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Speaker 3: Mind dot com. Let's see, rob we got so this
Speaker 3: week is going to be very weird, how cinema heavy.
Speaker 3: We got a lot of weird house messages to get through,
Speaker 3: a lot of great feedback on things such as Gorgo
Speaker 3: and other recent features on the show. But to kick
Speaker 3: things off, we got a couple of messages in response
Speaker 3: to our series on hermit crabs. I think I'm going
Speaker 3: to do this one from long time correspondent Jim in
Speaker 3: New Jersey.
Speaker 2: All right, let's have it.
Speaker 3: So this is in response to our discussion of a
Speaker 3: phenomenon known as vacancy chains, which are observed in hermit
Speaker 3: crabs as they compete for shells, but also in markets
Speaker 3: for some human resources like housing and certain types of jobs. Basically,
Speaker 3: the way it works is if you put a nice
Speaker 3: empty snail shell in the middle of a bunch of
Speaker 3: hermit crabs, one of them will come along and decide
Speaker 3: they want it. They want to take it, so they
Speaker 3: will discard their old shell and upgrade to the new
Speaker 3: empty shell. But the process doesn't stop there because in
Speaker 3: most cases, another hermit crab will come along and decide
Speaker 3: to swap their current shell for the shell abandoned by
Speaker 3: the first animal, so they leave their shell behind. Then
Speaker 3: another one will come along and decide to swap for
Speaker 3: that shell, and so on and so on and so.
Speaker 3: The interesting thing about vacancy chains is that you only
Speaker 3: put one new resource into the environment, but multiple individuals
Speaker 3: in this market get a benefit. Only one new shell
Speaker 3: goes in but maybe three or four or even more
Speaker 3: crabs end up with a better shell than they started with.
Speaker 3: So Jim in New Jersey says Robert, Joe, and JJ,
Speaker 3: your discussion of human uses for vacancy chains as seen
Speaker 3: by hermit crabs reminded me of kidney transplants. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: hadn't even thought of this. This is really interesting, so
Speaker 3: Jim says. The best donor for a kidney transplant is
Speaker 3: often a blood relative, but sometimes there are no viable
Speaker 3: matching donors in the family. A kidney transplant vacancy chain
Speaker 3: occurs when a group of recipients and their donors are chained.
Speaker 3: The donor may not be a good match for their
Speaker 3: family member, but they may be a good match for
Speaker 3: another recipient. The chain starts with someone receiving a kidney donation.
Speaker 3: Their own willing family member donates a kidney to the
Speaker 3: next person in the chain, which triggers a new donor,
Speaker 3: et cetera, until the last willing donor has no current matches,
Speaker 3: so the original kidney donation may trigger many donations. The
Speaker 3: world record for the longest chain is thirty five recipients.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, yeah, and I did click through. Jim includes
Speaker 3: a link to a page that describes this. It's on
Speaker 3: the Guinness World Records page and it cast So I
Speaker 3: guess when a chain like this forms, they might sometimes
Speaker 3: get a name. I'm not sure how that works, but
Speaker 3: this chain was called chain three point fifty seven, suggests
Speaker 3: a magnum. I don't know if that's a coincidence or what. Anyway,
Speaker 3: Jim goes on to say Lloyd Shapley and Alvin Roth
Speaker 3: received the twenty twelve Nobel Prize in Economics, which specifically
Speaker 3: included kidney chains as one of the practical applications of
Speaker 3: their work. So I think they were studying how resources
Speaker 3: get allotted in sort of a market where people are
Speaker 3: trying to find the best match for what they want,
Speaker 3: and vacancy chains would have some overlap in similarities to
Speaker 3: that kind of situation.
Speaker 2: That's fascinating.
Speaker 3: So I guess we can put this on the list
Speaker 3: of human resources that do at least in part function
Speaker 3: these like these hermit crab shells. So you've got housing,
Speaker 3: you've got certain types of jobs, and to some extent
Speaker 3: also you have kidneys. Now, this next message about hermit
Speaker 3: crabs concerns a type of snail that came up multiple
Speaker 3: times in our series on hermit crabs, the Narrates snails,
Speaker 3: or the Narrite snails. We talked about them the most
Speaker 3: in the context of an essay about her crabs by
Speaker 3: Stephen J. Gould, in which he talked about the hermits
Speaker 3: of Bermuda, which he often observed trying to fit into
Speaker 3: snail shells that were way, way too small for them.
