Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of
Speaker 1: My 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 today we're reading back some of the messages that
Speaker 1: you've sent in over the past couple of weeks. So
Speaker 1: I thought I would kick things off here with a
Speaker 1: couple of responses to our episode on the IG Nobel
Speaker 1: Prizes for So this first message comes from Karen. Karen says, Hi,
Speaker 1: Joe and Robert, in response to your IG Nobel Prize
Speaker 1: grab Bag episode where you've discussed collision avoidance in crowds.
Speaker 1: I live in Australia and the last time I visited
Speaker 1: the US, I noticed I kept walking in the way
Speaker 1: of others, even when it wasn't crowded. At one point
Speaker 1: it occurred to me that I would keep to the
Speaker 1: left hand side of any path or head to head,
Speaker 1: presumably cause in Australia we drive on the left. Once
Speaker 1: I made a point of correcting and keeping to the right,
Speaker 1: I was suddenly less in the way. Interesting, UM, I
Speaker 1: wonder if this means that collision avoidance works differently in
Speaker 1: like international airports, where there is more of a mingling
Speaker 1: of people from from different countries of origin with different
Speaker 1: side of the road preferences. Oh yeah, that would be
Speaker 1: a whole experiment there where any kind of like pre
Speaker 1: programming for this side or that side UM is just
Speaker 1: totally out the window, like a news Maybe maybe it
Speaker 1: works better because a new system has to emerge UM,
Speaker 1: you know, on its own, and you can't just depend
Speaker 1: on the dominant culture to be the guy that everyone
Speaker 1: falls in line with. Right, So Karen goes on on
Speaker 1: an opposing note. Sometimes I play a walking game called
Speaker 1: Don't get out of Men's Way and watch them freak
Speaker 1: out just by walking along in a straight line and
Speaker 1: not being the one to automatically change course when a
Speaker 1: man is approaching from the other direction. A woman can
Speaker 1: really blow their minds winking face emoji. Thanks for the
Speaker 1: great show. It's one of the key reasons that I
Speaker 1: listened to a podcast about is my main catchphrase, cheers Karen. Well,
Speaker 1: thanks Karen, and actually regarding not getting out of men's
Speaker 1: way on the sidewalk as a as a game women play.
Speaker 1: Karen was not the only person who wrote in. A
Speaker 1: listener named Ginger shared an article on this very subject
Speaker 1: which the article calls patriarchy chicken, which I found very funny. Though,
Speaker 1: I I started to think about this actually, and I
Speaker 1: was wondering how, assuming this is true, how this interacts
Speaker 1: with the general finding from these studies, like that study
Speaker 1: out of Japan that collision avoidance is a collaborative, emergent
Speaker 1: product that requires constant monitoring and coordination from both sides.
Speaker 1: Remember the studies about how how jammed up across walk
Speaker 1: would get if only a few people were distracted. So
Speaker 1: if it's true that there are also gender norms about
Speaker 1: collision avoidance, how do they fit into the equation? Like
Speaker 1: would it be that more often women are expected to
Speaker 1: make the first move in diverting pathways? So so this
Speaker 1: is another thing actually that made me laugh at first,
Speaker 1: That made me think, yeah, yeah, I mean, without a doubt,
Speaker 1: you do have some some gender dynamics, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: cultural dynamics playing in there. But you know, we were
Speaker 1: talking about we're mostly talking about grown ups here though,
Speaker 1: We're talking about grown ups walking down the street and
Speaker 1: crashing or not crashing into each other, usually not crashing
Speaker 1: into each other. But you know, you throw kids into
Speaker 1: this scenario and things I wonder where the research would go.
