Episode 77

Hey guys, it's time for another episode of Space Welders. Episode 77, recorded Friday 24th of March 2017, live from Radio City Music Hall with your hosts... Comin' atcha in front of 10,000 people! Mike Wise and Steve Rogers!

Don't worry Mike, I'll add some like reverb in post so it'll just sound... it'll sound great. Right. Don't worry about it.

We can only hope. So this week, sadly, we've lost another music great, Steve. Chuck Berry is not with us anymore. And Johnny B.

Goode is Johnny B. Gawne. Nice. See what I did there?

Very good. So March 18th, he departed, and quite a long history of output and music from this man. I think it's fair to say he was the father of rock and roll. That's totally fair.

Yeah, yeah. He gave us this genre. He was the pioneer of moving it from kind of a bluesy jazz sort of vibe into rock and roll that really defined the 60s and 70s. That of real showmanship.

Not the, you know, rock and rollers of today. I mean, are there any real rockers left? Not really. For most folks listening to the podcast would probably recognize Johnny B.

Goode and his kind of pseudo role by Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future, where you see Michael J. Fox coming onto the stage and then showing everybody how great Johnny B. Goode is.

Except for someone I talked to the other day who I said, oh, did you hear Chuck Berry died? And they went, who's Chuck Berry? And I went, oh. And then I said, you know, from Back to the Future, and they went, I've never seen Back to the Future.

I went, oh. That's double sigh. It's like, what the hell? Really?

I mean, there's people that are slightly angry about that scene in Back to the Future because it's suggesting that a white boy inspired Chuck Berry to write Johnny B. Goode. Yeah. It's like whitewashing history, but it's quite funny.

It's a nice little little Easter egg in there because it's Marvin Berry playing at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance. Anyway, he grew up in St. Louis. Missouri?

How do you? St. Louis? St.

Louis. St. Louis? Missouri.

Missouri. And yeah, he is now the- He's just next to our Kansas, isn't it? The father of rock and roll. And sad that he's passed on.

So there's been plenty of tributes and all those sorts of things going on throughout the month. Lots of ding-a-lings. Lots of ding-a-lings going on. Speaking of ding-a-lings, Steve, it looks like Wikipedia is at it again.

They've released another set of documents exposing things, but targeting Apple and the Mac. And even within the day that they've released it today, Apple have come out and said, dudes, this stuff's old. Again, yet again, they're trying to put some scare or fear into saying, well, CI is going to effectively grab control of your computer. Now, the way that this works, Steve, which is really different from everything else that they've got, is basically attack the EFI.

So EFI or UEFI, it's just the new hotness for boot OS or BIOS. If you built a computer in the last two or three years, you would be stunned to discover the fancy. I was. The very first time I booted up a UEFI BIOS, and you're like, oh my god, it's pretty.

It's so cool. And I can use the mouse. What magic is this? You shouldn't be able to use the mouse in a BIOS.

We're so used to American megatrends. I know we've got plug and play, USB, Mices, but really, BIOS should be limited to keyboard only. Don't you think? F10, save and exit.

Well, it used to be character mode. American megatrends would pop up and then you'd be waiting to press F2 or F8, depending on your breed. What, doing the... Yeah, trying to hammer the keyboard whilst it's trying to get the narrative in front of it.

Anyway... And then you miss it. And then every single manufacturer has a different key to enter the BIOS. And then I got...

This is real first world problems. Do you remember the first time you got a computer that was so fast that you couldn't see the push whatever button to enter BIOS line? The very first time I got a computer that was so fast that I couldn't read the line. So I didn't...

And I had to enter the BIOS, but I didn't know what key I had to press to enter the BIOS because my computer was booting so quickly that it didn't show up. So I had to Google my motherboard to find out what key I had to push to enter the BIOS. Yeah, this is crazy. And I think this was a Dell one or something.

It was like control shift and tilt. Yeah, so they're calling it an implant hack. And the whole idea... Now, in Apple, you can just go to your settings systems information.

You can look at your MacBook Pro settings there or whatever you've got. You'll see basically the version, but the boot ROM version is what you're looking for. It'll be like MVP something, something, something. Anyway, the whole idea is that they give you like a skanky USB key or some kind of cable that's got the image that somehow injects itself into the EFI.

