Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind production of My
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind
Speaker 1: listener Mail. This is Robert Lamb and this is Joe McCormick.
Speaker 1: And it's Monday, which is the day of every week
Speaker 1: that we read back some of the messages that you
Speaker 1: have sent in in response to recent episodes of the show.
Speaker 1: Rob If you don't mind, I'm going to get started
Speaker 1: with this message from Carlos, which I think is in
Speaker 1: response to our series on called The Beast War and
Speaker 1: Apron about like animal cuisine and about a listener mail
Speaker 1: segment that was responding to that. Carlos says, Hi, Robin, Joe,
Speaker 1: I was listening to your most recent listener mail episode
Speaker 1: today on my way to school, and the first letter,
Speaker 1: which was about sneaking away raw slices of potato to eat,
Speaker 1: caused an old memory to come bubbling to the surface.
Speaker 1: I was raised in an evangelical church, and summer camp
Speaker 1: was a large part of my life. When I think
Speaker 1: about it now, one of the strangest things about these
Speaker 1: camps was how many of the games revolved around embarrassing
Speaker 1: slash unpleasant experiences. The one that I suddenly remembered today,
Speaker 1: which I had apparently tried to forget, was a game
Speaker 1: in which several kids, myself included, had a race to
Speaker 1: eat a raw white potato as fast as possible. I
Speaker 1: remember it being very unpleasant, perhaps one of the more
Speaker 1: terrible food experiences of my life. When I have kids,
Speaker 1: I don't think they will be attending these camps. Ha ha.
Speaker 1: Thanks for everything, I hope all as well. Carlos. What
Speaker 1: kind of game is this? I must know more? What
Speaker 1: was it just a race to eat a raw potato?
Speaker 1: Or was there like context? Was it illustrating a Bible
Speaker 1: story or something? Yeah, I don't know, and it sounds
Speaker 1: sounds from the email. I'm I'm assuming this means it
Speaker 1: was like a an official part of the camp. It
Speaker 1: wasn't just like us. Some kids got bored and they
Speaker 1: got ahold of some potatoes. But you know, like a
Speaker 1: count counselor was like today, children, we shall see who
Speaker 1: can eat these potatoes. This is sanctioned by adults. Um.
Speaker 1: They bring, in fact, they bring the authority of the Lord,
Speaker 1: you God Almighty to say you must eat this raw potato. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I don't know. I'm trying to imagine what kind
Speaker 1: of like Bible camp connection that could have would it be.
Speaker 1: I don't well, there are no mentions of potatoes in
Speaker 1: the Bible, obviously, you know that's a new World food.
Speaker 1: So like maybe something about the verse about if salt
Speaker 1: loses its safer I'm coming up blank, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it was it was refer in the
Speaker 1: old days. I mean today you send a kid to
Speaker 1: like vacation Bible school or something, and they have so
Speaker 1: many I mean they've really thought it out. They have
Speaker 1: all these different art projects and you know, science projects
Speaker 1: even um, so it's really impressive. But I guess back
Speaker 1: in the day you didn't have that. What you had
Speaker 1: were raw potatoes, and you you just killed time as
Speaker 1: you get as best you could. Well, anyway, thanks for
Speaker 1: getting in touch, Carlo Us. All right, Well, since we're
Speaker 1: talking about vegetables, our next one concerns are episodes on
Speaker 1: The Vegetable Lamb of Tartari, though this will only concern
Speaker 1: part one because this email came in before part two
Speaker 1: was published. Taylor writes in and says, hello, Rob and Joe,
Speaker 1: I just finished part one of The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. Robert,
Speaker 1: your son may have missed this one, but there is
Speaker 1: in fact a vegetable lamb Pokemon. Its name is skid Do,
Speaker 1: and while it is not attached to the earth by
Speaker 1: a strange umbilicus, it can photosynthesize using the leaves growing
Speaker 1: like fur on its back. It grows or evolves into
Speaker 1: the Pokemon go Goat, whose horns are said to change
Speaker 1: in texture to reflect its emotions. This is the second
Speaker 1: time I've written in to weigh in on Pokemon, and
Speaker 1: I'm happy to be the show's Pokemon correspondent. However, Rob,
Speaker 1: if your son is anywhere near is enthusiastic about Pocket
Speaker 1: Monster is as I was and am, you may share
Speaker 1: my father's fatigue for the subject. Thanks for all your
Speaker 1: wonderful explorations of the strange beasts of fact and fiction.
