WEBVTT - Listener Mail: Planta Haereticus 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.360 Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind production of My 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:11.319 Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:15.680 listener Mail. This is Robert Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.040 And it's Monday, which is the day of every week 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:19.799 that we read back some of the messages that you 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:22.640 have sent in in response to recent episodes of the show. 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:25.000 Rob If you don't mind, I'm going to get started 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.639 with this message from Carlos, which I think is in 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.560 response to our series on called The Beast War and 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.960 Apron about like animal cuisine and about a listener mail 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:44.640 segment that was responding to that. Carlos says, Hi, Robin, Joe, 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.040 I was listening to your most recent listener mail episode 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.880 today on my way to school, and the first letter, 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:54.160 which was about sneaking away raw slices of potato to eat, 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.440 caused an old memory to come bubbling to the surface. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:01.680 I was raised in an evangelical church, and summer camp 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.080 was a large part of my life. When I think 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.480 about it now, one of the strangest things about these 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:10.679 camps was how many of the games revolved around embarrassing 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:15.600 slash unpleasant experiences. The one that I suddenly remembered today, 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:17.959 which I had apparently tried to forget, was a game 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.360 in which several kids, myself included, had a race to 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:25.760 eat a raw white potato as fast as possible. I 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.679 remember it being very unpleasant, perhaps one of the more 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.160 terrible food experiences of my life. When I have kids, 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.800 I don't think they will be attending these camps. Ha ha. 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:39.199 Thanks for everything, I hope all as well. Carlos. What 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:43.080 kind of game is this? I must know more? What 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:45.880 was it just a race to eat a raw potato? 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.320 Or was there like context? Was it illustrating a Bible 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.440 story or something? Yeah, I don't know, and it sounds 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:54.920 sounds from the email. I'm I'm assuming this means it 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.920 was like a an official part of the camp. It 0:01:58.040 --> 0:01:59.960 wasn't just like us. Some kids got bored and they 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.160 got ahold of some potatoes. But you know, like a 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.320 count counselor was like today, children, we shall see who 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.560 can eat these potatoes. This is sanctioned by adults. Um. 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.880 They bring, in fact, they bring the authority of the Lord, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:16.119 you God Almighty to say you must eat this raw potato. Yeah, 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.040 and I don't know. I'm trying to imagine what kind 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.080 of like Bible camp connection that could have would it be. 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.760 I don't well, there are no mentions of potatoes in 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.000 the Bible, obviously, you know that's a new World food. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.400 So like maybe something about the verse about if salt 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:33.320 loses its safer I'm coming up blank, I don't know. 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.320 I mean, obviously it was it was refer in the 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.960 old days. I mean today you send a kid to 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.640 like vacation Bible school or something, and they have so 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:43.520 many I mean they've really thought it out. They have 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.680 all these different art projects and you know, science projects 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.079 even um, so it's really impressive. But I guess back 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.120 in the day you didn't have that. What you had 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:56.079 were raw potatoes, and you you just killed time as 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.120 you get as best you could. Well, anyway, thanks for 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:06.560 getting in touch, Carlo Us. All right, Well, since we're 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:10.520 talking about vegetables, our next one concerns are episodes on 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.120 The Vegetable Lamb of Tartari, though this will only concern 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.920 part one because this email came in before part two 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:21.480 was published. Taylor writes in and says, hello, Rob and Joe, 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:25.760 I just finished part one of The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. Robert, 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.280 your son may have missed this one, but there is 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:32.480 in fact a vegetable lamb Pokemon. Its name is skid Do, 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.080 and while it is not attached to the earth by 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:40.120 a strange umbilicus, it can photosynthesize using the leaves growing 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.880 like fur on its back. It grows or evolves into 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.520 the Pokemon go Goat, whose horns are said to change 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.400 in texture to reflect its emotions. This is the second 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.840 time I've written in to weigh in on Pokemon, and 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.040 I'm happy to be the show's Pokemon correspondent. However, Rob, 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.680 if your son is anywhere near is enthusiastic about Pocket 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.480 Monster is as I was and am, you may share 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.040 my father's fatigue for the subject. Thanks for all your 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.640 wonderful explorations of the strange beasts of fact and fiction. 