Speaker 1: Because I was thinking about this this morning because every
Speaker 1: morning I walk my my son into his elementary school
Speaker 1: or you know, close to it, and a lot of
Speaker 1: parents are doing the same thing, and there are other
Speaker 1: kids coming on and coming in on on their own,
Speaker 1: and uh, it gets crazy. It's like, you know, kids
Speaker 1: today it was rainy, said, Kids with umbrellas swinging around,
Speaker 1: giant umbrellas almost babies in the face, and their parents
Speaker 1: trying to dodge, and parents who have dropped their child
Speaker 1: off trying to then go back up the same street
Speaker 1: they came down. Um this time, you know, with a
Speaker 1: with greater ability to dodge incoming children and adults. But uh,
Speaker 1: it's a you certainly can't have your phone out during
Speaker 1: all that you just plow right into multiple children. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think kids totally change things. And actually I can
Speaker 1: observe that instinctually in myself, because I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've had this experience. Um, I think I tend to
Speaker 1: find that when I'm in a space where there are
Speaker 1: little kids moving around, my movements become much more conservative
Speaker 1: or curtailed. Like, uh, if I'm trying to go down
Speaker 1: a grocery aisle and there are kids in the grocery aisle.
Speaker 1: I will I will move much more slowly, I think,
Speaker 1: just on the understanding that kids might suddenly get in
Speaker 1: my path unexpectedly. There it's far harder to judge exactly
Speaker 1: where they're going to go, And I think maybe that
Speaker 1: that increases the shorter they get and the younger they get.
Speaker 1: You're like, I'm not sure which way she's going. I
Speaker 1: think I can predict her path, but I might not
Speaker 1: be able to. So I'm gonna slow down. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go into the defensive mode. Um. But then on top
Speaker 1: of that, I feel like kids my my son's age
Speaker 1: there at that point where they're they're really good at
Speaker 1: dodging in and out of of pedestrian traffic, you know,
Speaker 1: They're they're really good about about weaving their way through
Speaker 1: a crowd. Uh and uh. At the same time, it's
Speaker 1: easy to assume that they are about to just plow directly,
Speaker 1: you know, into you. Um Uh. There many times just
Speaker 1: in the house where I'm trying to move from from
Speaker 1: point A to point B and the boy comes running through,
Speaker 1: and I'm just convinced we're about to collide. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: I go into like full defensive mode, like you know,
Speaker 1: cover you know, any sensitive parts so I don't get
Speaker 1: get injured. And he's like, what, I wouldn't gonna run
Speaker 1: into you, and then he moves on. So yeah, kids
Speaker 1: deplicate everything. It almost makes me wonder if they're like
Speaker 1: kid lesion avoidance norms and adult collision avoidance norms and
Speaker 1: that they can sort of have trouble interacting the same
Speaker 1: way that left lane and right lane traffic would. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, Robbi, you want to read this one about
Speaker 1: the igno bells from Chad concerning cats and beards. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this had to do with the study um about the
Speaker 1: hypothesis that beards may have evolved the male beard may
Speaker 1: have evolved as a way of of softening the blow
Speaker 1: of incoming punches. But also about cat chittering. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we got a little cat chittering, a little cat talking
Speaker 1: here as well. So this comes to us from Chad.
Speaker 1: Chad writes, one of my cats frequently chittered at prey
Speaker 1: animals when she was younger. This seems like an odd
Speaker 1: instinct to me, as it seems like it could give
Speaker 1: a predator's position away. What I also thought interesting is
Speaker 1: that she would just barely raise her head above the
Speaker 1: window sill in order to see the birds or squirrels.
