Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of
Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your
Speaker 1: Mind listener Mail. This is Robert Lamb and Seth Nicholas Johnson.
Speaker 1: That's right, Joe is still out on parental leave and
Speaker 1: we're still doing listener mail. And since we have a
Speaker 1: few bits of listener mail on this one that have
Speaker 1: to do with an episode of Weird House Cinema that
Speaker 1: Seth joined me for, I've decided, well we should have
Speaker 1: Seth in here on this episode of listener mail as well.
Speaker 1: Happy to join. All right, well, let's jump right into
Speaker 1: the mail bag here, we're gonna kick off with one
Speaker 1: that's another bit of goat listener mail. Uh. The goat
Speaker 1: mail keeps coming, and it should keep coming. This one
Speaker 1: comes to us from Chris from Chicago. Hi, Robert, Seth
Speaker 1: and Joe in absentia. Congratulations on the new arrival. I
Speaker 1: have been ruminating on this email since the first Goat episode.
Speaker 1: I was surprised by all of the goat lore and
Speaker 1: history across so many cultures. One culture of goat content
Speaker 1: that I enjoy is beer culture, more specifically German beer culture.
Speaker 1: Bach beer is a staple of Old World brewing styles.
Speaker 1: Here is a link to a quick summary, and that
Speaker 1: they included a link that goes to a brewery. And yes,
Speaker 1: there there's some posters and images and some labels that
Speaker 1: that that definitely featured goats with with large curling horns.
Speaker 1: Chris continues from the web page quote Bach originated in
Speaker 1: the northern German city of Einbeck, probably as far back
Speaker 1: as the fourteen hundreds. By the sixteen hundreds it was
Speaker 1: being brewed in the Munich area of southern Germany. The
Speaker 1: name Einbeck was pronounced as Einbach in the Bavarian accent
Speaker 1: of the region, and Einbach means billy goat. I never
Speaker 1: knew that. With that being that, a quick Google search
Speaker 1: we'll find you a plethora of goat and beer label images.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite box styles is that of the
Speaker 1: double box or double box slightly darker, multier, and higher
Speaker 1: in a b V. My favorite example of the style
Speaker 1: is eyeinger celebration. Include a link to this. I'm clicking
Speaker 1: on it. It's pulling up the image slowly from Germany,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of stalling it. No, no, it's back, Okay, yes, alright,
Speaker 1: I see this wonderful label here with a giant it's
Speaker 1: either a giant frothing grail of beer or it is
Speaker 1: a very small one um or I don't know, or
Speaker 1: maybe it's regular size and the goats are small, but
Speaker 1: there are two horned goats on either side. Um, sort
Speaker 1: of dancing or rearing up against the beer. Well, if
Speaker 1: it's a double box, you need double the goats. Makes sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it does look delicious. It's almost like a root beer float.
Speaker 1: But I think I just I prefer a root beer
Speaker 1: to an actual beer. So so maybe it's just where
Speaker 1: my mind wants to go. And Chris continues here. One
Speaker 1: of my favorite American and local breweries, Revolution Brewing here
Speaker 1: in Chicago, has a seasonal beer called Baham, a a
Speaker 1: bock beer coming in at six point six six percent
Speaker 1: ABV and featuring a great label with a rendition of
Speaker 1: the goat of Mindy's featuring some additional beer specific changes
Speaker 1: please see the attached that's wonderful a six point six
Speaker 1: six a b V and the beer is called bah
Speaker 1: that's a hilarious round of applause for them. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm pulling up a link to this here to
Speaker 1: see the cover. Oh yes, this is very This is
Speaker 1: very nice. I'm not really a beer person, but if
Speaker 1: if you've offered one of these, I might have to
Speaker 1: try it out, just because it has a very very
Speaker 1: metal looking label on it. Very nice. Yeah, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the image here and at first I was thinking,
Speaker 1: is this an artichoke floating over the goat's head? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna guess it's probably a hop. I'm not a brew master,
Speaker 1: but I believe hops look similar to artich chokes, especially
Speaker 1: if it's zoomed in. So once again we're getting into
Speaker 1: the idea of scale, just like with the previous label.
