Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of
Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.
Speaker 1: Listener mail. This is Robert Lamb and I'm Seth Nicholas Johnson.
Speaker 1: That's right. Uh, the week we're recording this, Joe is
Speaker 1: away from from work, uh, doing something non podcasting, and
Speaker 1: so Seth agreed to step in with me here to
Speaker 1: cover a couple of listener mails, but also especially at
Speaker 1: the start here to talk a little Ninja Turtles with me. Yes. Um,
Speaker 1: today's a very momentous occasion. A new TMNT game, very
Speaker 1: very exciting. Yeah, this is Shredder's Revenge, teenage muting Ninja Turtle.
Speaker 1: Shredder's Revenge just came out this morning on the day
Speaker 1: we're recording. Uh. This is from Tribute Games, and uh,
Speaker 1: let's see go to MU. I believe it is uh
Speaker 1: as opposed to being a Konami game, which is of
Speaker 1: course that's the famous realm of Keenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Speaker 1: Arc Beat Him Ups? Now, Rob, have you played any
Speaker 1: other games from these developers? Most specifically, have you played
Speaker 1: the Scott Pilgrim Beat Him Up to D side scroller? Oh? No, no,
Speaker 1: I I haven't played that one, but I remember when
Speaker 1: that came out. I remember being impressed with the like
Speaker 1: the retro look of that game. It's the same people,
Speaker 1: the same people, which which I think speaks very highly
Speaker 1: of both honestly, because I think both are wonderful games.
Speaker 1: This game just came out today, but Rob and I
Speaker 1: both have a had a chance to play Shredder's Revenge,
Speaker 1: and um, it's actually really fun because, um, they've made
Speaker 1: some references to their own past game in this. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe there's more than one, but the main one I've
Speaker 1: noticed is one of the attacks as April O'Neil is
Speaker 1: almost identical to one of the attacks as Ramota Flowers.
Speaker 1: So it's it's um, if you enjoyed that Scott Pilgrim
Speaker 1: video game from from a while ago, ten years ago,
Speaker 1: I think at this point you're gonna love this one too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the to take everybody back, so teenage meeting Ninja Turtles.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna hit everything here, but I guess that
Speaker 1: the basic dates to keep in mind, the comics started
Speaker 1: in eight four, we get the cartoon in eighties seven,
Speaker 1: and in when we get that first Economi arcade beat
Speaker 1: him up. I fondly remember this one. And we've been
Speaker 1: chatting about this one off Mike a lot like this was.
Speaker 1: This was seemed like it was everywhere. Maybe it was
Speaker 1: it pizza hut uh, And of course it was in
Speaker 1: arcades and this was one of the arcade cabinets that
Speaker 1: it was just a pleasure to hang out around, even
Speaker 1: if you weren't playing, and if you didn't have the
Speaker 1: quarters on you. I have fond memories of watching other
Speaker 1: people play it. Yeah, most definitely it's um it felt
Speaker 1: very collaborative in a way that um, I think ultimately
Speaker 1: kind of couch co op has kind of needed to
Speaker 1: fill that place in today's modern world. But especially too,
Speaker 1: I felt like it was a social engagement when you
Speaker 1: were at an arcade, whether by yourself or perhaps I
Speaker 1: got a birthday party or something. You would just hop
Speaker 1: onto these arcades with strangers and you would all suddenly
Speaker 1: have like a common goal that you're all working towards.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's surprisingly um nostalgic to just just just
Speaker 1: play video games in a public space with strangers. But
Speaker 1: this one, and I gotta say, a very similar game
Speaker 1: in in my childhood was the Simpsons side scroller as well. Uh,
Speaker 1: those beat him ups were We're just wonderful for just
Speaker 1: hop on putting a couple of quarters, run out, someone
Speaker 1: else takes your place. It's just just fun times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now they were real quarter gobblers for sure, but yeah,
Speaker 1: X Men was another one. Uh. Later on Konami did
Speaker 1: an Alien Versus Predator as well. That was fun, and
Speaker 1: I don't think that one's ever been released on a
Speaker 1: on a true console or port. I think there's some
Speaker 1: sort of a Konami Arcade cabinet you can buy now
Speaker 1: and get it that way, which makes me think, well,
Speaker 1: maybe there's hope because if they can re license it
Speaker 1: somehow to do that, then surely it could pop up
Speaker 1: on consoles again. And speaking of kind of pulling up
Speaker 1: old licenses, are we going to talk about the Cowabunga collection?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, now that's that's not out yet, but it's
Speaker 1: coming out soon, right, And this is gonna be all
Speaker 1: the Konami games, including the big arcade games, which again
Speaker 1: we have that one nine that was then ported to
Speaker 1: an S in ninete. Then there was Teenage Meeting Jinja
Speaker 1: Turtles Turtles in Time from ninety one, um, and then
Speaker 1: you had some other Konami titles including teenage meeting Ninja
Speaker 1: Turtles Tournament Fighters, where there was like one version that
Speaker 1: came out on any S super in ne S. I
Speaker 1: guess it was one version that came out on Sega
Speaker 1: in ninety three, and I think there wasn't any S
Speaker 1: traditional ports as well, like it was it was everywhere.