Speaker 1: He her ears flat, as if to minimize her visible profile,
Speaker 1: but at the same time she would noisily chitter. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is interesting and um, you know, thinking back to
Speaker 1: what I was reading in the for the ignoble episode. Uh,
Speaker 1: it my interpretation, and who knows catch or mysteries. This
Speaker 1: could be wrong, but my interpretation, based on some of
Speaker 1: the theories out there, is that it's kind of like
Speaker 1: the cat is still preparing to jump, but knows it
Speaker 1: cannot jump, cannot reach, cannot actually attack the prey, and
Speaker 1: that is where the chitter kicks in. You know. It's
Speaker 1: like that that uncontrollable like just outburst. Uh, that the
Speaker 1: need to bite the neck, but the inability to reach
Speaker 1: the neck. So in this case, if this is correct,
Speaker 1: the chittering would not be a naturally evolved hunting behavior,
Speaker 1: but it would be a reaction to the fact that
Speaker 1: the hunting behavior is being thwarted. It's some kind of
Speaker 1: displacement behavior. Yeah, I guess. And it's again it's it's
Speaker 1: hard to apply the cat realm to the the animal
Speaker 1: to the human realm, but I'd like to imagine if
Speaker 1: I had like my favorite sandwich, favorite sandwich in the
Speaker 1: world in my hand and then you know, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: bringing it up to my face and I can only
Speaker 1: bring it within like half a foot. Like what kind
Speaker 1: of frustration? What kind of sound would I make? You know? What?
Speaker 1: I would just go like, you know, in sort of
Speaker 1: a frustrated attempt. Uh, you know, not even an attempt,
Speaker 1: but just an outburst at not being able to reach
Speaker 1: the sandwich, a chittering of anguish. Yeah. But it's you know,
Speaker 1: even more than that, because for us, like sandwiches are great, um,
Speaker 1: but are we like highly evolved sandwich eating machines that
Speaker 1: are maybe maybe not? But I mean, for like the cat,
Speaker 1: the consumption of the delicious songbird, like that is it's
Speaker 1: that is its purpose, that it's it's it's holy role
Speaker 1: in the ecosystem. Uh, you know, it feels that in
Speaker 1: its very genes, and now it can't get there because
Speaker 1: there's this this magic glass screen between it and prey.
Speaker 1: But Chad had more to say. Chad says, I have
Speaker 1: a beard and trained in martial arts for six years
Speaker 1: as a young adult. We we ask any martial artist
Speaker 1: and Marshall people who knew more about martial arts than
Speaker 1: us to chime in on this um. He continues, Perhaps
Speaker 1: beards offer some slight cushioning effect, but they offer a
Speaker 1: distinct disadvantage. A beard can be grabbed and pulled painfully.
Speaker 1: I would guess it to be a weak point, not armor.
Speaker 1: I agree that I imagine early humans would rely on
Speaker 1: tools not fists for violence. Furthermore, of evolution was going
Speaker 1: to protect the head, why not grow thicker bones, store
Speaker 1: more fat around the face, develop a layer of rigid armor,
Speaker 1: or add much thicker fur for more noticeable cushioning effect.
Speaker 1: I agree that saying evolution selected for a beard is
Speaker 1: armor from punches is a stretch. Thanks for another great episode.
Speaker 1: Now I will say some of the suggestions that Chad
Speaker 1: gets into here. Obviously we're talking about far more expensive adaptations, uh,
Speaker 1: evolutionarily speaking. So you like, there's a reason we don't have, um,
Speaker 1: you know, some sort of a rigid armor growing out
Speaker 1: of our body. Yeah, that's true. And and another thing,
Speaker 1: of course, is that evolutionary adaptations have to they usually
Speaker 1: have to have some kind of starting place, like a
Speaker 1: like a morphological tool to start with. So in the
Speaker 1: case of hair on the face, you could say that, well,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe our our bodies used to be more
Speaker 1: completely covered in hair all over, and instead, what you're
Speaker 1: talking about is cases where on certain parts of the body,
Speaker 1: hair that used to be all over the place is
Speaker 1: retained where it was lost elsewhere, and so there's some
Speaker 1: pressure causing it to be retained in those places. And
Speaker 1: again with the beard, we don't know exactly what that
Speaker 1: would be. So so anyway, I guess you could say
Speaker 1: that it's easier to get to a beard through a
Speaker 1: string of mutations than it would be to get to
Speaker 1: I don't know, some kind of like big cage of
Speaker 1: bones around the jaw. Uh. But yes, also it might
Speaker 1: be much more expensive to make something like that in
Speaker 1: terms of energy and so forth. But yeah, so I agree,
Speaker 1: chad Um. I remain open minded about more more fist
Speaker 1: punching centric views of human evolution, but mostly pretty doubtful alright.
