WEBVTT - Listener Mail: Green Stamps 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.280 Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:11.039 My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.840 Listener mail. This is Robert Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:16.640 End it's Monday, which is the day of the week 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:18.599 that we read back some of the messages you've sent 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.800 in over the past few cycles. So, uh, I think 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.440 we've got to start off with a very important correction 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:32.840 from a long time correspondent, Jim in New Jersey, who says, 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:36.440 Robert and Joe I was credited for the hot dog 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:39.880 kim chi combo suggestion. While I agree it sounds awesome, 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.479 I was not the person who suggested it. It may 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:46.240 have been another listener named Jim. Jim, what can I say? 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.160 I mean, huge apology to you over that. I don't 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.600 recall who attributed this to you. It may have been you, Rob, 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.360 I don't remember, but if that was me, then I 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:00.640 definitely apologized to this Jim and all other gems that 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:08.800 may be listening. But let's see to get into the 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.200 more substantive messages, Rob, do you want to read this 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:16.399 one from Frederick in response to various episodes, Sure, here 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:21.160 we go. Frederick says, hello, fellows, I am sickly for 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.360 a few days, which has allowed me ample time to 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.880 catch up on stuff to blow your mind. Episodes Present 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:30.280 and Vault Good Times, Smiley Face. Your episodes on the 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.120 seven day week were truly fascinating. Several years ago, I 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.319 was unemployed for some time, and I found myself longing 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.840 for Mondays so the work week would start and some 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:43.120 opportunities might come my way on catchup. You know the 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.720 scene in Home Alone where Kevin has prepared his mac 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.360 and cheese. Watching it as a child made me wonder 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.240 why doesn't he put ketchup on it? Several years later, 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.720 I had the revelation that Americans don't put ketchup on 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.680 their Macaroni's shocking if true. If Home Alone were to 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.840 play out in Sweden, where I am from, that plate 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:05.800 would have a glorious cover of thick ketchup and a 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.640 side of meatballs. Of course. Well, now that is interesting. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.600 I uh yeah, I mean it's not crazy to think 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.360 of catchup going on on macaroni noodles, I guess. I 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:20.720 mean red sauce, of course is fabulous with with noodles 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.840 and famously so. Uh, but it's not a combination I 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.359 would have. I would have thought. Off here in Belgium 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.400 do they put mayonnaise on macaroni and cheese? Well? Why not? 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:34.560 Why not? Alright, Uh, here we go, Frederick continues, and 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:36.760 a special shout out to Robert quote, you put the 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.040 aliens in the middle of this stuff and you got 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.120 all the answers is a classic sample in the early 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:47.359 nineties track Abnormal Interference by eat Static around the five 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.840 minute mark. Hearing that reference in the dissolver of World's 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:55.679 episode took me way back. Ah. That's um, that's that's 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.560 cool to know. I'm not sure I knew the exact 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.359 title of this, uh this track, it's one I think 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:04.960 I've heard on Soma FM space station, Soma channel. If 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.119 anyone out there is not familiar with some FM, definitely 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.680 look it up. It's uh internet radio at its finest. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.440 They have so many channels. Uh no advertisements. I absolutely 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.280 love it anyway, Frederick continues. I'm an electronic music producer 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.600 and in my daytime job, I developed music production software. 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.000 I would love to hear a stuff to blow your 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:28.399 myn episode on synthesizers and or electronic music. Your take 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.160 on the subject would complement the many YouTube channels I 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:35.200 binge in marvelous ways. All the best from a Swede 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:39.480 living in Berlin, Frederick M m oh, thanks Frederick. I 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.520 should also say Frederick identifies uh in a in a 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.720 PostScript of the particular digital audio workstation software that he 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.200 works on, and I'm inspired to check it out. Actually, 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.920 I'm sort of a I'm always on the lookout for 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:54.960 for what I feel like will be my one true 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.600 love DAW, which I haven't fully discovered yet. I've tooled 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.200 