Speaker 3: And these were the snails producing the shells in question.
Speaker 2: This would be the whole deal with the wearing of
Speaker 2: fossil shells that was so fascinating.
Speaker 3: Right, So most of the hermit crabs were trying to
Speaker 3: fit into shells that were too small, but the ones
Speaker 3: that did have a bigger shell, that shell was usually
Speaker 3: a fossil.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this one comes to us from Graham. Graham says, Hi, Rob,
Speaker 2: Joe and jj. I hope everyone is well. A big
Speaker 2: hello from Dorset in the UK. I've just listened to
Speaker 2: part three of your series on the hermit crabs and
Speaker 2: your discussion on naar eed snails piqued my interest. I
Speaker 2: have a pet near eight snail called Jeff. He is
Speaker 2: a Naerwi natalensis, otherwise known as a zebra nairide. You'll
Speaker 2: see why if you look at the attached picture of him,
Speaker 2: and yeah, look at that picture, I can definitely see
Speaker 2: the why zebra would be the animal you'd want to invoke.
Speaker 3: Right. So, the spiral shell has these stripes running along it.
Speaker 3: They're sort of at least in this picture. I don't
Speaker 3: know how much that's colored by the lighting, but they're
Speaker 3: sort of alternating black and pale orange.
Speaker 2: He continues, he lives in my freshwater aquarium with my fish.
Speaker 2: He roams around for four or five days constantly, and
Speaker 2: then sleeps for a day or so. In a day,
Speaker 2: he can do several laps of the tank, clearing up
Speaker 2: algae and other detritus as he goes. I include a
Speaker 2: link to a short video I took of Jeff as
Speaker 2: he moved over the glass of my tank, so you
Speaker 2: can see the underside of his foot when he moves.
Speaker 2: Watch out for his goofy teeth clearing algae from the
Speaker 2: glass as he goes. I hope you found this interesting, Graham.
Speaker 3: Now, Rob, I want to put your mind at ease
Speaker 3: in case you're thinking about clicking on the video but
Speaker 3: you are worried that this might be another bleeding tooth situation.
Speaker 3: It is not that that when Jeff is talking, not Jeff,
Speaker 3: Jeff is the snail's name. Sorry, when Graham is talking
Speaker 3: about Jeff's teeth, I think, sorry, Graham is talking about
Speaker 3: the snail's actual mouth, which you can see because the
Speaker 3: snails crawling along the opposite side of the glass of
Speaker 3: the tank and it's flexing its little mouth as it
Speaker 3: looks for algae to scrape up. This is not the
Speaker 3: disgusting looking, bleeding teeth that are actually just part of
Speaker 3: the shell of a specific naryight snail. We talked about
Speaker 3: that in the episode two, one of the most horrifying
Speaker 3: visions of a molluscu I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is more on the adorable end of the
Speaker 2: snail observation spectrum here.
Speaker 3: I agree. This is really cute, So thank you for sharing, Graham.
Speaker 2: All right, well, let's get into some of these weird
Speaker 2: house cinema messages. I understand we've got a lot of
Speaker 2: gorgo content.
Speaker 3: Yes we do, so let's see. I don't know what's
Speaker 3: the best order to do these, And I think I
Speaker 3: got to start with this one because I got to
Speaker 3: partially apologize to a listener here and explain my logic
Speaker 3: in regards to bow ties, So Chris writes in and says,
Speaker 3: Joe and Robert on the recent Weird House episode about
Speaker 3: the British Kaiju film Gorgo, one of you made a
Speaker 3: remark about the character Dorkin. Dorkin is the circus operator
Speaker 3: in Gorgo, who, essentially London is attacked by Gorgo's mother
Speaker 3: almost exclusively to prevent Dorkin from losing out on profits
Speaker 3: that he would otherwise acquire. So Chris says that we
Speaker 3: described Dorkin as a quote, pencil mustache to bow tie
Speaker 3: wearing money freak. I did say that, Chris says, as
Speaker 3: a longtime wearer of bow ties, self tied, not clip on.
