Commander Malave joins the crew of the USS Roosevelt on a routine investigation into a subspace anomaly that quickly turns dangerous. It's our first session of actual play of Star Trek Adventures, the tabletop roleplaying game set in the Star Trek Universe!

W recap the most bizarre and weird tech unveiled at this year's Consumer Electronics Show 2025. We take a look at the CES 2025 highlights by going over everything from lifestyle gadgets to gaming technology. We explore the practicality and absurdity of various products, including Shark's skincare mask, a solar hat, and fluffy robot called Mirumi that does absolutely nothing.

The conversation also touches on smart home robots like Samsung's Ballie, robotic vacuums with arms, autonomous John Deere lawn mowers, security systems that shoot paintballs, Acer's Nitro Blaze 11 with gigantic screen, and robots that will blow on your hot drinks for you. Is this the best of CES 2025? Not quite.

Chapters

• 00:00:00 Introduction
• 00:03:32 Lifestyle Tech
• 00:18:07 Gaming Tech
• 00:31:30 Smart Home Tech

In this conversation, we try to predict the Rotten Tomatoes critic scores for the top 50 biggest movies that are coming in 2025, including Marvel films like Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts*, horror movies like The Monkey and The Conjuring: Last Rites, video games adaptations like Until Dawn and A Minecraft Movie, live action remakes like Snow White and How to Train Your Dragon, action films like The Accountant 2 and Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, animated films like Elio and Zootopia 2, and standalone films like F1 and Sinners.

At the end of the year, we'll look back to see how our predictions hold up!

Chapters

• 00:00:00 Introduction
• 00:04:00 January 2025 movies
• 00:10:45 February 2025 movies
• 00:16:15 March 2025 movies
• 00:20:53 April 2025 movies
• 00:33:04 May 2025 movies
• 00:44:12 June 2025 movies
• 00:53:22 July 2025 movies
• 01:03:30 August 2025 movies
• 01:09:51 September 2025 movies
• 01:13:59 October 2025 movies
• 01:20:08 November 2025 movies
• 01:26:48 December 2025 movies
• 01:29:28 Our final Tiermaker prediction chart

There were a ton of movies in 2024, but it felt like a lot of them were less than great. In this episode, we take a look back at the best movies of 2024 by unveiling our Top 5 movies of the year.

00:00 Introduction
01:20 Honorable Mentions
03:25 5th Place - Argylle + Gladiator 2
06:18 4th Place - Twisters
09:15 3rd Place - Dune Part 2
11:35 2nd Place - Alien Romulus
15:40 1st Place - Deadpool & Wolverine
19:30 Wrap Up

2024 was packed full of great television, but there were a handful of tv shows that stood out above the rest. In this episode, we unveil our top 5 best TV shows of 2024. Do The Penguin and Fallout make the list? Or do some underdogs like Shogun and Agatha All Along crack into the Top 5? Tune in to find out!

In what was arguably a light year for video game releases, we still managed to find some gems worth playing. We unveil and discuss our top 5 best video games of 2024, as voted on by the entire Eat Sleep Nerd team!