Speaker 1: I remember that game being on like every console. Everyone
Speaker 1: had an opinion on, everyone tried it out. And also
Speaker 1: that um, each version I think has had a slightly
Speaker 1: different roster of characters too. Yeah, it was. I'm not,
Speaker 1: you know, well informed on the process that goes into
Speaker 1: these games now much less in but it seems kind
Speaker 1: of weird in retrospectives, like they basically had the same idea,
Speaker 1: but instead of like creating the same game on two consoles,
Speaker 1: they created two different variations on the same theme. It was.
Speaker 1: It's it's interesting, yeah, yeah, but but all fun. I
Speaker 1: I UM, I have very very fond memories of all
Speaker 1: of these old TMNT games, even the strange like just
Speaker 1: kind of one off, seeming like disposable whatever games, Like
Speaker 1: there was a game Boy one called Follow the Foot Clan. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's just ingrained in my brain and in my heart.
Speaker 1: They all the TMNT games really do have a fond
Speaker 1: place in my memory. Were you were you a turtle
Speaker 1: in that one? Or were you like a foot clan
Speaker 1: member you were a turtle? It was the traditional uh
Speaker 1: four turtles, you pick one, you go through. And I
Speaker 1: think this is a very important part of everyone's childhood.
Speaker 1: Much like today every child knows which um, which Hogwarts
Speaker 1: house they would be in. Back when we were children
Speaker 1: in the eighties, everyone knew which to dole they would be, Uh, Rob,
Speaker 1: which turtle would you be? Had I faced the same
Speaker 1: question when I fired the new game up this morning,
Speaker 1: I went. I went right where I would go in
Speaker 1: the old days. I went with Donna Tello, with the
Speaker 1: big staff. I don't know why, but I could just
Speaker 1: I just remember part of me, remember that that's my
Speaker 1: my turtle. That's me as well. Hundreds Uh, Donna Tello
Speaker 1: is my go to turtle. Um. Perhaps we see a
Speaker 1: bit of the intellectual of Donna Tello and we we
Speaker 1: we we strive for that. We go, Hey, he's the
Speaker 1: smart one. I I see myself. I want to be
Speaker 1: an intellectual too. I think I would be the inventor
Speaker 1: amongst the turtles. And also with his bow staff he
Speaker 1: had a very good reach, which is always just just
Speaker 1: a positive as well a good reach, and part of
Speaker 1: me wonders if it's okay, it's not a bladed weapon,
Speaker 1: so did that have something to do with me being
Speaker 1: drawn to the staff. But then again, the nunchucks are also,
Speaker 1: uh a blunt instrument. So I don't know. But I
Speaker 1: wasn't silly enough to be a Michelangelo as a child,
Speaker 1: or now I I I could pull off being a
Speaker 1: Donna Tello. Maybe on my worst days, I could be
Speaker 1: a Raphael, But I was never a Leonardo. I was
Speaker 1: never a Michael Angelo. It just it just wasn't in me. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't remember Turtles in Time all that much. Uh So,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you had the same options, but
Speaker 1: in that first beat him up game, it was just
Speaker 1: the Turtles to choose from you. That is correct in
Speaker 1: the Turtles and Time game as well. Yes, I think
Speaker 1: for most of the entire series, up until the fighting,
Speaker 1: you could only be the Turtles. But in this new game,
Speaker 1: yeah you can. You can be additional characters, including April O'Neil,
Speaker 1: and you can be Splinter. The second time I played
Speaker 1: the new game, I I did like an online multiplayer
Speaker 1: deal where you can have like six different characters at once.
