WEBVTT - Listener Mail: The Chosen Few 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.280 Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:11.160 My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:15.080 Mind the Listener Mail. This is Robert Lamb and I'm 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:18.239 Joe McCormick. So we have someone. This is actually one 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:21.599 of these listener mails where we're recording this two weeks out, 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:25.200 I think, from when it's actually gonna air. So, um, 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.960 if you've sent out something more recently, well, it's just 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:30.160 accumulating in the mail bag and we'll have to get 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.240 to it. It's just in the bottom of the bag, 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.720 growing fungus in the dark. But I think it should 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:36.760 still be readable by the by the time we're back, 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.680 which if you're listening to this now we are. I'm 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.120 hoping it's going to be filled with lots of accounts 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:45.120 of people's pet hermit crabs, people's people writing in about 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:50.400 their hermes, telling us what they eat, sending photos. That's 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:58.000 what I'm looking forward to, all right, Let's see. This 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:02.280 first message comes from Benjamin and it is in regards 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:07.080 to Chainsaws and some previous listener mail. Benjamin says, hello, 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.040 stuff to blow your mind people. This message is in 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.840 reply to Chris's email from the Listener Mail episode released 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:19.480 on the fifteenth of November, after hearing about sideline enthusiasts 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.880 cheering on their favorite downhill mountain bike riders with a 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:28.120 bar less chainless chainsaw. I can understand your skepticism. I 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.920 would be willing to bet a brand new steel would 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:36.560 boss that this form of cheering has migrated over from motocross. Granted, 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:40.120 this is speculation. However, I remember seeing fans cheering on 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:44.959 motocross riders using chainsaws sands bar with a set of 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.840 handlebars and number plate attached across the top when I 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:52.360 attended a race outside Pittsburgh in the late nineteen nineties. 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:56.640 This display makes slightly more sense as motocross bikes at 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:00.120 the time were mostly powered by two stroke engines, just 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.760 like most chainsaws. Oh and rob By the way, when 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.280 I I went back after we we read that email 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:08.920 from Chris, and I looked it up just to make 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:10.840 sure Chris was not lying to us. I did find 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.520 evidence of people using chainsaws on the sidelines at the 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.720 at the mountain biking events, so that that is apparently 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.800 at least sometimes true. Benjamin goes on, While I'm on 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.560 the topic, I was waiting with bated breath through both 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.840 chainsaw episodes for Rob to at least mention all the 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.400 chain weapons in Warhammer forty thousand. While this class of 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.920 weapon is just as improbable as most of the weapons 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:36.799 technologies in said universe, your spotlight on the topic found 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.640 me looking at the forty K chain weapon art and 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.960 I noticed something I never had before. All the chain 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.160 weapons I've seen in forty K have the tooth pattern 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:50.840 associated with old saws, not the modern teeth patterned after 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.000 the grub mandibles. This hadn't come to my attention prior. 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.760 Thank you for all that you do, Benjamin. Wow, that 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.200 is some observation, Benjamin. So they've got the teeth would 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.280 be more like the scratching knife tip type teeth rather 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.880 than the uh, the the chiseling or chipper type teeth 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:11.359 that were designed by by Joseph Cox after observing the 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.720 pine sawyer beetle. Yeah, I hadn't really thought about this either. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.760 I mean, Warhammer forty K chainsaws are probably the chainsaws 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:24.280 I look at more than real life chainsaws. Um, And 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:25.840 I mean I guess part of it is like these 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.480 are based on miniatures that are gonna paint, and maybe 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.280 it works better to have those little teeth. And also Yeah, 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.359 they look like teeth. They look like jagged metal animal 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.160 teeth in this weird sword. So maybe it just works 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.920 better for a fantasy weapon. Rob. I don't know. I 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.560 guess I hadn't mentioned this off Mike. Since we did 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.160 our chainsaw episodes, I've actually had a chance to use 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:52.200 a chainsaw. Really. Yeah. My father in law brought one 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:53.960 over and we used it on some I was cutting 