WEBVTT - Listener Mail: Planet Earth 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.080 Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:13.280 Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. Listener mail. 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.439 This is Robert Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. And 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:18.520 it is Monday, the day of each week that we 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.200 read back messages from the Stuff to Blow Your Mind 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:25.560 email address, which is contact at stuff to Blow your 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.600 Mind dot com. If you have never gotten in touch before, 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.400 why not give it a shot. We always welcome feedback 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.640 to recent episodes. If you have something interesting you'd like 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.120 to add to a topic we've talked about, send it 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.279 on in. Of course, if you have corrections, those are 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:42.040 welcome to. If you would like to suggest a topic 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.240 for the future, or if you just want to say hi, 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:46.400 tell us who you are, tell us you know what 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.800 you like about the show, how you listen, anything like that, 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.680 send it on in contact at stuff to Blow your 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:58.600 Mind dot com. Let's see, rob we got so this 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.760 week is going to be very weird, how cinema heavy. 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.960 We got a lot of weird house messages to get through, 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.120 a lot of great feedback on things such as Gorgo 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:11.199 and other recent features on the show. But to kick 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.200 things off, we got a couple of messages in response 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:17.000 to our series on hermit crabs. I think I'm going 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.920 to do this one from long time correspondent Jim in 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:20.640 New Jersey. 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:22.000 All right, let's have it. 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.920 So this is in response to our discussion of a 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:30.600 phenomenon known as vacancy chains, which are observed in hermit 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.600 crabs as they compete for shells, but also in markets 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:39.640 for some human resources like housing and certain types of jobs. Basically, 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.280 the way it works is if you put a nice 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.399 empty snail shell in the middle of a bunch of 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.720 hermit crabs, one of them will come along and decide 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.280 they want it. They want to take it, so they 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.120 will discard their old shell and upgrade to the new 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:57.080 empty shell. But the process doesn't stop there because in 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:00.720 most cases, another hermit crab will come along and decide 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.800 to swap their current shell for the shell abandoned by 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.960 the first animal, so they leave their shell behind. Then 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.160 another one will come along and decide to swap for 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.920 that shell, and so on and so on and so. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.080 The interesting thing about vacancy chains is that you only 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:21.200 put one new resource into the environment, but multiple individuals 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.400 in this market get a benefit. Only one new shell 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:26.880 goes in but maybe three or four or even more 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.960 crabs end up with a better shell than they started with. 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.520 So Jim in New Jersey says Robert, Joe, and JJ, 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.280 your discussion of human uses for vacancy chains as seen 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:48.640 by hermit crabs reminded me of kidney transplants. Yeah, I 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.880 hadn't even thought of this. This is really interesting, so 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:54.360 Jim says. The best donor for a kidney transplant is 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.240 often a blood relative, but sometimes there are no viable 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.679 matching donors in the family. A kidney transplant vacancy chain 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.720 occurs when a group of recipients and their donors are chained. 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.480 The donor may not be a good match for their 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.120 family member, but they may be a good match for 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:16.680 another recipient. The chain starts with someone receiving a kidney donation. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.320 Their own willing family member donates a kidney to the 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.280 next person in the chain, which triggers a new donor, 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:27.400 et cetera, until the last willing donor has no current matches, 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:32.840 so the original kidney donation may trigger many donations. The 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:37.120 world record for the longest chain is thirty five recipients. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.240 Oh wow, yeah, and I did click through. Jim includes 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.680 a link to a page that describes this. It's on 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:47.280 the Guinness World Records page and it cast So I 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:51.000 guess when a chain like this forms, they might sometimes 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:52.960 get a name. I'm not sure how that works, but 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.880 this chain was called chain three point fifty seven, suggests 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:01.400 a magnum. I don't know if that's a coincidence or what. Anyway, 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.280 Jim goes on to say Lloyd Shapley and Alvin Roth 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:08.520 received the twenty twelve Nobel Prize in Economics, which specifically 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:13.240 included kidney chains as one of the practical applications of 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:18.279 their work. So I think they were studying how resources 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.320 get allotted in sort of a market where people are 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.599 trying to find the best match for what they want, 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:27.600 and vacancy chains would have some overlap in similarities to 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:29.400 that kind of situation. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:31.440 That's fascinating. 