Speaker 1: I went with Splinter, and he's he's a lot of
Speaker 1: fun in this as well. I did the same. I
Speaker 1: started as Donna Tello, and then I wanted to see
Speaker 1: these other characters, so yeah, I switched to Splinter split.
Speaker 1: Splinter has got a lot of a great I guess
Speaker 1: he's got a great range of martial arts tax which
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense for you know, he's their leader, you know.
Speaker 1: And uh. And then also I switched over to April O'Neil,
Speaker 1: who is also quite good in this new game. And
Speaker 1: I've heard I have not experienced this yet, but I've
Speaker 1: heard you can play as Casey Jones eventually. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: must be an unlock or something. I'm assuming one of
Speaker 1: the best things I can say about this game too. See. Um,
Speaker 1: you know me, rob, I I love music more than anything.
Speaker 1: That's that's my my thing is. I spent all my
Speaker 1: time listening to and talking about and doing music. I
Speaker 1: I host a music podcast, Rusty Needles Record Club. Um
Speaker 1: the um music in this game is so good that
Speaker 1: it makes me do something that I never do. I
Speaker 1: actually have the volume turned up on my game console. Yeah,
Speaker 1: literally one hundred percent of the time when I'm playing
Speaker 1: video games, I mute my game console and I listened
Speaker 1: to the music that I want to listen to. That's
Speaker 1: a hundred percent of the time. It's so good in
Speaker 1: this game that I actually have I don't know, got
Speaker 1: gone against my own like, uh instincts, and I'm actually
Speaker 1: listening to the game provided soundtrack and it's wonderful. That's
Speaker 1: that's a great point. Yeah. I I often do the
Speaker 1: same thing with video games. I'll play SOFM over it
Speaker 1: and just have the game itself muted. But yeah, with
Speaker 1: this one, they've really done a great job creating the
Speaker 1: the feel and the sound of of a nineties arcade game.
Speaker 1: And I I can't stress enough just how how how
Speaker 1: good a job they seem to have done with it,
Speaker 1: because I've seen other games come out that are kind
Speaker 1: of like a rehash, that are just kind of they're
Speaker 1: they're tapping into the nostalgia, but they're not really doing
Speaker 1: something with it like this game seems to have been.
Speaker 1: It seems to be true to that original vibe, but
Speaker 1: they've also updated a little bit. You know, there's sort
Speaker 1: of uh, some of the gameplay elements. I guess make
Speaker 1: it feel more like a modern game without feeling like
Speaker 1: it's you know, gone beyond its roots. I guess I'll
Speaker 1: stressed real quick though, this is not an AD. We
Speaker 1: just really like this game. Yeah, yeah, this is not
Speaker 1: paid for or anything. Um, but they exist. I think
Speaker 1: they also got some of the old voice actors in
Speaker 1: there too. Um oh yeah. Really. I don't think they've
Speaker 1: gotten all of them, because I know some have sadly passed,
Speaker 1: but I do believe the four Turtles at the very
Speaker 1: least are the original voice actors from the original eighties
Speaker 1: animated series, and so great. It just you get that
Speaker 1: instant rush of nostalgia and it's it's wonderful. All right. Well,
Speaker 1: as long as I've got you in here talking about
Speaker 1: about the Turtles, Seth, what are your thoughts on the movies?
Speaker 1: I love them. I mean I I grew up through
Speaker 1: all three of them, obviously. Well, and it's funny we
Speaker 1: call them three. I think at this point there's got
Speaker 1: to be at least eight or nine, you know. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they've been various animated projects over the year, not to
Speaker 1: mention those live action Michael Bay, I forgot about those. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any of those I am. I am
Speaker 1: a purist when it comes to Ninja Turtles. I stopped
Speaker 1: after the nineties. The nineties were the end of Turtles
Speaker 1: for me and um, but the original run, the original
Speaker 1: three I love to death. The first one felt very
Speaker 1: gritty and like, very mature, so I felt like kind
Speaker 1: of like an adult watching it, like you know. And
Speaker 1: then um, Secret of the Us was a lot of
Speaker 1: fun because you know, to my childhood sensibilities, it had vindillies,
Speaker 1: had things like that. And then three three is such
Speaker 1: a strange thing, like I don't know the accuracy behind this.