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.720 guns and brush in my yard. Yeah. Yeah, did you 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:01.360 do do proper safety and all that? I think, well, I, 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.240 you know, thinking back on it now, I didn't wear 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.200 goggles or eye protection and I did get some like 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.560 chips flying up in my eyes. So don't do what 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.800 Donnie don't does if you're using a chainsaw. In addition 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.720 to all the others that, yeah, you should probably cover 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.400 up your eyes. I can speak from experience that doesn't 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.120 feel good. Yeah, they never do this in the various 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.640 horror movies that we see, and um and you know 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.760 the Space Marines even they yes, they have the helmets, 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:28.320 they're supposed to be wearing the helmets, but there are 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:32.360 plenty of images and figures where they've taken the helmet 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.479 off and they have a roaring chainsaw or chain sword 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:37.600 rather uh, and like, what are you doing? Guys? You're 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.680 gonna get all sorts of weird gunk in your eyeballs. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.760 So anyway, in the ensuing days, I've ordered about three 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.560 dozen chainsaws off the internet. They should be arriving over 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.240 the next few weeks. There are some really interesting chaine 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.280 I remember seeing one at a store once where I'm 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.680 not even sure what function this was for, but it 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.800 like had a pair of jaws at the end and 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.120 the little tiny chainsaw inside of it, kind of like 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.120 xeno morph jaws. I'm I guess for some sort of 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:05.200 specialized like gripping of a tree branch and using the 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.960 saw blade. But it was, well, it was weird. Oh 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.400 was it a what's called it? Like a lapper chainsaw? 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:16.800 It kind of like combines like like clippers and chainsaw blades. Oh, 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:18.360 I don't think it was. I just had to look 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.560 up this lapper chains how you're talking about, And this 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:22.200 is a strange device. It looks at it looks kind 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.760 of like scissors, but it's also a chainsaw. Crazy. There's 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:29.280 so many, so many chainsaw innovations these days. But I 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.359 guess it did kind of look like this, uh, But 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:36.280 imagine if it also had like a little chainsaw inside 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.520 its mouth. All I can think of now is like 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.920 a sort of cyborg form of dentures where your teeth 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.440 are replaced with tiny chainsaws for enhanced chewing. Uh, well 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.680 I have it now, Joe. I'm totally ruining my my 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.320 shopping algorithm here by looking these things up. But I 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:56.240 think what I saw it was a jaw saw. So um, yeah, 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.720 it looks like some sort of uh you know, a 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.920 Lows or home Depot Xeno morph with a little chainsaw 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.640 in its mouth. Oh, I see exactly what you mean. Yes, 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.240 so it's got a it's almost like a guide or 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.800 a guard in a y shape, and then coming out 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.840 like a tongue sticking out in between the jaws is 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.479 the end of the chainsaw. I guess this is like 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.320 a safety measure, Like it's a way of using making 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.560 use of the saw, but having within that protected like 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.480 the metal cuff of a mouth. That would make sense. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.880 I bet this kind of design is less likely to 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.080 kick back and like accidentally nick you in the leg 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.960 or something. I'd be interested to hear from anyone out 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.200 there who's used one of these. What's it like, let's 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:47.760 keep the chainsaw chat going. All right, here's the speaking 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:51.280 of chainsaw chat. Here's one from Anna um Anna says, 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.880 I have enjoyed the episodes about chainsaws, and I have 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.240 also enjoyed listeners responses to them. One thing I was 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.800 thinking about when I was listening to the episode is 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.640 the image of the lumberjack. They are generally seen as 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.680 assault of the earth type of people. I grew up 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.120 in Tasmania. We're logging was a big thing, so much 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.120 so that wood shopping was a sport that people would 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.360 go and watch. I don't know that if this is 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.840 popular elsewhere, but competitors would compete to see who could 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.520 chop through a log the fastest. I know you were 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:24.160 talking about chainsaw horror movies. I was wondering if this 