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.240 I've attached to illustrations of skidd Oh and go got 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.640 for your viewing pleasure. All the best, Taylor. Okay, so 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.359 we got the two pictures. I guess this is the 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.720 what they would call the evolution. I don't know much 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.880 about Pokemon, but the first one is like cute, and 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.680 then the second one, well, the first one's cute and 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.039 it appears to be hopping about and kicking its back 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.560 legs and has a bushy vegetation on its coat, and 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.719 its horns are in kind of a y shape or 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.360 like that that old school uh, the flipping out middle 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.520 part hair comb what I don't know what you call 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.480 that hair do Anyway, the older one has like red 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.080 angry eyes instead of the cute eyes, and then it's 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.840 horns are just going straight back. Yeah. Yeah, this one, 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:51.760 I guess just has two forms. A lot of them 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.039 have three, but not all, and some of them don't 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.840 have but the one form. But typically what you'll see 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.880 is the the basic form. The first form will be 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:04.240 super cute, and the final form will be fierce, and 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.599 then the middle form. Uh well, sometimes it's cute, I 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:12.359 mean because Pikachu, whoever everyone knows, is technically like like 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.040 the second form. It's like the mid form between Pichu 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:19.760 and right you. Uh. But but in some cases that 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.719 middle form it is also just a little like it's 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.200 not completely cute, but it's also not fearsome yet it's 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.240 just kind of awkward. Wait, so there's a baby Pikachu. 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.320 Oh god, yes, it's it's named Pichu, and it's an 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:37.000 imagine Pikachu even cuter. Um, that is my son's favorite Pokemon. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.120 Uh and I get to hear about him all the time. 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:43.760 Oh boy, but yeah, this is a solid point about 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:49.200 go Goat and uh skid. Oh here. Um, I was 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.320 not familiar with him, but I woke my son up 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.239 this morning saying, hey, we got I got an email 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.599 from a listener about Pokemon. He came in and looked 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.120 at it. He's like, oh, yeah, yeah, I know these two. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.680 So you woke him as if like there was an 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:03.120 emerge agency son, son out of bed. Nothing wakes him 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.800 up like Pokemon stuff. He can be a little a 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:10.080 little slow to wake otherwise. Uh so yeah, this looks 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.159 this looks great. Um. It also reminded me so the 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.279 final form here is Go go There's a ghost track 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.000 titled Kiss the Go Goat, which is supposed to be 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.799 tongue in cheek satan stuff like most of the ghost tracks. 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.640 But now I shall only associated with this particular Pokemon. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.560 Now I would have to imagine this is directly inspired 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.960 by the by the vegetable lamb of Tartari. Right, it 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.960 would be a strange coincidence if it were not. Yeah, 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.599 it seems very likely. Um, and it was wrong of 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.480 me to question the Pokemon masters by saying, why isn't 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.520 there one, because clearly they're on it. Though to return 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:49.040 to biblical themes, of course, there there are famously distinctions 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:57.680 between sheep and goats. So yeah, alright, I'm gonna read 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.880 this next message. This is in response to our episodes 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.719 on the three pupil die. This is from Chris, and 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:09.000 Chris begins by saying, in your podcast you discussed polychoria 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:13.840 and pseudo polychoria, and to briefly refresh, these are rare 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:18.320 conditions which cause the appearance of multiple pupils or openings 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.200 in the iris, and the far more common of these 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.840 two is the false version pseudo polychoria, where there is 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.000 at least one additional hole in the iris, but it's 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.320 not considered a true second pupil because it doesn't have 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.080 its own sphincter muscle surrounding it, so it can't