around with several of the big ones, and I you know, 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.400 I can enjoy them all, and I feel like I 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.920 always enjoy learning a new one, but I've never found 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.880 the one that's like my destiny. M Yeah, you know, 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.000 I wonder what you just said if this will be 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:17.440 the way that we think about creative artificial intelligence in 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.599 the future. You know it will. It won't be a 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.320 situation where, at least as far as creative endeavors go, 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:26.080 where you know, we'll be replaced by this AI or 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:30.240 this AI, but we'll be seeking out these collaborations with 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.000 different AI and and trying to find the right one, 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:41.960 trying to find our soulless soul match out there. All right. 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.520 This next message is in response to our episodes on 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.440 the Seven Day week and it comes from Joe spelled 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:51.640 Jo just j o. Jo says Hello, Robert and Joe. 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:55.840 I live in Malaysia, a Muslim majority country. While most 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.440 of the country follows the Saturday Sunday weekend convention, four 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:03.600 states have Friday Saturday weekends to allow Muslims more time 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:07.039 to observe Friday prayers. The part you mentioned about risk 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:11.160 taking behaviors going from high on Monday to low on Thursday, 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.800 than back up on Friday got me thinking would people 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.960 who have a Friday Saturday weekend show a similar trend, 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.640 but from Sunday high to Wednesday low than back to 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.640 high on Thursday, since Friday would be the start of 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:28.080 their weekend. I also wonder if risk averse attitudes have 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:32.160 anything to do with online shopping and impulse purchases. I 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.800 helped to run an online shop, and I've noticed there's 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:38.040 a tendency for people to purchase more items on the weekends, 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:42.160 while are slow days are Wednesdays and Thursdays. However, I'm 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.440 not entirely sure if that's because people have more time 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.360 to browse on the weekends or because of an increase 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:51.080 in risk taking behavior which leads to impulse purchases, or 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:56.719 because the shopping platforms provide Friday A coupons and vouchers. Anyway, 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:58.600 it was a great series and I enjoyed it a lot. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.240 Keep up the good work, Live long and prosper Joe 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.479 in Malaysia. Oh thanks, Joe. That's interesting. Oh yeah, and 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:09.400 it is interesting to hear that you're you're your shopping 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.480 data somewhat conformed to the results of that study. If indeed, 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:14.560 risk risk taking has anything to do with it, I 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:19.839 would suspect probably risk aversion or risk tolerance plays some 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.000 role in in impulse purchases made online. I would have 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:27.479 to think so, especially given the idea about like say, 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:31.760 alcohol lowering people's risk aversion, and you know the many 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:33.680 stories people have about Oh I had a little too 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.599 much wine and then I ordered a bunch of things 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.080 on the internet. Yeah, yeah, you do hear it? That 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:46.200 a lot? All right? This next one comes to us 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.480 from Cindy. Cindy says, Hi, Robert and Joe, I am 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.599 one of those lurker listeners, but your Days of the 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.200 Week series inspired me to write in Days of the week, 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.000 and Chinese are very simple. Monday is known as the 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.320 first day of the week, whose day the second, etcetera. 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:05.640 Until Saturday Sunday is just Sunday. When I tried to 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:09.159 decipher the shop schedules when traveling in Japan, it got 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.640 complicated for me very quickly. The Japanese language names the 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:17.760 days after celestial bodies, similar to many Romance languages. This 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.200 is not the case for Portuguese, as I've heard from 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.080 a listener mail I thought it might be from the 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:27.520 Catholic missionaries, though a cursory Google search could not confirm that. 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.520 The five planets are known as water, metal, earth, as 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:35.360 in soil, not our earth, fire, and wood stars, each 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.000 a fundamental element in Daoism. I can read the kanji 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.760 characters in Chinese and mentally translate the planets into English, 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.880 then map those into days of the week in French. 