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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. Listener mail.

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<v Speaker 2>My name is Robert Lamb.

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<v Speaker 3>And I am Joe McCormick. And it's Monday, the day

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<v Speaker 3>you want to kick things off today with this message? Oh,

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<v Speaker 3>the message from Paul that mentions your Monster Fact on

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<v Speaker 3>the Horta.

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<v Speaker 2>Ah yeah, yeah, it's nice to hear here from another

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<v Speaker 2>trucky on this topic, Paul says, regarding the Monster Fact

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<v Speaker 2>episode about the star Trek Horta. In several non Cannon novels,

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<v Speaker 2>there are Hortas mentioned. In one of them. There's a

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<v Speaker 2>Horta ensign on the Enterprise and he's in the geology department.

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<v Speaker 2>He analyzes samples by tasting them. I thought this was

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<v Speaker 2>both hilarious and brilliant.

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<v Speaker 3>Now, is that a joke related to the horta's biology.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, because the horta is not a carbon based life form.

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<v Speaker 2>It's memory serves as like a silicon based life form.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh okay, so it kind of interfaces better with the

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<v Speaker 3>rocky substances. Yeah. Though, it's funny because this connects to

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<v Speaker 3>something that we covered last year in our Ignobels episode.

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<v Speaker 3>One of the Ignobel prizes from twenty twenty three was

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<v Speaker 3>awarded to an essay by a geologist named Jan I

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<v Speaker 3>believe his name was Jan Zawashevich. I'm sorry if I'm

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<v Speaker 3>getting that wrong, but it was a geologist who wrote

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<v Speaker 3>an article about geologists in the real world licking rocks

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<v Speaker 3>for information and various people eating rocks for one reason

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<v Speaker 3>or another, and among other topics. This essay got into

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<v Speaker 3>the history of this eighteenth century Italian geologist named Giovanni Arduino.

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<v Speaker 3>This was the man who loved rocks, who tasted the strata.

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<v Speaker 3>You might remember rob that he had all these like

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<v Speaker 3>tasting notes on different types of soil and fossils and stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>And he said that burned fossil mud rock tasted bitter

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<v Speaker 3>and urinous, like urine, So delicious, awesome.

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<v Speaker 2>Well see. Paul continues here and says, also, I have

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<v Speaker 2>a suggestion for the main series. One of the worst

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<v Speaker 2>plagues of humankind the earworm. No, I don't mean the

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<v Speaker 2>worm that crawls into people's ears and star trek to

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<v Speaker 2>the wrath of Khan, although that might be preferred. I

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<v Speaker 2>mean getting music stuck in your head. I'm extremely susceptible

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<v Speaker 2>to earworms, and unfortunately people know it and take great

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<v Speaker 2>pleasure inflicting them on me. Admittedly, it doesn't take much effort.

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<v Speaker 2>Just a brief SoundBite, mention, or even a vague reference

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<v Speaker 2>can set me off. To quote Robert from a previous episode,

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<v Speaker 2>because as everybody knows, Spider Man does whatever a spider can,

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<v Speaker 2>ah or odd or oh you.

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<v Speaker 3>Know, I think that should be read as like ough, oh.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, there we go. Anyway, I think this would

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<v Speaker 2>be a fascinating topic. Keep up the good and mostly

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<v Speaker 2>non agonizing work. Paul from New Hampshire.

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<v Speaker 3>Have we not done something on earworms before? It seems

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<v Speaker 3>like something maybe we covered years and years ago.

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<v Speaker 2>I know I've done something with earworms you know, it's

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<v Speaker 2>way back in the catalog. I don't remember if who

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<v Speaker 2>it was with, and I know at one point I

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<v Speaker 2>was in recent years, I was looking into it for

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<v Speaker 2>another project and I was really taken by the germ

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<v Speaker 2>name for them or worm, but I don't think that

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<v Speaker 2>ever came to fruition. So, yeah, this might be a

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<v Speaker 2>topic worth analyzing, you know, it's something or reanalyzing. There

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<v Speaker 2>may be some new research on it, and it's something

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<v Speaker 2>everybody can relate to. I think on some level or another.

