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: My name is Robert Land, and I'm Joe McCormick, and
Speaker 1: it's Monday. Of course it is time for listener mail.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I have any anything interesting at
Speaker 1: all to say at the beginning of this one, except
Speaker 1: should we just jump right into the moons of Mars.
Speaker 1: Let's do it right into the arms of Mars. Okay,
Speaker 1: do you mind if I do this? First message from Eric,
Speaker 1: go for it, Eric says, Hi, Joe and Robert and
Speaker 1: producer Seth loved the episodes on Phobos and Demos. I
Speaker 1: had a couple of things I wanted to mention. I
Speaker 1: might have missed it, but I didn't hear you mentioned
Speaker 1: that Phobos orbits so close to Mars that it appears
Speaker 1: to travel backwards, meaning that it rises in mars western
Speaker 1: sky and sets in the east. This is because it
Speaker 1: is lower than area synchronous orbit, or an orbital altitude
Speaker 1: at which a satellite would complete one orbit per one
Speaker 1: rotation of the planet. Demos is above ario stationary orbit,
Speaker 1: so it rises in the east like the Sun, but
Speaker 1: its orbit is low enough that if it rose at sunset,
Speaker 1: it would set at about midnight rather than close to dawn.
Speaker 1: Earth's moon has a similar motion, but it only moves
Speaker 1: about thirteen degrees per day relative to the stars. You
Speaker 1: mentioned that Phobos has gravity, so you would still fall
Speaker 1: down if you jumped. While this is true, it's incomplete.
Speaker 1: A typical jump speed is about three meters per second
Speaker 1: or about five ft per second, which means that an
Speaker 1: equivalent jump on Phobos would get you to a height
Speaker 1: of about nine hundred meters or three thousand feet. The
Speaker 1: escape velocity of Phobos is eleven meters per second, which
Speaker 1: is quite a bit more than your typical jump speed
Speaker 1: of between two and four meters per second. That said,
Speaker 1: a high jumper could get above two kilometers, and a
Speaker 1: pole alter could almost certainly reach escape velocity. Wow. That's interesting, though,
Speaker 1: I wonder if that's calculating pull vaulter speed, UH vertical
Speaker 1: speed or or horizontal speed. I'm not sure, but anyway,
Speaker 1: Eric goes on Demos is another story. It's escape velocity
Speaker 1: is two point five meters per second, which is definitely
Speaker 1: possible for anyone in reasonably good physical shape. So if
Speaker 1: you landed there on demos, you would probably want to
Speaker 1: either wait yourself down or tether yourself if you go
Speaker 1: out on a space walk. Note that my numbers don't
Speaker 1: take into account the fact that the force of gravity
Speaker 1: decreases as you get further away from the surface, or
Speaker 1: the dramatic changes in gravity due to the extreme variation
Speaker 1: in terrain height, which on Phobos varies from zero point
Speaker 1: four percent to zero point nine percent of Earth gravity
Speaker 1: at the highest and lowest points, respectively. Anyways, just some
Speaker 1: things I find fascinating about the Martian moons. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the great episode and keep up the good work. Eric.
Speaker 1: Oh that's excellent. Thank you Eric for writing in with that.
Speaker 1: I I know the backwards uh nature of Phobos. I
Speaker 1: know that came up in the research, and for some
Speaker 1: reason or another I ended up not putting it in.
Speaker 1: I think I just maybe got too distracted by the
Speaker 1: other weird things about it. But but yes, this is
Speaker 1: very much the case. Yeah, awesome email, Eric. Thank you
Speaker 1: love stuff like this. All right, what do we have next?
Speaker 1: What does the mail bot Carney have for us? Okay, well,
Speaker 1: this next one is very short, so maybe I'll do
Speaker 1: this one too and then let you take over after that.
Speaker 1: So this one is from Brian, and this is responding
Speaker 1: to the part in our Phobos and Demos part one
Speaker 1: where we talked about the conspiracy theory guy Alex Jones
Speaker 1: claiming in an interview that Buzz Aldrin, the astronaut the
Speaker 1: Apollo Love an astronaut who's been to the Moon, that
Speaker 1: Aldrin had admitted to him that the Phobos monolith, this
Speaker 1: big boulder on the surface of Phobos, was the work
Speaker 1: of Aliens and that it had something to do with
Speaker 1: Egypt and all this stuff. Uh. And I was like, what,
Speaker 1: I don't believe buzz Aldrin said that. So I looked
Speaker 1: it up and in the interview that he was referring
Speaker 1: to the claim he attributed to Aldrin was actually something
Speaker 1: older and said to make fun of, like he said
Speaker 1: it as a joke and then explicitly disavowed it. He
Speaker 1: was like laughing and said, obviously I don't believe that. Uh.