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:51.840 My husband does not find this circuitous translation as interesting 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.160 as I do. While I am here, I also want 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:59.200 to talk about musical frission, which didn't seem enough to 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.880 warrant its own email when the episode was aired. If 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.880 frision is built up in anticipation to pique emotions, I'd 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.720 say nobody does anticipation better than Bach. His use of 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.160 chord progressions is always a long build up where I 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:17.400 try to anticipate the next key change, even for pieces 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.880 I've heard many times before, until he hits that tonic 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.960 and brings the release of tension. I cannot quote unquote 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:30.160 outsmart Bach, but consciously or unconsciously, I feel the compulsion too. 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.600 By the way, your podcasts are always so interesting and 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.680 thought provoking that I can only listen to them while 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:41.480 having my morning coffee or during more menial tasks like cleaning, 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:43.960 and then I will pause and tell my husband about 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.160 the tidbits I just learned. I save Lauren and Annie's 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:50.400 Saver for cooking, and I won't name what I listened 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.920 to while doing data analysis during my work day. All 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:59.560 the best sending the pod that shall not be named. Yeah, well, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.640 but pre shade shout out for our friends Lauren and Annie. 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.480 Uh that's Lauren Vogelbaum and Annie Reese who hosts the 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.240 podcast Saver, which is in our network and it is 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.520 all about food, that's right. I think we we did 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.600 a guest spot on there a while back, doing some 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.920 uh some goblin market readings. Yeah, I think we've done 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.840 some some guest things back and forth or we've at 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:22.760 least been been on their show. I think we've talked 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.600 about having them come on our show before, but maybe 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.200 it's never happened. Annie did some just done some dramatic 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.640 readings for us before when we have you know, every 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.480 now and then there's a cinobide or a or an 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:39.000 Ottoman princess or a ruler that needs to be voiced 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.440 and uh in a quote and we'll we'll call on 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.439 Annie's talent for that. Oh but yeah, anyway, if you're 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.600 if you're interested in food, food history, food science, and 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.959 you haven't checked out the Saver podcast, you should look 0:09:49.960 --> 0:10:01.600 it up. Yeah, alright, this next t one, uh that 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.320 that I think you're going to read force here, Joe. 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.880 This one was shared on the Stuff to Blow Your 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:10.000 Mind discussion module, which is our Facebook group. We don't 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:13.079 really do anything with our with our Facebook. I think 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.160 somebody in Theory is supposed to be updating that for us, 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.319 but I don't know the main Facebook page. You can 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.240 you can skip it, but we do have this discussion 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:26.679 module where a number of listeners share links, share their 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.240 own thoughts on different episodes, and occasionally, like you know, 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.760 share something like this that will feature on listener mail. 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.560 So you can find that in request entry to it 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.800 via the Book of Faces. All right, so this comes 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.000 from Adam again, this was shared on our Facebook group. 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.640 And this is uh in response to the seven day 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.240 Week episodes. And oh, Adam says, just some commentary from 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.520 a rabbi on the seven day Week part one. And 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.839 Adam specifies that this was only a response to the 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.960 first part and the other ones hadn't come out yet. Um. 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.240 But Adam says, as for the Judaic adoption of the 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.520 seven day week, some scholars believe that Israel did not 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.080 have Shabbat or the Sabbath in the seven day week 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.480 until we were sent into exile in Babylon circle five 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:13.160 eighty six b c. Then, as the seven day market 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.840 rhythms spread in the ancient Near East, it became a 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:20.640 major part of ancient Jewish practice. There is the ancient 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:24.480 ritual of reading publicly from the Torah or the pentituke 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.320 in the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, which 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.600 is mentioned in Ezra slash nee Maya, and I believe 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.360 in the Christian Bible as well. Those readings were to 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:37.280 take place when the most people were present. Since Mondays 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:41.440 and Thursdays were the common market days in Jerusalem. Those 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.640 were the days the Torah was read from publicly. Today, 