Speaker 3: I found that a potentially offensive characterization. I am guessing
Speaker 3: other listeners might feel similarly, especially since the bow tie's
Speaker 3: recent revival as stylish, tasteful, and practical apparel. Perhaps due
Speaker 3: to my over fifty years of effort. You can make
Speaker 3: amends by doing an episode on creation of the Humanoids. Chris, Well,
Speaker 3: thank you for the message. Chris. I do apologize. I
Speaker 3: did not mean to attack anything about your fashion choices.
Speaker 3: I do have to partially defend my logic here, so
Speaker 3: I would never insult the bow tie. In principle, I
Speaker 3: totally agree it can look great. It's part of a
Speaker 3: fantastic signature look for lots of people, both modern and historical.
Speaker 3: For some reason, I was trying to think of like
Speaker 3: people who I love the bow tie look of, and
Speaker 3: the people who came to mind are Groucho Marx and
Speaker 3: Abraham Lincoln. You gotta admit they both did rock a
Speaker 3: bow tie. But I think you'll also have to admit, Chris,
Speaker 3: that while there is absolutely nothing wrong with the bow
Speaker 3: tie on its own, in certain cases it is part
Speaker 3: of a different kind of signature look, and in those
Speaker 3: cases that signature look has negative connotations. And I think
Speaker 3: there are a lot of fashion accessories like this one.
Speaker 3: Another one that came to my mind is like Aviator sunglasses.
Speaker 3: So they look cool, there's absolutely nothing wrong with them
Speaker 3: in principle as part of many people and characters looks.
Speaker 3: They look really great, but there is also a signature,
Speaker 3: kind of cocky jerk look that would feature Aviator sunglasses.
Speaker 3: I think the bow tie is the same you know,
Speaker 3: on some people it looks great, but it's also a
Speaker 3: core part of Dorkin. The character wouldn't be Dorkin without
Speaker 3: the bow tie, and yet it remains a wonderful part
Speaker 3: of Groucho or Fred Astaire or you know whoever else.
Speaker 3: So I have full faith that you are one of
Speaker 3: the people who knows what you're doing with the bow tie.
Speaker 3: You wear it well, looks great on you, and congratulations
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 2: All right, And well, I guess you know we'll have
Speaker 2: to cover a creation of the humanoids at some point.
Speaker 2: We either keep hearing requests for it or this one
Speaker 2: listener keeps requesting it. Maybe it's the latter.
Speaker 3: I think that one came up when a listener was
Speaker 3: describing a movie to us that they couldn't remember the
Speaker 3: name of and we were trying to figure out what
Speaker 3: it was, and that was one of the candidates. Does
Speaker 3: this sound familiar?
Speaker 2: This does sound familiar. Yeah, it's also come up, of
Speaker 2: course because it's uh, it's part of the filmography of
Speaker 2: Dudley Man Love.
Speaker 3: Oh that of course, there you go of Plan nine
Speaker 3: from Outer Space. Fame, Yes, yours, yours?
Speaker 2: What your was it? Your stupid lot? Was it? Stupid lives,
Speaker 2: your stupid minds, your stupid mind, stupid stupid Yes, great performance.
Speaker 2: He's sadly not the lead of creation of the human rights,
Speaker 2: but at any rate, still still worth a peek at
Speaker 2: some point. All right, This next one comes to us
Speaker 2: from column. Colum writes, and it says, Hi, guys, just
Speaker 2: watch Gorgo last night, and watch with interest the first
Speaker 2: part of the film, which you said was set in Ireland.
Speaker 2: I wanted to see if I could recognize any of
Speaker 2: the locations used. Turns out the location was not any
Speaker 2: rugged and remote island off the Way coast, but actually
Speaker 2: right here in Dublin, in the suburbs. It's a place
Speaker 2: called Dalki. I have included some Google map but links
Speaker 2: and some photos with the email. There are a couple
Speaker 2: of small islands just a few hundred meters off the coast,
Speaker 2: and the little harbor they used is right there also.
Speaker 2: Dalki is a very affluent suburb on the south side
Speaker 2: of Dublin Bay. It's home to Bono and Edge of
Speaker 2: You Two, Van Morrison, Anya, and a host of other
Speaker 2: celebrities and notable figures. I remember hearing about that. I
Speaker 2: think like Matt Damon was over there during the pandemic
Speaker 2: or something and was talking about living there, And I
Speaker 2: remember getting poked fun of in various like late night
Speaker 2: comedy bits because it was I guess it was like,
Speaker 2: you know, big celebrity being down to earth, just talking
Speaker 2: about how nice the super affluent suburb this living in was.
