1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 3 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: Listener Mail. This is Robert Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. 4 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 1: And today we're reading back some of the messages that 5 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: you've sent in over the past couple of weeks. So 6 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 1: I thought I would kick things off here with a 7 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: couple of responses to our episode on the IG Nobel 8 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:37,599 Speaker 1: Prizes for So this first message comes from Karen. Karen says, Hi, 9 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,919 Speaker 1: Joe and Robert, in response to your IG Nobel Prize 10 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: grab Bag episode where you've discussed collision avoidance in crowds. 11 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 1: I live in Australia and the last time I visited 12 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: the US, I noticed I kept walking in the way 13 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: of others, even when it wasn't crowded. At one point 14 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: it occurred to me that I would keep to the 15 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: left hand side of any path or head to head, 16 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: presumably cause in Australia we drive on the left. Once 17 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: I made a point of correcting and keeping to the right, 18 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: I was suddenly less in the way. Interesting, UM, I 19 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: wonder if this means that collision avoidance works differently in 20 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: like international airports, where there is more of a mingling 21 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: of people from from different countries of origin with different 22 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,960 Speaker 1: side of the road preferences. Oh yeah, that would be 23 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 1: a whole experiment there where any kind of like pre 24 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: programming for this side or that side UM is just 25 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: totally out the window, like a news Maybe maybe it 26 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 1: works better because a new system has to emerge UM, 27 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: you know, on its own, and you can't just depend 28 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: on the dominant culture to be the guy that everyone 29 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: falls in line with. Right, So Karen goes on on 30 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: an opposing note. Sometimes I play a walking game called 31 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: Don't get out of Men's Way and watch them freak 32 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: out just by walking along in a straight line and 33 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 1: not being the one to automatically change course when a 34 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: man is approaching from the other direction. A woman can 35 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: really blow their minds winking face emoji. Thanks for the 36 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: great show. It's one of the key reasons that I 37 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 1: listened to a podcast about is my main catchphrase, cheers Karen. Well, 38 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 1: thanks Karen, and actually regarding not getting out of men's 39 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: way on the sidewalk as a as a game women play. 40 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: Karen was not the only person who wrote in. A 41 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: listener named Ginger shared an article on this very subject 42 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: which the article calls patriarchy chicken, which I found very funny. Though, 43 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: I I started to think about this actually, and I 44 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: was wondering how, assuming this is true, how this interacts 45 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: with the general finding from these studies, like that study 46 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:45,359 Speaker 1: out of Japan that collision avoidance is a collaborative, emergent 47 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: product that requires constant monitoring and coordination from both sides. 48 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: Remember the studies about how how jammed up across walk 49 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 1: would get if only a few people were distracted. So 50 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: if it's true that there are also gender norms about 51 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: collision avoidance, how do they fit into the equation? Like 52 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: would it be that more often women are expected to 53 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: make the first move in diverting pathways? So so this 54 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: is another thing actually that made me laugh at first, 55 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: That made me think, yeah, yeah, I mean, without a doubt, 56 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: you do have some some gender dynamics, uh, you know, 57 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: cultural dynamics playing in there. But you know, we were 58 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: talking about we're mostly talking about grown ups here though, 59 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: We're talking about grown ups walking down the street and 60 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: crashing or not crashing into each other, usually not crashing 61 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: into each other. But you know, you throw kids into 62 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: this scenario and things I wonder where the research would go. 63 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: Because I was thinking about this this morning because every 64 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: morning I walk my my son into his elementary school 65 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: or you know, close to it, and a lot of 66 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: parents are doing the same thing, and there are other 67 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: kids coming on and coming in on on their own, 68 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: and uh, it gets crazy. It's like, you know, kids 69 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: today it was rainy, said, Kids with umbrellas swinging around, 70 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: giant umbrellas almost babies in the face, and their parents 71 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: trying to dodge, and parents who have dropped their child 72 