Speaker 1: This is just like my own vision in my mind
Speaker 1: was that some screenwriter went out there and wrote a
Speaker 1: a like feudal Japan, like you know, melodrama, and you know,
Speaker 1: almost like Princess Mononoke asked of like you know, warring
Speaker 1: factions and all that kind of stuff. And then someone
Speaker 1: was like, oh, well, I can't sell this. Why don't
Speaker 1: you put some Ninja turtles in it? And so they
Speaker 1: just do a pass on this script, and in certain
Speaker 1: Ninja turtles in they're traveling through time and being becoming kappa,
Speaker 1: you know, these demons that resemble turtles and uh. And
Speaker 1: then somehow Ninja Turtles three came out of that. But
Speaker 1: um no, I I loved the film franchise as a child,
Speaker 1: and I've actually gone back and rewatched the first one
Speaker 1: a couple of times as an adult, and I gotta
Speaker 1: say it holds up pretty well. I haven't revisited two
Speaker 1: or three in quite a while, though, how about you. Okay,
Speaker 1: I haven't watched the three of them as so I
Speaker 1: don't think I ever saw the third one, but I
Speaker 1: did watch the first two, saw the first one in
Speaker 1: a movie theater as a kid, and uh and and
Speaker 1: loved it at the time. And I've been tempted to
Speaker 1: show it to my son, who's now ten, and I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds like it would be be decent to show
Speaker 1: to him. You got the I believe Jim Henson's creature
Speaker 1: shop did the turtle effects. One of the last things
Speaker 1: Jim did while he was still alive was was those Turtles. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think he also had some inputs on the Dinosaurs
Speaker 1: television sitcom, but I know that premiered after he had
Speaker 1: already passed. But but yeah, Ninja Turtles was one of
Speaker 1: Jim Henson's last projects, which is which is fascinating cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember really digging Shredder in it, because Shredder was
Speaker 1: always a cool, cool character I I it was. It's
Speaker 1: weird looking back because at the time when Turtles was big,
Speaker 1: I thought I was too old for the the action figures.
Speaker 1: And I wasn't, but I but I wanted the action figures,
Speaker 1: so like I really wanted a shred or action figure.
Speaker 1: I really wanted a Crane action figure. But um, but
Speaker 1: for some reason, I was like, no, I can't. I'm
Speaker 1: not supposed to have action figures anymore. There's definitely like
Speaker 1: a an imaginary line, you know, at all children's minds
Speaker 1: when they crossed beyond childish things, and it's way too early,
Speaker 1: like like that line is drawn by the child at
Speaker 1: a very early age to go no, I can no
Speaker 1: longer watch cartoons, I can no longer buy action figures.
Speaker 1: And I think you get over that after you cross
Speaker 1: another threshold, like decades later, you're on eBay looking up
Speaker 1: those those action figures that you decided you were too
Speaker 1: old for, and you're like, should I pay a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars for this? I don't know, I feel
Speaker 1: like I should. Yeah, yeah, now that's Um, I think
Speaker 1: that's the stage of every adult's life, is trying to
Speaker 1: re buy their childhood on eBay. I I know I've
Speaker 1: gotten through that stage, so it's it's out there all right. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: we'd love to hear from anyone out there who has
Speaker 1: thoughts about teenage meeting Ninja Turtle games, TV shows, and movies.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a in comics, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: media empire. There's been so much of it. I don't
Speaker 1: really know my way around anything, aside from some of
Speaker 1: the video games, some of the movies, and of course, uh,
Speaker 1: I guess some of the television series episodes because I
Speaker 1: don't think I ever watched it all in its entirety. There's, um,
Speaker 1: if you play this new game, audience, uh, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of fun references to all of the weird little minutia.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm very very because well versed in the animated
Speaker 1: series of Ninja Turtles. I own the whole series. I've
Speaker 1: sadly watch it pretty regularly, and um, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun little references in the new game Shredder's Revenge
Speaker 1: to the old series. Like here's one of many examples.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of unlockables and hidden items hidden throughout
Speaker 1: the stages. You find one and it's Irma. Irma is
Speaker 1: April O'Neil's like best friend that works with her at
Speaker 1: the news station. You find her diary and you can
Speaker 1: hear Irma's voice going, remember that one time I grew
Speaker 1: really really big and it's like that was That was
Speaker 1: an episode of the series where Irma became like, you know,
Speaker 1: a giantess and she was like, you know, uh much
Speaker 1: like a Godzilla film rampaging through New York and the
Speaker 1: Turtles had to help fix this. That's awesome. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: there's there's clearly a lot going on visually in on
Speaker 1: each level. There's a lot of cool, funny stuff going
Speaker 1: on in the background. Uh so, yeah, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot seemed to have gone into this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not an AD, but if it wasn't that I recommend it. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll make it fixt your not an AD by not
Speaker 1: telling anybody where they can buy it. That's you're on
Speaker 1: your own. This were an AD, we'd we'd give you
Speaker 1: more instruction, right, all right, But this is technically listener mail.