Speaker 1: So Brian is responding to that, and Brian says, I
Speaker 1: couldn't help but be reminded of how poorly text captures conversation,
Speaker 1: either by accident or by ill intent, depending on the interpreter.
Speaker 1: The best popular example is my cousin Vinny and Ralph
Speaker 1: Maccio's character being interviewed by the police. Rather than repeat
Speaker 1: the issue, here is the video and Brian attaches a
Speaker 1: link to this scene from My Cousin Vinny, Rob, Do
Speaker 1: you do you know this movie? You know the scene?
Speaker 1: I do not. I've I've never seen My Cousin Vinny
Speaker 1: and did vaguely aware of it because of you know,
Speaker 1: though it's supposed to be good, has a good performance
Speaker 1: as good actors in it. Yeah, this is a classic
Speaker 1: like legal comedy, I guess it's also it's like a
Speaker 1: weird like it's a fish out of water movie. So
Speaker 1: it's got Joe Pesci playing this tough guy from Brooklyn
Speaker 1: who happens to be the cousin of a kid played
Speaker 1: by Ralph Maccio who gets uh who gets falsely accused
Speaker 1: of murder in a small town in Alabama while he's
Speaker 1: on the way to the beach. And so there's a
Speaker 1: scene in the movie where Ralph Maccio and his friend
Speaker 1: have just been driving along on the highway and they
Speaker 1: get pulled over by police and they end up being
Speaker 1: interrogated by police for a murder, but they don't realize
Speaker 1: that that's why they're they've been captured. They think that
Speaker 1: they've been captured because one of them accidentally shoplifted a
Speaker 1: can of tuna, and so because they think they're they're
Speaker 1: on account of the tuna, they're all they're all just
Speaker 1: saying like, yeah, we'll just admit to it. It's fine,
Speaker 1: We're sorry, we did it. Sorry. I guess it's taking
Speaker 1: too long to explain anyway. The the sheriff eventually asks them,
Speaker 1: so when did you shoot the clerk, and Ralph Machio responds,
Speaker 1: I shot the clerk. I shot the clerk. Uh with incredulity.
Speaker 1: But then the transcript of that interview is read back
Speaker 1: and ward with him just repeatedly admitting that he shot
Speaker 1: the clerk. And I think that's what Brian is getting
Speaker 1: at here. Okay, I guess. Well, like I said, I've
Speaker 1: never seen it, but but I am familiar with it
Speaker 1: because of course Fred Gwynn is in it. Hermann Judge,
Speaker 1: I think. But yeah, he was of course Herman Munster
Speaker 1: and he played Jed Crandell in the Pet Cemetery that Road. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was. Arguably I think he was. He was maybe
Speaker 1: the best part about that movie, Like he gave a
Speaker 1: really solid performance. Yes, and in my cousin Vinny, he
Speaker 1: plays a very very uh stiff Alabama judge who does
Speaker 1: not take kindly to any any Brooklyn nonsense. But anyway, Brian,
Speaker 1: I mean, so, if you were to look at a
Speaker 1: transcript of what buzz Aldrin said, I mean, even in
Speaker 1: the transcript, it would be clear because he would say,
Speaker 1: I don't He says, I don't believe that. But if
Speaker 1: you listen to it, it's even clearer because he's like
Speaker 1: laughing when he's saying the thing that is attributed to him.
Speaker 1: I mean, no, nobody genuinely listening to this could think
Speaker 1: that he literally meant, yes, that the Aliens were practicing
Speaker 1: building a pyramid on the moon Phobos. That's obviously not
Speaker 1: what he meant to be, and it's clear through what
Speaker 1: he says later, but it's also clear in the tone.
Speaker 1: All Right, here's a short message from Olydia. Olydia writes, uh,
Speaker 1: more moons. Love the podcast and definitely interested in more
Speaker 1: space exploration. Thanks for the introduction to the Expanse. I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: we we we we must have sent more moons. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And indeed the Expanse continues to be a fun series.