adjust 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:38.280 its aperture like the primary pupil can, whereas true polychoria 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.360 is when the second pupil has its own sphincter muscle 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.000 and it can, so you shine a light in that 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.760 both of the pupils will contract anyway. Chris goes on 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:51.200 to say, I was born with oculo cutaneous Albanism, and 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.680 a sub diagnosis of my condition is the pseudo or 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:59.160 false polychoria. My iris has insufficient pigment to cause some 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.520 parts of the red to shine through the iris. I 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:07.480 think means resulting in pink eyes. Also, under nondirect light, 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.160 dots or holes in the eye where the pigment is 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:14.160 missing cause the polychoria, like a stained glass window with 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:18.600 small holes in the paint. The effects are hypersensitivity to light. 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.520 I have to wear sunglasses more than most and get 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:25.360 headaches from being outside. Also another side effect is since 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.920 the light is not filtered in parts of the iris, 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.200 I can detect shades of colors that are not normal. 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.920 Super chromatic is uh is I think what they call it. 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.440 Think of the color blindness tests, but with three colors 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.720 instead of two, where people with normal vision only see 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.520 the two. Anyway, love your podcast format, hyper referenced and 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:50.439 detailed analysis, Chris, Well, thank you, Chris. Yeah, this is interesting. 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.320 I'm especially interested by the idea of you talking about 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:58.319 your increased sensitivity to the color spectrum. I've heard before 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.320 of the idea that there are more color is to 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.240 see than than we see. They're they're various types of 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.520 I think it's called tetra tetra chromacy and other animals, 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.360 but I was not familiar with the idea in humans. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.480 I'm gonna have to look into that, the the idea 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:21.319 of expanded color range sensitivity. So thank you, Chris. All Right, Well, 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.480 we also heard from another Chris on more on the 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.640 same episode in response to the same episodes. This Chris 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.920 writes in and says, greetings, Rob, Joe and Seth just 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.840 finished the second episode of The Three Pupiled Eye. A 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.560 great pair of episodes that certainly brought up some fun 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.000 topics and had me thinking about eyes and pupils in 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.440 a new way. Near the end of the episode, you 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:44.160 discussed some interesting pupils and eye configurations in the natural world, 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.959 and this brought to mind interesting examples of eyes and 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.880 the fantasy world. One pair of eyes that I can 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.040 never forget are those of the Pale Man, one of 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:56.640 the Monsters, and Giermo del Toro's film Pans Labyrinth. While 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.440 the actual eyes and pupils may not be that extraordinary, 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:03.120 it's their placement that is unique. His body resembles a 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:07.080 pale old man, visible nostrils and mouth similar to those 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.720 of a manta ray. He ultimately eats children, but also fairies. 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.800 His eyes can be placed in the sockets in his 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:18.240 hands rather than the face. UH this site and he's 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:22.000 talking about a fandom WICKI about this creature also makes 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.320 note that the Pale Man was also influenced by the 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:28.120 real life Japanese legendary monster to No May the ghost 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.360 of a blind man whose eyes are located in the 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.400 palms of his hands, which I thought was interesting as well. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.679 Maybe an episode on mythical or monster eyes is in order. 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.880 Thanks again for the great episode, Chris. The idea of 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.400 eyes in the hands brings to mind another recent episode 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.120 we will actually be referenced it earlier, the animal cuisine 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.160 thing where we talked about the washing behaviors and raccoons. 