Speaker 2: But I but I remember talking about like like his
Speaker 2: neighbor was Anya and so forth. Anyway, he goes on
Speaker 2: to include yeah, some links, some photos, and I know,
Speaker 2: for for our part, I think we just had to
Speaker 2: look at these and imagine a Gorgo in the shot,
Speaker 2: and then we might be able to say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is definitely it. This looks exactly like the Gorgo area.
Speaker 3: No doubt at all for me, Rob, especially if you
Speaker 3: scroll down to the pictures of Collimore Harbor that column
Speaker 3: included here, M yeah, you see these, like oh yeah,
Speaker 3: this is where. This is where they came in on
Speaker 3: the dinghy. This is where they walked up to go
Speaker 3: to the harbor master's shack and meet with the scheming
Speaker 3: archaeologist who is trying to keep all the Viking gold
Speaker 3: for himself. This is where Gorgo attacks first, before he's
Speaker 3: even called Gorgo, when he's just Ogre, the sea spirit,
Speaker 3: a giant rat attacking the harbor. This is where they
Speaker 3: throw fire at him and drive him back into the water.
Speaker 3: It's all there and I can see it. And also, yeah,
Speaker 3: the little island, Dalky Island is beautiful. I'd like to
Speaker 3: walk around on it. And I think I must recognize
Speaker 3: that from the movie too. That might be so in
Speaker 3: the background of maybe some of the I don't know
Speaker 3: what the effect would be called, but you know where
Speaker 3: they've got Gorgo in the foreground and this location shot
Speaker 3: in the background.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, and then they need to build like a
Speaker 2: bronze statue of.
Speaker 4: Gorgo, right, Yes, that would fit right in. Yeah, celebrate, well,
Speaker 4: thank you call them? Yeah, yeah, thanks for sending in
Speaker 4: these shots. Always it's always fun to hear about anyone's
Speaker 4: personal connection to various locations featured in these films.
Speaker 3: I agree. Actually, yes, message to listeners if you have physical, direct,
Speaker 3: physical access to a location where a movie we talked
Speaker 3: about was shot, and you want to send us photos
Speaker 3: of it and stuff, please do Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it's always great. I you know,
Speaker 2: we've talked about a few films that have been shot
Speaker 2: in places that either around the Atlanta area or places
Speaker 2: we've traveled to, and yeah, I always appreciate that connection,
Speaker 2: you know, where it's like, yeah, this is this is where,
Speaker 2: this is this is where John Saxon came out of
Speaker 2: the subway. That's actually the artist system before he turned
Speaker 2: into a cannibal, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Marta is in the deleted scenes and Escape from New.
Speaker 2: York too, that's right. Yeah, sometimes I like to go
Speaker 2: to the museum here in Atlanta, which of course is
Speaker 2: the very place that doctor Hannibal Lecter was sequestered in
Speaker 2: the film Manhunter. Manhunter, Yes, the adaptation of Red Dragon.
Speaker 2: So yeah, there are all sorts of fun and creos
Speaker 2: like that. I love it.
Speaker 3: But that was Brian Cox's Hannibal Lecter of course.
Speaker 2: That yeah, that was og Hannibal Lecter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right. This next message is from Roberta. Roberta says,
Speaker 3: I've been thinking about writing in since you covered the
Speaker 3: Magic Sword on Weird House. Now, Rob, we haven't done
Speaker 3: an episode on the Magic Sword, but I know the
Speaker 3: Magic Sword came up in another episode. Was it when
Speaker 3: we were talking about Attack of the Puppet People?
Speaker 2: Possibly? Because Yeah, this is a bird Eye Gordon film
Speaker 2: that I've seen before. It was featured on MST three K.
Speaker 2: It has Basle Rathbone in it and Estelle Lynnwood, Gary Lockwood.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun, and I remember a sort
Speaker 2: of like putting a pin in it that we might
Speaker 2: come back to this one in the future.