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: off trying to then go back up the same street 73 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: they came down. Um this time, you know, with a 74 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: with greater ability to dodge incoming children and adults. But uh, 75 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: it's a you certainly can't have your phone out during 76 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: all that you just plow right into multiple children. Yeah, 77 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: I think kids totally change things. And actually I can 78 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: observe that instinctually in myself, because I don't know if 79 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: you've had this experience. Um, I think I tend to 80 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: find that when I'm in a space where there are 81 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: little kids moving around, my movements become much more conservative 82 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,599 Speaker 1: or curtailed. Like, uh, if I'm trying to go down 83 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 1: a grocery aisle and there are kids in the grocery aisle. 84 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: I will I will move much more slowly, I think, 85 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: just on the understanding that kids might suddenly get in 86 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: my path unexpectedly. There it's far harder to judge exactly 87 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: where they're going to go, And I think maybe that 88 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: that increases the shorter they get and the younger they get. 89 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: You're like, I'm not sure which way she's going. I 90 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: think I can predict her path, but I might not 91 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: be able to. So I'm gonna slow down. I'm gonna 92 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: go into the defensive mode. Um. But then on top 93 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: of that, I feel like kids my my son's age 94 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: there at that point where they're they're really good at 95 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: dodging in and out of of pedestrian traffic, you know, 96 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 1: They're they're really good about about weaving their way through 97 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:32,479 Speaker 1: a crowd. Uh and uh. At the same time, it's 98 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: easy to assume that they are about to just plow directly, 99 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: you know, into you. Um Uh. There many times just 100 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 1: in the house where I'm trying to move from from 101 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: point A to point B and the boy comes running through, 102 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 1: and I'm just convinced we're about to collide. Uh. You know, 103 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: I go into like full defensive mode, like you know, 104 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 1: cover you know, any sensitive parts so I don't get 105 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: get injured. And he's like, what, I wouldn't gonna run 106 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 1: into you, and then he moves on. So yeah, kids 107 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: deplicate everything. It almost makes me wonder if they're like 108 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 1: kid lesion avoidance norms and adult collision avoidance norms and 109 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: that they can sort of have trouble interacting the same 110 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:14,840 Speaker 1: way that left lane and right lane traffic would. Yeah, yeah, 111 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: all right, Robbi, you want to read this one about 112 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: the igno bells from Chad concerning cats and beards. Yeah. Yeah, 113 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: this had to do with the study um about the 114 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 1: hypothesis that beards may have evolved the male beard may 115 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 1: have evolved as a way of of softening the blow 116 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: of incoming punches. But also about cat chittering. Oh yeah, 117 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: we got a little cat chittering, a little cat talking 118 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:40,280 Speaker 1: here as well. So this comes to us from Chad. 119 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: Chad writes, one of my cats frequently chittered at prey 120 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,239 Speaker 1: animals when she was younger. This seems like an odd 121 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: instinct to me, as it seems like it could give 122 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 1: a predator's position away. What I also thought interesting is 123 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: that she would just barely raise her head above the 124 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: window sill in order to see the birds or squirrels. 125 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: He her ears flat, as if to minimize her visible profile, 126 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: but at the same time she would noisily chitter. Uh. 127 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: This is interesting and um, you know, thinking back to 128 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: what I was reading in the for the ignoble episode. Uh, 129 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: it my interpretation, and who knows catch or mysteries. This 130 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 1: could be wrong, but my interpretation, based on some of 131 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: the theories out there, is that it's kind of like 132 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: the cat is still preparing to jump, but knows it 133 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: cannot jump, cannot reach, cannot actually attack the prey, and 134 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: that is where the chitter kicks in. You know. It's 135 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: like that that uncontrollable like just outburst. Uh, that the 136 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,239 Speaker 1: need to bite the neck, but the inability to reach 137 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: the neck. So in this case, if this is correct, 138 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 1: the chittering would not be a naturally evolved hunting behavior, 139 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 1: but it would be a reaction to the fact that 140 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: the hunting behavior is being thwarted. It's some kind of 141 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: displacement behavior. Yeah, I