Speaker 1: Is this a very large hop or a very small
Speaker 1: baffo a? I don't know either way, though great label,
Speaker 1: I applaud it. I'm also not entirely sure what a
Speaker 1: hop is. Do you think you know? Like, I know,
Speaker 1: it's like a like a you know, a barley thing
Speaker 1: of a jig, but like, like, is is it the flower?
Speaker 1: I I genuinely don't know. I'm I'm very ignorant on beer,
Speaker 1: No I am. I've I've been straight edged for like,
Speaker 1: holy cow, um, over a decade. I can't I literally
Speaker 1: can't remember the last time I had alcohol. So yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: these are beautiful labels, though it would Beer is also
Speaker 1: something that I don't think Joe and I have covered
Speaker 1: on the show before as a devoted you know, like
Speaker 1: that how to beer or or the invention of beer
Speaker 1: and so for the beer comes up now and again,
Speaker 1: but we've never really done an episode that dives into it.
Speaker 1: That would be that would be interesting to do in
Speaker 1: the future though. Yeah. Anyway, Chris winds it up here
Speaker 1: with thank you for all the consistently great content, Chris
Speaker 1: from Chicago right our next messages from Keith goes As. Thus,
Speaker 1: I listened to your conversation about anti witchcraft practices this week,
Speaker 1: and the part about shoes made me think of this
Speaker 1: meme that is all enjoy. Memes are of course visual,
Speaker 1: but I'll explain them to the audience. Here we have
Speaker 1: the image of let's see it looks like the end
Speaker 1: of a bench or a bed, and we have two
Speaker 1: boots sitting on the floor. It looks like to Doc
Speaker 1: Martin's and they're very widely spaced apart, like got to
Speaker 1: be at least what two and a half three feet
Speaker 1: as the two boots sitting on the ground space apart.
Speaker 1: And this is the text on said meme, I leave
Speaker 1: my shoes far up heart so if a burglar comes in,
Speaker 1: they think I'm big a f ah fair fair absolutely
Speaker 1: and know that this doesn't make sense. There there is
Speaker 1: something going back to that episode that that you did.
Speaker 1: It was the interview where it was about things found
Speaker 1: in the walls, whether it be you know, shoes, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: And man, there is something spooky about a shoe by itself.
Speaker 1: I have no idea why it is. I I perhaps
Speaker 1: maybe like gives us like the vibe of like an
Speaker 1: invisible person or something. Maybe it's got something to do
Speaker 1: with like just the amount of life that goes into
Speaker 1: an average pair of shoes that it is like even
Speaker 1: more so than like something like a hat or a
Speaker 1: shirt or even something like a pair of jeans. A
Speaker 1: pair of shoes really has gone places with a person.
Speaker 1: So it does feel almost like a fingernail or something. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there is. Yeah, there's something. There's something strange about finding
Speaker 1: the one shoe if you're out on a walk mirror
Speaker 1: be it in on an urban or rural environ meant,
Speaker 1: of course, there are various traditions with the throwing of
Speaker 1: the lace together shoes over a power line or a
Speaker 1: telephone wire, or a tree branch and so forth. This
Speaker 1: is all from that Brian Hoggard episode recently people should
Speaker 1: listen to if they haven't. My favorite part from that
Speaker 1: interview something that's so obvious but I never thought about
Speaker 1: until it was settled out in that episode, the idea
Speaker 1: that shoes were not made for left or right feet.
Speaker 1: You just made shoe and it was just you wore
Speaker 1: two shoe and ultimately it would form to your foot.
Speaker 1: And perhaps that's why the idea of Cinderella's you know,
Speaker 1: shoe fitting her perfectly was such like an individual notion.
Speaker 1: And it's like, oh, of course, because like you know,
Speaker 1: I've I've I've heard that story million times in my life,
Speaker 1: and I thought, so many people are going to fit
Speaker 1: into that shoe if it's just a shoe. But no, no,
Speaker 1: if if it really was like you know, her, like
Speaker 1: old leather shoe that had magically turned into this glass slipper,
Speaker 1: then no, it would be like exactly her foot. It
Speaker 1: would be like a love not to you know, confuse
Speaker 1: my articles of clothing here. Yeah, I know, this is
Speaker 1: a great point. Yeah, because the leather shoe, obviously is
Speaker 1: this thing that's already kind of flesh, and then it
Speaker 1: slowly becomes more in tune with your body. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't evenin about the Cinderella comparison here, but that's
Speaker 1: I think that's that's right on there. It makes that
Speaker 1: story feel a bit more concrete that than it used
Speaker 1: to in my head by by adding that extra little
Speaker 1: wrinkle of like, no, no, no, shoes weren't like shoes now.