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.440 is just an upgrade of the ax murderer stories. I 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.040 had the idea that the chainsaw is seen as a 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.080 replacement for the hard working man with an AX. Now, 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.760 with this new technology, people are losing the value of 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.920 hard work, and maybe that is part of what makes 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.400 chainsaw murders so bad. I'm not sure if I am 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.600 overthinking this, but it was just a thought I had. Well, 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.840 Like we talked about in the episodes, at least in 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.640 the case of the original Texas Chainsaw Masker. I think 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:54.960 Toby Hooper seems to have had some ideas about about 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.760 economics and work and consumerism in mind when when he 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.400 was making the first movie. Uh. And and it certainly 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.559 comes through in some of the satire in the second movie, 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:07.240 because the second movie has my favorite scene, and the 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.720 whole thing is just a scene where Dennis Hopper goes 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.000 shopping for chainsaws. Oh yeah, and he gets the he 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.920 gets the two smaller saws to go in holsters, and 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.720 then he gets the big daddy saw as well. But yeah, 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.560 he's just at the place shopping, and the shopkeeper there 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:26.000 is watching him, like pretending to duel, like seeing like 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.480 how it feels in his hands, swinging it at things. 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:30.680 Oh yeah, we get We do get a little a 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.400 little chainsaw dueling in that film. I'm not sure if 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.840 that's the first place we see it cinematically. It might be, 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.520 but I know that chainsaw dueling also shows up in 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:42.360 I think the second Phantasm movie and uh. Of course, 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.520 more recently, there's a little bit of it in Mandy, 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.640 which I think was very much included as an homage 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.800 to these these pictures, I would say, and in reality, 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.760 based on what I have learned about chainsaws, it would 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:55.880 be a very poor idea to try and do a 0:08:55.960 --> 0:09:00.000 chainsaw duel. That sounds like a terrible choice. Terrible. In fact, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:01.959 I'm kind of curious to go back and watch these 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.000 sequences just to try and figure out how they did 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.040 it with any you know, even a monicum of safety, 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.520 you know, while making it look like the saws are 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:17.760 in fact running. Yeah, all right, Rob, you ready for 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:23.720 some messages about Dune? Oh always? Okay, Well, just real quickly, 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.720 I wanted to read from Sean, who is following up 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:30.240 from something I said in our Done episodes. Sean says, Hi, 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.040 Joe and Robert, I'm listening to the Binny Jessrite episode 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.960 while running. It had to stop quickly just to say, 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:39.400 I remember the same paperback copy of Done Joe had 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:43.160 with I would say six point font, the letters almost 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.080 the edge of the page, several lines on each page, 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:50.480 often at angles. Yeah, this I feel vindicated. This sounds 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.560 about right to my memory. Anyways, Sean says, love the 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:57.920 show back to the episode in my run, Yeah, I 0:09:58.000 --> 0:09:59.800 might have had a copy like that at some point 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.320 when I was younger. I think, uh, I think text 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.679 that size would just be absolutely painful for me. At 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.280 this point, I'm currently rereading a Dune on a kindle, 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.000 so that it means I can change the font size 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:20.640 to whatever suits me. Seems perfect. All right, I'm gonna 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:25.079 read also this message from Renata discussing Dune as well 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:30.160 as a recent Vault episode about mushroom forging. Alright, Renata says, Hi, 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.559 Joe and Rob, I loved your recent vault episode on 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.160 mushroom forging. You seem impressed that deer will eat just 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:38.880 enough of a toxic food to get a nutritional benefit 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.200 while avoiding the toxic effects. But I was surprised you 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.400 didn't mention that humans are masters at this game. The 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:49.120 most clear example of this to me is alcohol. I 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.360 can't remember where I heard this theory. Uh. She thinks 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.840 possibly from us, so I don't remember us talking about this, 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.480 but she says, um, it is that humans developed a 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:02.880 liking for alcohol because in our primate ancestors, it's signaled 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:07.040 that a fruit is ripe, therefore containing more sugars. If 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.880 they eat just enough of a