guess. And it's again it's it's 142 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: hard to apply the cat realm to the the animal 143 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: to the human realm, but I'd like to imagine if 144 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: I had like my favorite sandwich, favorite sandwich in the 145 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: world in my hand and then you know, I'm I'm 146 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: bringing it up to my face and I can only 147 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: bring it within like half a foot. Like what kind 148 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: of frustration? What kind of sound would I make? You know? What? 149 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: I would just go like, you know, in sort of 150 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,679 Speaker 1: a frustrated attempt. Uh, you know, not even an attempt, 151 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: but just an outburst at not being able to reach 152 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 1: the sandwich, a chittering of anguish. Yeah. But it's you know, 153 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: even more than that, because for us, like sandwiches are great, um, 154 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: but are we like highly evolved sandwich eating machines that 155 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: are maybe maybe not? But I mean, for like the cat, 156 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 1: the consumption of the delicious songbird, like that is it's 157 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: that is its purpose, that it's it's it's holy role 158 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 1: in the ecosystem. Uh, you know, it feels that in 159 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: its very genes, and now it can't get there because 160 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:01,079 Speaker 1: there's this this magic glass screen between it and prey. 161 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: But Chad had more to say. Chad says, I have 162 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 1: a beard and trained in martial arts for six years 163 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,559 Speaker 1: as a young adult. We we ask any martial artist 164 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 1: and Marshall people who knew more about martial arts than 165 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: us to chime in on this um. He continues, Perhaps 166 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: beards offer some slight cushioning effect, but they offer a 167 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: distinct disadvantage. A beard can be grabbed and pulled painfully. 168 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 1: I would guess it to be a weak point, not armor. 169 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: I agree that I imagine early humans would rely on 170 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 1: tools not fists for violence. Furthermore, of evolution was going 171 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: to protect the head, why not grow thicker bones, store 172 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:38,079 Speaker 1: more fat around the face, develop a layer of rigid armor, 173 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: or add much thicker fur for more noticeable cushioning effect. 174 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: I agree that saying evolution selected for a beard is 175 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: armor from punches is a stretch. Thanks for another great episode. 176 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: Now I will say some of the suggestions that Chad 177 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 1: gets into here. Obviously we're talking about far more expensive adaptations, uh, 178 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: evolutionarily speaking. So you like, there's a reason we don't have, um, 179 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 1: you know, some sort of a rigid armor growing out 180 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: of our body. Yeah, that's true. And and another thing, 181 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: of course, is that evolutionary adaptations have to they usually 182 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 1: have to have some kind of starting place, like a 183 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: like a morphological tool to start with. So in the 184 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: case of hair on the face, you could say that, well, 185 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,719 Speaker 1: you know, maybe our our bodies used to be more 186 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,959 Speaker 1: completely covered in hair all over, and instead, what you're 187 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: talking about is cases where on certain parts of the body, 188 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:33,599 Speaker 1: hair that used to be all over the place is 189 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,679 Speaker 1: retained where it was lost elsewhere, and so there's some 190 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,679 Speaker 1: pressure causing it to be retained in those places. And 191 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: again with the beard, we don't know exactly what that 192 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,199 Speaker 1: would be. So so anyway, I guess you could say 193 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: that it's easier to get to a beard through a 194 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: string of mutations than it would be to get to 195 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: I don't know, some kind of like big cage of 196 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: bones around the jaw. Uh. But yes, also it might 197 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 1: be much more expensive to make something like that in 198 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: terms of energy and so forth. But yeah, so I agree, 199 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 1: chad Um. I remain open minded about more more fist 200 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: punching centric views of human evolution, but mostly pretty doubtful alright. 201 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: This next message comes in response to our episodes on 202 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 1: the history of chainsaws. This comes from Shana. She says, Hello, 203 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: Robert and Joe, I wanted to share a funny moment 204 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 1: that happened well when listening to your episode about chainsaws 205 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 1: and particularly y'all trying to remember the color of the 206 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:38,439 Speaker 1: chainsaw used by Leatherface in the Texas Chainsaw Masker films. 