Speaker 1: Shoes were these very specific things that fit only your feet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think that's that's probably a layer to it
Speaker 1: that definitely would have spoken to people in olden times
Speaker 1: when they heard the story, read the story, or had
Speaker 1: the story told to them. I also bet, because you know,
Speaker 1: I mean we here, we are in the modern age,
Speaker 1: a couple of pairs of shoes that I by regularly,
Speaker 1: A standard pair of Converse high tops and a standard
Speaker 1: pair of Doc Martin boots, just two pairs of shoes
Speaker 1: that I always have on hand. You know, you got
Speaker 1: to wear them in for a couple of days. And
Speaker 1: those are modern, made for left, made for right shoes.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine how long it took to wear in
Speaker 1: a pair of shoes that were two nondescripts, just pieces
Speaker 1: of of of of of formerly cow flesh, you know,
Speaker 1: like I can't even imagine. Yeah, uh, that episode definitely
Speaker 1: had me thinking more and more about shoe placement in
Speaker 1: the house. My household is a is a shoes off
Speaker 1: once you enter the house household, so we have all
Speaker 1: the shoes lined up in trays right when you enter
Speaker 1: the house. And so after that interview, I kept thinking
Speaker 1: about it when I look over and see all those
Speaker 1: shoes and think of them collecting demons. And weirdly enough,
Speaker 1: it was either right about the same time we recorded
Speaker 1: this or a little afterwards, our cat started sleeping on
Speaker 1: the shoes. So now sleeping on the shoes is one
Speaker 1: of her favorite spots that she'll you know, get around
Speaker 1: too during the course of her travels through the house
Speaker 1: in the day, and she'll sleep for hours on the shoes. Well, well,
Speaker 1: the next time you took up your shoes in your house,
Speaker 1: do like this meme says, and leave your shoes far apart,
Speaker 1: so if a burglar comes in, they think your big
Speaker 1: a f Yeah, here you go. All right, now we're
Speaker 1: going to get into some of the weird house listener mail,
Speaker 1: and this is delightful because at least a couple of
Speaker 1: them have to do with our discussion of the Alice.
Speaker 1: This first one comes to us from Joe. Joe rides
Speaker 1: then and says the following, Dear Robert and Seth. First
Speaker 1: of all, hearty congratulations to Joe, are Joe on the
Speaker 1: new baby. Best wishes to the family. This is a
Speaker 1: little off tangent, but after seeing the weird puppets in Alice,
Speaker 1: I feel the need to tell you about some other
Speaker 1: weird and maybe awesome puppets, particularly the puppets in Pee Lee,
Speaker 1: a puppet series that started in and hasn't ended yet. Yes,
Speaker 1: you heard that right. The show is still ongoing. There
Speaker 1: are some two thousand, six undred episodes and counting. I
Speaker 1: don't know if this number includes the multiple spinoffs that
Speaker 1: are supposedly set in the same universe that follow different characters,
Speaker 1: but I'm a little afraid to find out. That's even
Speaker 1: longer than The Simpsons because the Simpsons, so that this
Speaker 1: this pre dates the Simpsons and it is still going
Speaker 1: very impressive. Yeah, I mean, it's got to be up
Speaker 1: there for like, the longest puppet show on the air
Speaker 1: in general has to be Yea. They continue. The show
Speaker 1: is produced by pe Lee International Multimedia, Taiwan and in
Speaker 1: my opinion, has some really beautiful puppets. Unfortunately, the main
Speaker 1: series is in Taiwanese hot Keen and the subs are
Speaker 1: in Traditional Chinese, so they're pretty inaccessible to anyone who
Speaker 1: can't read Traditional Chinese. However, the collaboration with Good Smile
Speaker 1: Thunderbolt Fantasy has English subs on YouTube. The show is
Speaker 1: a Chinese C and C series which revolves around cultivation Taoism,
Speaker 1: flying around, super secret manuals and techniques, flashy attacks, big swords,
Speaker 1: and lots of instances of honor being impugned been avenged.
