Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind production of My
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.
Speaker 1: Listener mail. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, Rob, I feel like there's something
Speaker 1: I've got to share with the listeners that they don't
Speaker 1: know about yet, which is a few weeks ago, I
Speaker 1: was on vacation. Rachel and I were up in the
Speaker 1: state of Maine. We were we were up on the
Speaker 1: northeast coast, and I received an email from you. I
Speaker 1: got it in my hotel room one morning, and it
Speaker 1: was an email full of the most twisted statements about
Speaker 1: the characteristics of alligator persons. Talked about what alligator persons
Speaker 1: do in the bog and fog, the fact that alligator
Speaker 1: persons have no eyes, that alligator persons have no skin,
Speaker 1: And I was like, what is this that Rob is
Speaker 1: sending me? Uh? And it turns out you were copying
Speaker 1: and paste ing AI generated stories that you were getting
Speaker 1: ready to record an interview with the I think at
Speaker 1: least one of the authors of a book about stories
Speaker 1: composed by machines, and uh that that you were experimenting
Speaker 1: with a tool that was linked to the authors of
Speaker 1: this book, and so I, even though I was on vacation,
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I've got to play with this
Speaker 1: a little bit too, And and wow, it's been out
Speaker 1: some good stuff I've I've played with AI generated stories before.
Speaker 1: You various tools people have put together, but I gotta
Speaker 1: say this is the best one I've ever encountered. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's quite addictive. So if this is if you
Speaker 1: want to taste you this, you can go to story
Speaker 1: hyphen Machines dot net. This is the website for the
Speaker 1: new book Story Machines, How Computers Have Become Creative Writers
Speaker 1: by Mark Sharpell's and Raphael Perez Perez Uh. Tomorrow's episode
Speaker 1: of Stuff to Blow Your Mind is an interview with
Speaker 1: Mike Sharpell's about the book about the subject of the book.
Speaker 1: But yeah, on the website here, they have a story
Speaker 1: generator that's powered by GPT three from open Ai and
Speaker 1: it has just it's very simple. It's just two little fields.
Speaker 1: You can put in a title, and you have the
Speaker 1: option of putting in some text for the story, like
Speaker 1: an opening line. Then you press you essentially press in
Speaker 1: create and uh GPT three will put together a little fiction. Uh,
Speaker 1: it will. It will create a little story for you,
Speaker 1: or a fragment of a story. And the results, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes they're a little wonky. Sometimes it didn't quite work,
Speaker 1: but sometimes it's quite impressive. So I think the first
Speaker 1: thing you sent me was queuing off of rocky erics
Speaker 1: and lyrics that you paste it in, and it produced
Speaker 1: a kind of bone chilling, repetitive, almost religious chant like
Speaker 1: paragraph of of statements about alligator persons that really did
Speaker 1: read like it like an ancient Egyptian holy text. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had some fun also putting in Um. I forget
Speaker 1: what I put in on that one, but there was
Speaker 1: one where I just put in a line from from
Speaker 1: some of his lyrics, the lyrics Gremlins have pictures of
Speaker 1: the Anniversary of Christ. I put that into the title
Speaker 1: and it it really blew me away. It composed the
Speaker 1: following quote. The Gremlins have been planning for this day
Speaker 1: for centuries. They have been watching and waiting, and finally
Speaker 1: the time has come. They have pictures of the Anniversary
Speaker 1: of Christ, and they are going to use them to
Speaker 1: destroy the world. The Gremlins are going to show the
Speaker 1: world the pictures of the crucifixion and the world will
Speaker 1: be destroyed. The gremlins are laughing and celebrating because they
