Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty The Gary and Shannon Show on demand
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. We'll be getting into all your
Speaker 1: latest tech news coming up later this hour. The Nintendo
Speaker 1: Switch too, making all the headlines this week. Is it
Speaker 1: worth it? We talked a little bit about it yesterday.
Speaker 1: Four forty nine for the base what would you call it?
Speaker 1: The base cons the base console, and then five hundred
Speaker 1: for the one that comes with Mario Kart World.
Speaker 2: Is that correct?
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Keana is a fan of the Nintendo Switch, says that
Speaker 1: she wants a new one because of the screen.
Speaker 2: And it's a bigger screen, nicer screen. That's all that.
Speaker 1: It's basic and I think that you're not alone in that.
Speaker 1: I think that that is acceptable. Mark Saltzman will be
Speaker 1: along with us to talk about is it worth it?
Speaker 1: He has tried all this stuff out, played with the
Speaker 1: new screen, the new controllers, all the bits, So we'll.
Speaker 2: Get into that. In the meantime.
Speaker 1: A lot going on in Washington, busy week for President
Speaker 1: Trump is where we kick off swamp Watch.
Speaker 2: I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
Speaker 2: And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 3: Here we got the real problem is that our leaders
Speaker 3: are done.
Speaker 2: The other side never quits. So what I'm not going anywhere?
Speaker 2: So that how you train the swap, I can imagine
Speaker 2: what can be and be unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 2: You know, Americans have always been gone at President. They're
Speaker 2: not stupid.
Speaker 4: A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2: Have the people voted for you with no swamp watch?
Speaker 2: They're all counter on.
Speaker 1: Well, you heard Deborah Mark and her news talk about
Speaker 1: Wall Street. We don't need to revisit that. The tariffs
Speaker 1: continue to get reaction across the globe markets globally, we
Speaker 1: saw the reaction begin last night. The US stop markets
Speaker 1: have taken the brunt of it. As you can imagine,
Speaker 1: what the conversation is moved to is how will other
Speaker 1: countries retaliate? How will they respond? And if you ask
Speaker 1: Trump in his circle, well there's not much for them
Speaker 1: to do because they've been screwing us over for so long.
Speaker 2: And if that is the case, why have they been
Speaker 2: allowed to screw us over for so long?
Speaker 1: Why are we in the United States paying more tariffs
Speaker 1: than they would pay if the things were if the
Speaker 1: goods were reversed, if we were sending them, why would
Speaker 1: we pay more. It's a fair question, And like we
Speaker 1: talked about yesterday, it's quite the move for this president
Speaker 1: to make because it is such a long term move.
Speaker 1: If it's successful, hell, yes, he gets credit for it,
Speaker 1: but by the time that happens, he could be dead.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be rude, but he's seventy nine
Speaker 1: years old next month, and this is one of those
Speaker 1: policies that will take a long time to come to fruition.
Speaker 1: If the United States gets a good end of it,
Speaker 1: and I'm not arguing that it wouldn't. I think that
Speaker 1: it would. I think it is good for this country
Speaker 1: in the long term. In the long term. In the
Speaker 1: short term, it's political suicide. And what is it mean
Speaker 1: for all of the race that down the ballot races
Speaker 1: in terms of what it means. You know, you saw
Speaker 1: the fallout. Ran Paul talked about it at length. You
Speaker 1: saw the fallout when this has been done before, when
Speaker 1: it comes to Republicans not gaining.
Speaker 2: The foot of power for years after a move like
Speaker 2: this is made. So we'll just have to see.
Speaker 1: And then there's also the idea that if the Republicans
Speaker 1: do not want to continue, say they keep the White
Speaker 1: House and they don't want to continue with this, then
Speaker 1: it was all for not and then you're the president
Speaker 1: plunged us further into inflation.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's playing the long game when it
Speaker 1: comes to sticking sticking to these tariffs the way that
Speaker 1: they've been presented right out of the gate. If they're
Speaker 1: not going to get the negotiations they want, if the
Speaker 1: deals aren't going to be made expeditiously that they want
Speaker 1: to have made with other countries, then I think there's
Speaker 1: got to be some pull back because you just politically
Speaker 1: can't withstand that as a party. Well, the big news
Speaker 1: today is that the President has moved to fire several
Speaker 1: White House national security officials. This apparently happened after Laura
Speaker 1: Lumer went to the Oval Office. She apparently went in
Speaker 1: with binders full of people that are not loyal into
Speaker 1: the Oval Office. Laura Lumer, she's the one who's he
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time with on the campaign trail.