fruit as it begins 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:13.520 to ferment, they get maximum sugars if they wait too long, 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.920 they get intoxicated or maybe worse. There are plenty of 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:21.280 other examples. Pineapples contain bromolin, which is used as a 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.600 meat tenderizer and can cause your tongue to go numb 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:28.240 if you eat enough. I recently developed a sensitivity to 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:33.000 keen wa because it contains small amounts of sappinin, which 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.960 is a toxin but usually thoroughly washed off when you 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.600 prepare keenoa, but apparently if you're exposed to too much 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.800 of it once a faithful salad from a cafe. In 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.280 my case, even consuming miniscule amounts of it after that 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.280 will cause a reaction. For me that's hours of intense 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:54.520 stomach cramps. Many foods naturally contain inulin, which is not digestible, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.680 but which is a prebiotic that can promote gut health. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.920 My favorite source is sun Chokes, but beware consuming too much. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.760 Check out this Amazon review of gummy bears containing inulin 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.040 for some colorful descriptions of what can happen, and then 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.760 she links to Yeah use the reviews of a product 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:16.439 that apparently made people have a lot of defecation emergencies. 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:21.240 I do have to say sun chokes are are absolutely glorious. 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.480 I have not had them recently, but I love I 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.280 love my sun chokes or Jerusalem art at jokes if 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.480 you will also, I want to follow. I was reading 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.120 about sapping in on on Keenea. It is true that 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.720 um grains of quinoa are naturally they tend to be 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.880 coated in this uh, this organic substance called sapping in, 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.720 which kind of creates a foamy, soapy like texture sometimes 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.000 when when combined with water. But I don't think that's 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.520 like a reason to be concerned about eating quinoa, Like 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.320 it seems like there's not really usually enough of it 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.439 to hurt someone, and you can wash it off prior 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.959 to eating it. Apparently, some some types of quenwa that 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.040 they're sold will tell will instruct people to rinse it 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.959 before you cook it. Oh. But the thing about bromlin 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:09.440 too is interesting because I have seen bromelin used, like 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.920 Granada says, as a meat tenderizer, like people, uh, sort 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.640 of mashing up a big pineapple and then soaking some 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.079 some cut of meat in it in order to make 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.360 it make it more tender to the tooth. Yeah. Yeah, 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.880 I think I had an incident once where I had 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.719 some sort of this was I don't know, this is 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:30.640 probably I think the fish dish, or maybe it was 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.439 back when I had when I still like chicken. But uh, 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.000 there was some sort of meat and it had a 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.360 pineapple susa on it, and I let it set in 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:42.199 the fridge overnight, and by the next morning, the the 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:47.040 pineapple had like just reduced the meat to mush. It's 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.920 quite interesting. Oh yeah, you don't want to You don't 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.080 want to let your pineapple marinate go too long, or 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.240 your dinner will turn into a melt movie. Yeah, a fine, 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.959 a fine paste. Oh but Renata goes on talking about Dune, 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.920 so she says, I also wanted to comment that I 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.800 went into Dune nearly cold. I watched the Lynch adaptation 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.640 about six years ago, but was only half paying attention. 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.160 When I heard about the latest adaptation, I purposely avoided 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.880 Dune content so I could go in as cold as possible. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.920 I found it exceedingly easy to follow, and I thoroughly 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.680 enjoyed the film like you. I felt that it found 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:24.920 inventive ways to make the necessary exposition diverse, fun and clear. 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.840 The narration and on screen text at the beginning gave 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.640 way to dialogue that helped explain what was happening. But 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:34.080 most impressive to me was the way Vilnov teaches you 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.840 a visual and auditory language that lets you intuitively follow 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:42.080 the story without endless exposition all dialogue. My favorite example 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.120 was that of the force fields, which are blue when 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:49.239 they are effectively maintaining protection and read when they're penetrated. 