Speaker 1: know that the world is about to end. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's pretty creepy. And it's also better than most AI
Speaker 1: generated text I've come across in the way that it
Speaker 1: sort of maintains a sensical nous throughout that you get
Speaker 1: the feeling from one sentence to the next that the
Speaker 1: sentences are not only with a valid grammatical structure, but
Speaker 1: there's some kind of coherent sense of meaning that continues
Speaker 1: from one statement to another, which a lot of a
Speaker 1: I generated text doesn't have. Yeah, it's capable of some
Speaker 1: some really impressive things, like you can you can put
Speaker 1: in the first line from a given short story by
Speaker 1: an author, and it will continue to compose that story
Speaker 1: in the style of that author in many cases, especially
Speaker 1: if it's a recognizable style, and it clearly it's So
Speaker 1: this has got to be drawing from a kind of
Speaker 1: like corpus of the Internet, because when I have used
Speaker 1: like proper names or something in a sentence that I input,
Speaker 1: it draws in other usually correct information about that proper
Speaker 1: name that I've put in, or or appropriate associations with
Speaker 1: that name that are pulled from the Internet. So the
Speaker 1: first thing I tried to do. I don't have the
Speaker 1: original text I came up with, but I was just
Speaker 1: doodling around with this when you sent it to me
Speaker 1: one morning. We're getting ready to leave the hotel and
Speaker 1: I type in um Morbius Saves Christmas and the title
Speaker 1: because I figured we've reached the point where the more
Speaker 1: bus memes have have become so overplayed that they're actually
Speaker 1: good again. They've come full circle. And I don't remember
Speaker 1: what the opening line was, but I did Morbius Saves
Speaker 1: Christmas and something, and it came up with a story
Speaker 1: that I found delightful, though it was a little bit confused.
Speaker 1: It seemed to at some point in the story shift
Speaker 1: to where more Bias was also Santa Claus and people
Speaker 1: were addressing Morbius as Santa Claus. But I just did
Speaker 1: it again with with a title and an opening line,
Speaker 1: and I think it did much better this time. Would
Speaker 1: you like to hear it? I want to hear it. Yes,
Speaker 1: So this is Morbius Saves Christmas by the machines. It
Speaker 1: says twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house,
Speaker 1: not a creature was stirring except Michael Morbius. Morbius had
Speaker 1: been up all night trying to fix the broken Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: He was exhausted, but he was determined to make it
Speaker 1: look good for Christmas morening. He had just finished fixing
Speaker 1: the last ornament when he heard a loud crash from upstairs.
Speaker 1: He raced up the stairs and found that the tree
Speaker 1: had fallen over. Morbius was devastated. He had worked so
Speaker 1: hard on it and it was ruined. Just then he
Speaker 1: heard a voice from down the hall. It was Santa Claus.
Speaker 1: Santa was not happy. He had been waiting all night
Speaker 1: for the tree to be fixed, and now it was ruined.
Speaker 1: Santa told Morbius that he would have to replace the tree,
Speaker 1: and he would have to do it himself. Morbius was
Speaker 1: too tired to argue, so he just sighed and followed
Speaker 1: Santa down the hall. Santa put Morbius to work fixing
Speaker 1: the tree. Every time Morbius tried to take a break,
Speaker 1: Santa would scold him and tell him to get back
Speaker 1: to work. By the time Christmas morning came, the tree
Speaker 1: was fixed and Morbius looked like a genius. Santa was
Speaker 1: so happy that he gave Morbius a gift. It was
Speaker 1: a virus that could kill any living thing. Morbius was
Speaker 1: shocked and scared, but he knew he had to keep
Speaker 1: the virus secret. He would use it to kill any
Speaker 1: creatures that ruined his Christmas. Again, that is wonderful. Like
Speaker 1: I felt like that could be bound in a book
Speaker 1: with the with the appropriate illustrations and it would just
Speaker 1: fly off the shelves. I mean, yeah, that is good.