Speaker 1: She's been described as a far right activist. She has
Speaker 1: claimed publicly that nine to eleven was an inside job.
Speaker 1: I do believe she's part of the camp that believes
Speaker 1: the Haitian or eat Haitians are eating the animals. If
Speaker 1: you can remember that, we all have a friend like
Speaker 1: Laura Lumer, don't we?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: We all have a couple friends where they've got their theories,
Speaker 1: they've got their they've got their ideas.
Speaker 2: We still love them that we may not always agree.
Speaker 1: They may be kind of crazy, but once in a
Speaker 1: while they'll get to you and you're like, you have
Speaker 1: a point, You got a point there? Well, she seems
Speaker 1: to have given this squirrel a bit of a nut.
Speaker 1: Today she has made a case for the firings of
Speaker 1: National Security Council officials.
Speaker 2: And who else was in the meeting? Oh? Boy, is
Speaker 2: it telling jd Vance? Was there?
Speaker 1: Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, who they say is the
Speaker 1: puppet master, Move out of here, Steve Bannon. Susie Wiles
Speaker 1: is the new dragon lady. And uh, make no mistake,
Speaker 1: this was done with the blessing of Susie Wiles. If
Speaker 1: Laura Lumer did not have Susie wiles blessing, then she
Speaker 1: wouldn't even be in the oval.
Speaker 2: Office. Who else was there? Mike Walls, National Security Advisor.
Speaker 2: What is this? What does this tell me?
Speaker 1: Well, my uh, in my conspiracy theory mind, this tells
Speaker 1: me that Mike Walls is trying to save his ass.
Speaker 1: Mike Wallas is the guy who organized that signal chat
Speaker 1: that was the embarrassment of the administration last week, the
Speaker 1: signal chat that was leaked to the journalist and about
Speaker 1: the hoothies and the attack on the hoo thies and
Speaker 1: the where and the whens and the whys and the
Speaker 1: emojis and oh goodness, and everyone expected somebody's had to roll,
Speaker 1: Mike Walls being a name that was constantly talked about.
Speaker 1: But here he is today in the Oval Office with
Speaker 1: the President, Susie Wiles, jd Vance, and Laura Lomer talking
Speaker 1: about all the people underneath him who are not loyal.
Speaker 1: And if there's something this president doesn't like, it's disloyalty
Speaker 1: to him. He demands it. We have seen it every
Speaker 1: turn of his turn and power. And that is where
Speaker 1: you cannot go wrong with President Trump. And that's why
Speaker 1: heads maybe did not roll last week, because Mike Walls
Speaker 1: did not show disloyalty to the president. He showed stupidity,
Speaker 1: but he maintained his loyalty. And today he goes into
Speaker 1: the Oval office with a list of names of people
Speaker 1: who they say are not loyal. That's enough blood to
Speaker 1: say to this president. I think, in terms of the
Speaker 1: whole signal debate, puts kind of a bow on it.
Speaker 2: So there you have it. That is the latest.
Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, We've got fun stuff
Speaker 1: this hour, not only on Nintendo, Switch to and is
Speaker 1: it worth it? Although does it really matter? Like you're
Speaker 1: going to buy it if you want it. We're still
Speaker 1: going to talk about it with Mark Saltzman. Is it
Speaker 1: worth it?
Speaker 2: But you know this, if you want it, you're going
Speaker 2: to buy it. You're not.
Speaker 1: If Mark Saltzman comes on, He's like, guys, it's not
Speaker 1: really worth it. Might even make you want to buy
Speaker 1: it more quicker. Get on that wait list. Also, grandma hobbies?