Speaker 1: So I do have a couple of listener mail here
Speaker 1: to go through and uh and and Seth is going
Speaker 1: to join me here for this I've got I've got
Speaker 1: one for stuff to blow your mind in one for
Speaker 1: weird house. So we'll start with stuff to blow your mind,
Speaker 1: all right. This one comes to us from Adam Adam Rights. Hello,
Speaker 1: Robert and Joe. My name is Adam and I'm from Ohio.
Speaker 1: I've been listening for two years and I am catching
Speaker 1: up on some of your recent episodes. And I just
Speaker 1: found the Cauldron Part one and two. And oh boy,
Speaker 1: I have a great example of a very great cauldron
Speaker 1: slash jar. You must see elden Ring Possible two Game
Speaker 1: of the Year features one of my favorite characters in
Speaker 1: any video game named Iron Fist Alexander, who is a
Speaker 1: glorious giant sentient pot image included below for listeners. Alexander
Speaker 1: has stubby little legs and long arms that he utilizes
Speaker 1: for his legendary spin attack. You first encounter Alexander partially
Speaker 1: stuck in the ground, and you help him out by
Speaker 1: knocking him out of the hole. He tells you that
Speaker 1: he is on a journey to be the greatest warrior
Speaker 1: in all the lands. Throughout the game, you find him
Speaker 1: in various wild environments that signify his quest for strength
Speaker 1: and glory. You will later find Alexander inside of a
Speaker 1: volcano because he is attempting to harden his shell in
Speaker 1: order to be a stronger fighter. Spoilers. This epic quest
Speaker 1: line comes to an end very near the final boss
Speaker 1: of the game, where Alexander knows things are coming to
Speaker 1: an end and wishes to fight you, and the bitter
Speaker 1: sweet fight does not end well for him. Side note.
Speaker 1: There is also a well hidden, tranquil little town in
Speaker 1: one of the first areas of the game called Jarberg.
Speaker 1: All of the residents of Jarburg are also sentient pots
Speaker 1: from small to giant, possibly suggesting the small pots maybe children.
Speaker 1: This is a peaceful town and it is very much
Speaker 1: frowned upon by the Elder Ring community to disrupt their
Speaker 1: way of life. Though this has no scientific, historical cultural relevance,
Speaker 1: I'd still wanted to share this wonderful gym of characters
Speaker 1: with you guys. Cheers, Adam, I'm looking at pictures of
Speaker 1: Iron Fist Alexander now, and he is beautiful. Yeah uh Now,
Speaker 1: I was familiar with this game, I haven't played it.
Speaker 1: I think Joe might have some apologies Joe for for
Speaker 1: jumping ahead and looking at this one. We can always
Speaker 1: come back to this in another listener mail. But Seth,
Speaker 1: have have you played this game? I haven't. I I'm
Speaker 1: in the same boat as you. I've I've heard that
Speaker 1: it's a wonderful game. I've seen people enjoying it in
Speaker 1: the world. But man, this this is gorgeous. So many
Speaker 1: um images of Iron Fist Alexander on the Internet, and
Speaker 1: so many art projects people have made in in um
Speaker 1: in tribute to Iron Fist Alexander. My favorite one I'm
Speaker 1: seeing here lots of Etsy stuff. One it looks almost
Speaker 1: like a little chia pet version of him, so growing
Speaker 1: out the top of the cauldron is a nice little
Speaker 1: fern and beautiful, beautiful stuff. I'd love to jump into
Speaker 1: this series sometime because everyone who talks about it speaks
Speaker 1: so glowingly of it and and clearly is connecting to
Speaker 1: on such a such deep level. I'd heard that it
Speaker 1: had like really weird bosses, and I heard that it
Speaker 1: was really hard, but I didn't know that it had
Speaker 1: any kind of humor to it. So it's I'm actually
Speaker 1: more inspired learning that there's a character like this in
Speaker 1: a town like this in this game. I completely agree.