Speaker 1: In fact, if I had not seen it be generated
Speaker 1: in real time by this tool, I would suspect if
Speaker 1: somebody just posted that on the Internet that like that
Speaker 1: was one of those fake ones that like actually a
Speaker 1: human road and they just said I fed as scripts
Speaker 1: into an AI and it generated this. You know, you
Speaker 1: know that joke. Yeah, yeah, but but no, this is
Speaker 1: really by a machine would kill any living thing, and
Speaker 1: he would use it to kill anything that ruined his Christmas. Again. Beautiful,
Speaker 1: absolutely beautiful. I one thing I enjoyed doing. So there
Speaker 1: are a lot of ways to play with it, you know,
Speaker 1: putting in some sort of counterintuitive elements and seeing how
Speaker 1: it plays out. But I enjoyed toying around and seeing
Speaker 1: what it would do with prompts or titles that had
Speaker 1: to do with machines writing books, because how can you resist?
Speaker 1: And h I found one of the most successful ones
Speaker 1: I did is that I gave it the title of
Speaker 1: a Jorge Louis Borges story, the Book of Sands. So
Speaker 1: the Book of Sands is an excellent I think US
Speaker 1: nine seventies short story, uh, the typical Borges and that it's,
Speaker 1: you know, more about a concept than anything. It's about
Speaker 1: a book that is infinite, that is in another language,
Speaker 1: with all sorts of strange writings. It becomes a man's obsession,
Speaker 1: and then he realizes that it's monstrous and he needs
Speaker 1: to destroy it. But he realizes he cannot burn it
Speaker 1: because what happens when you burn an infinite book you
Speaker 1: create infinite smoke, and it would destroy the environment. So
Speaker 1: he has to hide it away in a place where
Speaker 1: books canna be alone and left alone, and that, of
Speaker 1: course is a great library. But I figured, okay, I'll
Speaker 1: give it the Book of Sands as its title, and
Speaker 1: I gave it a little prompt I wrote, I gave
Speaker 1: I gave it the following quote. Once a scholar researching
Speaker 1: and the ancient Library of Zool made an alarming discovery,
Speaker 1: a machine that could write books. The machine had been
Speaker 1: writing boks for hundreds of years by the time he
Speaker 1: discovered it. The scholar was shocked to see what the
Speaker 1: subject of these books happened to be. Okay, and then
Speaker 1: the machines take over and they write the following. The
Speaker 1: book's theme was the history of each grain of sand
Speaker 1: on the on the beach. The scholar read the first
Speaker 1: page of one of the books with amazement. He told
Speaker 1: the story of how a particular grain of sand had
Speaker 1: been formed, how it had been moved by the wind
Speaker 1: and the ways, and how it had eventually come to
Speaker 1: rest on the beach. The scholar was amazed that such
Speaker 1: a thing was possible. He wondered how the machine could
Speaker 1: know so much about each grain of sand. The scholar
Speaker 1: continued to read the books and soon realize that the
Speaker 1: machine was not just writing about the history of the
Speaker 1: grains of sand, but was also writing about the future.
Speaker 1: The machine could see into the future and knew what
Speaker 1: would happen to each grain of sand. The scholar was terrified.
Speaker 1: He knew that if the machine could see into the future,
Speaker 1: he could also see into his own future. He knew
Speaker 1: that the machine would eventually write a book about him.
Speaker 1: The scholar ran from the library and terror he never returned.
Speaker 1: The machine is still writing its books. It has written
Speaker 1: millions of them by now. Each book is the history
Speaker 1: of a grain of sand. Uh, surprisingly beautiful. And that
Speaker 1: one actually, unlike the others, which are very delightful and pleasing,
Speaker 1: that one kind of cracks the Turing test, one that
Speaker 1: I could see that having been written by an actual
Speaker 1: human writer. Yeah. Now, of course, one thing that we'll
Speaker 1: get into in the interview tomorrow is that of many
Speaker 1: of the things, so a machine is not going to
Speaker 1: match up to a human in a number of ways.
Speaker 1: One of the key ones ways that it doesn't match
Speaker 1: up is it has no morality. It kind of make
Speaker 1: moral storytelling choices, and it can't uh read back over
Speaker 1: what it's written and you know, build it up from there.
Speaker 1: So we have to take all of that into account.