Speaker 1: I think they have, like the TV adaptation. I think
Speaker 1: they have maybe one more season coming out, maybe two.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's and then it's one of those
Speaker 1: that I think it could potentially be picked up by
Speaker 1: somebody else. Uh. And of course they're There are a
Speaker 1: number of books out there, and the books are good too.
Speaker 1: I read the first one, and um, and my wife's
Speaker 1: been reading on him this summer. All right. This next
Speaker 1: message is about owns in Wyoming. I think this is
Speaker 1: a response to an episode where we asked whether we
Speaker 1: had any listeners in the very sparsely populated U S
Speaker 1: state of Wyoming, and we heard from Brandon. Brandon is
Speaker 1: not the only Wyoming eight what what do you call him?
Speaker 1: Wyominger's not the only one to respond, but Brandon says,
Speaker 1: I exist. During your episode about bones, you mentioned Wyoming,
Speaker 1: and surely I am not the only avid listener to
Speaker 1: your podcast, but I most certainly do exist. In the
Speaker 1: interest of full transparency, there are much better places for
Speaker 1: you to come in Wyoming than Uh. Brandon says that structure.
Speaker 1: I think we were talking about a house made out
Speaker 1: of bones that's somewhere in Wyoming, or it's made with
Speaker 1: rocks that contained fossils to that extent. Yes, Brandon says,
Speaker 1: I have seen it myself talking about this house, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a hard time setting up. Wait, this
Speaker 1: is referring. I think we said we might do a
Speaker 1: live show there. Anyway, Brandon says, the Medicine Bow area
Speaker 1: itself though it's worth a visit a lot of Native
Speaker 1: American his story there and you can actually see very
Speaker 1: close and actual medicine wheel. Brandon, Well, I'm still that
Speaker 1: he did. You know, Brandon still did not talk me
Speaker 1: out of it, because this still sounds like a great
Speaker 1: place to record. We'll go there. It'll be difficult to
Speaker 1: set up. We won't tell anybody about it, so it'll
Speaker 1: just be us, uh and and then we're done, and
Speaker 1: you'll never know if we were actually there, if we're lying. Yeah, yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: we would actually go there, okay, but we just we
Speaker 1: wouldn't tell anybody, or maybe you know, we'd we'd let
Speaker 1: we let Brandon know. Then Brandon could could watch like
Speaker 1: through the window, I can't remember it has windows, or
Speaker 1: not sign it. So we let Carney press his hands
Speaker 1: into the wet cement and signed his name. All right,
Speaker 1: here is a bit of a listener mail. This is
Speaker 1: from mars uh, someone who identifies as Mars. I guess
Speaker 1: so Mars is their name, Where Mars is the name
Speaker 1: of of a god, people can be called Mars. To
Speaker 1: go for it, they write, Hello, Robert and Joe. I
Speaker 1: have happily added stuff to blow your mind to my
Speaker 1: listening list since the beginning of COVID and check off
Speaker 1: most episode except I'm sad to confess I avoid Weird
Speaker 1: House Cinema for the sole reason that my current viewing
Speaker 1: list is longer than my life expectancy and I don't
Speaker 1: want to add anymore. Must seas fair enough, um, they continue.
Speaker 1: I make my living in the aviation industry and have
Speaker 1: been watching the evolution of drones closely, not often with excitement. However,
Speaker 1: this one really got me interested. The smell o coopter.
Speaker 1: I'm completely in awe of this type of development. See
Speaker 1: and then they included a link. Although does this bring
Speaker 1: us closer to the singularity anyway? I love the show
Speaker 1: and love the rabbit holes I can get sent down.
Speaker 1: Keep up the great work, Mars, so I followed through
Speaker 1: to this link. So this is a link to an
Speaker 1: article on the web page for the American Society of
Speaker 1: Mechanical Engineers the a s m E. And the the
Speaker 1: article is called an Autonomous Drone Searches with Smell from
Speaker 1: April by Michael Abrams, and so yeah, it describes this
Speaker 1: tiny autonomous aerial vehicle that is guided by smells that
Speaker 1: was designed by researchers who were like, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: are our cars are starting to sort of see based
Speaker 1: on light and our phones are listening, right, so so
Speaker 1: why not add more senses to robots? And so they
Speaker 1: tried to make this um old factorial lee sensitive if
Speaker 1: that's the word robot, that is based on the olfactory
Speaker 1: anatomy of moths. I'll just quote from Abraham's article here.