Speaker 1: I've played so much Legend of Zelda and um that
Speaker 1: that classically has a lot of humor and frivolity, and
Speaker 1: you know, I guess wonder to it. And I always
Speaker 1: pictured the elden Ring series being kind of like a
Speaker 1: grim dark modern take on that same kind of fantasy
Speaker 1: adventure and seeing a creature like this, this feels like
Speaker 1: a Zelda character looking at these images, and you're right,
Speaker 1: it does. It changes my perspective on this series. It
Speaker 1: makes me think I need to play it. And I
Speaker 1: will say I this is I think ultimately culturally relevant
Speaker 1: to our discussions here on the show. So thanks for
Speaker 1: writing in. All right, this next one is going to
Speaker 1: be a weird house cinema suggests, and um, I guess
Speaker 1: both of these have a lot in common. They're both
Speaker 1: suggesting bits of media that I haven't checked out. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is from a listener by the name of Rob.
Speaker 1: Rob writes in and says, I think both of you
Speaker 1: all are fans of Jorge Louis Bohees, so you might
Speaker 1: enjoy tackling the Alex Cox film Death and the Compass,
Speaker 1: starring Peter Boyle and Christopher Eccleston. It's an expanded adaptation
Speaker 1: of Boroo short story of the same name, in which
Speaker 1: a detective investigates what appears to be a series of
Speaker 1: ritual murders by Hastim. I haven't seen the film in
Speaker 1: a few years, but I recall that it's very weird
Speaker 1: in a number of respects narrative structure, dialogue performances, score
Speaker 1: by the post punk group Prey for Rain, and superstylized
Speaker 1: cinematography incorporating lots of fish Is lenses, blurring effects, and
Speaker 1: so forth. I think it's weird enough for WHC. It's
Speaker 1: certainly an obscure film, and one that is perhaps of
Speaker 1: interest only to Alex Cox completest and Bohey enjoyers, since
Speaker 1: it is, to my knowledge, the only feature link adaptation
Speaker 1: of a Bohe story. It seems to be available on
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Video and on DVD. Wonderful. Yeah, thanks for
Speaker 1: writing in about this, Rob. I have not seen this film,
Speaker 1: but I was looking it up a little bit. Um.
Speaker 1: I guess the first thing I have to mention is
Speaker 1: that I haven't even seen Alex cox Is Repo Man,
Speaker 1: which I realize is probably a kind of a cult
Speaker 1: film heresy to admit if you've seen repo man, I've
Speaker 1: seen a number of them. So which which one is
Speaker 1: the Alex Cox one? Is that the one where they
Speaker 1: are stealing the organs of people? Because because there's there's
Speaker 1: a musical, which I believe is like what read both
Speaker 1: of musical, right, And then there's like the one I
Speaker 1: think there's one that has the Mighty Ducks guy in it.
Speaker 1: You know, Oh, yeah, that's the one that's the Alex
Speaker 1: Cochlinx one has Harry Dean Stanton and Emiliustz. That's the
Speaker 1: one I've seen. I apologize Emilio for referring to you
Speaker 1: as the Mighty Ducks guy. I'm sure you've enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: But yes, I have seen that. And yeah, that that's
Speaker 1: that is definitely yeah cult film Cannon, But no, I
Speaker 1: I've I've the funny thing when you were describing this,
Speaker 1: I definitely haven't seen the film, but I think I
Speaker 1: might have read the book so or or the short
Speaker 1: story more specifically, So, yeah, that this sounds fascinating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the short story I'm more familiar with. Certainly, it's kind
Speaker 1: of a noir detective tale that involves like the ultimate
Speaker 1: over in textual intellectualized string of murderers and the ultimate
Speaker 1: over intellectualized investigation of said murders. Like most Bohe stories,
Speaker 1: it's it doesn't just scream for cinematic adaptation, So it
Speaker 1: would be interesting to see how they ended up tackling
Speaker 1: it and putting it together on screen, expanding it and
Speaker 1: so forth. Um. There's been a number of i think
Speaker 1: generally short adaptations of Boree stories over the years, and
Speaker 1: I've never actually checked one out. I don't know. They
Speaker 1: tend to be very I guess high minded, artsy attempts,
Speaker 1: which is kind of interesting given that just on paper,
Speaker 1: a whole lot of Borhe stories have some sort of
Speaker 1: speculum element to them. They would seem to line up
Speaker 1: with a lot of you know, weird films and horror
Speaker 1: and supernatural. You've got minotaurs and stabbings and dream people
Speaker 1: coming to life and haunted books that go on forever.