Speaker 1: Are they the secret to good mental health? To better
Speaker 1: mental health? Grandma hobbies? And space sex. We've talked about
Speaker 1: space bathroom time, but space sex. There's an article in
Speaker 1: Slate from somebody who used to work at NASA who's
Speaker 1: spilling all of the secrets when it comes to SpaceX Devra.
Speaker 2: That's for you, by the way, Thank you, Shannon.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 3: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: It is poetic, isn't it.
Speaker 1: So much about baseball is and that's why there's so
Speaker 1: many great baseball movies. When we talked about that recently,
Speaker 1: there's just a poetry that exists in baseball that football
Speaker 1: is well, but baseball lends itself to poetry because there's
Speaker 1: time to breathe.
Speaker 2: Football not a lot of time to breathe, which is
Speaker 2: what I like.
Speaker 1: I like the fast pace, I like the physical, the
Speaker 1: punch in the face type of a vibe.
Speaker 2: But baseball you.
Speaker 1: Can breathe, you can tell stories. There's time for poetry.
Speaker 1: There's time for those moments to have oxygen. It's why
Speaker 1: Vin Scully would allow the crowd to tell the story
Speaker 1: at some of those most magical moments, right of just
Speaker 1: letting the fans tell the story with the way that
Speaker 1: they're cheering everybody on it. Anyway, last night, with it
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Speaker 1: Grandma hobbies. I have been long attracted to grandma hobbies.
Speaker 1: I have tried to knit on numerous occasions. I think
Speaker 1: I first tried to knit when I was giving up smoking,
Speaker 1: because you want something to do with your hands.
Speaker 2: That's part of the problem.
Speaker 1: If you've ever tried to give up smoking, something to
Speaker 1: do idle hands, right, And I can't knit to save
Speaker 1: my life. I got videos years ago, you know, DVDs
Speaker 1: or what have you.
Speaker 2: Books.
Speaker 1: I got the needles and the knitting stuff, the yarn
Speaker 1: as they call it in the biz. And I really
Speaker 1: did the yeoman's effort of trying, and then I would
Speaker 1: just get I'd make a mistake and then to hell
Speaker 1: with it. Right the counting, the counting, the losing your
Speaker 1: place the did I go over?
Speaker 2: Did I go under?
Speaker 1: The focus it requires when it's not second nature. I've
Speaker 1: long considered and been embarrassed of the failure of mine
Speaker 1: over this. It's not just you know, it's bingo. It's
Speaker 1: the grandma life to It speaks to me. I love
Speaker 1: the Golden Girls as a youth. I continue to love
Speaker 1: the Golden Girls, love the idea of a cheesecake and
Speaker 1: the middle of the night, all of this bird watching.
Speaker 1: I've gotten into that now in the winter of my life.
Speaker 1: I love a bird watching gardening. My husband's a gardener.
Speaker 1: I've never been able to do that. I do like
Speaker 1: to bake things like that. But now science is telling
Speaker 1: you that grandma hobbies are where it's at when it
Speaker 1: comes to mental health. And it makes sense because you
Speaker 1: do feel a sense of pride when you make something
Speaker 1: or you build something.
Speaker 2: Gary and I have.
Speaker 1: Talked about how cool it must be to have a
Speaker 1: real job to drive by a building or something, and
Speaker 1: you know, whether you're a plumber or you're in a
Speaker 1: field where you build, you know, you build things up,
Speaker 1: you build buildings. You can drive by and be like,
Speaker 1: I built I did that building right there? Kids I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's really cool. It's something to be proud of.