Speaker 1: This next message comes in response to our episodes on
Speaker 1: the history of chainsaws. This comes from Shana. She says, Hello,
Speaker 1: Robert and Joe, I wanted to share a funny moment
Speaker 1: that happened well when listening to your episode about chainsaws
Speaker 1: and particularly y'all trying to remember the color of the
Speaker 1: chainsaw used by Leatherface in the Texas Chainsaw Masker films.
Speaker 1: My husband works in the prop department of a major
Speaker 1: theme park Halloween event. His job title is Captain of
Speaker 1: Bodies and Gore. Over the years, they have done numerous
Speaker 1: TCM themed mazes, he intimately knows the color of the
Speaker 1: chainsaws used in the films green because the screen accurate
Speaker 1: chainsaws no longer come in that color way. The prop
Speaker 1: department needs to paint and gut the machinery out of
Speaker 1: each chainsaw before they are handed to the scare actors.
Speaker 1: But this is this is truly some fabulous feedback. But
Speaker 1: Shaney goes on along the same lines. The Halloween event
Speaker 1: he works is famous for the chainsaw drill team that
Speaker 1: walks around the streets interacting with guests. Those are real
Speaker 1: chainsaws they use, just with the teeth removed. Even without
Speaker 1: the blades. The performers have to be careful because hair
Speaker 1: and clothing could still get pulled into the motor. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: that that's a scary image. I assume they take all
Speaker 1: all appropriate precautions. But then finally, Shana says, she she
Speaker 1: enjoys these uh, you know, gangs of chainsaw people running
Speaker 1: around because they add more immersion. She says, uh, the
Speaker 1: chainsaws are gasoline powered, and the aroma of fuel follows
Speaker 1: them wherever they go, whether it is purposeful or incidental.
Speaker 1: The added old factory layer adds to the experience. And
Speaker 1: Shana m yeah, yeah, I mean that is true that
Speaker 1: the smell of the of the roaring chainsaws that your
Speaker 1: local haunted attraction are very much part of it. What's
Speaker 1: that It's gotta be the ben zine getting into the bulb. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. Here's another one that comes to us. This
Speaker 1: is ah this is in response to a Vault episode.
Speaker 1: I think it was titled Melt with Me, And this
Speaker 1: is when where we talked about the idea of people melting,
Speaker 1: both in terms of, you know, the question can a
Speaker 1: person actually melt? And and then getting a little into
Speaker 1: the you know, the deeper questions of why do we
Speaker 1: keep obsessing over melting and what about people who want
Speaker 1: to melt? Is that is that reasonable? Oh? And one
Speaker 1: thing this email picks up on is I think we
Speaker 1: mentioned the Wicked Witch of the West from one of
Speaker 1: the most one of the most famous cinematic melting scenes. Um,
Speaker 1: and if you're and it's impossible to realize that she's
Speaker 1: melting right because she's saying it as well. So so
Speaker 1: this's what Kenneth that is. Say. Dear Robert and Joseph,
Speaker 1: I use your Sunday names because I have beef. The
Speaker 1: Wicked Wish of the West was a truly evil character.
Speaker 1: Falsehoods come easily to her lips, and even her final
Speaker 1: words were designed to sow deceit. She did not melt.
Speaker 1: I don't know what she was made of, but her
Speaker 1: solid parts could not exist as a liquid at standard
Speaker 1: atmospheric pressure, causing them to sublime like water ice on
Speaker 1: the surface of Mars. Her fluids also vanished into thin air,
Speaker 1: presumably through evaporation. Don't fall for her lies. Great episode.