Speaker 1: I think y'all could have some fun with us, for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna add it to the list. Uh, got
Speaker 1: a growing list of films to consider and uh, and
Speaker 1: then you know, week to week, it's also just kind
Speaker 1: of based on on what what we're interested in and
Speaker 1: what's drawing in our attention. It really is a never
Speaker 1: ending list. No matter how many films, uh, you guys
Speaker 1: go through on Weird House Cinema, the list just always
Speaker 1: going to grow. I mean, I mean, there are so
Speaker 1: many films perpetually in production, things from the past that
Speaker 1: get resurfaced, and it's just wonderful. As long as I'm
Speaker 1: here on the show, I'm gonna make a suggestion for
Speaker 1: this list. You ready, Robin, Oh, yeah, let's have it.
Speaker 1: One of my favorites in the realm of Weird House Cinema.
Speaker 1: You know, I have an animation background, so there's a
Speaker 1: very u soft place in my heart for this film.
Speaker 1: It's from It's Yon spank Mars Alice. Have you ever
Speaker 1: heard of this? Um, I haven't seen it. I think
Speaker 1: I've seen the case for it at Video Drome, and
Speaker 1: I think I've seen some shorts from the filmmaker in question.
Speaker 1: Yeah so so. Jan spank Mar is a wonderful surrealist
Speaker 1: U animator, usually stop motion style, and this was his
Speaker 1: first film in after he'd been building up to it
Speaker 1: for like decades of making these shorts and um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's just the Alice in Wonderland, you know, adaptation
Speaker 1: that we've seen many many times before, but it all
Speaker 1: takes place with a live action girl playing Alice, and
Speaker 1: whenever something changes her size, she'll shrink down into like
Speaker 1: literally a doll, like a China doll, and then she'll
Speaker 1: like grow up and it'll just be like these extrange
Speaker 1: limbs and everything she encounters within like a dilapidated house.
Speaker 1: That's all Wonderland is, and so therefore all the creatures
Speaker 1: she interacts with are like taxidermied animals, or like a skull,
Speaker 1: or like um, I don't know, a jar filled with
Speaker 1: thumb tacks, like just whatever strange things, or would be
Speaker 1: sitting on a shelf in an old, dilapidated house. Those
Speaker 1: are the elements that come to life there. There's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite parts when the caterpillar uh comes to life.
Speaker 1: It is an old sock with a pair of dentures
Speaker 1: in its mouth, sitting on a door knob. Absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 1: So imagine that stop motion animated. It's just incredible. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I could give you guys a million recommendations, but um,
Speaker 1: I always think to myself, that's the one I want
Speaker 1: Robin Joe to watch, all Right, we'll put it on
Speaker 1: the list. Yeah, I've never seen it. I think I
Speaker 1: saw his two thousand film Little Oh Tech. And and
Speaker 1: of course I've seen some films by the Brothers Quay
Speaker 1: who were very much inspired by his work. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: Brothers Quay are definitely in the same realm for sure. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I went through a phase at one point
Speaker 1: where I was like, this is what I'm gonna be into.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be into weird Europeans stop motion films. And
Speaker 1: I might have been off more than I could chew
Speaker 1: at the time, so it end up not lasting super long.
Speaker 1: But I saw a few things in there that would
Speaker 1: be be need to dive back into that world at
Speaker 1: some point. All right, well we're gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: close out this episode here. Um so just to to
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Speaker 1: That's That's what I'm here for, all right. Yeah, Joe
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