Speaker 1: I've attached to illustrations of skidd Oh and go got
Speaker 1: for your viewing pleasure. All the best, Taylor. Okay, so
Speaker 1: we got the two pictures. I guess this is the
Speaker 1: what they would call the evolution. I don't know much
Speaker 1: about Pokemon, but the first one is like cute, and
Speaker 1: then the second one, well, the first one's cute and
Speaker 1: it appears to be hopping about and kicking its back
Speaker 1: legs and has a bushy vegetation on its coat, and
Speaker 1: its horns are in kind of a y shape or
Speaker 1: like that that old school uh, the flipping out middle
Speaker 1: part hair comb what I don't know what you call
Speaker 1: that hair do Anyway, the older one has like red
Speaker 1: angry eyes instead of the cute eyes, and then it's
Speaker 1: horns are just going straight back. Yeah. Yeah, this one,
Speaker 1: I guess just has two forms. A lot of them
Speaker 1: have three, but not all, and some of them don't
Speaker 1: have but the one form. But typically what you'll see
Speaker 1: is the the basic form. The first form will be
Speaker 1: super cute, and the final form will be fierce, and
Speaker 1: then the middle form. Uh well, sometimes it's cute, I
Speaker 1: mean because Pikachu, whoever everyone knows, is technically like like
Speaker 1: the second form. It's like the mid form between Pichu
Speaker 1: and right you. Uh. But but in some cases that
Speaker 1: middle form it is also just a little like it's
Speaker 1: not completely cute, but it's also not fearsome yet it's
Speaker 1: just kind of awkward. Wait, so there's a baby Pikachu.
Speaker 1: Oh god, yes, it's it's named Pichu, and it's an
Speaker 1: imagine Pikachu even cuter. Um, that is my son's favorite Pokemon.
Speaker 1: Uh and I get to hear about him all the time.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, but yeah, this is a solid point about
Speaker 1: go Goat and uh skid. Oh here. Um, I was
Speaker 1: not familiar with him, but I woke my son up
Speaker 1: this morning saying, hey, we got I got an email
Speaker 1: from a listener about Pokemon. He came in and looked
Speaker 1: at it. He's like, oh, yeah, yeah, I know these two.
Speaker 1: So you woke him as if like there was an
Speaker 1: emerge agency son, son out of bed. Nothing wakes him
Speaker 1: up like Pokemon stuff. He can be a little a
Speaker 1: little slow to wake otherwise. Uh so yeah, this looks
Speaker 1: this looks great. Um. It also reminded me so the
Speaker 1: final form here is Go go There's a ghost track
Speaker 1: titled Kiss the Go Goat, which is supposed to be
Speaker 1: tongue in cheek satan stuff like most of the ghost tracks.
Speaker 1: But now I shall only associated with this particular Pokemon.