207 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: My husband works in the prop department of a major 208 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 1: theme park Halloween event. His job title is Captain of 209 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: Bodies and Gore. Over the years, they have done numerous 210 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: TCM themed mazes, he intimately knows the color of the 211 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:59,320 Speaker 1: chainsaws used in the films green because the screen accurate 212 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: chainsaws no longer come in that color way. The prop 213 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: department needs to paint and gut the machinery out of 214 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: each chainsaw before they are handed to the scare actors. 215 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:13,599 Speaker 1: But this is this is truly some fabulous feedback. But 216 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: Shaney goes on along the same lines. The Halloween event 217 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: he works is famous for the chainsaw drill team that 218 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: walks around the streets interacting with guests. Those are real 219 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,680 Speaker 1: chainsaws they use, just with the teeth removed. Even without 220 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,320 Speaker 1: the blades. The performers have to be careful because hair 221 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: and clothing could still get pulled into the motor. Oh wow, 222 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,439 Speaker 1: that that's a scary image. I assume they take all 223 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 1: all appropriate precautions. But then finally, Shana says, she she 224 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: enjoys these uh, you know, gangs of chainsaw people running 225 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 1: around because they add more immersion. She says, uh, the 226 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 1: chainsaws are gasoline powered, and the aroma of fuel follows 227 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: them wherever they go, whether it is purposeful or incidental. 228 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,079 Speaker 1: The added old factory layer adds to the experience. And 229 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: Shana m yeah, yeah, I mean that is true that 230 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: the smell of the of the roaring chainsaws that your 231 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: local haunted attraction are very much part of it. What's 232 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:12,840 Speaker 1: that It's gotta be the ben zine getting into the bulb. Yeah, 233 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: all right. Here's another one that comes to us. This 234 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 1: is ah this is in response to a Vault episode. 235 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 1: I think it was titled Melt with Me, And this 236 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: is when where we talked about the idea of people melting, 237 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: both in terms of, you know, the question can a 238 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 1: person actually melt? And and then getting a little into 239 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,439 Speaker 1: the you know, the deeper questions of why do we 240 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,320 Speaker 1: keep obsessing over melting and what about people who want 241 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: to melt? Is that is that reasonable? Oh? And one 242 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 1: thing this email picks up on is I think we 243 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: mentioned the Wicked Witch of the West from one of 244 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: the most one of the most famous cinematic melting scenes. Um, 245 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 1: and if you're and it's impossible to realize that she's 246 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: melting right because she's saying it as well. So so 247 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: this's what Kenneth that is. Say. Dear Robert and Joseph, 248 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: I use your Sunday names because I have beef. The 249 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,680 Speaker 1: Wicked Wish of the West was a truly evil character. 250 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: Falsehoods come easily to her lips, and even her final 251 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 1: words were designed to sow deceit. She did not melt. 252 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: I don't know what she was made of, but her 253 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: solid parts could not exist as a liquid at standard 254 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: atmospheric pressure, causing them to sublime like water ice on 255 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: the surface of Mars. Her fluids also vanished into thin air, 256 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: presumably through evaporation. Don't fall for her lies. Great episode. 257 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: By the way, The toxic goose guy in RoboCop was 258 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: absolutely haunting. I am grossed out to this day. Kenneth 259 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: ps staying for shot on the fourth Oh in the 260 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 1: next Dune movie. Okay, okay, yeah, I mean I could 261 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 1: see it working. I'm I'm kind of hoping they go 262 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 1: in different directions with the with the casting. I think 263 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: there's there's some room to get some some more actors 264 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: of Middle Eastern or North African heritage in there, but 265 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: could but as far as like if if if Staying 266 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 1: was the pick, I mean, yeah, Staying could do it. Stings. 267 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 1: Stings a talented guy. Oh. I should also mention that 268 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 1: in Kenneth's original email, he referred to me as Douglas. 269 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: I don't know why he said hello Robert and Douglas. 270 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: But then he immediately uh sent another email to to 271 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: apologize incorrect. So what what's with that interpretation? I don't know? 272 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: All right, this next message actually comes in Rob This 273 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 1: is when you brought in from the from the discord right, 274 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: that's right, there is a discord server for stuff to 275 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 1: blow your mind. You have to have like an invite 276 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: to get in. So just just email us and we'll 277 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 1: send you the invite. Um that's the only way, easy 278 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: way I know how to do it. So uh, yeah, 279 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: this was this is something that sent in via the 280 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 1: discord server from someone who I identifies themselves as niare 281 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: lathotep Okay. I think that's some kind of malevolent love 282 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: crafty and god if I'm not wrong. Um, yes, I 283 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 1: like the kind of like also kind of rounds up 284 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: the gods kind of speaks on behalf of the gods 285 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 1: as if I remember correctly. Okay, well, this listener says, Hi, 286 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 1: Joe and Robert, I'm listening again to airships over Venus. 