Oh Brother

Oh Brother
Number	75
Broadcast Date	September 21, 2012
Episode Length	1:15:58
Hosts	Andrew Mayne, Brian Brushwood, Justin Robert Young

Imagine you are an amazing actor, revered by your peers, honored for your dedication to your craft. Then… your idiot brother changes everything. Andrew tells us of the biggest case of sibling sabotage in American history. Brian maintains that the less we become human, the more we are preserving the human race. A heated argument breaks out over a scenario involving SkyNet, monkey foot soldiers and a chip that brings a massive intelligence upgrade. It’s a terrifying new episode of Weird Things!

Contents

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Who Am I?

Andrew introduces a new segment in which Brian and Justin have to guess who Andrew is pretending to be.

He was really famous in the 19th century- he even has a statue of himself in New York City. One time he saved the President's son after he had fallen off a train. He was known as one of the greatest actors to ever play Hamlet. Also his brother did something REALLY, REALLY stupid.

The man is Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth. They were both super famous actors, however one saved the life of Lincoln's son, and the other murdered Lincoln. Of course we all know about John Wilkes Booth and what happened to him, but we don't usually think about how the assassination absolutely ruined his brother's life.

The Warp Drive is Coming

NASA put on the 100 Year Starship symposium in which various scientific folks get together to formulate ideas about the future of space travel. Just a few years when people talked about building a warp drive, they said that it would require more energy than there is available in the universe. Then they said maybe it would only require a Jupiter-sized amount of matter, but now it scientists believe that it could be done with just 500 kg of "exotic matter". Also faster than light travel would be possible without the grandfather paradox being a problem because [scientific words and wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff].

Monkey Skynet

Some researchers are studying the effects of brain implants on monkeys to attempt to improve their memory. However in doing this, they need to impair the monkey's brains first- how do you think they would impair the monkeys? A briefcase full of bananas? How about a briefcase full of cocaine?! But besides that, they are putting chips into monkeys' brains.

Andrew proposes that they hook up all of the chips to a supercomputer that can control all of the monkeys across the world. This would be the ultimate crossover of Skynet and Planet of the Apes. Andrew thinks that they would absolutely take over the world, but Brian does not think that it was a valid question. Somehow this turns into a yelling match between Brian and Andrew.

Aftershow

Brian, Justin and Andrew had a lengthy discussion about casting a new Star Wars trilogy based on the extended universe Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn. Many names were thrown around, but the most exciting was Chris Nolan directing with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Luke, Marion Cotillard as Leia, Tom Hardy as Han Solo, Gary Oldman as Grand Admiral Thrawn, Admiral Ackbar and a few other roles, Michael Caine as Talon Card and Clint Eastwood as master C'baoth.

Picks

Brian

• Redshirts

Bonnie

• Pettson's Inventions

Justin

• Thomas Jefferson: Author of America

Andrew

• Terranova

Great Quotes

• In the aftershow... (talking about re-casting Star Wars)

Andrew: I got a Han Solo...

Brian: Is that what you call an erection?

Justin: And I'll tell you what, he ALWAYS shoots first!

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Preceded by: "You Got Questions, We Got Weird"

Oh Brother

Followed by: "The 10-Hour Girlfriend"