Speaker 3: I remember the same. Yeah, it's on my mental list
Speaker 3: for the show. So that must be what Roberta is
Speaker 3: referring to here. So Roberta says, recently, you mentioned that
Speaker 3: you'd love to hear from people who saw the movies
Speaker 3: during their original releases. I saw The Magic Sword during
Speaker 3: its original release at a drive in. I was three
Speaker 3: or four years old, and it was supposed to be
Speaker 3: a kids movie. This, of course was my very first
Speaker 3: exposure to movie acid pools and movie quicksand I sat
Speaker 3: in the far back part of the station wagon in
Speaker 3: my pajamas, absolutely terrified. I went through my childhood with
Speaker 3: a real fear of being dissolved in acid or being
Speaker 3: smothered in quicksand not to mention the fear of being
Speaker 3: ensorceled real witches. I can really sympathize with you there, Roberta.
Speaker 3: I also had when I was younger for some reason,
Speaker 3: I really don't remember what triggered this, but I remember
Speaker 3: when I was young, I had an intense fear of
Speaker 3: like quicksand or of just being buried in sand, It
Speaker 3: was like an image that captivated my mind, and I
Speaker 3: don't know exactly where it came from. It was horrifying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's a clear and present danger if
Speaker 2: you're just going off of various films they're airing on
Speaker 2: like a on TPS on a Sunday afternoon, that sort
Speaker 2: of thing.
Speaker 3: ROBERTA continues. This was the first feature at the drive
Speaker 3: in that night, after which my older sister and I
Speaker 3: were expected to fall asleep while mom and Dad watched
Speaker 3: the second feature, which we weren't supposed to watch, But
Speaker 3: as as soon as the music came up, I was
Speaker 3: riveted to the screen. The second feature was Gypsy, the
Speaker 3: musical about the famous stripper Gypsy rose Lee. This went
Speaker 3: a long way toward calming my fears. I became lost
Speaker 3: in the music. Unfortunately, we were new in town, and
Speaker 3: I went around singing my favorite song from the movie
Speaker 3: If Mama was married in nineteen sixty three, This was
Speaker 3: some serious scandal anyhow. I wouldn't say the magic Sword
Speaker 3: scarred me for life, but it definitely scarred me for
Speaker 3: my childhood. Many thanks for your well researched podcast. Of
Speaker 3: all types. When my friends start complaining about their various ailments.
Speaker 3: I tried out random facts from your podcasts, like about
Speaker 3: how lobsters have one cutting claw and one grinding claw.
Speaker 3: It really helps to get people talking about something interesting.
Speaker 3: Thanks again, Roberta. Oh well, thank you, Roberta. That's heartwarming
Speaker 3: to hear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is why you should You should keep
Speaker 2: a lobster on you at all times as a conversation starter.
Speaker 2: You know, you know, if somebody starts talking about politics
Speaker 2: at a dinner, they just bust out a lobster instantly,
Speaker 2: just cleanses the palate, instantly changes the subject.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about the bleeding tooth naried.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I think there's only one listener mail
Speaker 2: we can go to from that. Since we're on the
Speaker 2: subject of content in a scarring one for life and
Speaker 2: so forth, this one comes to us from Jeff. Jeff says,
Speaker 2: Greetings science humans. First of all, I wanted to thank
Speaker 2: you for attempting to express just how horrible Emil's death
Speaker 2: is in RoboCop. To this day, I do not care
Speaker 2: for body heart. And while RoboCop was one of my
Speaker 2: favorite movies as a kid, experiencing that scene once was
Speaker 2: quite enough for me. Ever since, I have averted my
Speaker 2: eyes from that part of the film, which, as you noted,
Speaker 2: just keeps going on. Somehow, it makes me feel better
Speaker 2: that even you guys were struck by its awfulness, truly revolting.
Speaker 3: Correct on all counts.
Speaker 2: Yep, Yeah, absolutely, it was hard to watch this when
Speaker 2: I rewatched it in December. Anyway, Jeff continues, I'm a
Speaker 2: bit older than you, so to me, the weirdest thing
Speaker 2: about Robocop's appearance on Weird House was that this is
Speaker 2: an obvious classic and one of the best movies of
Speaker 2: the eighties. As if you dug up a little known
Speaker 2: nugget called cast Blanca for us, you know, I have.