287 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: I guess maybe we ran this as a vault. Um uh, 288 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: they say. Discussion of the second planet never fails to 289 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: inspire my imagination. The idea of a planetary body so 290 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: close to us, and in so many ways similar, gets 291 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: my mind into problem solving mode. Surely making use of 292 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: it as a second home is just an engineering problem, Yes, 293 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 1: a giant engineering problem. What are the few resources available 294 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: to a civilization in its early stages. Mars, for all 295 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: its hype, is just a dead rock half the size 296 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: of Earth, with no active core and barely an atmosphere. 297 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: It can't be an unsolvable problem to tow our sister 298 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 1: Earth out to a more manageable orbit and vent off 299 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,640 Speaker 1: the excess gases, or perhaps capture them in solid form 300 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: with engineered life. At least That's what I like to 301 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 1: think in my day dreams. Our biggest challenge in space 302 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:17,400 Speaker 1: is time and distance. So we actually just talked about 303 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 1: this with with Daniel Wison. Venus. Maybe our only reachable 304 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: goal anytime soon. Maybe once we build that Dyson's fear 305 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 1: will have the energy necessary. L O L. Topics like 306 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 1: this have seriously kept me saying through COVID, thanks so 307 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 1: much and keep up the good work. Well, thank you, 308 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 1: And yeah, I do have to say sometimes when when 309 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 1: the life on Earth gets stressful, uh, it is relaxing 310 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: to contemplate other planets. I think that might have been 311 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:49,160 Speaker 1: part of the original, uh, the decision to to look 312 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 1: to Venus. It was just like, oh man, this everything 313 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 1: feels a bit stressful. What's going on on Venus. Let's 314 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: talk about Venus. The Nusian politics are are far less stressful. 315 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: Oh who was it though, who was making servations of 316 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 1: Venus in in the nineteenth century or you know, some 317 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 1: sometime in the past, and it was drawing some rather 318 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: wild inferences about Venusian politics from like they thought that 319 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: fires were being lit for a coronation ceremony basically on 320 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,120 Speaker 1: some changes in the light on the surface. It might 321 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 1: have been in this episode that we've gotten into that. 322 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,159 Speaker 1: If not this one of the other Venusian episodes that 323 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 1: we did. I'm slightly less than convinced on that one. 324 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 1: All right, here comes the Crabs. This one comes to 325 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 1: us from James. Hi, guys, love the show. I've been 326 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,439 Speaker 1: a listener for years, usually in the car, so I 327 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,360 Speaker 1: haven't gotten around to emailing you before. I just had 328 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: to make time for this one though. I absolutely love 329 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 1: the episode on crabs, especially discussion about them wearing algae 330 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,159 Speaker 1: and seeing enemies is a sort of camouflage armor and 331 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 1: ready food supply. How cool is that. I actually had 332 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,159 Speaker 1: a saltwater crab as a pet for a time, and 333 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: I was practically on the edge of my seat waiting 334 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,159 Speaker 1: for you to mention the pom pom crab. This species 335 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,199 Speaker 1: actually holds a pair of tiny cnm and ease in 336 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:11,439 Speaker 1: its claws, like pom poms, and my understanding is that 337 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 1: they use these for mopping up food as well as 338 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:18,360 Speaker 1: defending itself. Tool use in crabs. Thanks James, I think 339 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 1: you actually had an episode. You did an episode about 340 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 1: this a long time ago, right, Yeah, yeah, pompom crabs 341 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: have come up on the show before. Yeah, they're they're 342 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: pretty cool. There's there's one study in particular. I remember. 