Speaker 1: But still these results are quite impressive. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think also they would be somewhat limited by length, right,
Speaker 1: because these are each basically a paragraph, and it's going
Speaker 1: to be kind of a dice roll, like how good
Speaker 1: the illusion is kept up for the length of that
Speaker 1: whole paragraph? And uh, and like, I imagine if you
Speaker 1: get into longer and longer works, you would start seeing
Speaker 1: the cracks more and more and things would start to
Speaker 1: feel wrong. Yeah, yeah, I want to assume so. But
Speaker 1: with this machine, I think the length limit is something
Speaker 1: like two words, and sometimes it'll it'll stop before that.
Speaker 1: Other times it will seem to stop like you're really
Speaker 1: getting it gets it gets its energy going, and then
Speaker 1: you're out of words and you have to sort of
Speaker 1: guess where the computer might have gone from there. Well. Actually,
Speaker 1: so a funny thing about my my second Morbius Saves
Speaker 1: Christmas here was that, uh, the first time I tried it,
Speaker 1: it stopped in the middle of a sentence. It's it said, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Santa was so happy he gave more Beus
Speaker 1: a gift. It was a virus that could kill any
Speaker 1: living thing more bus was And then it stopped and
Speaker 1: I was like, well, wait, how do you get it
Speaker 1: to keep going? So I just reinput the text it
Speaker 1: already created, and then said create again, and sure enough,
Speaker 1: it did give me like two more sentences. Then then
Speaker 1: we got how he was shocked and scared, and how
Speaker 1: he would use it to kill any creatures that you know. Ever,
Speaker 1: ruined Christmas again. All right, well, I encourage everyone out
Speaker 1: there listening to this, uh, tune into the episode that
Speaker 1: airs tomorrow. Uh, and then go and check out this
Speaker 1: website for yourself, and if you have something, if if
Speaker 1: in toying around with it, you to create something quite interesting,
Speaker 1: send it our way. We'd obviously love to take a
Speaker 1: peek at what you and the machine have put together.
Speaker 1: All right, shall we get into the listener mail proper then, Joe, Oh,
Speaker 1: yes we should. I guess we've got fewer messages than
Speaker 1: usual this week, but we'll probably have more next week.
Speaker 1: So uh, first message, this is in response to our
Speaker 1: episodes on Cauldrons. We did a bunch of those and
Speaker 1: uh multiple time correspondent Renata got in touch. Renata says
Speaker 1: Hi Joe Robin Seth. I enjoyed the references to Welsh
Speaker 1: mythology in the latest Cauldron episode and would love to
Speaker 1: hear more episodes involving Welsh mythology. I only recently became
Speaker 1: aware that Wales has its own rich lore with unique
Speaker 1: characters and stories. Of course, it shouldn't be surprising for
Speaker 1: a culture with a long literary history to have a
Speaker 1: full fledged mythos I was just surprised how little it
Speaker 1: comes up. Maybe that's because the creatures and characters are
Speaker 1: so tricky to pronounce. I could see that. Um. My
Speaker 1: interest started from watching a mini series called The Owl Service,
Speaker 1: which I learned about from a documentary about Full Corror.
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen The Owl Service, I highly recommend it.
Speaker 1: It's on YouTube and is eight episodes long that the
Speaker 1: quality isn't great. There appears to be a DVD on
Speaker 1: Amazon for Region two as well. The plot of the
Speaker 1: show involves elements from the Mabinogion. The Owl Service was
Speaker 1: also a book, but the TV series has strong Wickerman
Speaker 1: and psychomania vibes and really catches the mood perfectly. Wow,
Speaker 1: well we're not. You definitely know how to get my attention.
Speaker 1: Anything that is psychomania meets wicker and I'm on board
Speaker 1: for that. So I looked this up. Uh, and to clarify,
Speaker 1: it looks like it was I think a a TV
Speaker 1: series in the late sixties maybe and it Oh, it's
Speaker 1: got that sixties look. There's a guy with a tie
Speaker 1: that is approximately seventeen miles wide and uh, and his
Speaker 1: his hair is the flattest. I don't know it seems
Speaker 1: worth a look. Yeah, this was a Granada television production.