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.320 So I guess we can put this on the list 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.359 of human resources that do at least in part function 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.080 these like these hermit crab shells. So you've got housing, 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.040 you've got certain types of jobs, and to some extent 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:47.200 also you have kidneys. Now, this next message about hermit 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:51.560 crabs concerns a type of snail that came up multiple 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.000 times in our series on hermit crabs, the Narrates snails, 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.920 or the Narrite snails. We talked about them the most 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.599 in the context of an essay about her crabs by 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:04.320 Stephen J. Gould, in which he talked about the hermits 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.960 of Bermuda, which he often observed trying to fit into 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.880 snail shells that were way, way too small for them. 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.159 And these were the snails producing the shells in question. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.039 This would be the whole deal with the wearing of 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.839 fossil shells that was so fascinating. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.520 Right, So most of the hermit crabs were trying to 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.680 fit into shells that were too small, but the ones 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.680 that did have a bigger shell, that shell was usually 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:27.320 a fossil. 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:35.880 Yeah, so this one comes to us from Graham. Graham says, Hi, Rob, 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.560 Joe and jj. I hope everyone is well. A big 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:42.159 hello from Dorset in the UK. I've just listened to 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.400 part three of your series on the hermit crabs and 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.719 your discussion on naar eed snails piqued my interest. I 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.440 have a pet near eight snail called Jeff. He is 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:55.360 a Naerwi natalensis, otherwise known as a zebra nairide. You'll 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.360 see why if you look at the attached picture of him, 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.880 and yeah, look at that picture, I can definitely see 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.799 the why zebra would be the animal you'd want to invoke. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.200 Right. So, the spiral shell has these stripes running along it. 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.920 They're sort of at least in this picture. I don't 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.000 know how much that's colored by the lighting, but they're 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.840 sort of alternating black and pale orange. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.920 He continues, he lives in my freshwater aquarium with my fish. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.800 He roams around for four or five days constantly, and 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.159 then sleeps for a day or so. In a day, 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.040 he can do several laps of the tank, clearing up 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.880 algae and other detritus as he goes. I include a 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.280 link to a short video I took of Jeff as 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.479 he moved over the glass of my tank, so you 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.120 can see the underside of his foot when he moves. 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.159 Watch out for his goofy teeth clearing algae from the 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:48.200 glass as he goes. I hope you found this interesting, Graham. 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.120 Now, Rob, I want to put your mind at ease 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.719 in case you're thinking about clicking on the video but 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.680 you are worried that this might be another bleeding tooth situation. 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:02.239 It is not that that when Jeff is talking, not Jeff, 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.880 Jeff is the snail's name. Sorry, when Graham is talking 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:11.000 about Jeff's teeth, I think, sorry, Graham is talking about 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.040 the snail's actual mouth, which you can see because the 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.480 snails crawling along the opposite side of the glass of 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.800 the tank and it's flexing its little mouth as it 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.840 looks for algae to scrape up. This is not the 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.400 disgusting looking, bleeding teeth that are actually just part of 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:31.120 the shell of a specific naryight snail. We talked about 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.600 that in the episode two, one of the most horrifying 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.840 visions of a molluscu I've ever seen. 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.360 Yeah, this is more on the adorable end of the 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.400 snail observation spectrum here. 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.640 I agree. This is really cute, So thank you for sharing, Graham. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:45.840 All right, well, let's get into some of these weird 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.480 house cinema messages. I understand we've got a lot of 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:49.760 gorgo content. 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.000 Yes we do, so let's see. I don't know what's 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.080 the best order to do these, And I think I 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:56.560 got to start with this one because I got to 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:01.400 partially apologize to a listener here and explain my logic 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:10.560 in regards to bow ties, So Chris writes in and says, 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.240 Joe and Robert on the recent Weird House episode about 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.080 the British Kaiju film Gorgo, one of you made a 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:20.560 remark about the character Dorkin. Dorkin is the circus operator 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:25.320 in Gorgo, who, essentially London is attacked by Gorgo's mother 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.680 almost exclusively to prevent Dorkin from losing out on profits 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:34.760 that he would otherwise acquire. So Chris says that we 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.400 described Dorkin as a quote, pencil mustache to bow tie 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:42.560 wearing money freak. I did say that, Chris says, as 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:46.360 a longtime wearer of bow ties, self tied, not clip on. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.880 I found that a potentially offensive characterization. I am guessing 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:54.120 other listeners might feel similarly, especially since the bow tie's 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:58.760 recent revival as stylish, tasteful, and practical apparel. Perhaps due 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.839 to my over fifty years of effort. You can make 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:06.680 amends by doing an episode on creation of the Humanoids. Chris, Well, 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.120 thank you for the message. Chris. I do apologize. I 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.760 did not mean to attack anything about your fashion choices. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.520 I do have to partially defend my logic here, so 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.200 I would never insult the bow tie. In principle, I 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.040 totally agree it can look great. It's part of a 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.960 fantastic signature look for lots of people, both modern and historical. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.400 For some reason, I was trying to think of like 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.880 people who I love the bow tie look of, and 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.240 the people who came to mind are Groucho Marx and 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:39.120 Abraham Lincoln. You gotta admit they both did rock a 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:43.520 bow tie. But I think you'll also have to admit, Chris, 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.880 that while there is absolutely nothing wrong with the bow 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.000 tie on its own, in certain cases it is part 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.880 of a different kind of signature look, and in those 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:57.120 cases that signature look has negative connotations. And I think 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.560 there are a lot of fashion accessories like this one. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:04.359 Another one that came to my mind is like Aviator sunglasses. 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.679 So they look cool, there's absolutely nothing wrong with them 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.520 in principle as part of many people and characters looks. 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:15.160 They look really great, but there is also a signature, 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:19.760 kind of cocky jerk look that would feature Aviator sunglasses. 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.320 I think the bow tie is the same you know, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.720 on some people it looks great, but it's also a 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.160 core part of Dorkin. The character wouldn't be Dorkin without 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.160 the bow tie, and yet it remains a wonderful part 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.480 of Groucho or Fred Astaire or you know whoever else. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.160 So I have full faith that you are one of 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.520 the people who knows what you're doing with the bow tie. 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.679 You wear it well, looks great on you, and congratulations 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:43.000 for that. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:45.840 All right, And well, I guess you know we'll have 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.679 to cover a creation of the humanoids at some point. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.600 We either keep hearing requests for it or this one 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.559 listener keeps requesting it. Maybe it's the latter. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:57.600 I think that one came up when a listener was 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.320 describing a movie to us that they couldn't remember the 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.560 name of and we were trying to figure out what 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.040 it was, and that was one of the candidates. Does 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:07.880 this sound familiar? 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.920 This does sound familiar. Yeah, it's also come up, of 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.760 course because it's uh, it's part of the filmography of 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:15.680 Dudley Man Love. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:20.680 Oh that of course, there you go of Plan nine 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.160 from Outer Space. Fame, Yes, yours, yours? 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.319 What your was it? Your stupid lot? Was it? Stupid lives, 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:31.920 your stupid minds, your stupid mind, stupid stupid Yes, great performance. 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.160 He's sadly not the lead of creation of the human rights, 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.560 but at any rate, still still worth a peek at 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.439 some point. All right, This next one comes to us 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:47.360 from column. Colum writes, and it says, Hi, guys, just 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.840 watch Gorgo last night, and watch with interest the first 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:51.920 part of the film, which you said was set in Ireland. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.160 I wanted to see if I could recognize any of 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:58.000 the locations used. Turns out the location was not any 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.320 rugged and remote island off the Way coast, but actually 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.400 right here in Dublin, in the suburbs. It's a place 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:08.720 called Dalki. I have included some Google map but links 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.319 and some photos with the email. There are a couple 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.320 of small islands just a few hundred meters off the coast, 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.160 and the little harbor they used is right there also. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.160 Dalki is a very affluent suburb on the south side 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.160 of Dublin Bay. It's home to Bono and Edge of 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.760 You Two, Van Morrison, Anya, and a host of other 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:33.640 celebrities and notable figures. I remember hearing about that. I 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.080 think like Matt Damon was over there during the pandemic 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.120 or something and was talking about living there, And I 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:44.079 remember getting poked fun of in various like late night 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.240 comedy bits because it was I guess it was like, 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.320 you know, big celebrity being down to earth, just talking 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:52.440 about how nice the super affluent suburb this living in was. 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.920 But I but I remember talking about like like his 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.040 neighbor was Anya and so forth. Anyway, he goes on 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:02.280 to include yeah, some links, some photos, and I know, 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.200 for for our part, I think we just had to 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.680 look at these and imagine a Gorgo in the shot, 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:09.320 and then we might be able to say, oh, yeah, 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:13.520 this is definitely it. This looks exactly like the Gorgo area. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.640 No doubt at all for me, Rob, especially if you 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.680 scroll down to the pictures of Collimore Harbor that column 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.720 included here, M yeah, you see these, like oh yeah, 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.319 this is where. This is where they came in on 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.719 the dinghy. This is where they walked up to go 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:32.480 to the harbor master's shack and meet with the scheming 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.920 archaeologist who is trying to keep all the Viking gold 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.640 for himself. This is where Gorgo attacks first, before he's 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.440 even called Gorgo, when he's just Ogre, the sea spirit, 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.720 a giant rat attacking the harbor. This is where they 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.760 throw fire at him and drive him back into the water. 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.240 It's all there and I can see it. And also, yeah, 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.880 the little island, Dalky Island is beautiful. I'd like to 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.239 walk around on it. And I think I must recognize 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.320 that from the movie too. That might be so in 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:04.080 the background of maybe some of the I don't know 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:05.839 what the effect would be called, but you know where 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:09.320 they've got Gorgo in the foreground and this location shot 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:10.079 in the background. 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:12.040 Yeah. Oh, and then they need to build like a 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:12.959 bronze statue of. 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:17.520 Gorgo, right, Yes, that would fit right in. Yeah, celebrate, well, 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.240 thank you call them? Yeah, yeah, thanks for sending in 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.520 these shots. Always it's always fun to hear about anyone's 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.760 personal connection to various locations featured in these films. 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:33.080 I agree. Actually, yes, message to listeners if you have physical, direct, 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.960 physical access to a location where a movie we talked 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:37.720 about was shot, and you want to send us photos 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:39.960 of it and stuff, please do Yeah. 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.680 Yeah, I mean, it's it's always great. I you know, 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.440 we've talked about a few films that have been shot 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:49.920 in places that either around the Atlanta area or places 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.600 we've traveled to, and yeah, I always appreciate that connection, 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.480 you know, where it's like, yeah, this is this is where, 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.640 this is this is where John Saxon came out of 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:02.400 the subway. That's actually the artist system before he turned 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:03.760 into a cannibal, that sort of thing. 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.800 Yeah, Marta is in the deleted scenes and Escape from New. 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.760 York too, that's right. Yeah, sometimes I like to go 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.800 to the museum here in Atlanta, which of course is 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:17.360 the very place that doctor Hannibal Lecter was sequestered in 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:22.960 the film Manhunter. Manhunter, Yes, the adaptation of Red Dragon. 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.320 So yeah, there are all sorts of fun and creos 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:26.400 like that. I love it. 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.200 But that was Brian Cox's Hannibal Lecter of course. 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.120 That yeah, that was og Hannibal Lecter. 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:44.720 Yeah, all right. This next message is from Roberta. Roberta says, 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.560 I've been thinking about writing in since you covered the 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:52.280 Magic Sword on Weird House. Now, Rob, we haven't done 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.400 an episode on the Magic Sword, but I know the 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.800 Magic Sword came up in another episode. Was it when 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:59.800 we were talking about Attack of the Puppet People? 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.200 Possibly? Because Yeah, this is a bird Eye Gordon film 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.320 that I've seen before. It was featured on MST three K. 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:10.560 It has Basle Rathbone in it and Estelle Lynnwood, Gary Lockwood. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.200 It's a lot of fun, and I remember a sort 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.480 of like putting a pin in it that we might 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:17.800 come back to this one in the future. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.320 I remember the same. Yeah, it's on my mental list 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.880 for the show. So that must be what Roberta is 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.720 referring to here. So Roberta says, recently, you mentioned that 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.040 you'd love to hear from people who saw the movies 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.920 during their original releases. I saw The Magic Sword during 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.400 its original release at a drive in. I was three 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.120 or four years old, and it was supposed to be 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.120 a kids movie. This, of course was my very first 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:45.680 exposure to movie acid pools and movie quicksand I sat 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.680 in the far back part of the station wagon in 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:52.960 my pajamas, absolutely terrified. I went through my childhood with 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.520 a real fear of being dissolved in acid or being 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.240 smothered in quicksand not to mention the fear of being 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:05.360 ensorceled real witches. I can really sympathize with you there, Roberta. 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:09.680 I also had when I was younger for some reason, 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:11.879 I really don't remember what triggered this, but I remember 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.640 when I was young, I had an intense fear of 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.680 like quicksand or of just being buried in sand, It 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.359 was like an image that captivated my mind, and I 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.560 don't know exactly where it came from. It was horrifying. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.479 Yeah, I mean, it's a clear and present danger if 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.199 you're just going off of various films they're airing on 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.440 like a on TPS on a Sunday afternoon, that sort 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:31.720 of thing. 