requirement that you have to stay in the see you probably have to keep your hands on the wheel yeah there's some language of stuff that disengages when you let go i think BMW doesn't yeah and but that's a bummer to me because i think i think what we really need to have more controls on is youtube yes youtube is what's ruining it for everybody you know is it's not the autopilot that's the problem it's the jackass who's putting it on the web yeah don't just there should be an auto and autonomous robot in YouTube's algorithm that refuses to let you upload tezel autopilot videos yes just don't tell you I'm us guys yeah like don't tell your mom like ruin it this is the kid who's like oh don't we partied last night until 3am you look shut up shut up you're ruining it for everybody what he's having a good time right now everybody's making it work but there are some is there have been some close calls though like people went oh gosh like and having it reeker echt right they're using it wrong they're using it too fast the system can't correct in time I I would guarantee you that there's gonna be more problems from the people over correcting their like the computer just thought that's why they said we're gonna limit this because people have been letting them drive hands-free at like 90 miles an hour yeah and then when it hits a curb it hits a curve and it goes the wrong way or it starts going into oncoming traffic like not good so enter details we're gonna starts listen mark my words friends we're going to start seeing some very serious accidents with Tesla's unless people start being responsible send me up I'm ready I'm ready be responsible I'm ready to be as your response I'm just pushing myself into the future one irresponsibility at a time fair enough all right I like that I'm we should have a teacher that says that pushing ourselves in the future it wasn't irresponsibility of time let's talk about gemini def okay robot actress this is pretty exciting stuff I find this super fascinating Geminoid f is a that was built by Hiroshi Ishiguro who's a roboticist in Japan I'm sure you've seen this guy on like discovery channel science channel he's the guy who built the robot her Japanese got yes and the robot looks just like him yeah it's a little disturbing that you would build a mini me not even a mini yeah its full-size full-size me a robot me uh so he also made Geminoid f and so Geminoid f is in this movie here's the this is the trailer for it from Phantom film called sayonara it premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival and the story is like really sad it's about a radiation plagued to Japan and everyone has to leave Japan they all have to leave and go to other countries and so everybody in the country gets a number that assigns them a priority level and so this woman who the robot acts opposite of uh is stuck in her very rural countryside location waiting for her number to come up and she's getting sicker and sicker the radiation sickness basically it's like making her very sick huh so I still still more compelling the Nicolas Cage this robot but not as compelling as i know i was just say slightly more slightly more emotional than kristen stewart house it has the road I've been on Cameron be able to pick out the robot well that she was there yeah it's she access her like I guess her lifelong cut a care giver uh and so Leona is the robot saying that's her and and so she is dead sea geminis right there that's her acting and apparently she is supposed to be her caretaker for like a robotic caretaker who is built you know in a wheelchair and she because the robot can't walk so they had to think of a story device to like really wanted this robot in the movie I guess so and it but it's really interesting to me that on the website they treat her like she's a real actress like she's born in 2010 or like 2012 or something that I was really funny and she got a whole bio up on the fan film website first they come for our assembly line jobs and income for our actors and they come for our acting gay some people i think would probably prefer it was never around um how do you feel about this I you know I like that she is a robot playing a robot like I said she was actually a robot meant to be a person like oh it's my friend that's not believable heard like that would be kind of near friend is so stiff I don't be like a Bicentennial man like I've remind me of that uh but yeah I think it's you know it's so Japan guys it's so Japan and of course it's in Japan but I love that we are finding new creative ways to put humanoid robots into you know features like I think that's a yes would you which if let's say Star Trek The Next Generation it was coming out today would you want data played by an actual robot not yet because it seems like it seems like the robots can't really express emotion the way obviously a person can well I mean the whole point it was with data clear robot avocations I don't know I mean if it was a really cool robot i think i might say yes sorry brent Spiner I feel really bad about that but I don't know about this i think it's i think this is a little bit gimmicky and seems so i would love to see the movie to see how it actually feels yes maybe it maybe it makes sense in the context of it all