Tue. 05/31 - Unionized Ghosts, Cat Burglars, & Quantum Bubbles
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Are you a smart booker or a silly booker? |
| 0:07.4 | Smart bookers get access to a three airport lounge by booking a five-star holiday with On the Beach. |
| 0:13.8 | Silly bookers? |
| 0:14.8 | Well, enjoy those cues at the bar. |
| 0:17.1 | Stop booking around and visit on the beach.com. |
| 0:22.2 | Conditions apply. |
| 0:26.4 | Seven night minimum stay outbound only from selected airports for up to six people at all protected. |
| 0:29.7 | On the beach. |
| 0:39.9 | It's Tuesday, May 31st, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, a supremely weird trivia cartoon on Netflix. |
| 0:46.3 | Plus, physicists made bubbles of gas atoms colder than space. |
| 0:51.9 | And why BuzzFeed News's union contract includes legal protection against ghosts. |
| 0:59.0 | Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. |
| 1:04.4 | Listen, if I see an article titled The Weirdest Thing on Netflix, I am obviously going to click it. Which is how this morning I |
| 1:12.8 | discovered, thanks to Toribosh at Slate, the absolutely bizarre, interactive cartoon, Cat Burglar. |
| 1:20.6 | Cat Burglar dropped on Netflix back in February, so perhaps you've discovered it already, |
| 1:25.2 | but this was the first I had heard of it. |
| 1:29.6 | And on the surface, it's not so strange. |
| 1:33.4 | It's an animated short about a cat burglar named Rowdy, |
| 1:37.5 | trying to steal some priceless artwork from the High Folutin Museum, |
| 1:40.9 | which is guarded by pint-sized guard dog, Peanuts. |
| 1:46.1 | The Tom and Jerry-style antics are ramped up by the the viewer, who in one of the latest incarnations of Netflix's interactive content determines which way the story will go |
| 1:51.4 | by answering trivia questions. Now, the antics that Rowdy and Peanut get up to perhaps aren't |
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