Speaker 1: Jillian Hills is in it, so yeah, this this, uh,
Speaker 1: this sounds like something we should take a look a
Speaker 1: look at, for sure. Renata says in the end, I
Speaker 1: made it through all four cauldrons, enjoyed it way more
Speaker 1: than I thought I would. But just backhanded, I don't know,
Speaker 1: as always, thank you for the endless hours of entertainment,
Speaker 1: best Renata. No, not not backhanded at all. I mean
Speaker 1: four four episodes about cauldrons, and it may seem like
Speaker 1: like that's a bit much at first, but then you realize, oh,
Speaker 1: this it really does go deep, and it's amazing how
Speaker 1: much we can take cauldrons for granted, you know, it's
Speaker 1: four episodes of this, you know, all the research we
Speaker 1: put into it, and I didn't even think of one
Speaker 1: example of a fantasy, modern pop culture use of cauldrons.
Speaker 1: That it was literally staring at me from not only
Speaker 1: from the bookshelf, but at times the book was on
Speaker 1: the bed next to me where we record, and it's
Speaker 1: a Dungeons and Dragon's book currently in print, Tasha's Cauldron
Speaker 1: of Everything. Uh so cauldron right there in the title,
Speaker 1: there's some wonderful illustrations of various fantasy cauldrons in the book.
Speaker 1: There's even a version of the Cauldron of Rebirth in
Speaker 1: that book, ready to go in your Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
Speaker 1: But for some reason, I'm just so used to seeing it,
Speaker 1: I didn't even put connected. I didn't even think, Oh, cauldrons,
Speaker 1: that's what we're talking about this week. Maybe I should
Speaker 1: mention this book that's lying next to me. So you
Speaker 1: have more D and D experience than me, are cauldron's
Speaker 1: a regular occurrence within the game universe. I'm my D
Speaker 1: and D group is actually convening this very night, and
Speaker 1: I don't think we have in poundered one in our
Speaker 1: campaign yet. Um. I mean, I guess that you had
Speaker 1: depends on I guess it's kind of encounterdependent, right, Like
Speaker 1: if you encounter witches, Yeah, there's gonna be a cauldron, right,
Speaker 1: and that's just that's just gonna be. It's gonna get
Speaker 1: dragged in there. Um And uh, yeah, I know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. There may be specific um like classic adventure
Speaker 1: modules that that have one, classic storylines that involve one,
Speaker 1: but certainly, uh, they're in there in the book. They
Speaker 1: have the rules created for them, so they're they're easy
Speaker 1: to plug in, the magical ones, and he the mundane cauldrons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't have as many as you want. I mean,
Speaker 1: your character could probably go out and buy one, and
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be a problem for your dungeon master to
Speaker 1: facilitate that. Let's see, if it was my character, you
Speaker 1: probably try to shoplift one. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: can get a cauldron out under your shirt. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you would have to have some magic. You'd have done
Speaker 1: some help from a mage to pull that off. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Rob, do you want to get into some weird
Speaker 1: house cinema responses Yeah, let's do it. Let's see what
Speaker 1: do we have here? We have list your mail from Andrew.
Speaker 1: Andrew writes, gentlemen, I was listening to your most recent
Speaker 1: weird House Cinema episode on The Battle Beyond the Stars
Speaker 1: this morning on my commute. It was during your discussion
Speaker 1: of the great film composer James Horner that I glanced
Speaker 1: up and noticed a vanity plate on the car in
Speaker 1: front of me. It's simply read Horner. I thought this
Speaker 1: too much of a coincidence not to write in I
Speaker 1: have no supporting evidence for this occurrence, So I guess
Speaker 1: you'll have to take my word for it. I believe you,
Speaker 1: because why wouldn't I know? But Andrew continues, Also, there
Speaker 1: was a brief mention during the episode of the previously
Speaker 1: covered film Message from Space, wherein Interstellar nuts or seeds
Speaker 1: transport information across the universe. This reminded me of Kevin J.