Speaker 1: They also have a YouTube channel and has a ton
Speaker 1: of edits and compilations. They've come a long way since
Speaker 1: the ninety nineties and I hope you get a kick
Speaker 1: out of seeing the difference in cinematics. Thanks for reading.
Speaker 1: These are beautiful. I'm looking at these right now, and
Speaker 1: not only are the like primary figures like like there
Speaker 1: seemed to be some humanoid esque figures, but man that
Speaker 1: I'm seeing some creatures here. Um, Like wow, there's like
Speaker 1: this some giant bear like creature with antlers that is
Speaker 1: so beautiful looking. Yeah. Yeah, I'm glancing at some of
Speaker 1: this footage as well. On an epic sword fight here
Speaker 1: battle on the shores of the Sticks. This is amazing looking. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The one I'm talking about is Demigod the legend begins
Speaker 1: and it looks gorgeous. Yeah. Anyway, thanks for some of
Speaker 1: the into us. Yes, absolutely, all right. Next up we
Speaker 1: have a message from Tantry. They write the following, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: love the show as always. I wanted to let you
Speaker 1: know about the tarts in Sphank mars Alice. Those are
Speaker 1: poppy seed colatches. Is that you think that's the correct
Speaker 1: pronunciation colches? Yeah? Or co colaches? Yeah, spelled k O
Speaker 1: l A c h e s. Just in case you
Speaker 1: at home were wondering and want to look these up,
Speaker 1: I'll say colaches for now, just going phonetically. Uh. Colaches
Speaker 1: are the most quintessential of all check pastries, and poppy
Speaker 1: seed is the most check filling. Poppy seed. We did
Speaker 1: not say poppy seed, but now now that now that
Speaker 1: we're saying it out loud, I can definitely see poppy seed.
Speaker 1: So that's that's interesting. Thank thank you for for clearing
Speaker 1: up this mystery for us. So continue with the message.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they are topped with strussel, or sometimes like an
Speaker 1: alice with almonds, So there we go, there we go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had a big discussion about what these were, if
Speaker 1: they were teeth, whether or not they were just mud
Speaker 1: filled with baby teeth, but no poppy seed with almonds.
Speaker 1: Back to the message. Uh, it's funny that without context
Speaker 1: they do come off looking rather unappetizing in the film,
Speaker 1: particularly in a film where everything edible is made to
Speaker 1: look upsetting, especially since in context they're the only thing
Speaker 1: in the film that seems like it's supposed to be delicious.
Speaker 1: Then they sent us an example image, and you're absolutely correct,
Speaker 1: this looks wonderful. I would absolutely take a bite of this.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, absolutely yeah. Yeah. Well, out of the context
Speaker 1: of Johns funk Myers alice, this looks rather delicious. So um.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm I'm glad to to define out exactly
Speaker 1: what this this was supposed to be. And uh, and yes,
Speaker 1: Country makes some some great points to about you. Could
Speaker 1: you could basically put anything, any food item in its
Speaker 1: place in alice, and you would be a little suspicious
Speaker 1: of it. You have only because it might contain thumb
Speaker 1: tax in the context of alice. Yeah yeah, because if
Speaker 1: this uh and as far as I can tell, this
Speaker 1: is one for one exactly what is in this movie.
Speaker 1: I mean, it seems exactly correct. If that's the case.
Speaker 1: It's the only food that is not suspicious in one
Speaker 1: way or another, whether it be the bread with the nails,
Speaker 1: and it's the marmalade with the thumb tax this one
Speaker 1: never appeared to have anything foreign inside it at all.
Speaker 1: It was always food throughout the film. So yeah, yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: no baby teeth and mud, poppy seeds and almonds. All right,
Speaker 1: here's another weird house cinema message, and this one comes
Speaker 1: to us from Kate. Kate rides in and says, Dear
Speaker 1: Robert and Joe, thank you for all your incredible programming.