Speaker 1: Moths are some of the most sensitive chemical sensors of
Speaker 1: the insects. Thanks to some two odd million years of refinement,
Speaker 1: they can find flowers or mates miles away. They're also
Speaker 1: easy to breed and handle. The men Duca sex to
Speaker 1: hawk moths used by the researchers are palm sized with
Speaker 1: antennae that are roughly toothpick in diameter. The months were
Speaker 1: anesthetized in a refrigerator before researchers detached the antennae, which
Speaker 1: stays biologically and chemically active for four hours. Researchers connected
Speaker 1: the antennae to a circuit board with tiny wires placed
Speaker 1: at either end. They attached the antennae sensor to an
Speaker 1: inexpensive off the shelf quad copter to create the device.
Speaker 1: When the antenna picks up a scent, it sends an
Speaker 1: electrical signal to the circuit board that directs the drone
Speaker 1: according to a simple algorithm. This is this is this
Speaker 1: is dark, this is weird. It goes to places I
Speaker 1: didn't expect. The smellicopter. Yeah, it has a cute name,
Speaker 1: though I did not think we were going to get
Speaker 1: like a bio borg thing here. Uh now I'm wondering. Okay,
Speaker 1: so there's gonna be like the drug dogs of the future,
Speaker 1: Like you just release these over a city and they
Speaker 1: like sniff out everybody, every house that has cannabis in it.
Speaker 1: But but the author here claims they cite at least
Speaker 1: one idea of how this could be used, which is
Speaker 1: to locate disaster survivors in a disaster zone. So if
Speaker 1: it's actually used for that, that sounds cool. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, certainly nefarious uses for it. Less ethical uses
Speaker 1: for it come to mind. Uh. The The author here
Speaker 1: also says that it could be used to pinpoint chemical
Speaker 1: leaks or to find the source of greenhouse gases. So okay,
Speaker 1: but anyway, Mars, Yeah, this this is very strange, so
Speaker 1: so thanks for sending this our way. All right. Our
Speaker 1: next bit of listener mail is one we meant to record.
Speaker 1: I actually did record for last week's listener mail, but
Speaker 1: then we held it back. Yeah. This was from one
Speaker 1: of the many Dans that wrote to us last week.
Speaker 1: We originally recorded a response to it, but this message
Speaker 1: mentions the Digital Underground, the hip hop group which we
Speaker 1: discussed in our response. And then right after we recorded
Speaker 1: the episode, but before it was released, we saw news
Speaker 1: on the Internet about the death of Gregory Jacobs, also
Speaker 1: known as shock G of the Digital Underground. We thought
Speaker 1: it'd be kind of weird to release our talking about
Speaker 1: that without addressing the fact that he had passed away,
Speaker 1: so we wanted to rerecord it for today. All right.
Speaker 1: This one comes to us from Dan and says Hello, Robert,
Speaker 1: Joe and Seth as an Avid. Stuff to blow your
Speaker 1: mind list nerve for years, there is one film you
Speaker 1: have sometimes mentioned that I am surprised you have not
Speaker 1: covered yet on Weird House Cinema. No, not Highlander or
Speaker 1: even Highlander to the quickening, the film I'm speaking of
Speaker 1: is nothing but Trouble. This was a film I saw
Speaker 1: midway through back in the nineties on HBO. I had
Speaker 1: no idea what it was about, really, but immediately felt
Speaker 1: like I needed to take a shower afterwards due to
Speaker 1: the high amount of ikeyness, gore, and nauseous prosthetic makeup
Speaker 1: on Dan Ackroyd and those weird mutant twins. However, this
Speaker 1: was also the first time I heard Digital Underground without
Speaker 1: knowing who they were, so it wasn't all bad. I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed your episode on Weird Music from a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks back, as well as the companion episode on
Speaker 1: Record Store Society. I would like to recommend one music video,
Speaker 1: although it may not be weird enough for your taste.