Speaker 1: I've tried to do that with with Ikea furniture and
Speaker 1: my brother always has to unbuild it rebuild it. For me,
Speaker 1: I've never been able to really make anything. I can
Speaker 1: stand back and be like I did that. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So knitting kind of it's one of those things that
Speaker 1: they that they say provides amazing benefits when it comes
Speaker 1: to not just exercising new muscles in your brain, but
Speaker 1: also that sense of pride. When one immerses themselves in
Speaker 1: a hobby, they find an escape from daily pressures. It's
Speaker 1: a calming space they can unwind, recharge. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: feel anxious. This according to Patricia Dixon, who's a licensed
Speaker 1: clinical psychologist in Florida. She says, you experience a boost
Speaker 1: and self confidence. If if it's a challenge, like so
Speaker 1: many hobbies are, i e. Knitting, then you're gonna you're
Speaker 1: gonna get that pride social interactions. If you're part of
Speaker 1: a knitting group, you get those enhanced feelings of belonging
Speaker 1: in connection. And here's the thing that they're saying, you
Speaker 1: don't need to be a grandma to do it, especially
Speaker 1: this day and age, Like we're just talking about Keana.
Speaker 1: Is it helps with concentration and attention? What has gone
Speaker 1: by the wayside with our addiction to smartphones? Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Concentration and attention. And the people in the
Speaker 1: no say, that's really affecting your cognitive function and your memory.
Speaker 1: It's affecting your real brain stuff, the stuff that you
Speaker 1: use to interact with people to just day to day operate.
Speaker 1: That that's being compromised because of the lack of concentration
Speaker 1: and attention. So here are some of the things that
Speaker 1: they say you could do to help with all that.
Speaker 2: The bird watching. Here are the benefits.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty study published in Scientific Reports notes that seeing
Speaker 1: and hearing birds every day offers significant mental health benefits
Speaker 1: in people with depression and in people without.
Speaker 2: My alarm every morning is birds chirping. I like that.
Speaker 2: That's beautiful. It really is annoying alarm to get up
Speaker 2: and go to work. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes another if I'm going to take a
Speaker 1: nap or something, I'll set an alarm and it's that
Speaker 1: and I wake up and I'm like, God, that's awful,
Speaker 1: Like what an awful way to wake up?
Speaker 2: Or to start the day. But I can't figure out
Speaker 2: how to make.
Speaker 1: The birds on all my alarms because I'm a grandma.
Speaker 1: I would like that if these are just the birds
Speaker 1: for every freaking notification.
Speaker 2: Clay art, they say.
Speaker 1: Different studies have found that clay art therapy good for
Speaker 1: trading depression and were reducing anxiety in college students and adults.
Speaker 1: Crochet relatively low cost, you can take it anywhere, They
Speaker 1: say that promotes positive well being. In a study published
Speaker 1: in perspect Public Health, drawing even ten minutes of drawing
Speaker 1: per day can boost your mood, and the benefits compound
Speaker 1: if the artist does it for at least a month. Gardening,
Speaker 1: according to Princeton, gave people the same level of happiness
Speaker 1: and well being as biking or walking or dining out home.
Speaker 1: Gardening among the top fine five activities in terms of
Speaker 1: how meaningful in activity felt to people while engaging it.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: You want to you wanna hobby, you want to feel
Speaker 1: better about yourself, Look no further than grandma. She's very wise.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: When we come back, Mark Saltzman will join us for
Speaker 1: Tech Talk. Nintendo switch to a lot of Money, Is
Speaker 1: it worth it? And does it matter.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
Speaker 3: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: Of course, the tariffs effect on the markets, the new
Speaker 1: regime there in Washington, reversing a decade's long glo global
Speaker 1: trend of lower trade barriers. They are expecting this to
Speaker 1: raise prices for US consumers, threatened to slow the economy
Speaker 1: this year, barely digging out of inflation as it is.
Speaker 1: White House gambling that other countries are going to suffer
Speaker 1: enough pain that they will come to the table open
Speaker 1: up their economies to more American exports, or that more
Speaker 1: companies will bring more production to the United States.
Speaker 2: So we will see, we will all see together.
Speaker 1: At this time on Thursdays, we like to talk tech,
Speaker 1: and this week it is all about the Nintendo Switch too.
Speaker 1: We welcome in Mark Saltzman. I'm gonna play the little thing,
Speaker 1: you know, the little thing.