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.200 this is still the practice by Jews. Torah has read 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:51.280 publicly on the Sabbath, on Mondays and on Thursdays, dating 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:55.120 back to those ancient market days. Additionally, my rabbinical thesis 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.160 asked the question about how Jews can live within Jewish 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:02.200 time if they live off planet. Specifically, the question I 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.680 addressed is when one would observe the Sabbath if you 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.480 were no longer connected to a twenty four hour day 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:12.320 and seven day week. Oh fascinating. I would love to 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:17.000 read that at them. Yeah, I love I love discussions 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:22.240 like this. I remember reading a fair amount about about 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:27.199 how Islamic practices might function in space or on other planets. Uh. 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.400 And it's it's fascinating to to imagine how how this 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.040 would relate to Jewish traditions as well. I mean, because 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:35.880 for the most part, it's really going to be only 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:40.080 your more recently developed religions that have h you know, 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.760 even a real concept of of other worlds and so forth. 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.680 Oh yeah, I can imagine multiple questions in Islam, say, 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.880 for like daily prayers if you have a different length 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.600 of days, or like, what direction would you face if 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:55.160 if you're supposed to uh face Mecca or something during prayers, 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.840 but you're on another planet. Yeah, yeah, people have thought 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.000 about these things. This might be something we could even 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.320 back to in the future episode we get get a 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.800 hold of the right resources, uh talk about in a 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.280 different faiths and uh what sort of thought has been 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:12.320 put into the continuation of of that faith off world? 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.120 All right? This next one comes to us from poodle Bat. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.720 Poodle Bot writes in and says, hello, Robert, Joe, and Seth. 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.520 I've been listening to your episodes on the days of 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.320 the week, and I decided to write in about my 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:33.800 favorite calendar, that of the Shire. In an appendix to 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.840 The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien explains that the Hobbits 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.320 found it inconvenient that the days of the year don't 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.320 always fall in the same day of the week. To 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.600 remedy this, they have to holiday periods, one in winter 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:49.360 and one in summer that consists of several days with 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:58.400 no weekday value. So for example, you might have Monday, holiday, Holiday, Holiday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etcetera. 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.440 With this modification, the remaining number of days is divisible 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.679 by seven, and thus each calendar date falls on the 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.120 same day of the week every year. If you're born 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.679 on a Saturday, your birthday will always be on a Saturday. 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:15.120 I thought this was a genius device, and I just 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.480 thought i'd share thank you for all your entertaining and 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:22.480 insightful topics. On one hand, that seems great, but on 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.400 the other hand, it's like, oh, well, but if your 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:28.440 birthday is on like a Monday or Tuesday, and and 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.400 you don't get the rotation where it changes what day 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.000 of the week it is every year, then then that's 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.680 kind of a bummer, isn't it. Yeah, yeah, but it 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.560 also sounds like a fitting thing for a Hobbit to 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.640 be grumpy about. Oh yeah, well, I mean I say 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:50.680 this personally as as not a big birthday celebrator. Alright. 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.160 This next email is in response to our Days of 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.600 the Week series, and it it touches a bit on 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.280 the Weird House Cinema episode on Billy the Kid in 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.680 the Green Bay is Vampire. Remember that question we had 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.640 about the song Green Stamps We've talked about multiple times 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.160 on the show. We don't understand what the song is about. 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.880 We thought it was about money, but that became less 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.640 and less clear the more we examined it. So I 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.280 think we made some headway. Last listener mail, We'll see 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.960 where we get to today. Okay, well this is from Lee. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.120 Li says, hello, Rob, Joe, and Seth love the podcast. 