Speaker 1: You are my favorite companions for running and you always
Speaker 1: make the time fly by, even on days when I
Speaker 1: don't really want to be slogging up hills. You guys
Speaker 1: do such a wonderful job of science communication. I wanted
Speaker 1: to write in to comment on your discussion with David
Speaker 1: Streepy on The Gate, particularly your comments on the use
Speaker 1: of problematic language in the film and how that might
Speaker 1: impact your choice to watch it with kids. I had
Speaker 1: the experience of showing my kids seven movie Monster Squad. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know exactly where this is going. This I adore
Speaker 1: this movie, and man, there's some hate speech in the
Speaker 1: beginning that makes it real rough. Uh sorry, I haven't
Speaker 1: read this in advance. I'm just reacting in real time.
Speaker 1: Please continue, Rob, No, no, no, that's I'm I've been
Speaker 1: in a weird spot with Monster Squad as well, because
Speaker 1: I fondly remember it from from my childhood. Because the
Speaker 1: monsters are incredible. Yes, it's it's a kid's, you know,
Speaker 1: kick butt kind of a movie, so it has that
Speaker 1: going for it, but I've always been hesitant to revisit it,
Speaker 1: and certainly to view it with my child Now. I
Speaker 1: didn't remember the problematic language, but I remembered the whole
Speaker 1: the plot point about needing a virgin to do something
Speaker 1: to close or open a gate. And even at the
Speaker 1: time as a child, I remember finding this weird and
Speaker 1: had at least had plot holes in it because I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: they keep saying that, like, Okay, the old man's not
Speaker 1: a virgin, he can't open it. It has to be
Speaker 1: the girl. But then it's like, does that mean that
Speaker 1: all the male children are are no longer virgins in
Speaker 1: this movie, like there's there. I had questions and had
Speaker 1: issues with it, and like I don't I don't want
Speaker 1: to have to explain all this too much of my son.
Speaker 1: And even more so, I would say even more problematic
Speaker 1: than that, because even hocus Pocus goes down that route
Speaker 1: of you know, virgins being necessary for things to work
Speaker 1: with magic spells um. I. My other least favorite part
Speaker 1: about this from just you know, a modern sensibility and
Speaker 1: I'm an adult so I can look at this with
Speaker 1: adult eyes, is there's a lot of peeping on a
Speaker 1: woman while she is not consenting to be peeped upon,
Speaker 1: with photos being taken ever, and stuff not cool, you know, like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, I don't remember that at all from this film.
Speaker 1: It was a different time. I get it, but now
Speaker 1: it was wrong then and it's wrong now. But anyway,
Speaker 1: back back to this message, I I can't wait to
Speaker 1: hear more about the Monster Squad. Okay, Kate continues. What
Speaker 1: I had completely forgotten was the liberal use of hateful
Speaker 1: language early in the film, particularly the use of homophobic
Speaker 1: slurs by the bully characters. It was a huge shock
Speaker 1: while watching, and my kids picked up on my discomfort immediately.
Speaker 1: I would have preferred they not hear that kind of
Speaker 1: hateful language. However, we ended up having a very long
Speaker 1: conversation about words and how some words take on a
Speaker 1: broader and more harmful meaning than mere insults. We also
Speaker 1: talked about how the world I grew up in was
Speaker 1: more open in using those words, but they are still
Speaker 1: wielded as weapons now, and that it does real damage
Speaker 1: to people overall. And it ended up being an opportunity
Speaker 1: to talk with them about these issues and the movie
Speaker 1: provided a context for them to understand. My oldest even
Speaker 1: referenced our Monster Squad discussion when he found my copy
Speaker 1: of Huckleberry Finn and I told him why I had
Speaker 1: very mixed feelings about him reading it. I wanted to
Speaker 1: share my experience for any other parents who might show
Speaker 1: their kids a movie from their eighties childhood and they
Speaker 1: that they did not expect to contain casual hate and
Speaker 1: words they don't want their children to hear. I would
Speaker 1: not have done it on purpose, but it can be
Speaker 1: a chance for a real talk about the power and
Speaker 1: gravity of hateful words. Thanks so much for all you
Speaker 1: guys do. Cheers, Kate. I think that's a wonderful, wonderful sentiment.
Speaker 1: And um, I'm really grateful that you did that with
Speaker 1: your kids. I think communication with children is h an
Speaker 1: overlooked art form, so I really appreciate that you did that.