Speaker 2: That's all right. We don't need to do it, Mark, Okay,
Speaker 2: Nintendo Switch too. If you are a DVO, I can
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 5: I can do it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm doing the dance. So we've got a cover.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: Well, if you're a devote of Nintendo Switch, you're probably
Speaker 1: going to get a Nintendo Switched too, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know there's an article, you've played with it, you've
Speaker 1: checked it out.
Speaker 2: Is it worth it?
Speaker 1: But I was kind of opining before I had you
Speaker 1: on Mark that, like, if you love the Nintendo Switch,
Speaker 1: is it does.
Speaker 2: It matter if it's worth it? You want the new one,
Speaker 2: don't you?
Speaker 4: Yeah? You know they're Nintendo's they know how to create
Speaker 4: It's like their secret sauces is very thought after by
Speaker 4: many other game companies. They know how to make games
Speaker 4: that are super fun. You often can't put your finger
Speaker 4: on it. It's often family friendly content, not always, but
Speaker 4: they just they they've got that Jena Sekua. They just
Speaker 4: know how to make a game system that makes it
Speaker 4: so desirable. You probably grew up things Nintendo. I mean
Speaker 4: long before the Wei and all that.
Speaker 5: You probably played.
Speaker 1: My first foray into addiction was Super Mario Brothers for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, me too, me too.
Speaker 4: So yesterday in New York, Nintendo hosted an event for
Speaker 4: media to officially launch the Nintendo Switch to or at
Speaker 4: least announce the launch date of June fifth.
Speaker 5: And yeah, I mean, look, it's it's very similar.
Speaker 4: To what made the Nintendo Switch popular in twenty seventeen
Speaker 4: and to this day, which is primarily the fact that
Speaker 4: it's a versatile console.
Speaker 5: You can play it on the go.
Speaker 4: It has a screen, so to help, you know, reduce
Speaker 4: the are we there yet from the backseat if you will,
Speaker 4: on a road trip, But then you can dock it
Speaker 4: and play it on a big screen TV. For most
Speaker 4: of the Nintendo Switch models, not all of them, but
Speaker 4: most of them.
Speaker 5: So they haven't changed that.
Speaker 4: That formula remains the same, but they've made it better
Speaker 4: in virtually every other way. For one, the screen that
Speaker 4: you play on is instead of a six point two inch,
Speaker 4: it's nearly eight inches, and it's a better quality screen
Speaker 4: and with not just with better resolution, twice the pixels
Speaker 4: or dots that make up the image compared to the
Speaker 4: last model, which just means the games just look so
Speaker 4: much more vibrant. But they've also up the refresh rate,
Speaker 4: so it's a lot for those geeks listening, it's one
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty hertz refresh rates, which it's double the
Speaker 4: sixty frames per second that most game systems play at.
Speaker 4: And so this is just incredibly you know, fluid gameplay.
Speaker 4: So the new Mario Kart World, which is the launch title.
Speaker 4: It can support up to thirty two players, and you
Speaker 4: know it's going to be really silky smooth when you
Speaker 4: play that. They've also added a seed button Shannon in
Speaker 4: the bottom right corner of the Nintendo Switch and C
Speaker 4: stands for Chat. Before, believe it or not, they really
Speaker 4: didn't have an intuitive way to chat with other players
Speaker 4: while you are gaming. You can attach an external microphone,
Speaker 4: but it was clumsy. But now you just press that button.
Speaker 4: It's got a noise canceling microphone built into the Nintendo
Speaker 4: Switch too, so you can chat in real time with
Speaker 4: friends around the world over Wi Fi, and the option
Speaker 4: to add a camera if you want, for video calling
Speaker 4: and so not just for in gameplay as well. Like
Speaker 4: if I'm stuck in a level in the game that
Speaker 4: I know Shannon you finished, or Gary, I can call
Speaker 4: you through my Nintendo switch too, and you can say
Speaker 4: and I can share my.
Speaker 5: Screen and you can say, oh, I know exactly where
Speaker 5: you are. Mark, this is what you need to do.