but it's me like the idea it makes a little sense it feels a little premature I feel like we're still so far in the uncanny valley that it doesn't but you know it's supposed to look like a robot to be a robot yeah cos I'm saying like if it's playing a robot playing a robot like that seems ok that seems alright but I mean what do we think that maybe there are actors already out there that have been replaced with robots because only maybe maybe we are all been watching movies maybe Mark Wahlberg has been a robot the entire time I'm just saying I mean listen guys Julia robots cyborgs Bullock Oh Talia robots Oh Jilly robit' yeah oh boy I think I'm not know we gotta clear we got it okay wait fer we go to break we are gonna get Rick to focus i need a laughter brings you broke me broke me broke me uh we have to tell you what the hashtag it so we're doing is something new with the hashtag instead of hashtag of the day we're gonna do hashtag hey TD and we want you to use that hashtag for any of the stories you hear during the week so when you watch the show monday through wednesday the short shows if there's something you find interesting you want to comment on it write us on twitter and use the hashtag hey TD and tell us your thoughts about it and then if we decide that we want to talk about that story on Thursday show we might use your feedback now that week so will our to make this a more interactive experience and have you guys commenting and have us reacting to your comments yeah so use the hashtag hey TD hey TD so we're going to take a quick break and when we come back we are going to have author television writer all-around great guy David Goodman talk to us about his novel the autobiography of james t kirk so don't click away tomorrow daily welcome back to the show the gentlemen we are about to talk to has a pretty fancy pedigree he has written in television for 26 years and has written for shows that you love family guy futurama star trek enterprise and now he's got his second book out we're gonna talk to about it the book is called the autobiography of james t kirk which we love and the author is david goodman thank you for being here thank you so much for having me I'm so excited to our very first guest on my gosh I I think that somehow sad I think it's awesome because you're surprised very good well maybe someone out there is crying this is the worst how does someone get to write the autobiography of jeans okay I'm gonna hold up the book yeah hey james team you know no strings a he's a he is a fictional character yes that's true so he did not write the book but it was the idea of the book was this idea that he's writing it in his own voice he's towards the end of his life he's looking back and i got to write it i had written another book another star trek both before and a friend of mine named Dave Rossi who who's worked on a lot of the Star Trek shows as well this was actually his idea and he thought I would be the right guy to write it and I was very nervous in the beginning to write it because I can imagine Star Trek fans are very passionate and if you get it wrong they don't have to tell you yeah yeah you know if it's wrong even if you get it right they'll tell you what's wrong so it's uh well I am the biggest star trek fan there's really no way to prove otherwise also lazy no but we are talking to the world's greatest and biggest stars I forgot to mention that in the honorific Star Trek Star Trek I'm sorry I don't think I'm the biggest stars I like Star Wars not yes Star Trek but um you know you've what I've watched all the episodes I've watched all the movies and it became a bit of a puzzle like what do we know about him and what needs to be filled it yeah and it's there was a lot whole swathes of Kirk's history that had not been written about did you get to make it up I essentially made and how do you get to be able to make it is there like some sort of core group of people that maintain yeah james t kirk or Star Trek Council like a Loremaster no okay ah that'd be you maybe that is maybe it's me now maybe it's me now with the book but the molding it up again but the mic and Denise okuda I know if you share familiar with their names they've been involved with starting for a long time and they wrote a chronology which ends up being kind of a source for me of and in this chronology they place all the events of Kirk's life that we know from the series yeah so I know where the gaps are ya and then the guy at CBS consumer products i'm john van sitters big star trek fan i had to basically clear everything through him okay but I'm as big a fan as he is so it's not like we had a disagreement what about like it can you say something like Kirk hate sushi or you can you make up little details like personal details yeah i mean i could uh I didn't do that unless I felt it sort of with somebody that would be like no no he loves seeing well you could say that because I don't think they ever showed him eating sushi so I said it then the cannon would support that it wouldn't contradict it rang I would be found out janet and i canna doesn't contradict assassinating but is it i thought yeah but the thing that the the job of the book was to sort of find things that we haven't said about Kirk but are there any way