Speaker 1: Now I would have to imagine this is directly inspired
Speaker 1: by the by the vegetable lamb of Tartari. Right, it
Speaker 1: would be a strange coincidence if it were not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems very likely. Um, and it was wrong of
Speaker 1: me to question the Pokemon masters by saying, why isn't
Speaker 1: there one, because clearly they're on it. Though to return
Speaker 1: to biblical themes, of course, there there are famously distinctions
Speaker 1: between sheep and goats. So yeah, alright, I'm gonna read
Speaker 1: this next message. This is in response to our episodes
Speaker 1: on the three pupil die. This is from Chris, and
Speaker 1: Chris begins by saying, in your podcast you discussed polychoria
Speaker 1: and pseudo polychoria, and to briefly refresh, these are rare
Speaker 1: conditions which cause the appearance of multiple pupils or openings
Speaker 1: in the iris, and the far more common of these
Speaker 1: two is the false version pseudo polychoria, where there is
Speaker 1: at least one additional hole in the iris, but it's
Speaker 1: not considered a true second pupil because it doesn't have
Speaker 1: its own sphincter muscle surrounding it, so it can't adjust
Speaker 1: its aperture like the primary pupil can, whereas true polychoria
Speaker 1: is when the second pupil has its own sphincter muscle
Speaker 1: and it can, so you shine a light in that
Speaker 1: both of the pupils will contract anyway. Chris goes on
Speaker 1: to say, I was born with oculo cutaneous Albanism, and
Speaker 1: a sub diagnosis of my condition is the pseudo or
Speaker 1: false polychoria. My iris has insufficient pigment to cause some
Speaker 1: parts of the red to shine through the iris. I
Speaker 1: think means resulting in pink eyes. Also, under nondirect light,
Speaker 1: dots or holes in the eye where the pigment is
Speaker 1: missing cause the polychoria, like a stained glass window with
Speaker 1: small holes in the paint. The effects are hypersensitivity to light.
Speaker 1: I have to wear sunglasses more than most and get
Speaker 1: headaches from being outside. Also another side effect is since
Speaker 1: the light is not filtered in parts of the iris,
Speaker 1: I can detect shades of colors that are not normal.
Speaker 1: Super chromatic is uh is I think what they call it.
Speaker 1: Think of the color blindness tests, but with three colors
Speaker 1: instead of two, where people with normal vision only see
Speaker 1: the two. Anyway, love your podcast format, hyper referenced and
Speaker 1: detailed analysis, Chris, Well, thank you, Chris. Yeah, this is interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm especially interested by the idea of you talking about
Speaker 1: your increased sensitivity to the color spectrum. I've heard before
Speaker 1: of the idea that there are more color is to
Speaker 1: see than than we see. They're they're various types of
Speaker 1: I think it's called tetra tetra chromacy and other animals,
Speaker 1: but I was not familiar with the idea in humans.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to look into that, the the idea
Speaker 1: of expanded color range sensitivity. So thank you, Chris. All Right, Well,
Speaker 1: we also heard from another Chris on more on the
Speaker 1: same episode in response to the same episodes. This Chris
Speaker 1: writes in and says, greetings, Rob, Joe and Seth just
Speaker 1: finished the second episode of The Three Pupiled Eye. A
Speaker 1: great pair of episodes that certainly brought up some fun
Speaker 1: topics and had me thinking about eyes and pupils in
Speaker 1: a new way. Near the end of the episode, you
Speaker 1: discussed some interesting pupils and eye configurations in the natural world,
Speaker 1: and this brought to mind interesting examples of eyes and
Speaker 1: the fantasy world. One pair of eyes that I can
Speaker 1: never forget are those of the Pale Man, one of
Speaker 1: the Monsters, and Giermo del Toro's film Pans Labyrinth. While
Speaker 1: the actual eyes and pupils may not be that extraordinary,
Speaker 1: it's their placement that is unique. His body resembles a
Speaker 1: pale old man, visible nostrils and mouth similar to those
Speaker 1: of a manta ray. He ultimately eats children, but also fairies.
Speaker 1: His eyes can be placed in the sockets in his
Speaker 1: hands rather than the face. UH this site and he's
Speaker 1: talking about a fandom WICKI about this creature also makes
Speaker 1: note that the Pale Man was also influenced by the
Speaker 1: real life Japanese legendary monster to No May the ghost
Speaker 1: of a blind man whose eyes are located in the
Speaker 1: palms of his hands, which I thought was interesting as well.
Speaker 1: Maybe an episode on mythical or monster eyes is in order.