Speaker 4: Go over here and look for the Princess Peach whatever
Speaker 4: you get done. Yet, there's also yeah, there's also a
Speaker 4: better kickstand. That was a pain point with the existing
Speaker 4: Nintendo Switch is kind of flimsy in the backs. When
Speaker 4: you prop it up on a table or desk, it
Speaker 4: might fall, you know. So they just added a bunch
Speaker 4: of new technologies to it to just enhance the experience.
Speaker 4: But at its core, it's very similar to the original
Speaker 4: Nintendo Switch, just better and virtually every every other, every way,
Speaker 4: all the features.
Speaker 1: Mario Kart World too, has the open world to race
Speaker 1: through this time. I mean we've seen it in Burnout
Speaker 1: Paradise or and for the Horizon, but it's the first
Speaker 1: for the Mario Kart series.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look at you.
Speaker 2: Hey, I did my homework.
Speaker 4: Okay, but yeah, they it is open and it's going
Speaker 4: to add to the replayability because you can there's so
Speaker 4: many different modes. One of them is called free rome
Speaker 4: at which means even if you want to.
Speaker 1: Oh no he's cutting out, not know to hell, free Roman.
Speaker 1: We don't know, try again, try it.
Speaker 4: I love that this is a segment called tech Talk
Speaker 4: and the technology right.
Speaker 2: Now, try again free rom What does that mean?
Speaker 4: Y't you don't play on a particular circuit, like you're
Speaker 4: not actually racing. You can free rome the environments in
Speaker 4: this game and even stop and get out of your car,
Speaker 4: your cart and take pictures with your friends within the game,
Speaker 4: and that's very really fun. Yeah, lots of different environments,
Speaker 4: desert and like you know, mountains, and it's that that
Speaker 4: was a real hit during the demo yesterday. Just the
Speaker 4: idea that you can just play however you like. And yeah,
Speaker 4: it's going to get and then for those who do
Speaker 4: like to race, there's more modes, more competitions, more trophies.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I think Nintendo fans are going to love it.
Speaker 4: It's going to be four fifty when it comes out
Speaker 4: on June fifth. There'll be some bundles as well where
Speaker 4: you can also get that Mario Kart World game with it,
Speaker 4: and then other bundles, So yeah, people are looking forward
Speaker 4: to it, I think overall, and it's going to be
Speaker 4: backward compatible for those who are wondering World Grade. I
Speaker 4: just spent you know, a couple thousand dollars on games
Speaker 4: over the years. It will play your previous games and
Speaker 4: in some cases you can pay a small feed.
Speaker 5: They didn't disclose how much.
Speaker 4: But it'll upgrade the older games with even more features
Speaker 4: and better graphics and all that to play on your
Speaker 4: Nintendo Switch to if you want.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then a final question, what is Knockout Mode.
Speaker 4: Knockout Mode is a highly competitive racing mode within the
Speaker 4: game where you go from country to country and it's like,
Speaker 4: it's like, what do you what do you call it?
Speaker 4: Like sudden like deathmatch where sudden deaths where if you
Speaker 4: if you're out, you lose and then there's no going back.
Speaker 4: You got to start from the beginning. And so it's
Speaker 4: going to be of those who are hardcore gamers that
Speaker 4: if you lose a race, that's it. So it's you're
Speaker 4: knocked out of that of that course and you have
Speaker 4: to find another way to get back in.
Speaker 5: But it's like the heartless way.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of the hardcore gamers are really
Speaker 4: excited about that mode.
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 4: I did play a bit of that in New York
Speaker 4: yesterday at this Nintendo event.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's fierce.
Speaker 1: I think the thing that's cool and I don't know
Speaker 1: because I'm not a Nintendo switched person, but the fact
Speaker 1: that every single lap on every single course is unique
Speaker 1: on this game, I think that's fascinating.
Speaker 2: Yeahs that takes.
Speaker 5: A little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they do such a good job. Sorry to cut
Speaker 4: you off. They do such a good job with the
Speaker 4: course design. And then they add things like whether that
Speaker 4: will impact you know, your you know your performance. You
Speaker 4: have to keep that all in mind. When you're drifting,
Speaker 4: for example, and it's raining, you have to compensate. And
Speaker 4: so yeah, I mean again, Nintendo knows how.