so for instance we know Kirk had a son we find that on the star trek through the wrath con but if you do the math of how old that son is looking at the chronology he was Kirk was a dad the whole time he was captain the enterprise which is a big deal absentee dad absolutely there so what does that say about a guy who's like you know / tuesday work / family so that fat because and that way from his kid I've your whole career way never sorry care so that's a guy making decision the guy never had never could seem to keep a girlfriend now what people might say oh he was having fun but there were all sorts of things in the original series that implied that Kirk was very lonely so what if he's lonely and he's a good-looking charming guy what what's the problem so these were all sort of things that I was kind of playing with ya without contradicting things we'd see already is there any comedy in the book is it is it a straight like legit autobiography of Curtin you know that it is straight but like Star Trek which always had moments of humor there's moments of humor so for for instance there's a Star Trek episode where Spock is getting married and at the end of that episode dr. McCoy fakes Kirk's death in front of one of the leaders of Vulcan and so I have a scene later on where this leader of Vulcans basically says what what the her son know what the hell is what the hell what the Kirk what the hell what the hell you said you you were dead what happened and then she also maybe says he's put on some weight so that they're there are sort of moments and then the way I deal with some episodes which I felt were somewhat ridiculous a reader reading it might see that I have that attitude towards that episode but I'm not dismissing it at all alright so yeah so in terms of Technology mean obviously you've written for a lot of shows that have futuristic technology them and many of them are very optimistic about the future so for you what is the most exciting technology that exists right now I think it's the technologies that made that Star Wars robot toy it's just amazing to me that they made that that that is a practical effect in the movie but then also the toy exists and we can dial that's amazing to me i think that that's sort of comment on the kind of technology that we sort of take for granted that that can make this completely accurate toy which if I was like when I was a kid that toy would be incredibly disappointing it would be it would have two wheels underneath after hanged up and it would go like this and you know and and the fact that now kids get to have that talk so what you're saying is as the author don't put words my weight as the author of the auto body is about autobiography of james t kirk Star Wars is more exciting than Star Trek I just you know words so not only am I said that at all that was uh that was like its support it doesn't contradict yeah nothing does gotten bigger cannon you know there is no star wars without starter that's again or I've worked with George Lucas he is a big star trek fan and he took lots of things and and also there's lots of parallels between how Star Trek was originally produced the technology that they had to create to do spaceships week in and week out is very similar to the technology that Lucas had to create to make Star Wars they were both groundbreaking properties and they both created a world that fans love to live in so there's lots of similar and another similarity is we're getting a new Star Wars but it sounds like we're getting our Trek TV series very exciting it what are you looking forward to for that what do you hope that it is I hope it's smart I'm very excited because it's clear that CBS CS this is something they want to be big and succeed and and and so it'll be it'll be big to me Star Trek is always about the writing and the Star Trek shows that i have loved are written by people who are much smarter than me so i hope they find somebody much smarter than me who writes this show well that's battle do you think um but even if you even if terrible i'm gonna watch so yeah of course ya know we will too if hypothetically speaking let's say like some day you become the showrunner of this new star trek universe like or if we just get if they just said okay they call you tomorrow and they say whatever you want to make it would you make it something or would you prefer to see something that already exists in star star trek Kenan or would you rather see something brand-new like a new crew on a new ship I think its new crew new ship I think that you I think you said it further in the future I think Star Trek always to me is always about the time in which it was made so there is there always commenting on things are happening right now and to me you want that show to feel like it's hat it's in a different era it's in our new era and it's reflecting politics social mores who we are yeah yeah I think that's very of science fiction in general but specifically start right well also you know I think that that's the thing that Ron Barry did so well this template that he created to do a show that could be this action-adventure thing but also have social commentary I mean that that if you look back in 1966 and what was on television at that time it's an amazing a completely