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.320 In regards to the seven Day Week and college students 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.440 slash Classes. Uh So this came up in several different 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.880 ways because in those episodes, we found, for example that uh, 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:38.520 college students disliked mondays more than older people did. And uh, 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.960 I think maybe there were a few other findings along 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.000 those lines. But anyways, Oh, and maybe they had different 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.560 levels of of consciousness of what day of the week 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.680 it was than people in other age, age groups or 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:54.560 demographic groups did. But anyway, Li says, uh, in regards 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.600 to the seven day week and college students slash classes, 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.840 going to date myself here, But while a student I 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:05.160 volunteered with on campus e m s. Often while assessing 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.440 the mental status of patients, especially those with head injury, 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.720 the what day is it question would be met with 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:16.040 a blank stare, sometimes bordering on panic while not necessarily 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.880 indicating a concussion. If the context was explored, such as 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.160 what classes did you have today? Do you have those 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.480 two or three times per week, etcetera. Digging deeper helped 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.440 them realize they did know what was going on. Later, 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.960 volunteering with the town e m S this was equally helpful. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.840 This was prior to the ubiquity of cell phones and 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.360 even widespread PCs, so pen and paper calendars were the norm. 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.560 I was out of school almost ten years before we 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.760 had a PC. So now that I've sufficiently dated myself, 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.120 there was a time when many US grocery stores gave 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:53.520 away S and H green stamps with your purchase spend 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:58.280 more received more. These would be meticulously pasted into booklets 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.160 to be redeemed for products at the green Stamp store, 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.360 either locally or through a mail order catalog. I think 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:08.480 the company was Sperry and Hutchinson. Hope this is informative. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:12.760 Keep up the great work with the podcast. Lee excellent. Yeah, this, uh, 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.680 this ties in with some of what I was looking 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:19.280 at that apparently the green Stamp uh cup on program 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.480 in the UK. There was some version of it or 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.760 some spinoff of it in the US for a while 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.800 as well, and this was would also, um, you know, 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:32.480 explain why Jethro Toll can be can be such a 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:36.679 hit on both sides of the pond. Right, yeah, all right, 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.440 well thanks for that that additional information. That that was great. 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:46.960 Al right, Rob, you want to read this message about 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.720 weird how Cinema from Jeff and Mimi whoa one listener 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.639 male from two different people at the sense what it says? 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:58.760 All right, from Jeff and Mimi, they say the following, Hello, 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.199 fellow good bad movie lovers, Robin Joe of all the 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.320 b movie review podcast, Weird House Cinema has a special 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.960 place in our weekend podcast lineup. Oh that is that 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.480 is delightful to hear. I know we are certainly not 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:17.560 alone in putting out podcast content about about weird or 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:21.240 bad movies. They continued. The pedigree of your choice is 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:25.040 regularly delights us as lovers of unloved and forgotten movies 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.240 from the late twentieth century. A recent deep dive of 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:33.240 the career of esteemed actor Michael Ironside unearthed several gyms 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:39.600 for us, though none so beloved as Destiny to Order, 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:45.080 Dark Toronto Knights, eighties glam A hack writer sham by 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.040 his own creations, and one of the most surprising bad 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:53.720 guys of the era, Michael Ironside's diabolical, philosophical biker king Kinrick. 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:58.680 It's a journey punctuated by pulpy performances, god machines, miles 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:02.200 or kilometers of scenery chewing, and one of the most 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:06.240 unexpected and creative deaths of an antagonist. The R ratings 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.840 seems to be mostly for language. The movie is light 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.760 on gore. It's a hoot. Someone was watching too many 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:16.080 Laura Brannigan videos. We couldn't recommend it more. Jeff and 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.720 Mimi ps as old school MST three K fans were 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:23.200 always delighted when your episode choice overlaps the production credits 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:27.919 of an MST three K episode Charles Band FTW, which 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:31.560 I'm to understand means for the win and not uh 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:37.159 something cruder, not fight the Wizard. I always as I 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:40.080 always thought it stood for m F the world. UM. 