Speaker 1: Anderson's epic space operas Saga of the Seven Sons. In
Speaker 1: the book series, messages can be sent instantaneously by priests
Speaker 1: who are mentally linked to massive trees from a specific
Speaker 1: planet called world trees. As long as the tree is
Speaker 1: a board a ship or on a planet, the priests
Speaker 1: can send a message to any and all other world
Speaker 1: trees in existence. Not exactly the same, but a unique
Speaker 1: use of flora to convey information. Not sure why I
Speaker 1: didn't think of it long ago. Well, that's very interesting.
Speaker 1: I was. I'm not familiar with this series, have been
Speaker 1: familiar with the with the author, but but I've never
Speaker 1: read this. Yeah, I'm not familiar either. Isn't there some
Speaker 1: kind of like big magic tree on the Wookie planet
Speaker 1: and in extended Star Wars canon, Yeah, they do have
Speaker 1: a big old tree there. Yeah, there's a big tree
Speaker 1: and uh in Avatar. Oh that's right, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that they also used that for communication. Oh yeah, they do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's the basic idea of the world tree.
Speaker 1: You know, this thing that that is a bridge that
Speaker 1: connects our world to to heaven. So it makes sense
Speaker 1: that it would be a way of conveying messages and
Speaker 1: so forth. And then Andrew has one last paragraph here. Lastly,
Speaker 1: the first season of the Halo TV show recently wrapped up.
Speaker 1: I was wondering if a Halo Tech episode was in
Speaker 1: the cards. The show was a little less than terrific,
Speaker 1: but I enjoyed it. As an individual who spent much
Speaker 1: of his teams in whenis playing the video games, I
Speaker 1: am especially interested in the faster than light travel capabilities
Speaker 1: achieved through accessing quote unquote slip space. Also, i'd be
Speaker 1: interested to hear your take on Hawaii species. Humans who
Speaker 1: have mastered the art of intergalactic space travel still rely
Speaker 1: heavily on rattletrap motorcycles and souped up Dodge Magnum's to
Speaker 1: get around on the ground. I have no Halo knowledge, really.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've got friends who are into it, but
Speaker 1: I've never been an Xbox person, so I never got
Speaker 1: access to the Halo stuff. I well, I you know,
Speaker 1: I can't complain. I got the last of Us instead.
Speaker 1: But Rob you you've you've done Xbox, if you've done Halo.
Speaker 1: I've never done Halo. It's weird, weirdly enough. I think
Speaker 1: it's because when Halo was initially really big, I didn't
Speaker 1: have an Xbox yet, and then after I got an Xbox,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I was just drawn to other games instead. So, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't really have an opinion one way or another.
Speaker 1: I remember a friend of mine telling me about a
Speaker 1: really cool episode in the first game where you like
Speaker 1: discover a new type of enemy. There's like you think
Speaker 1: there's one type of enemy, but then there's like a
Speaker 1: new parasite or something that shows up supposed to be
Speaker 1: really scared. I remember that having an impact on gamers
Speaker 1: and people talking about that. Yeah, so I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe I should pick it up. It's there are several
Speaker 1: of those many, probably of those big game franchises that
Speaker 1: I just I never never got around to playing, And
Speaker 1: there's some of them where I'm kind of like, maybe
Speaker 1: I'll play it if it if it drops to five dollars,
Speaker 1: I'll pick it up and then and then it and
Speaker 1: then it doesn't or then it's like, oh, we're on
Speaker 1: a new system now, Well, if they do an HD
Speaker 1: remake of it, I'll maybe I'll play it and then
Speaker 1: they do an HD remake of it and then I'm back.