343 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 1: It was about, like, you know, what happens when one 344 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 1: crab steals the pom pom of another crab and then 345 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,239 Speaker 1: they have to like take their pom pom, split it 346 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 1: in half, and then they have to pom poms. So it's, uh, yeah, 347 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 1: these are great creatures because they're they're wonderful to look at. 348 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: And then the yeah, the practice itself is is fascinating 349 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:50,640 Speaker 1: and indeed raises the specter of of tool use. Well. 350 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 1: This also reminds me of how impressed at least I 351 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: was in in that episode about the description of the 352 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: process by which these crabs who wore algae on their 353 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: on their carapace would would go through to uh, I 354 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: guess it was sort of stalks of seaweed. The process 355 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 1: that would go through to attach it, like they would 356 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,920 Speaker 1: clip it off, they would measure it to a certain length, 357 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 1: and then they would nibble the snipped end of it 358 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:14,879 Speaker 1: to roughen it so that it would cling to the 359 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: spines on their shell, and then they would position it 360 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:19,919 Speaker 1: back and try to attach it and go through this 361 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: over and over. It's like a surprisingly complex process and 362 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,239 Speaker 1: and kind of crafty for a crab, you know. I 363 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 1: also loved to that we got to hear from somebody 364 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:33,159 Speaker 1: who has or had rather a pet crab. This is 365 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,440 Speaker 1: the only listener we've heard from that has or had 366 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:39,719 Speaker 1: a pet crab. I refuse to believe that there's nobody 367 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 1: out there listening to us right now. Uh with with 368 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: a with a hermit crab in the same room with them. 369 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 1: So if you own a pet crab, don't be shy. 370 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:52,920 Speaker 1: Send us an email. We want to hear what your 371 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 1: your pet crab eats. Give us all the details. Uh. Statistically, 372 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,399 Speaker 1: hermit crab owners are antisocial and they do not right 373 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: into podcast asked, prove him wrong. Prove him wrong hermit raisers. Okay, well, 374 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,919 Speaker 1: this next email does at least concern hermit crabs. This 375 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 1: comes from Simon. Good day, gentlemen. Feel free to share 376 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: this at your whim. But in regards to the crabby content, 377 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: I would thought I would share a quick but amusing anecdote. Recently, 378 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 1: I spent five minutes explaining to my five year old 379 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:31,959 Speaker 1: daughter that it is hermit crabs, not helmet crabs, before 380 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 1: realizing that her version is so much better. Thanks for 381 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 1: the amazing and interesting content, Simon. I read this because 382 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 1: I feel like I've heard that same thing before. I 383 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:44,879 Speaker 1: think when I was a kid, I knew somebody who 384 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: called them helmet crabs. But it makes sense. It makes 385 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,640 Speaker 1: so much sense you wonder, you wonder why it hasn't 386 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:54,919 Speaker 1: why that name hasn't taken over. Yeah, I mean especially 387 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: for young fans of crabs. I mean, you you know 388 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:01,919 Speaker 1: what a hell it is. You might not really know 389 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: what the whole concept of the hermit yet. So it's yeah, 390 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,120 Speaker 1: it's it's a little more difficult to explain. I mean, 391 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: hermit crabs are they're in amura, they're false crabs. So 392 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: actually the helmet would be the more accurate part than 393 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 1: the than the crab part. Yeah. And and certainly sometimes 394 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 1: the behaviors seeing hermit crabs like you see them mobbing, um, 395 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 1: you know a coconut. Uh, they don't. That doesn't look 396 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: very much like hermit behavior to me. It doesn't really 397 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 1: hold true across the board. All right, we have one 398 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 1: more here for you. This one's a weird how cinema message. 399 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,160 Speaker 1: This one comes to us from Dan, Hi, Robert, and Joe. 400 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 1: I am not a doctor, but if I were, I 401 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: would prescribe at least two viewings a week of Inframan 402 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 1: to compact seasonal effective depression or depression in general. I 403 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 1: saw Inframan when I was about ten or eleven years 404 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: old as an English language dub I had my dad 405 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 1: by during a trip to the local Sam Goody store 406 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,680 Speaker 1: that began with listing all the monsters up front as 407 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:05,719 Speaker 1: a precredit sequence and erroneously called the plant monster, octopus monster, 408 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 1: and spider monster Beatle mutant. Uh. This was when the 409 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,439 Speaker 1: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers were popular, and I remember the 410 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: description on the back of the VHS box was really 411 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: trying to pitch it towards that audience. I eat meat. 412 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,360 Speaker 1: I also found Ciskele and Ebert's review of Infra Man, 413 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 1: which they both enjoy because it delivered thrills