Now, Apple came out with an article today on their support and it can be summarized by the phrase, ah, bitch, please. It's like, it is old, so it's been covered. It's gone. So it really is kind of getting a bit, well, it's becoming a bit of a joke.

But it does actually say, hey, keep progressively upgrading your operating systems. Keep them up to date. Keep up to date and don't accept anyone's USB keys or keys lying around, Steve. Like you would just, you know, pick up a loose USB key off the ground and you just stick it in somewhere.

I mean, that's words to live by in all walks of life, right? Don't just stick something in somewhere that you find lying on the ground. That's what we're saying. Right.

I mean, you can buy USB keys that will literally destroy your computer as soon as you plug them in. You can buy killer USB keys. There are killer USB keys. There's such a thing.

So always use protection, kids. Yes. Speaking of... Always, always boot up a VM first.

Stuff it in there. Make sure you wrap that OS in a VM. So Windows 10 has got a new release coming. It's called the Creators Update.

Now, there's a few problems which could come with the Creators Update. No. Problems with the Windows 10 update? That would never happen, would it?

Yeah. So it is actually going to, well, it depends on how you're going to get it. Most of you will be downloading this update on top of your other updates that you've already been receiving. But it's going to promise a fantastic new functionality and this, that and the other from Windows.

But basically what you're saying is they haven't learnt from the debacle that was the automatic downloads for Windows 10 in the first place when people were complaining it was blowing out their internet allowances and it was downloading on mobile data and all of that. They've decided, our next big update, we're going to do the exact same thing. Yeah. Learning.

Listening to our customers. What's that? So, yeah, it seems like they're really keen on bringing a whole bunch of new features. They're going to be deprecating some things that we didn't really want in the first place.

But it's mainly, it's creators because it's focused on creation of content and there's just a bunch of new applications. So one of these in particular, they've done like, it's not a makeover to paint, not like paint as it was and then as it became. There's nothing wrong with paint. But anyway, this is paint.

Bring back old school paint, I say. This is paint. What's the airbrush equivalent of paint in Paint 3D? But it's got stuff to bring mixed reality to life such as support for different types of VR and headset equipment specifically.

I mean, does anyone use paint for anything other than cropping a screenshot and saving it? No, that's Snippet. You just stay in Snippet and then you'd be done. Yeah, well, that's reasonably new.

No, but then you're always going for the brush and then do the red and the circle. Oh, the red hand-drawn circle. The red hand-drawn circle. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But the Snippet, I think it's, is it this version or there is a version. Someone was talking about how an upcoming version of Windows will have a built-in snipping tool so you can push a key combination and drag and drop to select it like Snagit does now, although obviously Snagit is paid for. So that would, maybe that's why they're doing 3D paint so they actually have a try and get people to use paint. Because if you don't have to crop a screenshot anymore, because it just takes a full screen, then why would you ever use paint?

So much better image editing, free image editing programs. I mean, just get GIMP if you want to edit pictures for free. GIMP is perfectly usable. But as we do it Space Wilders, let me, Steve, let me lay some features down on you.

Lay it on me, brother. So you get... Hang on, let me give you some... Lie prostrate.

Let me give you some shopping music and you can say it like an announcer on The Price Is Right. All right. Go. Some new features coming to Windows Creator are Windows Defender Advanced.

So you get some advanced protection, whatever they were doing previously, but doing it better. In the upgrade you get analytics. So you get an analytics dashboard to describe the health of your PC. You get better privacy controls as opposed to not having privacy controls or controls that weren't there in the first place, but we're putting them there now.

You get the UEFI, as aforementioned, a brand new BIOS, the UEFI. So that can be happily hacked by... Isn't that up to... Isn't that a motherboard UEFI?

No, well, this is the bit between your motherboard and the BIOS. But I thought it was still... Sorry, no, but motherboard, BIOS, UEFI or EFI operating system. Yeah, but I thought it was still up to the ROM on that.

Anyway, continue. A unified update platform, so they're able to download more shit. A virtual machine display scaling piece. Stop bloatware installing, like, this isn't bloatware.

And you've got new stuff for the Edge browser, because everyone uses the Edge browser. And you've got the augmented workplace, but you wait for it. There's registry editing enhancements. Wow.