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<v Speaker 3>Anything that was long enough ago that we don't remember

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<v Speaker 3>whether we did it or not, I think is fair

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<v Speaker 3>game to do again.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah, and yeah I get earwormed all the time,

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes not even directly, just like something that makes me

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<v Speaker 2>think of an infectious tune will cause that tune to

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<v Speaker 2>get stuck in my head, and then I have to

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<v Speaker 2>either listen to the song in its natural form as

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<v Speaker 2>a way of exercising the earworm, or I have to

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<v Speaker 2>find something else to just get stuck in there in

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<v Speaker 2>its place. All right.

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<v Speaker 3>This next message comes from Nathan. It is about cicadas,

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<v Speaker 3>but also sort of has a weird house cinema connection.

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<v Speaker 3>Nathan says, Glad Tidings. A few months ago, another listener

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<v Speaker 3>pitched the film Pumpkinhead for Weird House Cinema. That one's

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<v Speaker 3>directed by the special effects wizard Stan Winston. Yeah, Nathan says,

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<v Speaker 3>the connection is flimsy, but it could make for a

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<v Speaker 3>tie in with the Cicada series. Their distinctive screech is

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<v Speaker 3>used to great menacing effect whenever the titular creature appears, Nathan. So, Nathan,

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<v Speaker 3>I had no idea. I've seen this movie before. We've

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<v Speaker 3>talked about it a bit on the show, though we

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<v Speaker 3>never covered it on a full episode. But I had

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<v Speaker 3>no idea, And you're exactly right. I looked this up.

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<v Speaker 3>I looked up the scene where like the witch is

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<v Speaker 3>first creating the demon, and you know, it's rising up

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<v Speaker 3>to its full stature. And sure enough, once once we

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<v Speaker 3>see we actually don't see the full creature yet, we

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<v Speaker 3>see like its shadow, you know, rising up on the

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<v Speaker 3>wall as it assumes its adult form. And right when

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<v Speaker 3>that happens, you hear this this whirr come in and

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<v Speaker 3>it is the same on of cicadas out there rattling

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<v Speaker 3>their timbles in a chorus.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I don't know if I've ever actually watched this

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<v Speaker 2>film in full. It's one of those that I think

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<v Speaker 2>would they would perhaps err on something like Joe bob Riggs,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, on TNT back in the day, and I

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<v Speaker 2>would catch parts of it and I was always intrigued.

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<v Speaker 2>So I also watched this clip that was sent and yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>you can hear the cicadas buzzn't as old. Pumpkinhead comes

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<v Speaker 2>to life.

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<v Speaker 3>As a horror movie. There's some good things about it,

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<v Speaker 3>some not so good things about it. It's not a

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<v Speaker 3>rollicking good time. It's kind of a downer of a

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<v Speaker 3>horror movie. Like it's kind of sad and it's like

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<v Speaker 3>a it's like a tragic revenge story. But it does

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<v Speaker 3>have some really great special effects.

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<v Speaker 2>And it has Dick Warlock in it, so it's got

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<v Speaker 2>that going for it. Yeah. All right, well, thanks for

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<v Speaker 2>writing in about that. We always love some good monster

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<v Speaker 2>tie ins to our topics. All right, This next one

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<v Speaker 2>comes to us from Jeff and this Jeff's warning or

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<v Speaker 2>did you label this fear Joe?

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<v Speaker 3>No, I just threw it in warning that this does

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<v Speaker 3>describe some real life diving related kindegory injuries.

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<v Speaker 2>All Right, we'll strap in. Jeffs says greeting science humans.

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<v Speaker 2>After hearing about Joe's ill advised googling of human parrotfish victims,

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<v Speaker 2>I was reminded of something I heard on a scuba

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<v Speaker 2>dive boat. The dive master was explaining the life of

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<v Speaker 2>the reef below and told a story about a guy

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<v Speaker 2>harassing a large porcupine fish sometimes called a pufferfish, but

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<v Speaker 2>the kind with spikes like bloat from finding nemo. If

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<v Speaker 2>a porcupine fish is cornered, it will pretty quickly resort

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<v Speaker 2>to its famous inflation behavior, which is impressive to see

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<v Speaker 2>in real life. The story went that this guy found

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<v Speaker 2>a roughly basketball sized porcupine fish, grabbed it and started

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<v Speaker 2>spinning it on its longitudinal axis, like spinning a basketball

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<v Speaker 2>before taking a free throw, laughing as it inflated. Surely

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<v Speaker 2>hard for me to picture this side of like a

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<v Speaker 2>Looney Tints cartoon. But anyway, how do you.