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.880 This adaptation of Dune rivals my favorite film two thousand 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.640 one of Space Odyssey for being as close to cinematically 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.840 and technically flawless as you can get. Uh. Well, glad 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.160 to hear another good review. I I loved it as well. 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.600 I agree with Hi, think everything you say. I also 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:08.200 really enjoyed the color coding of of how the shields, 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.560 the energy shields were We're working because yeah, you could 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.720 see even from a distance, when somebody had managed to 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.040 to move the knife through the shields slow enough that 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:21.600 it wasn't deflected because everything would turn red suddenly. Yeah, finally, 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.480 she says, deeply appreciate your show. I can't stop sharing 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.040 anecdotes I learned with my friends, and listening has become 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.480 a big part of my daily routine. Thanks for making 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:34.040 new episodes and picking great Vault episodes. To share best Renata. Well, 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.840 thank you for writing in. Yeah, yeah, these are some 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.240 excellent thoughts. Uh yeah, I'm enjoying continuing to hear from 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:44.160 folks about the latest the latest Dune adaptation. Um, since 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.680 everyone enjoys fan casting so much, we should really get 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:49.880 in on this. This window we have right now before 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:55.000 they officially cast Um the Emperor and uh fade Ratha. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.240 Who do you think would be ideal to play these roles? 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.600 And I'm I'm excited to see who they pick. Fade 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:07.000 Rapha Sting again, Yeah, I mean stink Sting could totally 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.120 do it. That would be that would be interesting. He 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.240 has not actually aged a single day since the last movie. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.920 For fade Ratha, I don't know, it's tempting to to 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:16.840 to want to go with one of the scars Guard children. 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.720 Since we have Papa scars Guard doing such a great 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.920 job as the Baron. Maybe get Bill scars Guard in there. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:29.040 I'm not endorsing this choice, but some people on the 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.520 internet apparently suggesting the guy who plays Joffrey in Game 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.840 of Thrones. I mean, I don't know, I haven't seen 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.200 what he looks like these days. Um, he's still basically 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.360 a child actor. At the time, so maybe he's maybe 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.720 he's perfect for it. Now, I don't know. I don't know. 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.080 I would if I were him, I would if they 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.080 reached out, I would be hesitant because even as great 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:51.360 of a role as this would be, you don't want 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.200 to be typecast for the rest of your career as 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:57.720 a little fancy tyrant. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't know. 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.160 I don't know. I'm looking at a present, you know, 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.520 current picture of him, and uh, I don't know. Maybe 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.480 he could do it, maybe maybe, maybe he is perfect 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.120 for it. I don't know. I'm still going with with 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.040 my gut and saying Bill scars guard. But but but again, 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.280 I'm excited to see what actually happens. And hey, I'm 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.840 excited to see what sort of suggestions are listeners make. 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:27.440 Vin Diesel al Right, here's another bit of listener mail. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.159 Listen comes from Jim in New Jersey, and it's in 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:34.400 a response to the episode on luck Robert and Joe. 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.040 When it comes to luck, here are my two favorite quotes. 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.560 The harder I work, the luckier I get. This is 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:43.480 attributed to too many to find its original author, and 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.920 then luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Uh. And this 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:51.080 is from Roman philosopher Seneca. I don't believe in luck, 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.320 but I consider myself a lucky person. I'm not sure 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:58.000 how to resolve those inconsistencies. I never believed in lucky items, 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.680 but I had a few habits while taking tests in college. 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.720 Some may consider them superstitious based upon luck, but I 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.919 thought of them as rituals and traditions. They included wearing 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.000 a wearing dark blue on the day of the test. 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.560 This was easy since it was a school color. Uh. 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.399 Taking four number two pencils wrapped in a rubber band 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.199 and a handheld eraser, and never taking any books or 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.880 notes unless it was an open book test or one 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.840 that allowed notes during the exam. These rituals got me 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:29.040 into a test taking mental state on the test day. 