You've got support for additional trackpads and screens, new big display settings, the browser and all important 3D PowerPoint and paint tools, easier collaboration, and then some other fixes that we won't even care about, like SD card reading and so on. So that seems to be what's coming inside of there. All that for a low, low price of nothing. Of a really expensive download.

Of 50 gigabytes of your download limit. Yes, you could be pawning right now, or downloading Windows 10 Creator. So they've actually improved the user experience as well. They've put some updates together for the way that the tiling thing and the start has that...

Oh, the thing that I barely use. Yeah, that tiling thing. That I immediately deleted everything off, except the programs. I can tell you in mine right now is Visual Studio, Spotify, and Twitter.

And the Bible. Wow, Reaper's in there, which we use to record. Yeah, so that's a thing. Also busy on providing an update as well, the Google guys.

There's a new version of Android. It's in fact called Android O. Is this a version of Android that was on the Pixel phones, or is this different to that? No.

Because the Pixel was like... It was meant to be ahead, or... The Pixel had a different version, or the next version before, or something? Have they now caught up, or what's going on with that?

Folks like Cyanogen, and they always do customized versions, and Google's had a... But one of their selling points... It always had releases in advance. One of the selling points of Pixel was that it was the next version of Android, because it was Google, so they could put it on.

I don't know if it was O, or it was like N.5, or something. Anyway, Steve, what comes in O, it's got autofill APIs, it's got some new features for Picture and Picture. It's like we're coming up on the showcase here. It is, yeah.

Well, they get the Picture, and that's the best of. So Picture and Picture seems to be big. Even on iOS, there's Picture and Picture coming in the next release. Also coming to Windows, I did read.

I think it's just a point release, or something. I don't know. Maybe it's coming in this Creator update, if they're bundling a bunch of stuff. They're basically adding, like they have on iOS now, in certain apps, when you push the home button, the app goes to the bottom corner in a small screen.

So like YouTube, for example, and Netflix, you can, I know at least, you can continue watching while using other apps. So Windows, they're bringing a similar thing, where they're basically having a stay on top, a floating window, which you can minimize right down into the corner. So for example, you could have YouTube playing on top of another screen. Yeah, I think that's a great idea, having Picture and Picture.

Depends if you've got two monitors. What does that mean? It's probably, I assume it's because of the rise of tablets running, or not necessarily tablets, more like phablets, running desktop OSes. So the Surface Pro, the Surface Book, MacBook, things like that, which generally people only use with one screen at a time, sure they might plug it into a dock when they're at a desk, but if they're out and about, they've only got one screen, so they're adding ways, they're adding more mobile-like UI concepts into desktop OSes, for better or for worse.

Some things are obviously worse, we saw the issues with the Windows 8 debacle, which went too far, and didn't give you enough options, because it was like, everyone's got a touchscreen and everything. I mean, even Windows 10 has a bunch of that stuff, where it's like, disable touch, it's like, it's a monitor, it doesn't have touch. But Samsung are also coming out with a piece of hardware to turn your phone into a desktop anyway, so you've got HDMI at the back. Improved connectivity, improved keyboard navigation, a new audio API, they've refreshed that, they've refreshed the browser, they've got support for Java 8, language API changes in runtime.

People still use Java? It's meant to be giving you a 2X performance increase, new codecs for audio, and just a bunch of other updates. It doesn't tell you what X is though, if X is 0, then you get a 0 performance increase. And then there's Android Studio 2.4 to match it, so yeah, there's tons of updates coming, which is kind of crazy.

Also, if you want to develop your application faster, then JetBrains has the app, the thing for you. It seems like they've now decided to follow in the footsteps of Jira and the likes, and they've produced their own task tracking system to go along with everything else that you need. Exactly like Jira. And yeah, I've been on it for a couple of days, set up a project in it, spent some time and basically went, this is Jira.

But it's sort of Jira for if you're a programmer and you wanted to use keyboard shortcuts, it takes that angle and goes all the way further. And they've produced a marketing campaign around it which sort of says only geeks of the geeks would use this. Is it a web app? It's a web app.