Speaker 1: Thanks again for the great episode, Chris. The idea of
Speaker 1: eyes in the hands brings to mind another recent episode
Speaker 1: we will actually be referenced it earlier, the animal cuisine
Speaker 1: thing where we talked about the washing behaviors and raccoons.
Speaker 1: Someone's raccoons will wash their food before eating it, and
Speaker 1: there have been multiple explanations for this hypothesized. One of
Speaker 1: them is that the raccoon UH has one of its
Speaker 1: primary sensory interfaces with the world is actually as sense
Speaker 1: of touch. It has extremely sensitive hands, it's four paws
Speaker 1: of tons and tons of nerve endings leading up to
Speaker 1: the brain and um and that it's so so in
Speaker 1: a way, for raccoon, touching things is almost as important
Speaker 1: as our ability to look at things is, like that's
Speaker 1: a primary sense for them. And so perhaps the reason
Speaker 1: for this washing behavior is that feeling around on a
Speaker 1: food item in the water helps increase the sensitivity of
Speaker 1: the four paws in in getting you know, textural information
Speaker 1: about the food. That strikes me as a as a
Speaker 1: possibility and and very interesting one. It's like having eyes
Speaker 1: in your hands. Now. Certainly this this monster in Hans Labyrinth, yeah,
Speaker 1: is very memorable. But they the yokai that that that
Speaker 1: Chris mentions here that Tenome is also very interesting as well.
Speaker 1: I was reading about him with my son just this
Speaker 1: past October. So what's the scoop on the Tenome? It's
Speaker 1: just just hands and like what does he do with
Speaker 1: the the eye hands? Oh, trying to remember offhand. Um,
Speaker 1: like a lot of their number of the yokai you
Speaker 1: know that don't actually kill you or hurt you. They're
Speaker 1: just there to kind of scare you. Um. So I
Speaker 1: don't recall off the top of my head what the
Speaker 1: Tenom is up to other than particularly you know, possibly
Speaker 1: scaring you. But I don't know. Maybe we'll have to
Speaker 1: have to look into this. Um it was, it's it's
Speaker 1: a pretty pretty fun one. Is I recall there's some
Speaker 1: other yokai with interesting ocular positioning as well? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: like what there's one with an eye in the butt?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, there's a there's a section one. I
Speaker 1: think that the book that I was reading with my son,
Speaker 1: Yokai Attack, the Japanese Monster Survival Guide, which which is
Speaker 1: excellent for all ages because it has wonderful sort of
Speaker 1: anime style illustrations but also well cited, well written information
Speaker 1: about all the yokai. Uh it included um information on
Speaker 1: both of these yokai, plus a ton of other ones.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, Well, I'm gonna have to look that one
Speaker 1: up in my own reference. The one I always turned
Speaker 1: to that I've got on my show Fear is the
Speaker 1: Book of Yokai by Michael Foster Michael Dylan Foster. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know we should come back and do some okai
Speaker 1: content the future. Then maybe maybe that will be some good,
Speaker 1: good Halloween material this year. Oh yeah, we've done it before.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we will do it again. Were plenty of them,
Speaker 1: all right, I think we're gonna turn to some weird
Speaker 1: house Cinema responses. This first one is from James. James says,
Speaker 1: good afternoon, gentlemen. I was excited to see you featured
Speaker 1: The Abominable Doctor fives on a recent Weird House Cinema episode.
Speaker 1: While I've never seen it, it's one of the many
Speaker 1: b horror movies I've known about for a long time
Speaker 1: due to a Misfit song of the same name. Oh yeah, James,
Speaker 1: I know what you're talking about, James says, listening to
Speaker 1: your podcast was the perfect motivation to finally buy a
Speaker 1: used copy on eBay to experience the movie myself, and boy,
Speaker 1: oh boy, what a treat. I haven't seen such a
Speaker 1: hilariously tongue in cheek horror movie since Cabin in the Woods,
Speaker 1: and I now understand why the related Misfits song is
Speaker 1: one of their rare instrumental tracks as the namesake Doctor
Speaker 1: cannot speak. The episodes preamble also sent me down and
Speaker 1: amusing Vincent Price advertisement rabbit Hole. The sun Country Wine
Speaker 1: Cooler polar Bear ad is weirdly cute. That's what it was.