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.560 Someone's raccoons will wash their food before eating it, and 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.600 there have been multiple explanations for this hypothesized. One of 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:00.880 them is that the raccoon UH has one of its 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.600 primary sensory interfaces with the world is actually as sense 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:07.560 of touch. It has extremely sensitive hands, it's four paws 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.120 of tons and tons of nerve endings leading up to 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.560 the brain and um and that it's so so in 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:17.920 a way, for raccoon, touching things is almost as important 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.280 as our ability to look at things is, like that's 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.040 a primary sense for them. And so perhaps the reason 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.880 for this washing behavior is that feeling around on a 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:29.640 food item in the water helps increase the sensitivity of 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:33.000 the four paws in in getting you know, textural information 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.920 about the food. That strikes me as a as a 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.880 possibility and and very interesting one. It's like having eyes 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:44.600 in your hands. Now. Certainly this this monster in Hans Labyrinth, yeah, 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.640 is very memorable. But they the yokai that that that 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.480 Chris mentions here that Tenome is also very interesting as well. 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.680 I was reading about him with my son just this 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.559 past October. So what's the scoop on the Tenome? It's 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:58.880 just just hands and like what does he do with 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:03.880 the the eye hands? Oh, trying to remember offhand. Um, 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.200 like a lot of their number of the yokai you 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.360 know that don't actually kill you or hurt you. They're 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:13.040 just there to kind of scare you. Um. So I 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.080 don't recall off the top of my head what the 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.840 Tenom is up to other than particularly you know, possibly 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.520 scaring you. But I don't know. Maybe we'll have to 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.679 have to look into this. Um it was, it's it's 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.000 a pretty pretty fun one. Is I recall there's some 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:31.079 other yokai with interesting ocular positioning as well? Oh yeah, 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.080 like what there's one with an eye in the butt? 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.000 Uh yeah, yeah, there's a there's a section one. I 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:38.640 think that the book that I was reading with my son, 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.840 Yokai Attack, the Japanese Monster Survival Guide, which which is 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.559 excellent for all ages because it has wonderful sort of 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:48.720 anime style illustrations but also well cited, well written information 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.160 about all the yokai. Uh it included um information on 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.440 both of these yokai, plus a ton of other ones. 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:56.280 Oh nice, Well, I'm gonna have to look that one 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.680 up in my own reference. The one I always turned 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.560 to that I've got on my show Fear is the 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:05.720 Book of Yokai by Michael Foster Michael Dylan Foster. Yeah, well, 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.280 you know we should come back and do some okai 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.679 content the future. Then maybe maybe that will be some good, 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.800 good Halloween material this year. Oh yeah, we've done it before. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:24.320 I'm sure we will do it again. Were plenty of them, 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.040 all right, I think we're gonna turn to some weird 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:30.360 house Cinema responses. This first one is from James. James says, 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.440 good afternoon, gentlemen. I was excited to see you featured 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:37.040 The Abominable Doctor fives on a recent Weird House Cinema episode. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:38.960 While I've never seen it, it's one of the many 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.439 b horror movies I've known about for a long time 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:45.679 due to a Misfit song of the same name. Oh yeah, James, 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.720 I know what you're talking about, James says, listening to 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.280 your podcast was the perfect motivation to finally buy a 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:55.080 used copy on eBay to experience the movie myself, and boy, 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.840 oh boy, what a treat. I haven't seen such a 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.920 hilariously tongue in cheek horror movie since Cabin in the Woods, 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.360 and I now understand why the related Misfits song is 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.880 one of their rare instrumental tracks as the namesake Doctor 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:12.080 cannot speak. The episodes preamble also sent me down and 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:17.200 amusing Vincent Price advertisement rabbit Hole. The sun Country Wine 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.080 Cooler polar Bear ad is weirdly cute. That's what it was. 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.520 Sun Country Wine Coolers that they got the good one 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.080 with vincive price and uh and with Grace Jones and 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.160 I'm sure some other stars. They probably did some other 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.960 celebs of the day. They could get James goes on. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:34.440 But the Monster Vitamin's commercial should come with a disclaimer 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.280 that you may never see Mr Price the same way again. 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:42.360 Apparently he keeps children locked up in his basement um 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.760 and then he says, at least they're getting proper vitamin 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:48.800 nutrition plus iron down there. And what James is referring 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:52.120 to I looked this up in the Monster Vitamin's ad. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.440 So Price is giving you the pitch. He's like, you know, 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.360 here they are. They're delicious, they're chewable, they're good for you. 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.520 But then he opens a trapdoor in the floor and 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.640 like shake some vitamins down to the children who are 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.640 apparently kept there. Well, those are just the children under 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:10.080 the stairs, nothing going on there. It is amazing what 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:14.480 used to make it into commercials now Man commercials now 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:18.720 are too safe. They're not gonna risk making you associate 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.200 the product with like the capture of children in dungeon. 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.920 You know, it does all the thinking about all these 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.800 Vincent Price commercials, it does make me think that technically 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.440 we could bring all these back. Like I don't know 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.360 if the Vincent Vincent Price of State and his family 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:40.840 members will be down for it. But the technology to 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:46.640 recreate deceased actors using computer technology is better now than 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:50.160 it's it's ever been. Like. Oh no, no, I hate it. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.320 Have you seen some of the recent examples, because I 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.480 know you're still thinking of Tarkan, but the latest like 0:15:55.600 --> 0:16:00.240 reproductions of say Luke Skywalker, Young Luke Skywalker are really good. 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:01.920 So I think we're at the point now where we 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.360 could bring Vincent Price back and have him be a 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:10.520 spokesperson for all new um short lived alcoholic beverages. Oh man, 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.560 I so want to yes and you, but I just 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.000 hate it too much. I hate yes, I hate it 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.040 all right, fair enough anyway anyway. James goes on to say, 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.120 thanks for the recommendation. Please feel free to peruse the 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.640 Misfits catalog of songs for future episodes of Weird House Cinema. 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:29.720 I thank you, James, I will feel free. Uh. He 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.360 also goes on to say to talk about a different episode. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.960 He says, during a recent Listener Mail episode, you discussed 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:38.360 the safety of eating raw potatoes. I think specifically we 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.680 said we did not know whether there were safety concerns 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.160 or not, and Unfortunately, I still have not really looked 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:48.280 deeply into that, so so I don't take medical advice 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:52.000 from the following. But James says, I believe the fear 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:55.560 stems from the possible presence of a toxin called soul nine, 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.000 which can cause symptoms akin to food poisoning and an 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:03.760 extreme case as death. However, soulenine concentration is only significant 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:07.399 in a potato's eyes, sprout stems, and leaves, so be 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.280 sure to avoid those. This is of course not true 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:14.240 for carrots, radishes, beats, etcetera, whose greens are extremely nutritious 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.159 and can be tasty both raw and cooked. I myself, 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.720 I'm a fan of eating many vegetables raw, especially asparagus, 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.720 and am now curious to sneak a chunk of non 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:27.600 green potato the next time I'm preparing them. While I 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.480 do prefer them roasted. I'll typically sneak a few raw 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:34.040 brussels sprout chunks myself while cooking them. I'll just be 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.639 sure to avoid them served in the style of fibes 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:40.800 I e. Goo and ensure no locusts are nearby. My 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:44.560 gecks crickets probably couldn't devour my face, but I'll air 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.359 on the side of caution. As always, many thanks for 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.600 bringing background entertainment to my work day several days a week. 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:54.919 Love your podcast. Cheers James. Well, thank you, James. But 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.280 to come back to your idea about the Misfits songs 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:01.000 about old B movies. I one time, when I was 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.480 in college, I was seeing a friend of mine UH 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.800 and his band perform, and I'm not sure what genre 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:08.959 you call him, and it's not bluegrass. They were like 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:13.240 a sort of traditional style UH instrumental band mostly that 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.359 would play with like a banjo and a fiddle and 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:18.800 and and would play sort of an old, old mountain 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.679 tunes I think. But I went up to talk to 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:23.920 them in the middle of the show and I asked 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:25.800 my friend. I was like, well, it's a great show, 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.720 but where the Danzig covers? And he launched into a 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:33.479 profoundly beautiful, uh sort of mountain blue grass cover of 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:37.960 Astro Zombies by the Misfits, and it was pretty good. Yeah. 