Speaker 1: This is the video for George Clinton's electro funk classic
Speaker 1: Atomic Dog. I've included a link below. Also, can you
Speaker 1: please explain the phrase throwing cabbages into the audience? Rob
Speaker 1: mentioned when you were discussing post bly in Michigan, and
Speaker 1: I have no idea what this means. Dan Okay, so
Speaker 1: a number of things to address in this message. Uh,
Speaker 1: nothing but Trouble. I am pretty sure that came up
Speaker 1: when we were talking about the Ridley Scott movie Prometheus,
Speaker 1: and I was deriding, um, what's his name, Guy Pierce's
Speaker 1: makeup in that movie by saying that it was so
Speaker 1: awful he looks like dan Ackroyd and Nothing but Trouble,
Speaker 1: which is kind of true. I've never seen all of
Speaker 1: Nothing but Trouble. It's one of those movies I've seen
Speaker 1: like parts of multiple times. They used to show it
Speaker 1: on TV a lot, or at least I don't know.
Speaker 1: It is a movie that is so ugly it literally hurts.
Speaker 1: It's literally painful on the eyes and like in parts
Speaker 1: of the head as you're watching it. It is a
Speaker 1: unique film, though it is uniquely weird. It is. It
Speaker 1: is a thing that emerged from dan Ackroyd's strange mind,
Speaker 1: and I do love it for that's I guess it's
Speaker 1: it's nobody's favorite movie, but I do find it perversely interesting.
Speaker 1: And indeed that scene, uh where well, there are two
Speaker 1: scenes I think we're digital underground performed, but the main
Speaker 1: scene kind of coming back to Fred Gwinn there's this
Speaker 1: uh this country courthouse scene and Digital Underground is on
Speaker 1: tour and they've been brought in and uh a charge
Speaker 1: with speeding or something. I don't remember, but they basically
Speaker 1: perform as part of their defense or something to that effect.
Speaker 1: So there's this huge musical number with Digital Underground performing
Speaker 1: You Got Shocked Gene there he he he he takes
Speaker 1: on the Humpty Hump persona you Got Tupac in there
Speaker 1: as well, and then Dan Ackroyd's grotesque old man character
Speaker 1: is uh is playing the organ. So it's it's tremendous
Speaker 1: and I do I imagine for some people it was
Speaker 1: there their introduction to Digital Underground, which was just a
Speaker 1: you know, fabulous act, and Shock g was, you know,
Speaker 1: undeniably a huge talent, so it was it was sad
Speaker 1: to hear about his passing. Yeah, I was listening to
Speaker 1: the Humpty Dance earlier today. It's fantastic. Yeah. The song
Speaker 1: they do, uh, same old song is the same old
Speaker 1: song that they perform ended in um nothing but Trouble.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think so anyway, great track as well,
Speaker 1: a number of hits and well beyond you know, just
Speaker 1: the you know, the Humpty Dance, which because the most
Speaker 1: famous uh digital underground track. They had so many great,
Speaker 1: great tracks that came out, so uh, if you if
Speaker 1: you've never heard them, go look them up. And if
Speaker 1: you haven't heard him in a while, uh, now is
Speaker 1: a good time. But wait, what was this thing? Also?
Speaker 1: Yeah you said that, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh. By the way,
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear you mentioned Record Store Society, which,
Speaker 1: of course, uh, if you haven't heard our crossovers with Seth,
Speaker 1: our producer Seth has a podcast called The Record Store
Speaker 1: Society where they talk about music. We did a couple
Speaker 1: of crossover episodes, so you can check those out, or
Speaker 1: you can look up The Record Store Society wherever you
Speaker 1: get your podcasts. But also, yeah, in that crossover episode
Speaker 1: we did with seth, um, we talked about a music
Speaker 1: video called Possibly in Michigan, and you said that it
Speaker 1: was not quite at the throwing cabbages into the audience
Speaker 1: level of comedy. So I think that's what Dan is
Speaker 1: asking about. What does that mean? That was just my
Speaker 1: sort of on the spur of the moment attempt to
Speaker 1: try and explain how I felt about the varying levels
Speaker 1: at which creators and performers and composers, etcetera. Are aware
Speaker 1: of the audience, perhaps acknowledging the audience, toying with the audience,
Speaker 1: and in the most extreme cases like straight up trolling
Speaker 1: the audience, you know, or even provoking the audience, which
Speaker 1: would be uh yeah, And I think I divided into
Speaker 1: two categories there, But if I had to rethink it,
Speaker 1: I would say, you've got you got four different levels. Roughly,
Speaker 1: there's their performers that are throwing cabbages at each other
Speaker 1: on the stage. They are performers that are doing that
Speaker 1: and then occasionally allowing cabbage to fly into the audience.