different house that was the time of all of those the Dukes of Dukes of Hazzard or even before this I was like watch TV Green Gables I think man from uncle or lots of westerns bonanza out so yeah to take a judgment warning oh yeah I was definitely me I born then uh so so what are some of the adventures that Kurt gets into in the book is it stuff from the series and beyond uh I'm filling in his life so I'm sort of showing how he becomes the captain we know so life on the farm when he was born in Iowa life on the farm whose parents were his connection to Starfleet and then how he gets into Starfleet Academy I just I want to show you guys really quick if we take this that there are some great pictures in here I love that their actual there's some amazing photos of you know when he graduates the Academy and oh here soon payments together it's pretty great you should there's so much great stuff in here I really and so it's really his adventures leading up to the adventures that we know how he becomes the starch of Captain that were familiar with and then trying to find ways to talk about the Avengers we're familiar with in a new way whenever I'm summarizing events that were familiar with I'm injecting a new perspective or something some detail that connects to something else later on or earlier on his life and then really just trying to create a story of a guy who becomes this hero but is also tragic in some ways as well is never really fully happy yet makes a difference in his world so very last question I when can Jeff and I buy tickets to see the oscar-winning biopic in theaters yeah there you go for that gonna be up to you guys that's right for me I have to get this made leaving a song oh you know I would Jeff and I were to start production company right get going all right so guys the book is the autobiography of james t kirk here it is i'll show your show to show you this lovely cover right here the autobiography of james t kirk you don't wanna miss it if you especially if you're a trek fan but even if you're not a trek fan get into it because there's gonna be a new star trek soon and you're gonna want to know all about james t kirk swan the OG captain of the enterprise e kappa r OG OG oh I guess the OC original captain original gangster rizal can see I don't know all those young terms I'm sorry it's not you actually that tourism very young and older thanks for being here well thank you so much for having me this was so much fun day today David eight good men if you want look them up online and thank you so much and hopefully we will have you back when you write your next book hi I would love to write another book from us bak let's see that me know fingers crossed I'm into that alright so what's a trier book yeah hey I am very drive alright guys we will be right back we're gonna take a quick break and then we're gonna talk about some blizzcon 2015 so don't click weights tomorrow daily welcome back to the show that was a delightful interview it was delightful he was great and speaking of stuff that's great we were down in Anaheim this weekend checking out blizzcon 2015 is specifically looking at the eSports phenomenon check it out if you haven't been paying attention eSports is a huge industry some analysts are predicting it will net over six hundred million dollars worldwide in 2015 and it's only growing at this year's blizzcon blizzards annual fan convention eSports proved to be one of the show's biggest draws the Olympic Games of eSports is happening here for World Championships at blizzcon for and it's super exciting everybody here is really really thrilled to check this out and see who the champions are going to be most Game Studios involved in eSports have a single game in competition as we mentioned Blizzard has for starcraft 2 the uber-popular realtime strategy game that pits Terrans Protoss in Zerg against one another in a military sci-fi epic mega MMO World of Warcraft's arena championships featuring PvP teams duking it out for glory blizzards newest game heroes of the storm a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena starring playable characters from every game in the company's arsenal and hearthstone the collectible card game for PC smartphones and tablets that lets players build custom decks and face off against local or online opponents there for very different types of games and even though every games dev team knows the ins and outs of each one eSports players always make it interesting I think they always surprise us they are always doing things at a level play that is so far beyond what any of us are capable of its gonna deal all the damage for clock 9 carry the baggage all those people cheering they're cheering for a game that just came out in June starcraft 2 has a long-standing even bigger fan base with even more intense fans so exciting and amazing be able to watch that especially in person and see your favorite person I'm still trying to get life's autograph favorite players and teams are a staple in the eSports community just like traditional sports Blizzard is well aware of that fact and when its developers work on games with potential eSports components they definitely like to keep players and spectators in mind those values that we kind of instilled to make