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.320 I know. When I was like in junior high I 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.679 was into into the Danzing, but I didn't know much 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:47.359 about the Misfits. It was only much later that I 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:51.440 got to explore such wonderful lyrics as return of the Fly, 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:55.600 Return of the Fly with Vincent Price. Yeah, the Return 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.720 of the Fly don't get any better than that. It's beautiful. 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:02.720 It's like poetry. By the way, James here when he 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.840 shared the playlist or the list of films that inspired 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:10.280 Misfits songs, he shared that to us on letterbox that's 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.080 L E T T E R B O x D 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.240 dot com. I don't know. I don't know how widespread, 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.639 uh this this website is. I don't know if it's 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.000 new or it's been around for a few years. But 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.800 a listener wrote in I think on our discord and 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:26.760 was like, hey, you should you should set one of 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:29.160 these up for weird House Cinema. So I have set 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:32.440 one up for weird House Cinema. If you go to letterboxed, 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.360 you can just search for weird House. Our user name 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.400 is weird House and right now it's just a bare 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:39.919 bones account, but it has a full list of all 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.760 the movies we've covered on weird House. And uh, yeah, 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.159 if there's enough interest in the site, if this is 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.840 something that is of interest to folks, we could always 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.000 spring for an h Q account and do more with it. 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.680 But in the meantime, uh, there sure is a list 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:53.920 of movies there, and it's a great way to sort 0:19:53.920 --> 0:20:02.240 of instantly visualize what we've covered thus far. All right, 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:06.480 speaking of the discord, one more bit of listener mail here. 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:09.719 This one comes to us from from Matt sharing the 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:13.879 following about the Devil Rides Out quote with regards to 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.440 your discussion of the Duke's religious affiliation at the end 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:20.080 of the episode. The story makes me think a bit 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:25.560 of the Eisenhorn trilogy by Dan Abnett. Hardline puritanical inquisitor 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.320 gradually starts using the tools of the arch enemy because Hey, 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.760 if I'm the one summoning demons, it's fine because I'm 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:36.119 responsible and I'm using them to fight other demons. It 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:38.320 would have been great if there was a sequel to 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:40.680 The Devil Rides Out where the Duke had gone full 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:45.000 radical and was being hunted by other puritanical sorts. I 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:48.040 love this. I love this idea. Yeah, yeah, I think 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:50.760 Matt makes a great point here. Uh So, first of all, 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:54.840 the Eisenhorn books by Dan Abnet are a lot of fun. 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:57.520 I've I've read, uh I think I've read four of them, 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:02.520 the four key Eisenhorn books. He knows Mallius Hereticus and 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:05.760 the meges Uh, though the character pops up in some 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:08.240 other books that he wrote as well. I particularly like 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:12.040 Zenos from two thousand one, but the Magoes from is 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:14.520 also a lot of fun. These are books about an 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:18.760 imperial inquisitor in the Warhammer forty thousand universe, tests with 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:22.240 hunting down heretics and stopping their evil deeds. Now, these 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:25.400 stories don't take place on the epic grim dark battlegrounds 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:28.639 of the forty K universe, but they instead tend to 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:31.800 revolve around backwater planets and and sometimes the just the 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:34.520 everyday lives of people that are living in the shadows 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:38.720 of these these you know, these big altercations. So I 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:40.760 could be wrong, but I don't think you need to 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.520 have a lot of forty K lore stashed in your 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:46.639 head to enjoy these books. And Abnet is also just 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:49.639 a solid writer as well. But indeed, one of the 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:53.200 recurring themes in the Eisenhorn books is that every inquisitor 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:56.119 will either die in service to the cause or they'll 0:21:56.119 --> 0:22:00.000 live long enough to become a heretic themselves. Um because 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:02.760 of course, the inquisitors inherently have great knowledge of the 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:06.320 occult threats they face but then they increasingly use occult 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:09.720 powers to combat those forces, and eventually they just lose 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:12.280 their way. So at first you're combating dark forces with 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:15.480 your own dark forces that you're harnessing, but eventually you're 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:19.080