Or a download, or both? It's not electron based either, but you've got a mobile responsive version of it and so on. You register your company at nextdata.jetbrains.com or something like that, and then off you go. You can put your email in, start the tour and start using it.

But I do agree, it is actually very quick to move around in. Jira tends to be a bit clumsy for adding other things. I don't spend that long in Jira, really. You can do it a lot quicker.

Well, I don't spend that long in it anyway, so what's the point? If your only point of difference is you can use keyboard shortcuts to quickly add tasks, well, what do you do? Well, you can do sagas, you can do scrum or kanban, you can do treeview, cardview, tvview, it's all the same. And there's only so much you can do if you're following Agile, it all uses the same language.

And there's only so much you can do with a layout, you've got to have the status and you've got to have a due date and versioning and comments and assignees and names and numbers and things like that. So you're going to hit on the same points if you have an issue tracking system. I mean, even Visual whatever it is, Team Studio, it's got a different name now. I mean, it's horrible to use.

The Visual Studio online task tracking software, whose only benefit is that it integrates with Visual Studio, but it's horrific, it's slow, it's... It's now called Team Services. That's what it is, yeah. If you've ever opened up Visual Studio and it bugs you to log in, that's what you're logging in for.

Yeah, some people love it, but it's horrible. And the pull requests in it are terrible, the source control pull requests. The biggest insult in that thing was put your credit card in to complete the build. Like our build wouldn't work and we needed to put in a credit card.

You were given a limited number of minutes of build per month. It was so, it was like you get 200 minutes of builds per month, which when you're building on every check-in, as you should be, you hit that pretty quick. We hit it in, I think, like over the weekend or two or three days, and we're like, we're not going to do any more builds. What?

What? Swipe credit card to do more builds. Yeah. That's like micropayment.

Crazy. Yeah. No way. Oh, you wanted to do a release.

Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. Wait a minute.

But anyway, this will obviously plug into Rider and every other tool that they've got. So. Yeah, this is just, it's all firing up for that, isn't it? It feels complete though.

For that implementation. They're kind of thinking, hmm, what else could we, how could we complete our ecosystem? Well, they've looked, again, they've looked at Atlassian and they've seen the benefits and they've looked at Atlassian and Adobe and even Microsoft, and you're seeing the benefits of a complete ecosystem, even with disparate products. So you look at Adobe and it does image, you know, they're all based around creative, but there's a, there's different, hugely different disciplines in the Adobe suite with video editing and image editing and motion.

and motion tracking and special effects processing, but they all work together amazingly well. And Atlassian's the same. If you have Jira and Bitbucket and Bamboo, which is their build system, I can imagine the next thing JetBrains will bring out is a build program. Back in the day- You've got to imagine, they've got an issue tracking, the next one will probably be a Git implementation and then a build tool, and then they're things complete, all integrated into Rider, and then they can pull ReSharper because they're probably, I suspect, I haven't seen many people saying anything, but I suspect Visual Studio 2017 is probably going to almost do away with the need for ReSharper.

I think we looked at what's coming out in it, 2017, or it's out or it's in pre-release or it's in RC or something like that, and there's a lot of the refactoring and navigation tools built into 2017 would do away with the need for ReSharper completely, which is good because ReSharper's been getting, I think, worse and worse every update. It doesn't seem to be getting any quicker. No, it definitely is slowing down. You can pair it back for what it's doing, but then the features that you're probably using- It's still scaling your files.

20% of the whole thing. Yeah. So I pay the ReSharper tax and I use it for refactoring all the time. I use it for refactoring and navigation.

Control Shift T and Alt Backslash. And completing things and- And then Control RR, Renaming. Yeah, Renaming. Those are the main things I use it for.

You can rename in the tool, generically, just F2, type the name and it says, do you want me to rename this across the solution? You go, yeah, sure, why not? I think that's ReSharper doing that. No, Visual Studio supports that natively as well.

So that's F2 on the solution bar. Oh, but it doesn't, that would scan for the thing, the good thing that ReSharper does when you rename, yeah, symbols and ReSharper will also scan for variable names and plain text names. So if you're renaming a type and you had a variable, like say you've got, you know, var person equals new person and you rename person, it will say, do you want to rename this variable to match the type? Yeah, but I often, it does do a naughty where it, and you have to restrict it by type of file where it will touch your JavaScript as well.