Speaker 1: And also I do think it also opens up the
Speaker 1: world to a broader place that once a child does
Speaker 1: understand the difference between something that happened in the past
Speaker 1: and something that happened today, not only can can they
Speaker 1: now hopefully enjoy a broader range of entertainments like, for example,
Speaker 1: watching like old Looney Tunes, shorts and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But but in addition to that, I think it's really
Speaker 1: really helpful for thinking about the things we do today,
Speaker 1: thinking about it from a future perspective and going, hey,
Speaker 1: in the future, what am I doing right now that
Speaker 1: I will probably regret? What words should I stop using? What?
Speaker 1: What what attitudes should I please drop? You know? So,
Speaker 1: so I think that is very valuable, Kate, So, so
Speaker 1: way to go with that. And also I know how
Speaker 1: important it is to find really good um podcast listening
Speaker 1: for jogging, so I'm glad we can provide that for you.
Speaker 1: It's a it's it's it's a balancing act. It's gotta
Speaker 1: be interesting, but it can't be too interesting, you know,
Speaker 1: it's got to be like just right, you know. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. Yeah, yeah, these are all great points. Um.
Speaker 1: I know. Also racial stereotypes or something that also comes
Speaker 1: up in a lot of films from yesteryear and they
Speaker 1: those two will jump out when you least expect them.
Speaker 1: And um and yeah, I have found that to be
Speaker 1: an opportunity for my wife and I discuss those things
Speaker 1: with with our son. Oh and by the way, Kate
Speaker 1: also uh suggested that Joan return to the topic of
Speaker 1: the electric microbe land episode. Apparently there have been some
Speaker 1: some more recent studies that have come out, uh that
Speaker 1: that suggests that there there might be more that we
Speaker 1: need to discuss in the future. So I appreciate that. Obviously,
Speaker 1: anytime you're out there and you you hear of new studies,
Speaker 1: new findings, new angles on things that we've discussed in
Speaker 1: the past on the show that could be explored in
Speaker 1: the future. Yeah, shoot him our way. We we would
Speaker 1: We would love to hear from you. Absolutely. We've got
Speaker 1: one more message. This is from Adam says, hey, y'all,
Speaker 1: quick suggestion on some films that I've seen on the
Speaker 1: mission channel on my videos TVs watch free app. I
Speaker 1: don't think I know what that is? Do you do?
Speaker 1: You know what a mission channel is? This my my
Speaker 1: so my understanding, mostly from being in like Airbnb houses,
Speaker 1: is that some of these modern TVs have like their
Speaker 1: own little you know, they had a little apps for
Speaker 1: the different viewing uh services, and some of them have.
Speaker 1: It seems like there are a number of different services
Speaker 1: that maybe have more or less the same assortment of
Speaker 1: films that they offer up for I think usually quote
Speaker 1: unquote free, so it's usually advertising supported. I get that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: my my TV has something like that, just like that,
Speaker 1: like a random movie channel that forces itself on me
Speaker 1: as often as it can. It's almost always showing Father Goose. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I got that. So so um from Adam, these are
Speaker 1: the suggestions that Adam is is making black Star uh
Speaker 1: Saturn three, and if I remember correctly, Adam also wrote
Speaker 1: in it suggested Ice Pirates a while ago and uh.
Speaker 1: Adam ends with I'll probably return with more. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what black Star film they're referring to here. Um,
Speaker 1: I know there's like black Star in the Golden Bat
Speaker 1: from nine. Uh, there's some other films that have the
Speaker 1: the title black Star, but I'm not sure what this
Speaker 1: is a reference to. One thing I love and thank
Speaker 1: you Adam for writing in with these suggestions. I mean,
Speaker 1: one thing I love about weird house cinema is how
Speaker 1: easy it is to find movies to do in weird
Speaker 1: house Cinema. Like it's just it's just a never ending list, Like, um,
Speaker 1: should we kind of spill the beans a bit about
Speaker 1: the next episode that we're doing, would you hear that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely gives people a chance to watch ahead time at
Speaker 1: the one. Yeah. So so, so this is for this
Speaker 1: upcoming Friday, I will be the co host again. And
Speaker 1: Rob was saying to me, Hey, I'm kind in the
Speaker 1: mood for like a seventies eighties fantasy science fiction, e
Speaker 1: kind of animated film. Since since Rob knows my background
Speaker 1: and love for animation, then you know, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll happily oblige with that. So I sent four examples
Speaker 1: in and uh, one of them is is this wonderful,
Speaker 1: wonderful film from Eastern Europe called The Treasure Planets, not
Speaker 1: the Disney one. This one's from two It's called the
Speaker 1: Treasure Planets so good. You can find the whole thing
Speaker 1: on YouTube very easily. Um, if y'all didn't know Brian
Speaker 1: Cranston before he was famous, used to use a fake
Speaker 1: name and just make money by doing um anime voiceovers
Speaker 1: and and just various dubbing. He is the star of
Speaker 1: this film, a very young Brian Cranston's that's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun but also just some of the greatest animation.