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<v Speaker 3>Know somebody's laughing if they're underwater.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess there are more bubbles the bubbles have laughed

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<v Speaker 2>in them. Anyway, as he was spinning it around, he

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<v Speaker 2>managed to accidentally stick his finger in the poor fish's mouth,

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<v Speaker 2>and he did what you'd expect to do and bit

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<v Speaker 2>the tip of his finger off above the bone. While

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<v Speaker 2>it severed the tip of the finger, it didn't cut

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<v Speaker 2>through the glove, so he didn't lose the chunk. The

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<v Speaker 2>story continued that he later tried to participate in the

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<v Speaker 2>second dive of the day by simply replacing the tip

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<v Speaker 2>on the end of his finger and tightening his glove

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<v Speaker 2>to hold it in place. He didn't make it more

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<v Speaker 2>than a few seconds in the water before the pain

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<v Speaker 2>got to him and he retreated to the boat. The

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<v Speaker 2>second part of this story is probably apocryphal, or at

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<v Speaker 2>least exaggerated, and frankly, I'm not sure if any of

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<v Speaker 2>the story is true. Okay, so anyway, he continues. Cautionary

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<v Speaker 2>tales of rambo divers, inconsiderate jerks who harassed wildlife, damaged

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<v Speaker 2>the environment, and endanger other divers with reckless behavior were

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<v Speaker 2>a popular method of training new divers and how to

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<v Speaker 2>not make a nuisance of themselves. Whether or not the

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<v Speaker 2>story is true, I must say it was a successful

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<v Speaker 2>lesson in that I have remembered it ever since hearing

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<v Speaker 2>the tail long ago. Okay, Well, there you go. I

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<v Speaker 2>think that also helps ground it, because I have to say,

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<v Speaker 2>I know I'm a snorkeler as opposed to a scuba diver.

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<v Speaker 2>But in snorkeling you often are around scuba divers, and

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<v Speaker 2>I've personally never met any scuba divers that seemed like

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<v Speaker 2>like jerks like this. They, you know, the ones I've

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<v Speaker 2>met have all been very considerate of the environments that

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<v Speaker 2>they're venturing into.

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<v Speaker 3>But I can easily picture the rambo divers in my head.

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<v Speaker 3>I having no experience in this world, I just know

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<v Speaker 3>the kind of person Jeff is talking about.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, Jeff continues, The focus of the glove makes

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<v Speaker 2>me think that the moral of the story might have

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<v Speaker 2>been that unless you're diving a shipwreck or similar environment,

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<v Speaker 2>you really don't need gloves to dive, because you shouldn't

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<v Speaker 2>be touching anything anyway. Feeling with that your hands are

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<v Speaker 2>protected can make a person do things they wouldn't otherwise try,

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<v Speaker 2>perhaps grabbing an angry, spiky inflatable balloon. Rambo divers were

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<v Speaker 2>easy to recognize as the guys wearing the largest, most

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<v Speaker 2>aggressive looking dive knives available, when really all you need

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<v Speaker 2>is something small and convenient in case you have to

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<v Speaker 2>disentangle yourself or some wildlife from fishing line or discarded

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<v Speaker 2>nets at any rate. I am pleased that I have

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<v Speaker 2>managed to remain incurious enough to not embark on Joe's

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<v Speaker 2>Google image search journey, although I did get some perverse

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<v Speaker 2>enjoyment from the story. In the same way I enjoy

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<v Speaker 2>hearing you guys discuss Cory movies I would never watch myself.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks for continuing to keep our imaginations engaged.

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<v Speaker 3>Jeff, Thank you, Jeff.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, I'll also add I haven't researched this.

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<v Speaker 2>I haven't done like an episode of or done any

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<v Speaker 2>show research on pufferfish. But it's my understanding, through just

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<v Speaker 2>chatting with folks on you know, snorkeling trips and so forth,

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<v Speaker 2>that you also shouldn't mess with them because it's like

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<v Speaker 2>not supposedly not like a pleasant experience for them, or

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<v Speaker 2>you know, it's not some it's not a trick they

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<v Speaker 2>need to be able to do all the time, or

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<v Speaker 2>it can necessarily do that many times in their life.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, you mean the inflation when they when they puff up. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So there are numerous reasons not to provoke fish

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<v Speaker 2>in the wild or mess with them at all, but yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>this is perhaps one of the.

