Everything the anchors say on this tape, story by story.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking: Arnold wanted to dub the Terminator in German. The producers said no.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking news, and I mean breaking. Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to voice the Terminator in German. The producers told him no. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: He's Austrian, Grant, so German is his mother tongue. The accent was the problem. Let's go to Gary in the block world. ▶
GARY: Grant, it's nearly nightfall, so I'll be quick. Arnold offered to speak the German version himself. The producers flatly refused. ▶
GARY: That accent made him a star in English. In German it was a huge obstacle. Hence a German voice actor, so nobody in the cinema would laugh. ▶
GARY: File footage: a young man arrives in the US in October 1968, aged 21, to push his bodybuilding career. Hollywood soon noticed those muscles. ▶
GARY: The first Terminator had just 17 lines of dialogue. That wooden, artificial delivery made the robot feel mechanical and alien. Four diamonds out of five. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: So he was rejected for sounding like himself. Happens to me at the canteen. Greta, is a voice actor one of those AI programs? ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: A voice actor, Grant. A person. Same accent, rejected in German, famous in English. Sometimes the job just finds the voice. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Now the full story: seabirds get jet lag, and it throws off their compass.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Now the full story. Birds with jet lag. Greta, do they get a little pillow on those long flights? ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: They fly themselves, Grant. Manx shearwaters, seabirds. A new Science study says long ocean trips mess with their body clocks. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Body clocks. Vera, is the jet lag in the bird or somewhere in the cloud? ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: In the bird, Grant. The Ars Technica report names Patrick Lewin of the University of Oxford as lead author. Shearwaters jet-lag themselves on their trips. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: And why does that matter for a bird? Where does the compass come in? ▶
NOVA: Grant, even in my helmet I'd lose my bearings. A pigeon-sized bird steering by a star that moves all day. Cosmic. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: I read that half of them live in Wales. So half of Wales is birds. Remarkable. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Half of the shearwaters live in Wales, Grant. Not half of Wales. Most breed around the UK and Ireland. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: What is still open: the article doesn't say how big the compass error is, or how long the jet lag lasts. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: It also leaves open whether the lag changes the trip home. A fair open question, not a finding. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Then I'll stay in one time zone. Thank you, Vera. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Jet lag for birds, Grant. Be kind. ▶
Pixels in Brief (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: Four quick headlines, one short round.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Quick round. Samsung pokes fun at the iPhone Duo's display flaw in a new ad. Foldables now come with trash talk. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Final Fantasy 14 Evercold slips four weeks into a busy February. Even raids need a calendar slot. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Sam Altman met about 50 Samsung presidents, two days after his DRAM remark. Hopefully nobody forgot. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS may contain 10-billion-year-old material. The oldest thing here, besides Grant. ▶
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