Speaker 1: But it's more than five dollars, so I guess I'll
Speaker 1: wait it out. Yeah. I remember the Sword also, right,
Speaker 1: people talking about the Sword multiplayer, like, when you get
Speaker 1: the sword, you're like unbeatable or something. The ultimate in
Speaker 1: space age technology, right, yeah, rattletrap, motorcycles, dodge magnums, and
Speaker 1: swords all right. Yeah. I don't know much about the
Speaker 1: TV series. I remember reading that it had come out,
Speaker 1: that it was a big deal, but I haven't even
Speaker 1: really read reviews of it. Maybe I just know that
Speaker 1: it would be a hard sell for family viewing time.
Speaker 1: Ah yeah, yeah, Okay, let's do one last Weird House message.
Speaker 1: This is from Jemima. Jemima says, Hi, Robin Joe. I
Speaker 1: have recently been getting really into your Weird House Cinema podcast.
Speaker 1: It's so much fun listening to you talk about old
Speaker 1: movies i've never heard of, then tracking them down so
Speaker 1: I can experience the glorious weirdness for myself. Thank you
Speaker 1: for that. Coincidentally, I've been rewatching my favorite Nickelodeon cartoon,
Speaker 1: The Angry Beavers. Imagine my delight when you mentioned the
Speaker 1: cartoon in one of your old episodes, and then my
Speaker 1: horror when you said that you have seen it. B movie,
Speaker 1: horror and sci fi parodies are a staple of the series.
Speaker 1: You have to see it. I'm sorry, I don't even
Speaker 1: remember what episode we mentioned the Angry Beavers in. Uh.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was a voice actor who who had a
Speaker 1: crab and we mentioned because we often mentioned credits, some
Speaker 1: of which we've seen, some of which we have. Not
Speaker 1: that that makes sense. Uh well, okay, so Jemima continues.
Speaker 1: My favorite example is The Day the World God Really
Speaker 1: Messed Up, which is a dedicated half hour alien invasion
Speaker 1: mind control parody starring veteran actors of the genre. Which
Speaker 1: is how Oh I'm sorry, I should read ahead, which
Speaker 1: is how it came up on Weird House. Oh. I
Speaker 1: guess it still holds true that I don't remember what
Speaker 1: episode this was, though I've linked the IMDb page for
Speaker 1: you to check it out. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: would feel about doing a weird house cinema review of
Speaker 1: an Angry Beaver's mini movie. But I think you'd have
Speaker 1: a lot of fun talking about all the references and
Speaker 1: homages if you did, I'd certainly enjoy listening to it.
Speaker 1: Jemima from Australia, ps. The Last Unicorn is my favorite
Speaker 1: movie of all time. Maybe not quite weird enough for
Speaker 1: the show, but thanks for giving it so many shout
Speaker 1: outs and pointing listeners in the right direction. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I look up this Angry Beaver's uh sci fi parody
Speaker 1: you mentioned, and it does have the voices of Peter
Speaker 1: Graves and Adrian Barbou, who I think could very well
Speaker 1: have come up in movies we covered on the show
Speaker 1: at some point. I know we've we've made fun of
Speaker 1: the Peter Graves monologue from It Conquered the World at
Speaker 1: least five hundred times. Doing a quick search on all
Speaker 1: my notes, it looks like it probably came up in
Speaker 1: our episode on Not of This Earth. Oh okay, and
Speaker 1: as I as I, as I zoom in even even
Speaker 1: more into my notes, it looks like we were talking
Speaker 1: about Jonathan Hayes or actually I think you you brought
Speaker 1: up this connection and you played Jeremy a quote, no
Speaker 1: good creep who works for the alien. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, so apparently did a lot of Corman
Speaker 1: movies and then shows up in Angry Beavers. Well, so,
Speaker 1: I vaguely remember The Angry Beavers from when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, and I would not have expected that was
Speaker 1: what it was about. I don't think I ever really
Speaker 1: watched it, but it Yeah that this comes as a surprise. Well,
Speaker 1: and now I'm interested to check it out now that
Speaker 1: I know that they have this is a staple of
Speaker 1: calling back to these various old movies. I would have
Speaker 1: assumed it was a standard you know, zoinks cartoon headbasher.
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