Speaker 1: Sun Country Wine Coolers that they got the good one
Speaker 1: with vincive price and uh and with Grace Jones and
Speaker 1: I'm sure some other stars. They probably did some other
Speaker 1: celebs of the day. They could get James goes on.
Speaker 1: But the Monster Vitamin's commercial should come with a disclaimer
Speaker 1: that you may never see Mr Price the same way again.
Speaker 1: Apparently he keeps children locked up in his basement um
Speaker 1: and then he says, at least they're getting proper vitamin
Speaker 1: nutrition plus iron down there. And what James is referring
Speaker 1: to I looked this up in the Monster Vitamin's ad.
Speaker 1: So Price is giving you the pitch. He's like, you know,
Speaker 1: here they are. They're delicious, they're chewable, they're good for you.
Speaker 1: But then he opens a trapdoor in the floor and
Speaker 1: like shake some vitamins down to the children who are
Speaker 1: apparently kept there. Well, those are just the children under
Speaker 1: the stairs, nothing going on there. It is amazing what
Speaker 1: used to make it into commercials now Man commercials now
Speaker 1: are too safe. They're not gonna risk making you associate
Speaker 1: the product with like the capture of children in dungeon.
Speaker 1: You know, it does all the thinking about all these
Speaker 1: Vincent Price commercials, it does make me think that technically
Speaker 1: we could bring all these back. Like I don't know
Speaker 1: if the Vincent Vincent Price of State and his family
Speaker 1: members will be down for it. But the technology to
Speaker 1: recreate deceased actors using computer technology is better now than
Speaker 1: it's it's ever been. Like. Oh no, no, I hate it.
Speaker 1: Have you seen some of the recent examples, because I
Speaker 1: know you're still thinking of Tarkan, but the latest like
Speaker 1: reproductions of say Luke Skywalker, Young Luke Skywalker are really good.
Speaker 1: So I think we're at the point now where we
Speaker 1: could bring Vincent Price back and have him be a
Speaker 1: spokesperson for all new um short lived alcoholic beverages. Oh man,
Speaker 1: I so want to yes and you, but I just
Speaker 1: hate it too much. I hate yes, I hate it
Speaker 1: all right, fair enough anyway anyway. James goes on to say,
Speaker 1: thanks for the recommendation. Please feel free to peruse the
Speaker 1: Misfits catalog of songs for future episodes of Weird House Cinema.
Speaker 1: I thank you, James, I will feel free. Uh. He
Speaker 1: also goes on to say to talk about a different episode.
Speaker 1: He says, during a recent Listener Mail episode, you discussed
Speaker 1: the safety of eating raw potatoes. I think specifically we
Speaker 1: said we did not know whether there were safety concerns
Speaker 1: or not, and Unfortunately, I still have not really looked
Speaker 1: deeply into that, so so I don't take medical advice
Speaker 1: from the following. But James says, I believe the fear
Speaker 1: stems from the possible presence of a toxin called soul nine,
Speaker 1: which can cause symptoms akin to food poisoning and an
Speaker 1: extreme case as death. However, soulenine concentration is only significant
Speaker 1: in a potato's eyes, sprout stems, and leaves, so be
Speaker 1: sure to avoid those. This is of course not true
Speaker 1: for carrots, radishes, beats, etcetera, whose greens are extremely nutritious
Speaker 1: and can be tasty both raw and cooked. I myself,
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of eating many vegetables raw, especially asparagus,
Speaker 1: and am now curious to sneak a chunk of non
Speaker 1: green potato the next time I'm preparing them. While I
Speaker 1: do prefer them roasted. I'll typically sneak a few raw
Speaker 1: brussels sprout chunks myself while cooking them. I'll just be
Speaker 1: sure to avoid them served in the style of fibes
Speaker 1: I e. Goo and ensure no locusts are nearby. My
Speaker 1: gecks crickets probably couldn't devour my face, but I'll air
Speaker 1: on the side of caution. As always, many thanks for
Speaker 1: bringing background entertainment to my work day several days a week.