Speaker 1: Then there are the the performers who are throwing cabbages
Speaker 1: into the audience, uh, you know, with intention, and then
Speaker 1: there cases where they're throwing them at audience members. And uh,
Speaker 1: I don't I'm still not sure this actually clarifies any thing,
Speaker 1: but that's what I was talking about. Okay, So for you,
Speaker 1: possibly in Michigan was throwing cabbages into the audience, but
Speaker 1: not at the audience, I guess. So yeah, wait, maybe
Speaker 1: I'm misremembering it. I don't think I'm going to explore
Speaker 1: this topic too much further and go into like a
Speaker 1: full thesis, but it's just sort of like the loose
Speaker 1: way I sometimes think of Like sometimes I feel like um,
Speaker 1: for instance, in electronic music and I D I d M,
Speaker 1: sometimes there'll be a track and the track is really great,
Speaker 1: but it will have some like atrocious title that sometimes
Speaker 1: I feel like it's just like the creator is having
Speaker 1: having a laugh at the perhaps at the audience's expense.
Speaker 1: But sometimes it doesn't matter because the track is so good,
Speaker 1: you know. But then also sometimes the track is just
Speaker 1: really weird and weird to the point where I'm like,
Speaker 1: come on, are you just testing me to see what
Speaker 1: I'll put up with as a listener. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know. I feel like that's where there's some significant
Speaker 1: overlap between electronic musicians and fast food menus. For sometimes
Speaker 1: you ever get the feeling you're being trolled by a
Speaker 1: fast food menu because they're trying to get you to
Speaker 1: say the name of a fast food menu item that
Speaker 1: is just absolutely uh just fatal to your personal dignity
Speaker 1: to say out loud. Yeah and yeah. I mean it
Speaker 1: can also take place in um, you know, independent restaurants
Speaker 1: that have kind of cute sie titles for things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's like will I say that out loud, or
Speaker 1: will I just say I would like this sandwich or
Speaker 1: something to that effect. Is it time for weird House
Speaker 1: Cinema Listener Mail? I guess it is. We already sort
Speaker 1: of got in there in the last message. Okay, so
Speaker 1: this is from James. James says, Hi, guys, I've been
Speaker 1: listening for several months and have been loving the podcast,
Speaker 1: and I'm overdue in reaching out to give you props
Speaker 1: regarding the Turbo Graphics sixteen segment of a recent listener
Speaker 1: Mail episode. I think this all got started when we
Speaker 1: were talking about Gunhead having some kind of adaptation for
Speaker 1: the Turbo Graphics sixteen. Um. But anyway, in a previous
Speaker 1: Listener mails, somebody brought up a game for the turbographics
Speaker 1: that was like the most bizarre concept. It was like
Speaker 1: a racing RPG, so you know where you'd have to
Speaker 1: go around to different places on a map and like
Speaker 1: meet and talk to people and convince them to race
Speaker 1: with you. Uh, fantastic concept. But James here has an
Speaker 1: answer of what this is. James says, it is a
Speaker 1: racing game. It is called Final Lap twin. It's actually
Speaker 1: a hybrid RPG racer with an overworld map complete with
Speaker 1: random encounters, in which defeating opponents in races earns you
Speaker 1: character money that can be spent on various car upgrades
Speaker 1: in towns. There's an interesting boss battle mechanic too. It's
Speaker 1: a terrific game. I mean, that sounds so weird. I
Speaker 1: kind of have to look it up. I'm wondering what
Speaker 1: other types of like niche games could also add an
Speaker 1: RPG element. Could you have like an RPG pinball game
Speaker 1: where you have to like go around to different pinball
Speaker 1: cabinets and talk to people about them. I don't know, maybe,
Speaker 1: I mean it sounds kind of good put the right
Speaker 1: spin on it, and maybe some I don't make it.
