WarGames
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Oct 27, 2026
Kyle QuimmHOST
also fucking a chat bot, Bobby.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.HOST
Well, I actually am using one of the oldest computers the Defense Department has, which, of course, is the same computer that was featured in the movie War Games, the Matthew Broderick vehicle.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.HOST
IBM.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.HOST
Yes, it's an IBM punch card machine, so it can only speak...
D.J. CarusoGUEST
And, you know, he'd been doing it for a while.
D.J. CarusoGUEST
And I think Saturday Night Fever and War Games are two of my favorite movies.
D.J. CarusoGUEST
So here I was like working for the man, the gentleman who directed those.
D.J. CarusoGUEST
So I was really, really fortunate to get under his wing.
Javier Grillo-MarxuachHOST
But I've got to tell you, the thing I do love about Starfighter Command, and I do find it to be...
Javier Grillo-MarxuachHOST
Look, to me, Starfighter Command is the reason why the set from War Games is so great.
Javier Grillo-MarxuachHOST
The War Room in War Games is about as involved as this set, right? And it also has as much negative space, but for some reason...
Javier Grillo-MarxuachHOST
The design in War Games is so much better, the way that they just laid out the plays, that I don't get the sense of emptiness that I get from this set.
Javier Grillo-MarxuachHOST
But I will say one thing I love about this set, because I'm all about the positivity now, Paul.
Javier Grillo-MarxuachHOST
I'm all about the positivity.
Paul Alvarado-DykstraHOST
Yes.
Paul Alvarado-DykstraHOST
Yes.
Taylor ShiringGUEST
And we somehow are going to have to figure something out.
ColePANELIST
It's like they're playing a video game, but it's almost like the movie – The Thermonuclear War, is that what it's called? What was that movie? War Games.
ColePANELIST
Yeah, War Games.
ToadHOST
And
ColePANELIST
it's literally like them playing that, but
Mark LittleGUEST
They did, but I say that to my kids.
Mark LittleGUEST
I told them about a year or two ago, I said, listen, 1983, there was a movie out called War Games.
Mario RosenstockHOST
Do
Mark LittleGUEST
you remember it? I remember it.
Mark LittleGUEST
But at that same time, I was working in my first job serving ice creams in Port Marnock in Malahide.
Mark LittleGUEST
And there was a shooting down of a Korean airliner.
Mark LittleGUEST
And I was convinced, having seen war games, that I was literally days away from being incinerated as I served this choc-ices.
Mark LittleGUEST
Right.
Jim ScampoliHOST
fucking weirdo like yeah i guess use the grease angle wherever but keep that shit to yourself it's so funny that he thought like oh no this is a fun this is a and what's even funnier is if he made this up by the way because a lot of a lot of these fucking things are made up clearly but it's even funnier if he just made it up and thought that people would think it was fun and cool yeah and everyone's like hey what's going on you fucking weirdo what are you why are you doing that this is wild And what else is he in? Eddie Deason.
Jim ScampoliHOST
He's also in War Games.
Jim ScampoliHOST
Of course, he played Eugene in Grease.
Jim ScampoliHOST
Yeah.
WallyHOST
I could see that being a real-world scenario for sure.
WallyHOST
That was the whole thing behind War Games with Matthew Broderick, that movie back in the day, is that the computer... circumvented all of the other things and was starting a nuclear war, a World War III kind of thing.
WallyHOST
And they couldn't stop it because it was the computer doing it.
Betty RockHOST
And could AI be watching these movies and learning from them? It
ChrisHOST
movies.
RichHOST
Yeah, video game movies like Free Guy or Wreck-It Ralph or War Games or The Last Starfighter.
ChrisHOST
Is The Last Starfighter about a video game?
RichHOST
They get him because he's the high score of a video game.
David T. ColeHOST
Now, between all the segments I've already talked about, they have parts of the Look Around You Challenge every week.
David T. ColeHOST
And this one is a guy who loves computers so much he changed his name, Computer Jones, has brought in his Bournemouth computer, a computer that is basically supposed to be like a Whopper from War Games or a Colossus from the Forbin Project, that sort of thing.
David T. ColeHOST
In part one, we discovered that he, the computer, was used to help the British government create the negative currency featuring the negative 60 pence coin and assisted police in the recent margarine riots.
David T. ColeHOST
The challenge is if Bournemouth can escape the cage he's been put on on stage of Look Around You.
Steve PauloHOST
Like, if you watch...
Steve PauloHOST
War Games with Matthew Broderick and the way the Whopper computer looks, the screen, it looks very much like those old monochrome monitors looked back then.
Steve PauloHOST
This one looks different.
Steve PauloHOST
It does look a little Star Trek-ier.
Nick BriannaHOST
Yeah, and I
Steve PauloHOST
feel like the point there was that this was meant to be almost alien technology, like so advanced that even the modern audiences at the time wouldn't think that it looked like anything that they'd seen.
Steve PauloHOST
You know, I feel like versus war games, which was trying desperately to make it look like, oh no, this is really what like is at your library.
Steve PauloHOST
Same computers are running the fucking nuclear weapons, you know, kind of thing.
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