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.120 ROBERTA continues. This was the first feature at the drive 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.199 in that night, after which my older sister and I 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.600 were expected to fall asleep while mom and Dad watched 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.840 the second feature, which we weren't supposed to watch, But 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.600 as as soon as the music came up, I was 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.359 riveted to the screen. The second feature was Gypsy, the 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:55.280 musical about the famous stripper Gypsy rose Lee. This went 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.119 a long way toward calming my fears. I became lost 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.000 in the music. Unfortunately, we were new in town, and 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.679 I went around singing my favorite song from the movie 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:08.119 If Mama was married in nineteen sixty three, This was 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:11.520 some serious scandal anyhow. I wouldn't say the magic Sword 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.200 scarred me for life, but it definitely scarred me for 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.520 my childhood. Many thanks for your well researched podcast. Of 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.919 all types. When my friends start complaining about their various ailments. 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:24.200 I tried out random facts from your podcasts, like about 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.320 how lobsters have one cutting claw and one grinding claw. 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.399 It really helps to get people talking about something interesting. 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:34.679 Thanks again, Roberta. Oh well, thank you, Roberta. That's heartwarming 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:35.000 to hear. 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.240 Yeah, and this is why you should You should keep 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.760 a lobster on you at all times as a conversation starter. 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.800 You know, you know, if somebody starts talking about politics 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.960 at a dinner, they just bust out a lobster instantly, 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.560 just cleanses the palate, instantly changes the subject. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:51.800 Let's talk about the bleeding tooth naried. 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:55.960 All right, Well, I think there's only one listener mail 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:57.600 we can go to from that. Since we're on the 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:01.639 subject of content in a scarring one for life and 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:09.800 so forth, this one comes to us from Jeff. Jeff says, 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.360 Greetings science humans. First of all, I wanted to thank 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.840 you for attempting to express just how horrible Emil's death 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.680 is in RoboCop. To this day, I do not care 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.000 for body heart. And while RoboCop was one of my 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.679 favorite movies as a kid, experiencing that scene once was 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.480 quite enough for me. Ever since, I have averted my 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.639 eyes from that part of the film, which, as you noted, 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:35.480 just keeps going on. Somehow, it makes me feel better 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:40.040 that even you guys were struck by its awfulness, truly revolting. 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:41.320 Correct on all counts. 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.160 Yep, Yeah, absolutely, it was hard to watch this when 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:49.679 I rewatched it in December. Anyway, Jeff continues, I'm a 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:51.840 bit older than you, so to me, the weirdest thing 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.720 about Robocop's appearance on Weird House was that this is 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:56.879 an obvious classic and one of the best movies of 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:59.119 the eighties. As if you dug up a little known 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:04.119 nugget called cast Blanca for us, you know, I have. 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:05.919 It has crossed my mind before. It's like, what if 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.200 we did Casablanca? What if we just did Castle Blanka 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:09.960 on Weird House. It's not weird, but like as a 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:13.440 one off, like it could be fun. It's got weird 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:14.040 actors in it. 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:16.280 Yeah, Peter Lourie all that. 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:17.240 Yeah. 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:20.439 I've mentioned a few times before in summarizing the show 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:22.960 that on Weird House we will cover movies that are 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:26.520 good or bad, well known or obscure. Uh, the only 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:29.720 real criterion is that they're weird. I guess with the 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.960 secondary unspoken criterion that like, they're weird and there's something 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:36.879 we actually want to talk about. You know, there are 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:40.480 plenty of weird movies that I would not be very 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.000 interested in watching or would not be very interested in 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:44.439 talking about for ninety minutes. 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:48.480 Yeah, and sometimes they're boring, you know. Yeah, but and 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:50.560 sometimes they're boring in just the right way. So it's yeah, 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:52.680 it's really hard to nail down exactly what makes it 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.119 a weird house selection other than like, can weirdness be 0:20:56.240 --> 0:21:00.320 isolated in this sample anyway? Jeff continues and says, but 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:03.680 I can imagine what expectations might be if your first 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:06.760 exposure to it RoboCop was looking at the box on 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:10.359 the video store shelf next to something like Eliminators. And 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:13.359 I certainly see the value of directing listeners to a 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.720 film that, on the surface appears to be a standard 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:18.640 boring eight shoot them up. It is it is worth noting, yeah, 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:20.119 that if you're just going off of the like the 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:23.960 VHS box art and so forth, you know, a lot 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:26.719 of these films appeared to be on equal footing, and 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:29.600 especially in my experienced, films that you didn't get to 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:31.280 see or you weren't allowed to see at the time, 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:33.840 you know, your mind would just put them on that level. 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:37.840 You would assume that the eliminators in RoboCop are like 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:41.000