Jonny and Simon's Reel Tech Talk
Jonny and Simon's Reel Tech Talk
Jonny and Simon
Just two friends talking about the technology in films. Jonny is an engineer by day, musician by night and a real life caricature the rest of the time. Simon somehow has a PhD in electronics, is a full time web developer and shares embarrassing reels on his instagram (not those kind of reels though) They've known each other for over a decade, seeing each other at the highest of highs and the lowest of lows and they both love talking about technology. Simon suggested doing a podcast, rejected all but one of Jonny's ideas and so this is where our story begins....
Fast and Furious 7 (Part 2): Our friendship survived!
As wrap up Fast and Furious 7 Jonny learns more about guns and bullets that he ever wanted to know and Simon takes us on a whistle stop tour handbrake turns and multiple ways that basically boil down to "getting more oxygen in to an engine".
Jun 24, 2022
1 hr 5 min
Fast and Furious 7 (Part 1): Can our friendship survive?
This week we start in on Fast and Furious 7 where we learn a lot about each other, it turns out that Jonny doesn't like fun things and Simon may well have terrible taste in films. Can this intrepid duo's friendship survive?
Jun 7, 2022
51 min
The Adam Project: fighter jets and EMPs
Jonny thoroughly enjoyed watching this week's film the Adam Project (a Netflix 2022 film) and was so confident on the cast list he made a whole song around it without even checking.
May 25, 2022
57 min
Would you go to mars?
Jonny sings a song about Matt Damon, Simon guesses Sean Bean's film survival ratio and we manage to talk about The Martian for nearly hour and avoid embarrassing ourselves with chemistry talk.
May 9, 2022
58 min
Chipping Sodbury to Shan Guo anyone?
In this episode Jonny works out how much it would cost to drive a city to my house (he also can't do maths it seems), a suspicious man approaches him for a new opportunity and Simon tries to explain isotopes.
Apr 25, 2022
57 min
Just how heavy is the Empire State building?
Jonny explores the world of over pronunciation and AI generated fan fiction, Simon nerds out over wearable tech and finds himself calculating the weight of the Empire State building on the fly, going as far as to do some Public Maths. This weeks film was The Circle.
Apr 12, 2022
1 hr 11 min
Are you travelling at 1 second per second?
Jonny makes Simon extremely uncomfortable with this weeks show introduction, in retribution Simon goes through the show backwards leaving time travel to the end even though it should have gone first.
Mar 29, 2022
59 min
Was a train really the best idea here?
Snowpiercer has us looking at climate change, biospheres and perpetual motion machines. Also Jonny gets a bit obsessed with a fish and if you have to fart before you poo?
Mar 15, 2022
1 hr 2 min
Is it "Ex Machina" or "Ex Machina"?
Ex Machina gets us diving into the worlds of AI and sentience, humanoids and robots and if the world will end in a technological singularity. Both of us watched the film this week, but did we enjoy it?
Mar 1, 2022
54 min
Should We Look Up?
This week we test our nerve in a game of celestial chicken and determine if we should look up, or keep our heads down? We are of course talking about the film "Don't Look Up" from Netflix.
Feb 15, 2022
59 min
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