Speaker 1: By the way, The toxic goose guy in RoboCop was
Speaker 1: absolutely haunting. I am grossed out to this day. Kenneth
Speaker 1: ps staying for shot on the fourth Oh in the
Speaker 1: next Dune movie. Okay, okay, yeah, I mean I could
Speaker 1: see it working. I'm I'm kind of hoping they go
Speaker 1: in different directions with the with the casting. I think
Speaker 1: there's there's some room to get some some more actors
Speaker 1: of Middle Eastern or North African heritage in there, but
Speaker 1: could but as far as like if if if Staying
Speaker 1: was the pick, I mean, yeah, Staying could do it. Stings.
Speaker 1: Stings a talented guy. Oh. I should also mention that
Speaker 1: in Kenneth's original email, he referred to me as Douglas.
Speaker 1: I don't know why he said hello Robert and Douglas.
Speaker 1: But then he immediately uh sent another email to to
Speaker 1: apologize incorrect. So what what's with that interpretation? I don't know?
Speaker 1: All right, this next message actually comes in Rob This
Speaker 1: is when you brought in from the from the discord right,
Speaker 1: that's right, there is a discord server for stuff to
Speaker 1: blow your mind. You have to have like an invite
Speaker 1: to get in. So just just email us and we'll
Speaker 1: send you the invite. Um that's the only way, easy
Speaker 1: way I know how to do it. So uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: this was this is something that sent in via the
Speaker 1: discord server from someone who I identifies themselves as niare
Speaker 1: lathotep Okay. I think that's some kind of malevolent love
Speaker 1: crafty and god if I'm not wrong. Um, yes, I
Speaker 1: like the kind of like also kind of rounds up
Speaker 1: the gods kind of speaks on behalf of the gods
Speaker 1: as if I remember correctly. Okay, well, this listener says, Hi,
Speaker 1: Joe and Robert, I'm listening again to airships over Venus.
Speaker 1: I guess maybe we ran this as a vault. Um uh,
Speaker 1: they say. Discussion of the second planet never fails to
Speaker 1: inspire my imagination. The idea of a planetary body so
Speaker 1: close to us, and in so many ways similar, gets
Speaker 1: my mind into problem solving mode. Surely making use of
Speaker 1: it as a second home is just an engineering problem, Yes,
Speaker 1: a giant engineering problem. What are the few resources available
Speaker 1: to a civilization in its early stages. Mars, for all
Speaker 1: its hype, is just a dead rock half the size
Speaker 1: of Earth, with no active core and barely an atmosphere.
Speaker 1: It can't be an unsolvable problem to tow our sister
Speaker 1: Earth out to a more manageable orbit and vent off
Speaker 1: the excess gases, or perhaps capture them in solid form
Speaker 1: with engineered life. At least That's what I like to
Speaker 1: think in my day dreams. Our biggest challenge in space
Speaker 1: is time and distance. So we actually just talked about
Speaker 1: this with with Daniel Wison. Venus. Maybe our only reachable
Speaker 1: goal anytime soon. Maybe once we build that Dyson's fear
Speaker 1: will have the energy necessary. L O L. Topics like
Speaker 1: this have seriously kept me saying through COVID, thanks so
Speaker 1: much and keep up the good work. Well, thank you,
Speaker 1: And yeah, I do have to say sometimes when when
Speaker 1: the life on Earth gets stressful, uh, it is relaxing
Speaker 1: to contemplate other planets. I think that might have been
Speaker 1: part of the original, uh, the decision to to look
Speaker 1: to Venus. It was just like, oh man, this everything
Speaker 1: feels a bit stressful. What's going on on Venus. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about Venus. The Nusian politics are are far less stressful.
Speaker 1: Oh who was it though, who was making servations of
Speaker 1: Venus in in the nineteenth century or you know, some
Speaker 1: sometime in the past, and it was drawing some rather
Speaker 1: wild inferences about Venusian politics from like they thought that
Speaker 1: fires were being lit for a coronation ceremony basically on
Speaker 1: some changes in the light on the surface. It might
Speaker 1: have been in this episode that we've gotten into that.