Speaker 1: Love your podcast. Cheers James. Well, thank you, James. But
Speaker 1: to come back to your idea about the Misfits songs
Speaker 1: about old B movies. I one time, when I was
Speaker 1: in college, I was seeing a friend of mine UH
Speaker 1: and his band perform, and I'm not sure what genre
Speaker 1: you call him, and it's not bluegrass. They were like
Speaker 1: a sort of traditional style UH instrumental band mostly that
Speaker 1: would play with like a banjo and a fiddle and
Speaker 1: and and would play sort of an old, old mountain
Speaker 1: tunes I think. But I went up to talk to
Speaker 1: them in the middle of the show and I asked
Speaker 1: my friend. I was like, well, it's a great show,
Speaker 1: but where the Danzig covers? And he launched into a
Speaker 1: profoundly beautiful, uh sort of mountain blue grass cover of
Speaker 1: Astro Zombies by the Misfits, and it was pretty good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know. When I was like in junior high I
Speaker 1: was into into the Danzing, but I didn't know much
Speaker 1: about the Misfits. It was only much later that I
Speaker 1: got to explore such wonderful lyrics as return of the Fly,
Speaker 1: Return of the Fly with Vincent Price. Yeah, the Return
Speaker 1: of the Fly don't get any better than that. It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's like poetry. By the way, James here when he
Speaker 1: shared the playlist or the list of films that inspired
Speaker 1: Misfits songs, he shared that to us on letterbox that's
Speaker 1: L E T T E R B O x D
Speaker 1: dot com. I don't know. I don't know how widespread,
Speaker 1: uh this this website is. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: new or it's been around for a few years. But
Speaker 1: a listener wrote in I think on our discord and
Speaker 1: was like, hey, you should you should set one of
Speaker 1: these up for weird House Cinema. So I have set
Speaker 1: one up for weird House Cinema. If you go to letterboxed,
Speaker 1: you can just search for weird House. Our user name
Speaker 1: is weird House and right now it's just a bare
Speaker 1: bones account, but it has a full list of all
Speaker 1: the movies we've covered on weird House. And uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: if there's enough interest in the site, if this is
Speaker 1: something that is of interest to folks, we could always
Speaker 1: spring for an h Q account and do more with it.
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, uh, there sure is a list
Speaker 1: of movies there, and it's a great way to sort
Speaker 1: of instantly visualize what we've covered thus far. All right,
Speaker 1: speaking of the discord, one more bit of listener mail here.
Speaker 1: This one comes to us from from Matt sharing the
Speaker 1: following about the Devil Rides Out quote with regards to
Speaker 1: your discussion of the Duke's religious affiliation at the end
Speaker 1: of the episode. The story makes me think a bit
Speaker 1: of the Eisenhorn trilogy by Dan Abnett. Hardline puritanical inquisitor
Speaker 1: gradually starts using the tools of the arch enemy because Hey,
Speaker 1: if I'm the one summoning demons, it's fine because I'm
Speaker 1: responsible and I'm using them to fight other demons. It
Speaker 1: would have been great if there was a sequel to
Speaker 1: The Devil Rides Out where the Duke had gone full
Speaker 1: radical and was being hunted by other puritanical sorts. I
Speaker 1: love this. I love this idea. Yeah, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: Matt makes a great point here. Uh So, first of all,
Speaker 1: the Eisenhorn books by Dan Abnet are a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I've I've read, uh I think I've read four of them,
Speaker 1: the four key Eisenhorn books. He knows Mallius Hereticus and
Speaker 1: the meges Uh, though the character pops up in some
Speaker 1: other books that he wrote as well. I particularly like
Speaker 1: Zenos from two thousand one, but the Magoes from is
Speaker 1: also a lot of fun. These are books about an
Speaker 1: imperial inquisitor in the Warhammer forty thousand universe, tests with
Speaker 1: hunting down heretics and stopping their evil deeds. Now, these
