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Did you hear the one about the egg-shaped Russian robocop? As far as we know, this is a true story.
A Russian six-foot tall egg-shaped robot, hailed by the Russian police force as a bold new crime fighting tool broke down on it’s first day on the job, not because it couldn’t fail to comprehend the human notion of love, but because the rain made its circuits fry.
I think it actually would be adorable to be arrested by a short little egg shaped robotic police officer. Robots are SO gay. Think about it.
Twiki from Buck Rogers? Gay. HAL-9000? Persnickety. Star Wars’ C3PO? Flaming! Even real-life robot ASIMO swishes around like a flaming queen. I think I’ve even seen the Mars Sojourner Red Rover and the Unimate robotic arm getting it on.
Do you have $40 sitting around doing nothing? Well besides investing in your favorite podcast, you can invest it in real estate. Just don’t plan on being around to enjoy it. On today’s show Amanda Steinstein joins Marc Felion and me Fausto Fernós to talk about investment real estate, but the really wacky kind.
One firm Lo’ihi Development will sell you a lot of Hawaiian real estate for $40, the catch is that you wont be able to step foot on it for probably three or four millennia, since it’s located 3,000 feet below sea level on a underwater volcano.
Another developer named Dennis Hope has made over NINE MILLION DOLLARS selling acres of land on the moon (as in the one that orbits the earth) for $20. How cute! A piece of paper for $20. He’s sold his lunar land plots to celebrities like Barbara Walters, George Lucas, the deceased Ronald Reagan and even the first President Bush. I don’t know why people think most celebrities mismanage their money.
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patiomensch says:
June 19, 2007 at 04:10What the! Haha, I’m lying here listening to the Feast of Fools, unable to get to sleep even though it’s 5am, when I hear you guys say my name! That was really really strange.
Marc Felion says:
June 19, 2007 at 11:05Trey, those robots were in fact all androids. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android
patiomensch says:
June 19, 2007 at 12:17Back again. Despite your arguments in this episode, I remain unswayed!
Cutting back to Tony, one more time, would make the dream sequence entry too explicit. You aren’t supposed to realize this during your original viewing, only your second or third or fourth or fifth. Haha, that’s the last I’ll say on this. I wasn’t ever mad, by the way. I couldn’t be mad you guys, cuz you’re too cool.
Marc Felion says:
June 19, 2007 at 13:38Too explicit or just obvious enough to get the point across?
tinotee says:
June 19, 2007 at 15:36I have moon land… prime real estate in the sea of tranquility … and now they say its worthless *sob*
Trey says:
June 19, 2007 at 15:49Fair enough Marc… but only in AI was the Robot/Android specifically designed to take on the emotions… maybe in I, Robot as well, but not to the level of AI. Bicentennial Man dealt specifically with a robot-turned-android-turned-pseudo-human who developed and progressed into these emotions and feelings and individual personality on his own, and not by nature of design.
Granted it’s all science fiction anyways. But still fun to point out.
Cliff Dix says:
June 19, 2007 at 16:42I loved it when Amanda did the wicked witch voice trying to lure hot young sci-fi geeks into her cool Hogwarts lair.
Fausto Fernós says:
June 19, 2007 at 23:04With Bicentennial man, you don’t just develop emotions out of the blue. Somehow, somewhere through accident or design he must have been given some capacity to develop emotions. It may not have been the designers intent, but he developed them nonetheless.
Mike J says:
June 20, 2007 at 13:30British Columbia has the Gulf Islands, Washington has the San Juan Islands. Same chain.. different name.
Jon-paul says:
June 23, 2007 at 10:48Amanda, accept it all Robots are gay! They hang out at “The Stud” in San Francisco on the weekends.
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Fausto Fernós created the Feast of Fools in 1998 as wacky artists variety show in Chicago, Illinois.
Along with his partner Marc Felion, he hosts the world's most downloaded talk show for gay people on the internet, Feast of Fools.
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I don’t blame African-Americans; I blame the No campaign. They didn’t make a persuasive argument in their ads. They allowed the Yes...
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Jann’s face in the iTunes podcast photo reminds me of Liev Schreiber…or is it just me?
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I am praying for all the world’s religions to stop pushing their beliefs down my throat. I agree with you Fausto, if all reverends were as...
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Trey says:
June 19, 2007 at 01:59I’d like to point out to Amanda three instances of *robots* with emotions (not androids, necessarily)… but Robots:
Bicentennial Man
A.I.
I, Robot
Yes, I’m a dork. But these robots actually DID have emotions. Programmed or evolved? Who knows…
So yeah.. just saying.