Yeah, it scans everything. It scans everything. So it'll then say, oh, do you want me to change this JavaScript file while I'm at it? As long as, as long as if Visual Studio 2017 brings in the, this can be shortened to a link expression and you're like, oh, okay, I'll try that.

And then it thinks about it for five minutes and you're like, oh, this is going to be bad. It's like, yeah, okay, so you've made it one line, but maybe the three lines was slightly better. True. So talking about software development, Apple, and I don't know if you're or automation, Apple recently acquired Workflow.

I don't know if any of you've used Workflow or maybe, I'm a big Workflow fan. So if, so everyone's probably used, if then that, IF, whatever it is. IFTTTTTTT or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So that's the website that's got simple automation, do this and do this and do that. I don't know, well, it's really just do this, then do that. Or if this happens, then do that. No, you have several steps.

You can, yeah, so you can apply a bit of a Workflow logic. This is very similar, but it basically leverages the extensions available in iOS to be able to automate basic features. So for one of the examples is you can run a Workflow that gives, that texts a loved one ETA time home. So it looks at your current location, puts together a text, opens up the messages app, finds the contact and puts in a nice message to say, darling, I'm going to be home in 30 minutes because, and it, you know, traffic is bad or something like this.

So it does a bunch of other things like converting video. Can you make it live for you? To GIF. Text wife time home.

Scanning QR codes. Plus beer time. Yeah. And it goes, oh honey, yeah, traffic's really bad.

I'm going to be late. Meanwhile, you're at the pub. It's the same idea. It's not that don't drink and drive folks.

No, it's a washing powder. The you can play it back later. So the other thing is that they got pre-made recipes. They've got a community who contribute.

Also don't drink and do calculus. You shouldn't drink and derive. So continue. They have a whole bunch of recipes in here and you can build your own workflows.

And the interesting thing about it is being able to invoke these workflows from different parts of iOS. So if you're in the middle of, you've opened up a picture and then you can actually select to run a workflow on, say, a picture or some kind of clip or cut paste operation or somewhere within side of iOS. But what this represents, and for no, they didn't specify the sum, but I'm predicting it's probably pretty decent, and this was initially reported by TechCrunch in terms of the buyout. Now, the workflow guys have been tightly integrated with Apple.

They're almost living together, it seems. They were receiving awards and all sorts of things. So their acquisition makes total sense. But having this as a default application inside of Apple and having it broader really brings automation to iOS.

Now sadly, the guy who developed AppleScript has recently left. Recent as in three, four months. And so workflow and automation on macOS is basically stagnant now, so that's kind of the opposite. So maybe they might bring something similar like this to, you know, whatever the anniversary release of iOS 10 and iOS 8 is going to be, who knows, is a part of the fault.

But I think it's really interesting. Also continuing along Apple's line, they've released the new Red iPhone, Steve. I know you've been jonesing for a Red iPhone. It's part of their Project Red and AIDS awareness campaign, and sales and proceeds go to the AIDS researchers and so on.

But they've also brought out a line of new iPads and renaming some of the iPad range itself. Are they Red? No. I don't care then.

Right. Well, it's just different sizes and just a bit of a renaming effort on their part. So they've got some new products for us suckers to buy. So Steve, it's time for a bit of media.

This week, Samurai Jack is released. It's on Adult Swim. I don't know if welders are into Adult Swim or have seen Adult Swim before. Anyway, it's sort of a more adult cartoon network, shall we say.

So things like Robot Chicken turn up there. Yeah, Robot Chicken's Adult Swim. I think it was Rick and Morty was Adult Swim, wasn't it? Rick and Morty.

It is Adult Swim. Adult Swim funds these sorts of shows. But Samurai Jack... It's like Cartoon Network after dark.

Yeah, it's something like this. But Samurai Jack has recently moved. So this is their latest set of episodes. And it was episode two which shocked everybody because for the first time, and previously if you haven't watched it, it's sort of more of a Saturday morning serial cartoon type show where he cuts down robots and he's a samurai fighting an eternal standard enemy and crazy hijinks in between.