Speaker 5: To make great games.
Speaker 4: There's a new Donkey Kong called Donkey Kong Bonanza that
Speaker 4: we played yesterday with a fully destructible environment. Instead of
Speaker 4: like running up a hill and around it or go
Speaker 4: around it, you can actually punch your way through the
Speaker 4: mountain like. It's all interactive, And yeah, that was fun.
Speaker 4: There's gonna be some Legend of Zelda updates. So part
Speaker 4: of Nintendo success is their exclusive iconic mascot based games
Speaker 4: like Princess Peach like link from Legendzelda. That will all continue.
Speaker 4: So yeah, Circle the fifth of June four forty nine.
Speaker 4: It's more than what the Nintendo Switch was when it
Speaker 4: came out, but hey, that's inflation. I don't know if
Speaker 4: triffs are also playing a role there, but it's a
Speaker 4: lot of fun from what I what I could tell
Speaker 4: with my day of playing yesterday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, tough gig, I know, all.
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Speaker 1: That's the good thing about being bad at video games
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Speaker 1: coming up next. I've talked about the underwear at the
Speaker 1: Space Station and it turns out people are darker than me.
Speaker 1: They want to know about the NASA sex that goes
Speaker 1: on in the space station. This had never occurred to me.
Speaker 1: I had never thought that these people were having sex
Speaker 1: up there. Well, there is a woman who used to
Speaker 1: work for NASA who is laying out all of the details,
Speaker 1: everything from the people in the know.
Speaker 2: We'll tell you about it when we come back.
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Speaker 1: There is a woman who used to work at NASA
Speaker 1: and she writes for Slate. Her name's Laura fey Tenenbaum,
Speaker 1: great name. And she says she was having lunch with
Speaker 1: a friend, a NASA colleague who happens to be a
Speaker 1: program scientist for the International Space Station, and they were
Speaker 1: having lunch and her friend says to her, we hear
Speaker 1: almost everything. She was explaining how part of her job
Speaker 1: is to monitor astronauts' health, their psychological state, overall comfort.
Speaker 1: She says, we're playing a tension all the time for safety.
Speaker 1: She says, we hear all sorts of stuff, stupid stuff, burps, farts, hiccups, diarrhea.
Speaker 1: She says, I mean human stuff, right, And the author
Speaker 1: of the story says, as long as I've worked in
Speaker 1: science communication at NASA, people have always asked the same
Speaker 1: two questions about human spaceflight. First, they want to know
Speaker 1: about the bathroom stuff, but after that they want to
Speaker 1: know about the sex, to which I was like, what,
Speaker 1: I've never This has never occurred to me, She writes.
Speaker 1: People have been interested in space sex since nineteen ninety two,
Speaker 1: when the first and only married astronaut couple joined the
Speaker 1: fiftieth Space Shuttle mission and cohabited in space together. After that,
Speaker 1: concerns about the physics of erections and hormone levels in
Speaker 1: microgravity began to percolate, leading to more curiosity. It has
Speaker 1: been re energized for Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who
Speaker 1: recently returned to Earth because they were stuck there for
Speaker 1: ten months together. They are not in a relationship, there's
Speaker 1: no evidence they were intimate, but apparently there's still been speculation,
Speaker 1: so much so now.
Speaker 2: When this author.
Speaker 1: Responded to a question about space travel on TikTok the
Speaker 1: other day about sex.
Speaker 2: It went viral.
Speaker 1: More than nine thousand people commented, desperate to know about
Speaker 1: sex in space. She says she too has been fascinated,
Speaker 1: she says. As a science writer who specializes in this,
Speaker 1: I want to know, She says, I've learned about bone
Speaker 1: density loss, muscle wasting, found out that an astronaut's fingernails
Speaker 1: can fall off, their retinas thickened.
Speaker 2: But what about the extracurriculars.
Speaker 1: Astronauts spends somewhere between five and sixteen days in orbit
Speaker 1: during the Space Shuttle program a tiple length A typical
Speaker 1: length of stay on the space station about six months.