Speaker 1: stories don't take place on the epic grim dark battlegrounds
Speaker 1: of the forty K universe, but they instead tend to
Speaker 1: revolve around backwater planets and and sometimes the just the
Speaker 1: everyday lives of people that are living in the shadows
Speaker 1: of these these you know, these big altercations. So I
Speaker 1: could be wrong, but I don't think you need to
Speaker 1: have a lot of forty K lore stashed in your
Speaker 1: head to enjoy these books. And Abnet is also just
Speaker 1: a solid writer as well. But indeed, one of the
Speaker 1: recurring themes in the Eisenhorn books is that every inquisitor
Speaker 1: will either die in service to the cause or they'll
Speaker 1: live long enough to become a heretic themselves. Um because
Speaker 1: of course, the inquisitors inherently have great knowledge of the
Speaker 1: occult threats they face but then they increasingly use occult
Speaker 1: powers to combat those forces, and eventually they just lose
Speaker 1: their way. So at first you're combating dark forces with
Speaker 1: your own dark forces that you're harnessing, but eventually you're
Speaker 1: just lost and you're another slave to darkness. And so
Speaker 1: I think this is this is pretty insightful and absence
Speaker 1: part because it matches up with, first of all, what
Speaker 1: you see with with witch hunters of old, as well
Speaker 1: as with many modern crusaders against various perceived cultural threats.
Speaker 1: Because in times of old, witchcraft persecutions became an excuse
Speaker 1: for cruelty and horror, as well as the satisfaction of
Speaker 1: one's own interests in the sorts of ideas and practices
Speaker 1: that one outwardly opposed. And how many moral crusaders from
Speaker 1: our own times come to possess just exhaustive information about
Speaker 1: the things they crusade against. They know all the terms,
Speaker 1: all the slang, all the alleged perversions and paraphernalia. But
Speaker 1: they're safe. They're the ones in the video of warning
Speaker 1: you against the powers of Satan. They're the they're the
Speaker 1: duke fighting the devil in the night. So they're okay.
Speaker 1: They can have this knowledge, right, I can listen to
Speaker 1: the heavy metal albums because I'm doing it from a
Speaker 1: place of judgment and moral authority. I just need to
Speaker 1: understand what they're what they're doing. You know what satanic
Speaker 1: messages they're preaching, and so forth and so forth. I
Speaker 1: can you know, the Duke, I can read these occult tomes.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't you. I'd rather see you dead than reading
Speaker 1: these occult tomes that I've been staying up all night with. Yes,
Speaker 1: the Church has authorized me to listen to Sabbath day
Speaker 1: and night front words and backwards so that I can
Speaker 1: keep a watch and look out for the children. So anyway,
Speaker 1: thanks for writing in, Matt and I For anyone out
Speaker 1: there who wants to be a part of the Stuff
Speaker 1: to Blow your Mind discord, just email us and I'll
Speaker 1: send you the link. That seems to be the best
Speaker 1: way to go about this, because the links expire and
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a way for you to otherwise
Speaker 1: join the group. But I just shoot us an email.
Speaker 1: We'll have the email here shared for you, and just
Speaker 1: a moment in the meantime, if you would like to
Speaker 1: check out other episodes of well, Stuff to Blow Your
Speaker 1: Mind Core episodes on two season Thursdays, or episodes of
Speaker 1: Weird House Cinema which air on Fridays. It's all in
Speaker 1: the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast feed, which you
Speaker 1: can find wherever you get your podcasts. Just look it up,
Speaker 1: subscribe to it, and if you're allowed to leave a
Speaker 1: nice review, you know, throw a bunch of stars our
Speaker 1: away and say say something nice. Um that that that
Speaker 1: that helps the almighty algorithm. We assume all right, one
Speaker 1: assumes I mean the ways that the algorithm are mysterious. Yeah,
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