What's different this time is that being attacked by the enemy or what he thought were robots turn out to be actual humans and he's cut one of their throats and blood's spilling out everywhere. And so it was a massive shock to most people in terms of its execution. But the thing that people are loving about Samurai Jack on Adult Swim at the moment is just the attention to detail and the artwork is just incredible. Some of the scenes, the music, everything is...

This just seems like this dude's got way more money. So Genndy Tartofsky, I think it was previously Cartoon Network it was specifically on. And it's been around since 2001 and various seasons thereafter. With a bit of a gap.

With a bit of a gap. Anyway, so he's fighting a shape-shifting master of darkness, wielding his sword around and doing the usual things you kind of expect. To me it used to be somewhere in between like DC Batman and that style of cartoon and storytelling. But it's a bit more dystopian future mixed with themes from ancient Greece and it's kind of like a mishmash of kind of periods.

And so, you know, just recently since it switched networks, definitely this is just amazing. And I do urge you if you can watch it either on Channel T or wherever you can get it from it's definitely worth watching for some media this week. Continuing on and also very cool, I'm a big fan of Clone Wars and big fan of Rebels. So there's a recent episode that's now come on and finally, finally, finally, you know, we last season of Rebels we had the showdown with Vader.

Now in this season we've got Obi-Wan Kenobi turning up for no apparent reason. Well, he does. He's got a reason. He's also turning up with...

It's in his contract. Yeah, it's in his contract. He must turn up at least in one episode of something or part of something in a season. So anyway, he's actually going to fight Darth Maul and you go, oh my God, if you haven't been following Darth Maul was brought back to life.

He was in fact cut in half and then he was converted into a half machine, half man, but he was kind of like a spider. Now Mike, is that part of the original expanded universe which is no longer actually canon or is it part of the new Rebels series which is actually canon? Rebels is canon. And that's the interesting bit.

That's true because I was halfway through writing my comment saying actually that's not canon anymore. All right. So, yeah, so he comes out. Gotta keep up with these things.

He comes out from nowhere and he's working, well, you know, they find him on the Tantooine and he's grooving around and doing things. He's working as a waiter in the cantina. He does have the showdown with Maul. So it's pretty easy to guess which way it goes.

So there's a little bit of payback going on in this episode. But anyway, Rebels is back on and it's really kicked off with a bang with Obi-Wan turning up and it's something else to watch. Lastly, Gorillaz have got a new album coming. YouTube is where they're pushing content up too so you can go watch it and it is batshit crazy.

It's still quite good. Yeah. It's indifferent. This song wasn't great.

Yeah. Saturn's Bars. Saturn's Bars. Video's awesome.

Song. Song's so-so. Yeah, yeah. So whether or not it's going to work out as an album and maybe critically acclaimed or maybe those who are true fans, aficionados of the Gorillaz content then, you know, it's worth watching anyway.

So they've got a new album coming. And yeah, that's probably about it for watching stuff. So Netflix, continuing in their tour de force of amazing TV shows, Iron Fist, notwithstanding, I think we'll just not worry about that one. Awkward.

I mean, they had to hit, they had to have a miss sooner or later, didn't they, really? They've been on a high for so long. Iron Fist, the new novel one? Right.

It's crap. Is it? I've been in the bathroom a bit too long. You're always in the bathroom too long.

Yeah. Iron Fist. Iron Fist. Right.

Yeah. They are, one of the new things they're rebooting, and they just released a trailer for, was a new series of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Yes. That of late 80s and 90s, so I never watched it on its initial run.

But they are rebooting it. It looks like exactly the same campy nonsense. Originally, if you've never seen a Mystery Science Theatre 3000, and I can count myself as one of you, until last night when I watched the Manos Hands of Fate episode, which is on Netflix, Netflix has kind of picked the best episodes of the original run. So they actually did a shitload of episodes, like 170 episodes, each of them an hour and a half long, because they show the full length of these crappy movies.

But if you've never seen it, the concept is that this guy, Joel Hodgson, later Michael Nelson, is stranded or has been kidnapped, put on a spaceship and forced to watch horrible movies as part of a plan to take over the world. And to keep himself sane, he's built the cuts, and they riff over these horrible, horrible B-movies, like 1950s B-movies, just the worst movies possible. Manos the Hands of Fate has been almost universally despised as the worst movie ever made, full stop, and it's really bad. Next to Static.