Speaker 2: Some stay as long as three hundred days or more.
Speaker 1: That's a long time to go without, she writes, especially
Speaker 1: considering over sixty percent of adults have how to workplace romance.
Speaker 1: She says, there's got to be some sort of chemistry
Speaker 1: up there, And so she asks her friend, the one
Speaker 1: who hears everything, So, what about the sex rumors?
Speaker 2: The astronauts have to be hooking up.
Speaker 1: You've heard them having sex, right, there's audio, You've heard
Speaker 1: the other stuff, she says. Her friend paused for a bite,
Speaker 1: then looked at her sandwich to avoid eye contact with her.
Speaker 1: The writer says, come on and tell me, and her
Speaker 1: friend says, I don't have the authority to disclose that information.
Speaker 2: And she's smiling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's smiling as she says this, and then she
Speaker 1: turns away and starts giggling like a maniac. The writer
Speaker 1: says she said it without saying it. Yes, sex happens,
Speaker 1: and yes NASA can hear them and know they'll never
Speaker 1: admit it. She goes on to write this and it
Speaker 1: sounds like Carrie Bradshaw out of A Sex and a
Speaker 1: Sex and the City up pisod. She writes, why was
Speaker 1: sex and space one of those nudge nudge, wink wink
Speaker 1: NASA legends that everybody knew about, but no one would.
Speaker 2: Disclose or admit.
Speaker 1: I'd always thought that a more open NASA would be
Speaker 1: good for the agency and good for science. She says
Speaker 1: she saw the cover ups firsthand when in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: when she was at South at By Southwest, she presented
Speaker 1: and NASA Center a list of talking points that included
Speaker 1: instructions to pivot away from the subject of the question,
Speaker 1: to give the reporter a related NASA positive that that
Speaker 1: is what they're supposed to do. They say, by the
Speaker 1: bye that NASA, the Americans, I guess I should say,
Speaker 1: are particularly prude. That it's maybe some of the other
Speaker 1: countries that might be getting down that the Russians have
Speaker 1: vodka up there. The Italians have a specifically designed espresso machine,
Speaker 1: but our astronauts just get the orange flavored powdered drink mix.
Speaker 1: They said, that tells you everything you need to know
Speaker 1: about the difference between the space programs. I'd have to
Speaker 1: be in the vodka or espresso camp, she says. Aside
Speaker 1: from a few male astronauts who have opened up about
Speaker 1: things like space erections, the whole culture at NASA is prude.
Speaker 1: In fact, one space agency one report by NASA suggested
Speaker 1: the missions to Mars should be all female to avoid
Speaker 1: austronauts having sex. And then somebody raise their hands, as
Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty five, females are having sex with each
Speaker 1: other all the time. But anyway, they say, as far
Speaker 1: as logistics go, missionary position would not exist in the
Speaker 1: microgravity environment.
Speaker 2: This is crazy. Two people pushing against each other could
Speaker 2: float away.
Speaker 1: That means that sexy time and space would most likely
Speaker 1: need to occur inside an astronaut's quarters, which are phone
Speaker 1: booth size private cabins with sleeping bags strapped to the wall.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's fun. Somebody needs to videotape this and show
Speaker 2: it to you. Shannon me, Yeah, you're so into this story.
Speaker 3: My job.
Speaker 2: You're the one who's piped in. You were sad you
Speaker 2: only had three minutes it a little bit.
Speaker 1: I want to hear more about the sleeping bags strapped
Speaker 1: to the wall. She goes on to say, astronauts could
Speaker 1: squeeze into one of the small sleeping bags or strap
Speaker 1: themselves together.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of work. Well, I think the mood
Speaker 2: would be gone.
Speaker 1: Or push against each other, she writes, by bracing their
Speaker 1: arms and legs against the sides of their cabin.
Speaker 2: Huh. Let's see.
Speaker 1: There is a film that explores this. It's called the
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding here. I'm not trying to be you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna say it. I'm not even to say.
Speaker 1: It's called the Uranus Experiment. We'll talk trending when we
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