Speaker 1: If not this one of the other Venusian episodes that
Speaker 1: we did. I'm slightly less than convinced on that one.
Speaker 1: All right, here comes the Crabs. This one comes to
Speaker 1: us from James. Hi, guys, love the show. I've been
Speaker 1: a listener for years, usually in the car, so I
Speaker 1: haven't gotten around to emailing you before. I just had
Speaker 1: to make time for this one though. I absolutely love
Speaker 1: the episode on crabs, especially discussion about them wearing algae
Speaker 1: and seeing enemies is a sort of camouflage armor and
Speaker 1: ready food supply. How cool is that. I actually had
Speaker 1: a saltwater crab as a pet for a time, and
Speaker 1: I was practically on the edge of my seat waiting
Speaker 1: for you to mention the pom pom crab. This species
Speaker 1: actually holds a pair of tiny cnm and ease in
Speaker 1: its claws, like pom poms, and my understanding is that
Speaker 1: they use these for mopping up food as well as
Speaker 1: defending itself. Tool use in crabs. Thanks James, I think
Speaker 1: you actually had an episode. You did an episode about
Speaker 1: this a long time ago, right, Yeah, yeah, pompom crabs
Speaker 1: have come up on the show before. Yeah, they're they're
Speaker 1: pretty cool. There's there's one study in particular. I remember.
Speaker 1: It was about, like, you know, what happens when one
Speaker 1: crab steals the pom pom of another crab and then
Speaker 1: they have to like take their pom pom, split it
Speaker 1: in half, and then they have to pom poms. So it's, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: these are great creatures because they're they're wonderful to look at.
Speaker 1: And then the yeah, the practice itself is is fascinating
Speaker 1: and indeed raises the specter of of tool use. Well.
Speaker 1: This also reminds me of how impressed at least I
Speaker 1: was in in that episode about the description of the
Speaker 1: process by which these crabs who wore algae on their
Speaker 1: on their carapace would would go through to uh, I
Speaker 1: guess it was sort of stalks of seaweed. The process
Speaker 1: that would go through to attach it, like they would
Speaker 1: clip it off, they would measure it to a certain length,
Speaker 1: and then they would nibble the snipped end of it
Speaker 1: to roughen it so that it would cling to the
Speaker 1: spines on their shell, and then they would position it
Speaker 1: back and try to attach it and go through this
Speaker 1: over and over. It's like a surprisingly complex process and
Speaker 1: and kind of crafty for a crab, you know. I
Speaker 1: also loved to that we got to hear from somebody
Speaker 1: who has or had rather a pet crab. This is
Speaker 1: the only listener we've heard from that has or had
Speaker 1: a pet crab. I refuse to believe that there's nobody
Speaker 1: out there listening to us right now. Uh with with
Speaker 1: a with a hermit crab in the same room with them.
Speaker 1: So if you own a pet crab, don't be shy.
Speaker 1: Send us an email. We want to hear what your
Speaker 1: your pet crab eats. Give us all the details. Uh. Statistically,
Speaker 1: hermit crab owners are antisocial and they do not right
Speaker 1: into podcast asked, prove him wrong. Prove him wrong hermit raisers. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: this next email does at least concern hermit crabs. This
Speaker 1: comes from Simon. Good day, gentlemen. Feel free to share
Speaker 1: this at your whim. But in regards to the crabby content,
Speaker 1: I would thought I would share a quick but amusing anecdote. Recently,
Speaker 1: I spent five minutes explaining to my five year old
Speaker 1: daughter that it is hermit crabs, not helmet crabs, before
Speaker 1: realizing that her version is so much better. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the amazing and interesting content, Simon. I read this because
Speaker 1: I feel like I've heard that same thing before. I
Speaker 1: think when I was a kid, I knew somebody who
Speaker 1: called them helmet crabs. But it makes sense. It makes
Speaker 1: so much sense you wonder, you wonder why it hasn't
Speaker 1: why that name hasn't taken over. Yeah, I mean especially
Speaker 1: for young fans of crabs. I mean, you you know
Speaker 1: what a hell it is. You might not really know
Speaker 1: what the whole concept of the hermit yet. So it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a little more difficult to explain. I mean,
Speaker 1: hermit crabs are they're in amura, they're false crabs. So
Speaker 1: actually the helmet would be the more accurate part than
Speaker 1: the than the crab part. Yeah. And and certainly sometimes
Speaker 1: the behaviors seeing hermit crabs like you see them mobbing, um,
Speaker 1: you know a coconut. Uh, they don't. That doesn't look
Speaker 1: very much like hermit behavior to me. It doesn't really
Speaker 1: hold true across the board. All right, we have one
Speaker 1: more here for you. This one's a weird how cinema message.