Speaker 1: I also brought up UM the v one filmed The Point,
Speaker 1: which is great. It stars Bobby Brady from The Brady
Speaker 1: Bunch and Ringo Star and it's made by um Fred Wolfe,
Speaker 1: the guy that made that UM one to who three
Speaker 1: roll Pop commercial in addition to being instrumental in the
Speaker 1: creation of the studio that brought us The Ninja Turtle's
Speaker 1: animated series. And then another option that I really hope
Speaker 1: you do someday. It's high fantasy Santa Claus mythology from L.
Speaker 1: Frank Baum called The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.
Speaker 1: It's a stop motion extravaganza. Uh, it is so strange.
Speaker 1: It's all about basically a demigod finding this abandoned baby,
Speaker 1: and so all the gods need to come together and
Speaker 1: have a meeting about whether or not they can turn
Speaker 1: Santa Claus immortal, whether or not that's allowed based on
Speaker 1: the tasks that this human Santa Claus has done in
Speaker 1: its life. And it's it's a trip, it's ranking bass,
Speaker 1: it's stop motion, it's beautiful. But then the one we
Speaker 1: settled on because coincidentally, other than my suggesting it, you
Speaker 1: told me you had just looked up the trailer recently.
Speaker 1: It's it's another ranking bass to the animated The Flight
Speaker 1: of Dragons that will be this Friday's movie. Yes, I
Speaker 1: am excited to talk about this one. I watched it
Speaker 1: the other evening with my son, and yeah, we both
Speaker 1: really enjoyed it. I thought it thought it held up
Speaker 1: really well. It's message is ultimately just as important today
Speaker 1: as it as it was back then. So it'll be
Speaker 1: a fun one to discuss. And it is. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's easy to find. You can. I think we ended
Speaker 1: up doing a digital rental on it. So if you
Speaker 1: want to be the right there at the cutting edge
Speaker 1: as we published this episode, then you can you can
Speaker 1: watch ahead of time. Man, you should be able to
Speaker 1: find it anywhere you get your digital movies and if
Speaker 1: you're a physical media person, I know I bought my
Speaker 1: DVD off of the Warner Archives collection. Have you ever
Speaker 1: bought anything for the Warner Archives before, Rob, I don't think.
Speaker 1: I think I may have rented something that was part
Speaker 1: of that that collections. It's so cool what the Warner
Speaker 1: Brothers does this thing where basically, um, they haven't obviously,
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers has an enormous back catalog, not only with
Speaker 1: the movies that they own, but a bunch of movies
Speaker 1: that you know, they've bought a company and now they
Speaker 1: own that whole catalog as well. Like think about like
Speaker 1: you know, the whole hand of bar Bearer back catalog
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So what they'll do is for all
Speaker 1: of the properties that are kind of popular but not
Speaker 1: popular enough for them to print five thousand copies of
Speaker 1: what they'll do is they'll just have it on demand.
Speaker 1: You can order one copy, they'll burn it for you,
Speaker 1: put it in like a printer, you know, a piece
Speaker 1: of paper in like a plastic box in to ship
Speaker 1: it to you. It's it's like the cheapest, flimsiest physical
Speaker 1: media you can buy, but you can buy it, and
Speaker 1: that's the important part. And that's how I got the
Speaker 1: Flight of Dragons. Oh wow. Yeah, as far as I know,
Speaker 1: that's not one that has had a like robust physical release,
Speaker 1: but but but it deserves one. Yeah, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a great one and I recommend people watch it and
Speaker 1: we'll be talking more about it this Friday. Absolutely. All right, Well,
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Speaker 1: be just starting our full December of holiday albums. So yeah,
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