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.480 But but you saying the F word instead of just 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.600 saying f uh. And it was confused when I started 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.200 seeing what. I had a friend who was like super 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:51.960 into Harry Potter, and I remember she was posting something 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.320 and she was like, Harry Potter f t W and 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:56.960 I was like, WHOA, I mean, Harry Potter is great 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:59.520 and all but that's that seems kind of extreme. But 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.239 then I found Oh, it's for the Wind, that's what 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.000 they mean. Uh huh, Well no, for me, it's fight 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:06.760 the Wizard. It is known. That's what it is from 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:09.520 now on for everybody listening to this as well. Well, 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:12.080 Harry Potter fight the Wizard. That sounds good, that makes sense. 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.320 Well yeah, anyway, I looked up this movie Destiny to 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:17.639 order it. It does indeed look like a hoot. I 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:21.080 haven't seen it, just based on the user generated plot 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.280 descriptions I was reading on IMDb and and so forth, 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:26.960 it looks like it's one of these um uh kind 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.840 of lathe of heaven uh from in the mouth of madness. 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:35.760 Like a writer starts writing things that come true, okay 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:37.919 uh And of course, so one of them is like 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:40.720 he he like writes about his dream woman and then 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.080 she comes true and they fall in love or something. 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.600 But then he also writes about an evil bad guy, 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:48.119 and then that's Michael Ironside, and the bad guy wants 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:51.159 to uh take over this writing project and write his 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:55.800 own story. But the real, the real morsel of of 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:58.560 delight here was. I looked up the cast and who 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:02.200 would you guess is in this but George Bouza oh 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.719 Man Booza Boo is a lot of fun. This is 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:08.080 a Canadian mainstay. We talked about him a good bit 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.720 in Our Weird House in my episode on the Brain, 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.960 a movie about a giant brain. Yes, yeah, yeah, he's 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:16.520 a lot of fun. Also done a lot of voice 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:19.000 actor acting. I remember he was the voice of the 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:23.520 original Beast on x ME in the animated series. The 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:27.359 movie also has somebody named Dennis or maybe Deny Forest 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:31.000 who is playing uh well, I don't know who he 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:32.640 is in this movie because I haven't seen it, but 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:35.280 I think he was like a Hinchman in the Mask. 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.160 He was one of the you know, the bad guys 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.280 dudes and in Cliffhanger, I believe, but that I mentioned 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:44.000 him because in his IMDb photo he's like he's got 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:47.240 a bird perching on his hand and he's just gazing 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:52.720 at it lovingly. It's very Beastmaster. Yeah. He also had 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:55.840 in the in his head shot there. He also has 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:59.040 U has a certain style going on that reminds me 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:03.480 of a villain from the movie Mandy Um Jeremiah sand 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:07.880 Oh Yeah, played by the guy who is Bruce Wayne's 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:12.680 dad and Batman begins, Yeah, Linus Roach, Yeah, he was great, 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:15.920 great villain rolled at in this head shot. This guy 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:19.600 he he somehow also kind of gives me tom Noonan vibes. 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:21.960 I'm not sure why he doesn't call that much like him, 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:24.800 but that's that's what I'm getting. Yeah, definitely some some 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:26.520 new indvibes, like you don't know what he's gonna do 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:29.960 with that bird? Is he? Is he gonna bite it? 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:33.480 I don't know. That would be the obvious implication if 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:37.360 it was noon In. Yeah, good hinch he has his good, good, 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:42.720 good look for a Hinchman. He's like a sensitive hinge. Yeah, okay, 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:45.160 I think that probably does it for this episode, right, 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:47.480 I believe. So we're going to go ahead and cap 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:49.480 it off here, but we'd love to hear from him 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:51.920 out there if you have additional thoughts on anything we've 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:54.520 discussed in this episode, if you have thoughts on recent 0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:58.800 future episodes of Stuff to Blow Your Mind right in, 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:02.560 we would love here from you. In the meantime, Yes, 0:23:03.200 --> 0:23:06.400 Listener Mail comes out every Monday. Core episodes of Stuff 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:09.120 to Blow Your Mind come comes out on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:13.199 Wednesday's artifact or Monster Fact short form episodes. 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