Speaker 1: This one comes to us from Dan, Hi, Robert, and Joe.
Speaker 1: I am not a doctor, but if I were, I
Speaker 1: would prescribe at least two viewings a week of Inframan
Speaker 1: to compact seasonal effective depression or depression in general. I
Speaker 1: saw Inframan when I was about ten or eleven years
Speaker 1: old as an English language dub I had my dad
Speaker 1: by during a trip to the local Sam Goody store
Speaker 1: that began with listing all the monsters up front as
Speaker 1: a precredit sequence and erroneously called the plant monster, octopus monster,
Speaker 1: and spider monster Beatle mutant. Uh. This was when the
Speaker 1: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers were popular, and I remember the
Speaker 1: description on the back of the VHS box was really
Speaker 1: trying to pitch it towards that audience. I eat meat.
Speaker 1: I also found Ciskele and Ebert's review of Infra Man,
Speaker 1: which they both enjoy because it delivered thrills and actions
Speaker 1: without boring dialogue and seriousness. Ebert, who saw it at
Speaker 1: a Kitty matinee, especially loved the name Princess Dragon Mom
Speaker 1: and said it was a weird, curiously demented, but totally
Speaker 1: wonderful mix of sci fi, kung fu and superhero movie
Speaker 1: with a future as a midnight cult classic. And uh.
Speaker 1: Dan includes a link to that section of the Cisco
Speaker 1: and Ebert show. Uh and uh yeah, that's Dan's message
Speaker 1: regarding um Infra Man. We also heard just you know,
Speaker 1: quick snippets from people on like the Facebook group for
Speaker 1: stuff to blow your mind, the stuff to blow your mind.
Speaker 1: Us should module people just chining in and saying, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love that movie. That's a great movie. Watched it
Speaker 1: when I was younger, etcetera. It's holy. Infra man is
Speaker 1: is holy and uh and it deserves reverence and and
Speaker 1: I'm glad to see it getting plenty. I did check
Speaker 1: out the This is Clinebra review, which was quite It
Speaker 1: was some episode of their show from I guess the
Speaker 1: late seventies, and it was quite funny because it was
Speaker 1: one of the where like they had to segue to it,
Speaker 1: I think, from talking about some X rated erotic thriller
Speaker 1: like straight into uh to Infra Man which uh is
Speaker 1: just wonderful. Yeah, and you can tell, like ever it's
Speaker 1: just gushing about it. They both clearly love it. Um.
Speaker 1: It again raises the question of why the two point
Speaker 1: five stars and then when the upgrade, why only to three?
Speaker 1: He he talks about it like a four star classic.
Speaker 1: So again I'm going to say that as canon. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: apparently yeah, I'm looking at the clip now. Apparently they
Speaker 1: talk about Emmanuel Guilty Pleasures, Uh, super Fly, the Fury,
Speaker 1: and Inframan. So I mean, really, I mean that out
Speaker 1: of those films, you know, I'm going to go to
Speaker 1: Inframant first. No wait, I'm reading further. They also talk
Speaker 1: about the Greek Tycoon and the last House on the
Speaker 1: left in this episode, So yeah, Infra Man clear winner
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