Speaker 2: It has crossed my mind before. It's like, what if
Speaker 2: we did Casablanca? What if we just did Castle Blanka
Speaker 2: on Weird House. It's not weird, but like as a
Speaker 2: one off, like it could be fun. It's got weird
Speaker 2: actors in it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Peter Lourie all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I've mentioned a few times before in summarizing the show
Speaker 3: that on Weird House we will cover movies that are
Speaker 3: good or bad, well known or obscure. Uh, the only
Speaker 3: real criterion is that they're weird. I guess with the
Speaker 3: secondary unspoken criterion that like, they're weird and there's something
Speaker 3: we actually want to talk about. You know, there are
Speaker 3: plenty of weird movies that I would not be very
Speaker 3: interested in watching or would not be very interested in
Speaker 3: talking about for ninety minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and sometimes they're boring, you know. Yeah, but and
Speaker 2: sometimes they're boring in just the right way. So it's yeah,
Speaker 2: it's really hard to nail down exactly what makes it
Speaker 2: a weird house selection other than like, can weirdness be
Speaker 2: isolated in this sample anyway? Jeff continues and says, but
Speaker 2: I can imagine what expectations might be if your first
Speaker 2: exposure to it RoboCop was looking at the box on
Speaker 2: the video store shelf next to something like Eliminators. And
Speaker 2: I certainly see the value of directing listeners to a
Speaker 2: film that, on the surface appears to be a standard
Speaker 2: boring eight shoot them up. It is it is worth noting, yeah,
Speaker 2: that if you're just going off of the like the
Speaker 2: VHS box art and so forth, you know, a lot
Speaker 2: of these films appeared to be on equal footing, and
Speaker 2: especially in my experienced, films that you didn't get to
Speaker 2: see or you weren't allowed to see at the time,
Speaker 2: you know, your mind would just put them on that level.
Speaker 2: You would assume that the eliminators in RoboCop are like
Speaker 2: exactly the same like effects wise, Like at a young age,
Speaker 2: I really didn't, you know, I didn't have quite that
Speaker 2: expectation for like, this is going to be a good movie,
Speaker 2: this is going to might be a bad one. This
Speaker 2: one has a huge budget, this one has a minuscule budget,
Speaker 2: and so forth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, from a distance, all sci fi action movies look
Speaker 3: the same, and but of course when you get up
Speaker 3: close to them you might realize that some are actually
Speaker 3: quite complex, are interesting, or is there's something you know,
Speaker 3: they've got a heart to them, There's something going on
Speaker 3: that there is not in most of them. In fact,
Speaker 3: I would say that Paul Verhoven in particular specializes in
Speaker 3: making movies of this type, movies like RoboCop, Total Recall,
Speaker 3: Starship Troopers, all movies that I think are actually quite
Speaker 3: smart and quite complex and interesting. But from a distance
Speaker 3: or if you you know, you know, with a little
Speaker 3: bit of blur on could just be taken as another
Speaker 3: dumb sci fi shoot them up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, all right, Well, Jeff has more to say
Speaker 2: and has some more movies to mention here. Jeff says,
Speaker 2: also thanks to the listener who beat me to the
Speaker 2: punch by drawing attention to the connection between Peter Weller
Speaker 2: films and rat kings. I haven't seen an unknown origin
Speaker 2: in this century, but I do remember it being pleasantly
Speaker 2: weird and funny if memory serves. It also features a
Speaker 2: lock and load scene, although I only remember the final result.
Speaker 2: It's not clear to me. If there's an appropriately clicky
Speaker 2: and snappy montage on another retro subject, I might have
Speaker 2: missed it. But I was surprised that you didn't mention
Speaker 2: the fire Gang from Labyrinth during the episodes on headless creatures, or,
Speaker 2: for that matter, the ones about beasts and humans flinging
Speaker 2: things such as heads. I had a friend who, if
Speaker 2: he saw you from a distance, would shout, and I'm
Speaker 2: not going to do the voice, where are you going
Speaker 2: with a head like that? Labyrinth fans know exactly the
Speaker 2: creatures we're talking about here, and I would like to
Speaker 2: come back and perhaps discuss Labyrinth at some point, because
Speaker 2: it is a film that's full of perplexing details, and
Speaker 2: at times there are things that don't make a lot
Speaker 2: of sense, and it invites interpretations, so I'm a huge
Speaker 2: Elabyrinth fan, so we may have to come back to
Speaker 2: that one anyway. Jeff continues, Finally, I'm sure you don't
Speaker 2: need another recommendation to check out Godzilla minus one, but
Speaker 2: I am going to provide you with an unprovoked one anyway.