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<v Speaker 3>All right, this next message comes from Gerald Gerald says, Hi,

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<v Speaker 3>Robert and Joe, greetings from Adelaide, Australia. Knowing your love

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<v Speaker 3>for all things Crab, I immediately thought of you when I

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<v Speaker 3>saw today's cartoon on my desk calendar. You may have

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<v Speaker 3>seen it before, but I figure you can never have

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<v Speaker 3>too much Gary Larson in your life, so I'm sharing

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<v Speaker 3>it with you. So this is a Far Side calendar

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<v Speaker 3>panel and it's a it's the The bottom text is

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<v Speaker 3>Boxer Nightmares and it shows a man asleep in a

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<v Speaker 3>bit sort of punching about fitfully in his sleep. He's

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<v Speaker 3>sleep fighting, and we see a thought bubble in which

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<v Speaker 3>he imagines that he is in between rounds in a

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<v Speaker 3>boxing match with a crab, and he's telling his trainer

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<v Speaker 3>I'm trying, I'm trying, but he keeps moving sideways on me.

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<v Speaker 3>So Gary Larson did love this wildlife related jokes. I

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<v Speaker 3>don't know if I know of any other cartoon that's

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<v Speaker 3>as focused on details of zoology as The Far Side.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, and remember in dinosaurs as well, and we

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<v Speaker 2>have the I think the what is the unofficial name

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<v Speaker 2>for a Stegosaurus's tail spikes? Based on a Gary Larson

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<v Speaker 2>Fhagamizer Bagamizer. Yeah, and despite what he showed, it was

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<v Speaker 2>for narrative effect that he showed cavemen and dinosaurs living

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<v Speaker 2>at the same time. He did not actually think that

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<v Speaker 2>was a reality. Yeah, there's actually at least one organism

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<v Speaker 2>named after Gary Larson. You know, there's a there's a

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<v Speaker 2>particular species of laus that's found only on owls, and

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<v Speaker 2>it was named after Gary Larson. It's like Striga phyllis

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<v Speaker 2>Gary Larceny, I believe. Yeah, it was first described in

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<v Speaker 2>nineteen ninety.

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<v Speaker 3>Beautiful perfect that it's a little parasite. All right, Gerald continues,

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<v Speaker 3>I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank you

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<v Speaker 3>for all the work you put into your show every week.

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<v Speaker 3>You never failed to find fascinating topics to cover, and

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<v Speaker 3>your humor and open mindedness make every episode a genuine

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<v Speaker 3>pleasure to listen to. Cheers Gerald. Oh, well, thank you.

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<v Speaker 3>That's so kind of you to say, Gerald, thank you

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<v Speaker 3>for listening and thanks for writing in. All right, do

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<v Speaker 3>we want to wrap this up with a message about

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<v Speaker 3>weird house cinema?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, this one comes to us from Taylor. This

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<v Speaker 2>is in response to our episode on Black Lizard, which

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<v Speaker 2>starred Akihiro Miwa, and I believe in that we talked

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit about how this actor went on to

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<v Speaker 2>do various other things in luting a lot of voiceover work,

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<v Speaker 2>voiceover work in a couple of Miyazaki films, but then

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<v Speaker 2>also this Pokemon movie about Arcius, and we didn't know

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<v Speaker 2>a lot about it. Well, luckily we have listeners to

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<v Speaker 2>write in and tell us more. Taylor says, in my

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<v Speaker 2>self appointed role as stuff to blow your mind's Pokemon correspondent,

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<v Speaker 2>I have to provide some additional context on Akihiro MIA's

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<v Speaker 2>voice role as the Pokemon Arcius. Arcius is not only

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<v Speaker 2>the title character of a Pokemon movie, but the creator

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<v Speaker 2>deity of the Pokemon world, and it is a deeply

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<v Speaker 2>strange god. In its first video game appearance in two

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<v Speaker 2>thousand and nine, encountering the deity triggered a surreal montage