Speaker 1: I mean, in a way, it reminds me of the
Speaker 1: various mini games that you have in sandbox games, you know,
Speaker 1: like Big Grand, Theft Auto or cyberpunk style um things
Speaker 1: where you're doing a lot of role playing and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and then you're talking to people about playing pool with them,
Speaker 1: or playing poker with them, or engaging in races with them. Right,
Speaker 1: playing cards in Red did redemption and stuff, Yeah, which
Speaker 1: was fun. That was my favorite part of that game.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, yeah, they should just made a full
Speaker 1: on poker. Sim My funniest experience ever playing that game
Speaker 1: was I spent a long time playing cards in a
Speaker 1: room where like night and day came and went and
Speaker 1: uh and you know, in the game, not in real life,
Speaker 1: but I want a bunch of money. I was like victorious,
Speaker 1: and I walked out of the cards room. And then
Speaker 1: just immediately the moment I walked out the door, witnessed
Speaker 1: my horse getting hit by a train. Yeah. You win some,
Speaker 1: you lose some. Yeah, okay, James's message goes on, Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see here. James says, the rest of the games
Speaker 1: mentioned in that segment had me smiling, nodding, and reminiscing
Speaker 1: fondly to other honorable mentions. Alien Crush, a grotesque HR
Speaker 1: Geeger inspired pinball game. Hey there you go. I didn't
Speaker 1: even know this was coming. A pinball game. Uh. Dragon Spirit,
Speaker 1: an overhead shooter where the player controls a fire breathing
Speaker 1: dragon and silent debuggers, a sci fi horror game competently
Speaker 1: capturing the tension and terror of the original Alien movie. Huh,
Speaker 1: terrible title, but you know that that sounds good. I
Speaker 1: did look up stills of um that Geeger pinball machine
Speaker 1: and Yeah, it does kind of look it's geeger Ask,
Speaker 1: but more purply and pink. Yeah, it's like what if
Speaker 1: you were playing pinball, but the pinball was the insides
Speaker 1: of an alien you were dissecting. I just looked it up.
Speaker 1: Alien Crush has a really good picture of an alien
Speaker 1: on like its box sort. It's got this thing with
Speaker 1: many eyes, kind of a big pink v with you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, at least at least ten eyes. Anyway,
Speaker 1: James goes on, I've been loving the Weird House Cinema
Speaker 1: episodes as well. I was intrigued enough by your discussion
Speaker 1: of frogs that I bought myself a used copy on
Speaker 1: eBay while listening to the pod. I trust it will
Speaker 1: be four dollars well spent. James. Yeah, let us know
Speaker 1: the verdict once you watch it. This goes back a ways,
Speaker 1: but the Battle for Indoor episode brought back enough nostalgia
Speaker 1: for me to dig out the old VHS copy that
Speaker 1: my dad helped me record back when it aired during
Speaker 1: one of their rare free preview weeks back in the eighties.
Speaker 1: Oh this is when they give you like the Disney
Speaker 1: Channel for free for a week. I remember this. People
Speaker 1: will take a lot off of it. Yep, they have.
Speaker 1: You'd bust out the VCR, you need you programmed the VCR,
Speaker 1: or you'd be there to to manually remove commercials if
Speaker 1: it was a channel that had commercials. Yeah, yeah, uh.
Speaker 1: And then James says, and wow, that one may have
Speaker 1: been best left to my childhood memories as it does
Speaker 1: not have the same charm for me as an adult.
Speaker 1: You guys are brave, smiling bass again, kudos for an
Speaker 1: entertaining and educational podcast. It's proven itself to be an
Speaker 1: integral part of my remote work. Sanity cheers James. All Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know the battle for Indoor held up for me,
Speaker 1: but maybe I would say maybe I'm more foolish than brave,
Speaker 1: But but I like that one. And again I should
Speaker 1: mention that the those that e wak movies are on
Speaker 1: Disney Plus now they they finally they listen to us.
Speaker 1: I guess they were like Rob and Joe said that
Speaker 1: we need to put we need to put the ewak
Speaker 1: movies back up, or we need to put them up
Speaker 1: where people can can can watch them. And now you can't.
Speaker 1: All right, We're gonna go ahead and close the mail bag.
Speaker 1: Here but I'm excited to pick up where we left
Speaker 1: off next time, because we didn't even get two discussions
Speaker 1: of more discussions of Sean Connery's accent and Highlander and
Speaker 1: so forth. There's some good stuff, yeah, already in the
Speaker 1: chamber for next week. So join us again next Monday
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