Speaker 2: It's a truly wonderful and emotional film. I'd even say
Speaker 2: the giant lizard is not the best part, but all
Speaker 2: that effective melow drama and social commentary plus a giant
Speaker 2: lizard must see cinema. Thanks again for putting so much
Speaker 2: effort into entertaining and informing us.
Speaker 3: All well, thank you, Jeff. Yeah, Godzilla minus one is
Speaker 3: near the top of my list of new releases. I'm
Speaker 3: sure I will see it quite soon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Hey, maybe Gorgo minus one.
Speaker 3: All right, This last message comes from Jared. Jared says, Greetings,
Speaker 3: Joe and Robert. I'm quite a bit behind on my listening,
Speaker 3: but I wanted to comment on something you mentioned in
Speaker 3: the Weird House Cinema episode about Creature with the Adam Brain.
Speaker 3: You commented on how the hero of the movie was
Speaker 3: a quote science cop. What was the deal with that? Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was like not clear whether that he was like
Speaker 3: a scientist or a cop.
Speaker 2: This might have been one of the ones where this
Speaker 2: is like a non police officer who just gets to
Speaker 2: hang out and ask questions at murder investigations. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: it feels about right. We often encounter that sort of
Speaker 2: of character, like what's your role in the investigation? Again?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jared goes on. Over the Halloween season just passed.
Speaker 3: I had decided to see if I could find any
Speaker 3: movies from any of my subscription streaming services that were
Speaker 3: in the vein of what you feature on your Friday shows.
Speaker 3: I found The Magnetic Monster from nineteen fifty three. In
Speaker 3: that movie, the two heroes are federal agents working for OSI,
Speaker 3: the Office of Scientific Investigation science cops. I guess the
Speaker 3: people behind the Magnetic Monster were maybe just a little
Speaker 3: more decisive about the details or something. I also noticed
Speaker 3: that the main character and his wife were also rather
Speaker 3: affectionate slash flirtatious with each other. Oh, this was a
Speaker 3: major feature of a creature with the Adam brain that
Speaker 3: stood out to us, Like the main dude and his
Speaker 3: wife were all over each other. Jared says, it doesn't
Speaker 3: sound like they were quite as lovey Dovey as the
Speaker 3: couple in Creature with the Adam Brain. But maybe this
Speaker 3: was the style for some movie makers of the time,
Speaker 3: how TV families were portrayed as much more wholesome and
Speaker 3: polished than real families. Anyway, as always, I'm loving the show.
Speaker 3: I'm continuing to work my way up to current day.
Speaker 3: Cheers Jared. Well, thank you, Jared. Coming back on Creature
Speaker 3: with the Adam Brain. I don't remember exactly what we said,
Speaker 3: but I did want to make it clear I don't
Speaker 3: have any objection to a monster movie, incidentally depicting a
Speaker 3: married couple who are all over each other. It just
Speaker 3: struck me, I think struck both of us as unexpected
Speaker 3: for a movie of this type from this time period,
Speaker 3: especially where like the relationship is not the central focus
Speaker 3: of the story. Like if it was a love story,
Speaker 3: that'd be one thing, but it's just like, oh, yes,
Speaker 3: this guy has to investigate the murders caused by Atomic Superman.
Speaker 3: Also his wife is just constantly trying to get him
Speaker 3: back into bed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a fun film. And this one that
Speaker 2: they recommend, the Magnetic Monster. Yeah, this one is also
Speaker 2: a film that was written and I think also partially
Speaker 2: directed by Kurt siod Mac who we talked about in
Speaker 2: relation to that film, but also he was involved in
Speaker 2: nineteen forty six as the Beast with five fingers.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, that's right. Yeah, coming back to Peter Lorie.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so yeah, well have to put that one
Speaker 2: on the list as well. All right, Well, keep the
Speaker 2: recommendations coming. Like I say, I do try to add
Speaker 2: these to a list, but sometimes I say I'll add
Speaker 2: them to the list and then I forget too. So
Speaker 2: if there's something that you're excited for, don't hesitate to
Speaker 2: pester us about it. And you know, sometimes that's all
Speaker 2: it takes, because a lot of times we have these films,
Speaker 2: we have kind of have an amorphous list of movies
Speaker 2: we want to get to, and sometimes it doesn't take
Speaker 2: much to just sort of push one to the forefront
Speaker 2: and help us make our decision for the week.
Speaker 3: That's right, all right.
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