the play experience better for the player hopefully will be valuable for someone who's watching the game and speaking of valuable those winners aren't just walking away with pride the prize pool across all four championship series at blizzcon 2015 was 1.25 million dollars we are in the wrong business and need to get better at video games it's obvious that eSports is huge even if you've never seen a match yeah the whole convention is built on passion passionate fans passionate creators and eSports themselves I think just builds that passion and builds on that passion eSports is only gonna get bigger from here it's true and you know who knows maybe we'll see one of you here playing for the world championships next year uh blizzcon was so good that is that moment where the player from cloud nine picks murky the whole crowd just went ballistic it was such a yeah you see it in the in the package we just showed that moment the their team composition was so bizarre they had one warrior who's kind of the tank they had two healers and two specialist murky andaba thur bizarre team com no assassins in the team and yet they made it work they won the game it's that kind of thing I think that makes this an exciting spectator sport yeah I mean it's it was funny I was watching some of the stuff I missed at blizzcon I was actually like watching it on my TV last night I pull up on YouTube and checking it out and I turn to my husband and I was like is this who i am now like I'm a sportsman I'm an eSports fanatic now like I'm like honey the game's on I'm watching heroes of the storm yeah shush that's what it felt like last night it was amazing it's pretty cool I become so addicted to hear the storm but you know people have the same feelings about League of Legends and dota and mo business particular are capturing this feeling but I think also it's it's manifesting in stuff like games done quick yeah you see these guys do speedruns who trick the game and to do anything as it wasn't intended to do the idea of watching someone else play a game at a high skill level I think is so it's catching on and it's so compelling yeah it's compelling you want to see it because if you're any kind of gamer regardless where your casual are really in the gaming like to see people play at that level is really impressive like even I mean I play a lot of video games but I to watch somebody play something up splatoon is a great example so I play a lot of splatoon we know this to see people play at really high levels is so impressive to me and sometimes we come up against these people with you know with a specific weapon where they're using it in a way that I'm just like oh my I can't get around this guy like I don't know how he's doing it and I wish I could rewatch those I like just as my own for my own value yeah but so it really speaks to that you know the value again I've spectator for for all of these games really the only thing I can equate it to is playing pickup basketball and then going home and watching the NBA you know it really is that same experience and I think that for this entire generation we're going to grow up and that's just going to be normal and it's only going to get bigger and more tell lized in more prominent yeah yeah I agree and blitz kind of general was just so much fun there was the costumes you guys amazing and then of course you know they have all of the games we have to play some overwatch like we play a lot of that yeah it was great if we have it such a good time and and we highly recommend you check out some eSports whatever game it is but we specifically we were at blizzcon and they happen to have four championships so we check those out but but yeah it's definitely worth your time to just watch a match see if you see if you like it cuz I feel like some of you really enjoy it and speaking of stuff we enjoy I think it's time to talk about into it alright so I'll let you go first is your first time on that the long shows it jeez tell me what you were into this week I can't wait well I think you know this about me I am a gigantic hobby board game player good I slightly knew this the designer board game movement the european-style board games if you think board games are just monopoly and Parcheesi and clue there's an entire giant giant massive cool industry happening in and my into it is uh is a board game that I kick-started that I got recently and it is now available anybody can buy it it's called steampunk rally okay I think this is right up your alley and that is a punk rally yeah so you play as one of the great scientists of history and the only way these scientists can decide whether or not they who's the best scientist yeah I 9 and Tesla and Madame Curie and all these uh the only way they can decide who's the best is that they get together and have a race on machines that they built and it's just cool like steampunk giant machines so as you play you select one of those scientists and you start constructing this machine in front of you and you try to race around this desert environment I already like this it's incredible so you're you're you're literally drafting cards and placing them down in front of you you have to fit them together to make this machine work and then you roll dice and assign the dice to