and actions 414 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: without boring dialogue and seriousness. Ebert, who saw it at 415 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: a Kitty matinee, especially loved the name Princess Dragon Mom 416 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 1: and said it was a weird, curiously demented, but totally 417 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: wonderful mix of sci fi, kung fu and superhero movie 418 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:44,640 Speaker 1: with a future as a midnight cult classic. And uh. 419 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 1: Dan includes a link to that section of the Cisco 420 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:51,640 Speaker 1: and Ebert show. Uh and uh yeah, that's Dan's message 421 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,679 Speaker 1: regarding um Infra Man. We also heard just you know, 422 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 1: quick snippets from people on like the Facebook group for 423 00:23:58,240 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: stuff to blow your mind, the stuff to blow your mind. 424 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: Us should module people just chining in and saying, oh, yeah, 425 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 1: I love that movie. That's a great movie. Watched it 426 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: when I was younger, etcetera. It's holy. Infra man is 427 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 1: is holy and uh and it deserves reverence and and 428 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 1: I'm glad to see it getting plenty. I did check 429 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: out the This is Clinebra review, which was quite It 430 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: was some episode of their show from I guess the 431 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: late seventies, and it was quite funny because it was 432 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 1: one of the where like they had to segue to it, 433 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 1: I think, from talking about some X rated erotic thriller 434 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 1: like straight into uh to Infra Man which uh is 435 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: just wonderful. Yeah, and you can tell, like ever it's 436 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 1: just gushing about it. They both clearly love it. Um. 437 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 1: It again raises the question of why the two point 438 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 1: five stars and then when the upgrade, why only to three? 439 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: He he talks about it like a four star classic. 440 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: So again I'm going to say that as canon. Oh yeah, 441 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 1: apparently yeah, I'm looking at the clip now. Apparently they 442 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 1: talk about Emmanuel Guilty Pleasures, Uh, super Fly, the Fury, 443 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 1: and Inframan. So I mean, really, I mean that out 444 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:05,199 Speaker 1: of those films, you know, I'm going to go to 445 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,120 Speaker 1: Inframant first. No wait, I'm reading further. They also talk 446 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: about the Greek Tycoon and the last House on the 447 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 1: left in this episode, So yeah, Infra Man clear winner 448 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 1: out of the bunch. It is known. All right, we're 449 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 1: gonna go and close the mail bag for this week. 450 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 1: But will I guess we're back next week? Yeah? Probably, 451 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: if not some Monday in the future, we're back. That. 452 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 1: Mondays are when our listener mail episodes happen. That's our 453 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:33,679 Speaker 1: time to to read your various feedback and questions and 454 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,399 Speaker 1: so forth. So yeah, keep them coming. We have our 455 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: core episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the stuff to 456 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: Blow your mind podcast feed. We have a short form 457 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: artifact on Wednesdays, and on Fridays we do Weird House Cinema. 458 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: That's our time to set aside most serious discussion and 459 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,679 Speaker 1: just focus in on a weird film. And then on 460 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 1: the weekend we do a vault episode, which is a 461 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 1: rerun from the previous year. Sometimes folks asked, why not 462 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: from years previous to that? Wines, it got to just 463 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 1: be from last year. Uh. First of all, it's easy 464 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 1: to keep track off and uh and and second uh 465 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: more more seriously, Uh, you know we're often dealing with 466 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,639 Speaker 1: scientific topics, stuff that that is not necessarily going to 467 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,880 Speaker 1: be average green five green five years later. Uh. So 468 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 1: that's always in the back of our mind, and we 469 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,120 Speaker 1: don't always have time to, you know, to go back 470 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,400 Speaker 1: and really review those old episodes and see like, okay, 471 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,120 Speaker 1: if there have been have there been subsequent developments, has 472 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 1: this changed? Um? This is need to be updated. Uh. 473 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 1: It's a lot easier just to go back to what 474 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: was happening a year ago and push that back out again. 475 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: Huge thanks as always to our excellent audio producer Seth 476 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 1: Nicholas Johnson. If you would like to get in touch 477 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 1: with us with feedback on this episode or any other, 478 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: to suggest a topic for the future, or just to 479 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: say hello, you can email us at contact. That's Stuff 480 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:52,919 Speaker 1: to Blow your Mind dot com. Stuff to Blow Your 481 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,880 Speaker 1: Mind is production of I Heart Radio. 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