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.600 Taking books or notes not allowed during the test would 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.639 only encourage me to cram in the hallway immediately before 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.320 the test. I felt that was a crutch and I 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:40.520 wanted to enter the testing room with confidence. I wasn't 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.480 sure if I felt pity or disdain for those cramming 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.720 in the halls. I did pretty well in tests, so 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.240 I guess it worked for me. Jim in New Jersey. Wow, 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:53.800 Jim coming in with like nerd swagger. Yeah, I mean 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:55.879 this is just a yeah, you can get into the 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:59.320 topic of luck, though it gets so it's all over 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.600 the place. So is the different ways we think about it, 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.360 and uh, you know, I don't even certainly I don't 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.320 think we got into this conversation. But then there's this 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:12.200 whole like area two of like luck as how it 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:15.880 can be utilized as kind of like a toxic positivity, 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.879 you know, like like overly reminding somebody of how lucky 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:21.840 they are. Oh, you're lucky for this. You're like, you're 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.399 lucky to have this or that or the other. Um. So, 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.840 I mean there's just so many, so many dimensions to 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.160 the human concept of luck that you could you could 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:38.159 just discuss it almost endlessly. All right, Well, maybe we 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:41.280 should round things out with one last message on Weird 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.600 House Cinema And this, this one is a real treat 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.040 because this is a bit of listener mail from our 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.840 own producer Seth. It came into the mailbox and I 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.639 was like, what, Seth, is this from you? And he 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.639 confirmed it was. So I feel truly honored that that 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.919 Seth was inspired to chime in and take you to task. 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.320 That's right, because so recently people were asking about the 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:08.959 Friday thirteen franchise, and I think a listener wrote in 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.879 to say, hey, I'm not sure you were right that 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:16.600 that Jason Vorhees becomes a revenant in the sixth movie. 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:20.160 I think he's a revenant since the beginning because they 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.399 say that he drowned many years ago. That's sort of 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.240 the backstory, and my feeling on that as well, I 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.880 think it's just a sloppy red con. You know, they 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:29.600 say that at the beginning, and then they wanted to 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:31.439 make a second movie and they're like, well, you know 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:35.480 he's alive now, okay. But but Seth has an alternative vision, 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.800 so he says, in response to last week's Listener Maile episode, 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:42.399 where the concept of Jason Vorhees supernatural nature was discussed, 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:44.879 I feel the need to deliver what I believe is 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:49.240 the definitive answer to this question. Jason Vorhees is a 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:53.080 dead EyeT, if anyone is unaware, A dead EyeT is 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:56.639 a parasitic demon that feasts on the souls of living creatures, 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:00.560 found primarily in the Evil Dead franchise. And then he's 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:02.440 even got a whole timeline laid out, so he says 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:06.480 the truncated timeline would go like this. Pamela Vorhees was 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:09.720 the cook at Camp Crystal Lake. Her son Jason, drowned 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:11.600 while swimming in the lake because of a lack of 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:16.160 supervision from the counselors. Distraught, Pamela turns to dark magic 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:20.720 to revive her dead son. She uses the necronomicon Ex 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:24.119 Mortis to cast a resurrection spell of some sort, but 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:28.080 a human sacrifice is required. This is why she begins 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:30.920 her killing spree. By the end of the first film, 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.040 she has very nearly obtained the number of deaths required, 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:38.119 but while attempting to obtain her last soul, Alice, the 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:42.080 main character of the first Friday thirteenth movie, Pamela herself 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:47.080 is beheaded, thus becoming the final sacrificed soul. Very soon after, 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:50.120 we see a fully revived but quite ghoule ish Jason 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:52.960 erupt from the lake in the film's final jump scare. 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:55.760 There are fan theories of plenty on this topic, but 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:59.840 there is official corroboration as well. The director of Friday 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:03.960 the Thirteen Part nine Jason goes to Hell, which, to 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:08.720 add my side on this is an absolutely miserable atrocity 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:12.120 of a movie. Um even even like like a lot 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:14.399