Static would be more interesting. Static is glamorous. So this is the one, you've probably seen bits of it, they're in silhouette at the bottom of the screen and they're riffing over the movie. It lived on a little bit in Riff Tracks, so a few of the former members created Riff Tracks, which is the same concept, but Riff Tracks tends to do more modern films.

So they don't distribute the film, they distribute an audio track that you then have to sync with the film. But Mystery Science Theatre, they would generally do open domain B-movies, so they can show the whole movie, it's fine. So Netflix is doing a new series with Felicia Day and Patton Oswalt starring, including Jonah Ray, who is the test subject. It looks very similar in style, stop motion, intro, things like that, shitty robots, crappy movies.

What more do you want? Good movies, preferably. It's interesting that Felicia Day's there. She's in everything.

She just turns up everywhere. Felicia Day, if you don't know, YouTube personality, is that a good way of saying it? We've spoken about her before with her channel. She was in Buffy and Dr.

Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, if you haven't watched that, that's a good one too. I don't know, personality, let's just leave it at that. So Steve, if you want to get tickets and see the Space Wilders live at Radio City Music Hall, how would you do it? Well, you can't because we're sold out for the next 500 years.

Bugger. Sorry. However, you can go and pay exorbitant amounts for scalpers outside and then you can head over to www.spacewilders.com where you can find the show notes for the stuff we talk about for the episodes that you can't see because all the tickets are sold out for 500 years. Sorry.

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No. Yeah. And SmokeSignal. Liking on SmokeSignal would be really difficult.

No, no. Share. Sharing on SmokeSignal. Could you on SmokeSignal have a feed and then like that cloud?

It would be very complicated. That's complicated. Could you be PuffPuff? That means like my cloud.

Well, you do it like Morse Night News. Isn't that how SmokeSignals work? Oh, yeah. SmokeSignals would be like Morse.

Well, no, no. Because you can also change the colour. That's true. And you can change the size.

You can change the size. You do it like when they elect the Pope. Right. You have like a white smoke if it's good and black smoke if it's bad.

You can have red. No, wait. Which one do they have when they elect the Pope? Well, that just works like smiley faces.

A smiley face of SmokeSignals. SmokeSignals are the emoji of the emergency communication world. That could be, yes. Make sure to check out our store.

And for a limited time, I'm assuming this was the store thing. Make sure to check out our store. There's a link on our website. That's www.spacewilders.com.

And you can even get 15% off from Friday. That's the 31st of March through to Tuesday, the 4th of April. So that's next weekend as you're listening to this. Just use the code 1-5-P-4-1-7.

That's 1-5-P-4-1-7. Wear some shirts. And to steal from the Slow Mo Guys, if Mike sees you wearing a Space Wilders shirt, he will buy you a drink. I will buy you a drink.

You heard it here first, folks. Finally, if you have any questions, comments, feedback or suggestions, email us info at spacewilders.com. Guys, as you may well know, we are finalists in the Castaway Awards. And we are...

Not to brag about it or anything. So grateful. But I bet you've never been a finalist. Just to be mentioned amongst all of these other top quality...

Oh yeah, that's the line, right? Yeah, got it. Just to be mentioned. Just to be mentioned.

Yeah, sorry. I was thinking of something else. Yes. Just to be mentioned amongst all of these other top quality podcasters is such an honor for us and a surprise because we're in the future.

So we already know the outcome. But we're not going to tell you because spoilers. Spoilers. We're not that sort of people.

So again, you can head over to the Castaway Awards. I'll put links in our show notes as usual so you'll be able to come back and have a bit of a squiz at all the other great podcasts that are available there. I believe it is next weekend. It's the 1st of April.

It is the announcement. 1st of April. April Fools, I'm pretty sure. So yes, go check out the Castaway Awards.

That's castawayawards.com.au and finalists.html. We'll take you there and you can see... Slash php.aspx colon ftp. Squiggle marks.

www. Yep. It's all written in Scala just for something new. So yeah, there's great diversity of podcasters there ranging from TV, comedy, sport, literature, business, lifestyle, industry, political and documentary.

So there's something for everybody, Steve. So till next time, it's Mike out. Steve out. Bye.