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<v Speaker 2>of real world photographs, completely out of keeping with the

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<v Speaker 2>franchise's cherry cartoon style. The montage displayed image displayed images

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<v Speaker 2>of astral bodies, nature, and natural disasters, intercut with industrial

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<v Speaker 2>textures and city skylines. As the montage progresses, an arcane

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<v Speaker 2>sigil slowly writes itself over the procession of images until

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<v Speaker 2>Arcus appears in its center. The progress of the photos

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<v Speaker 2>and a relentless synthetic track suggests that this deity presides

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<v Speaker 2>over cycles of human progress and destruction with ambivalence. It

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<v Speaker 2>was a very weird and heady media experience for what

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<v Speaker 2>is mostly a children's franchise about adventures with cute monsters.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, this doesn't sound like what I thought Pokemon was.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean Pokemon, I've I haven't seen anything quite like this,

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<v Speaker 2>but I've seen some weird episodes of Pokemon over the

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<v Speaker 2>past several years here, but anyway, Taylor continues. The Pokemon

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<v Speaker 2>universe is said to have begun when Arcus hatched from

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<v Speaker 2>an egg and berthed or created three cosmic dragons embodying space, time,

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<v Speaker 2>and antimatter, putting Arcius on par with creator gods like

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<v Speaker 2>Autumn and Fanas. Encounters with Arcus throughout the video game

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<v Speaker 2>French emphasize its danger and unknowable motives. Aki hero Miua

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<v Speaker 2>is fantastic in all of his performances, and I had

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<v Speaker 2>to contextualize the weight of casting him as this particularly

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<v Speaker 2>strange and artistically transgressive Pokemon. As always, thank you for

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<v Speaker 2>doing what you do. The curious wonder with which you

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<v Speaker 2>explore your topics is infectious and appreciated. Cheers Taylor. PS.

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<v Speaker 2>I've included a link to the Arsius video if you'd

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<v Speaker 2>like to check out the weirdness I've described, and they

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<v Speaker 2>add that it all begins at about what about a

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<v Speaker 2>minute and twenty seconds into the video. I pulled it up,

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<v Speaker 2>and indeed it is. It is bizarre.

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<v Speaker 3>It is so weird. So this isn't a game I

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<v Speaker 3>never played, but it does have a very Pokemon for

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<v Speaker 3>game Boy style in art style, but it's in color.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know what system.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I didn't know. This is not a switch. This

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<v Speaker 2>is some pre switch system.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know what this is for. But it looks

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<v Speaker 3>like a Nintendo game. It's like a top down a

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<v Speaker 3>top down you know, Pokemon or Zelda style ination, and

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<v Speaker 3>it's it looks very cute until the Arsiest Thing starts

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<v Speaker 3>and then, like Taylor says, what you get is this

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<v Speaker 3>montage of things that are not rendered in the art

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<v Speaker 3>style of the game, but they're like photos that are

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<v Speaker 3>digitized into the pixelated into the pixel space. So it

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<v Speaker 3>looks nothing like the the art style that you were seeing. Before.

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<v Speaker 3>It's like when it's like in the that Treehouse of Horror,

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<v Speaker 3>when like Homer Simpson is suddenly pulled out into the

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<v Speaker 3>real world and you're seeing live action.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, something like that. It also reminds me maybe

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit in its trippiness, of something Solid Bass

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<v Speaker 2>would do in one of his in his his work,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, especially in his Aunt movie Phase four. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>this is this is impressive. I had no idea that

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<v Speaker 2>this went down in a Pokemon video game. But of

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<v Speaker 2>course it's not too terribly surprising because I mean, just

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<v Speaker 2>through my son's interest in Pokemon, I have learned that,

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<v Speaker 2>like you know, you have all these different Pokemon and

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<v Speaker 2>some of them, many of them are based on mythological creatures,

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<v Speaker 2>folkloric creatures, dinosaurs, you name it. So when you cast

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<v Speaker 2>a net like that, you're going to bring in ideas

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<v Speaker 2>inevitably associated with those beings. So you're going to end

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<v Speaker 2>up populating the waters of the franchise with with some

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<v Speaker 2>of this energy.

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<v Speaker 3>I guess all right, does that do it for today?

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<v Speaker 2>I think so? Yeah. Yeah, thanks for writing in about

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