certain parts of the machine that make it do certain other things to create more dice to be able to roll those two then propel your machine through the race so you're really trying to build this like perpetual motion machine with all the different parts that it's making and the dice that you're rolling it is extremely fun my wife really dug it it's one of my favorite games that I've gotten recently and it's about 40 bucks you can buy it now okay I really really like it hi this is you're a huge nerd my god finding this out today Oh is there any doubt until I got the job like I kind of knew but I didn't know the depths the depths of the nerd itude the attitude nerd tassa t you know what a city will take it up but ya know this is great this looks really fun I feel like I want to try it it's cool because it can play from two to eight players and there's very few games nowadays that can play up to eight it's like really cute four or four to eight like there's yeah usually eight sold a lot of number of people and you have a big party you can still play this game and it doesn't slow it down because you're all drafting at the same time yeah and board games are great if you know I love video games but there's nothing like sitting across the table and being social with someone having drinks having some food and playing a physical thing I love him so check out steampunk rally steampunk rally okay cool alright well I have something completely different that I'm into but it's really really fun and it's super weird you guys of course it is uh in 1977 this guy his name is Peter stony m sh Willer Tim Schueler is his last name uh he interviewed himself in 1977 using at the time state-of-the-art equipment and he's calling it later that same life okay so here he is that's him that's good old Stoney yeah he's 18 years old in this and this is shot this is 77 he put together the sizzle reel and he went to crowdfunding and say hey listen like when i was 18 i filmed myself asking myself a whole bunch of questions about my life like how my life turned out like woo did you marry you look really like just intervista lee totally going host on himself and interviewing him but no like he filmed like fake answers like aha oh my goodness yeah he filmed responses and he was like he was like oh oh that's that's really disappointing like it's reading he basically gave himself a toolkit for later in life to fill out and fill in this like kind of a video journal of his life it's really impressive it's sort of like you know those journals are you fill out like questions and you answer them and then you go back three years later you to them again kind of like that but instead of a couple years 30 38 years what's so crazy to me about this this story is that if I had done that in my what early 20s or you know late teens in he's in this video I would have done this way sooner he waits till he's like 50 something years old well I think he said I'm in the in the crowd fund website he had said he had a like a house a minor health scare and it made him realize like oh I should do this like I really should absolutely do this so he went to crowdfunding he asked for ten thousand dollars right now there's six days left he has 22 thousand dollars people really like the idea if he gets the 25,000 which I really hope he does he is going to digitally remastered I old footage he's going to rent a professional black like a queue but to like a soundproof black cube to film his responses in um he used to make films when he was a kid so some Star Trek it's great because he did a little bit of it that you see in the crowdfunding video yeah and it is I'm fascinated by time and yeah and and the ravages of diamond amazing and you see it really draws into stark contrast like how we change as people and it's a kind of a beautiful thing he asks him like how did you meet your your spouse oh like I mean it's great it's really a great it's hilarious it looks really interesting also very poignant like I think like you said there's some there's some really deep kind of ideas here uh but he's here in Los Angeles so I feel like we all try to get ahold of him and bring him on the show how do you have the forethought to do this when you're young I wish I had I had had that kind of forethought because you don't I don't think about myself well I vote my team let's track him down let's interview him and get some answers let's see if he could figure out a way to interview me when I was a kid maybe he's a time machine that'd be great I'd be awesome all right guys it's time for our very last thing in the show which is always our phone daughter of the day our phones agra Fuhrer of the day today is Gerald gerald took this ridiculously amazing picture I want to go to there on his iphone 5s and wrote us an email and he says this is a photo I took on my iphone 5s in may 2015 it's at k i'm gone lake coron palawan philippines i took it well on a 20 day vacation in Philippine in Philippines and Singapore which we are super jealous of yeah look at that the Sun was bright and the water so clear it is unedited and straight from my phone I thought it was a beautiful and surreal photo of paradise on earth you have my permission to use it if you'd 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