WEBVTT - Listener Mail: Can you prove that it didn't happen? 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.360 Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind production of My 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:10.680 Heart Radio. Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow your 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:14.520 Mind listener Mail. This is Robert Lamb and this is 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:17.000 Joe McCormick. And it's Monday, the day of the week 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:19.400 that we read back some messages you've sent into the 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:21.520 show account, which if you ever want to get in 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:25.040 touch with a contribution of your own, that account is 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:29.520 contact at Stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. Contact 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:32.479 at Stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. Uh, yeah, 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.680 get in touch. We need contact. That's true. That that's 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.600 what our mondays are made out of. Here. So okay, 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:46.440 I'm going to start off with this message from Josh 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.720 responding to some previous listener mail. And this one needs 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:51.879 a bit of background. So in the in the previous 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.960 listener mail episode, uh, somebody named Lurch got in touch 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:00.680 and mentioned the nineteen six H. G. Wells sci fi 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:05.200 movie Things to Come, which featured a scene of a 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.880 there's a future civilization, uh, traveling to the Moon by 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.919 way of a giant ballistic cannon. They're going to shoot 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.800 somebody into the moon, just like in the It's like 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.840 in the French movie what's it called The Voyage to 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.160 the Moon uh. And our listener pointed out the amusing 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.920 design choice that this giant cannon has an iron sight 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.640 at the end of the barrel, like like somebody's gonna 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:31.600 be holding it and aiming it. Um so anyway, Josh says, 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.400 Hi Joe Robin Seth the launch gun from Things to 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.600 Come that Lurch mentioned reminded me of an actual company 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:44.080 that is making something similar. Huh. The concept is they 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.160 put a small rocket in a cent refuge and spin 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.960 it at crazy fast speeds nearly mocked two for their 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:55.120 SubOrbit tests, and let it go. It rides its inertia 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.320 to a certain altitude, then fires the rocket to get 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.040 the rest of the way to orbit. At least in theory, 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.720 they are still testing oddly enough, there is no iron 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.640 sight to aim. How will they ever manage? I promise 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.080 I'm not making this up. Here's a video that the 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:14.120 company released recently showing their progress. It's definitely worth watching 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.560 to the end, if only for the massive bullet hole 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:20.399 in the ground from the landing. All the best, Josh, 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:22.920 So yeah, I looked this up. The company is called 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:27.600 Spin Launch, and the launcher mechanism looks kind of like 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.360 a giant ammunition drum on a Tommy gun. You know. 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.960 It's like this big circular disc like a film canister, 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:39.600 and inside there is I think it's electrically powered, so 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.800 I think there would be sort of electromagnetic rapid cycling 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.160 through the circle and then eventually the thing gets released 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.160 and it flies up out of a tube, straight up 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.760 into the sky. The version they were testing in the video, 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.960 I saw it did not actually have a rocket stage. 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.440 It was just a dummy, you know, a dummy ballistic 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.160 that it would see how high it could reach. So yeah, 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:00.880 I guess the idea the end as you do it 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.560 with something that actually has chemical rockets within it, so 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:05.720 you get it up to a certain altitude and then 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.640 the rockets fire and take over, getting you into orbit 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:12.320 with less use of chemical fuel. But exactly as Josh says, 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.799 when this dummy ballistic test vehicle is thrown up into 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:17.880 the sky makes a gigantic arc and then it comes 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.240 back down. And there's a part where they in this 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:21.880 video they go to find it and it's just a 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.800 hole in the ground. It has it has done a 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:28.760 mighty piercing of the earth, you know, speaking of H. G. 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.240 Wells as things to come there, I have to remind 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.400 everybody that there is a nineteen seventy nine very loose 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:40.360 adaptation of H. G. Wells is uh work here titled 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.360 The Shape of Things to Come? In fact, it's it's 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.080 sometimes titled H. G. Wells Is The Shape of Things 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.600 to Come. It stars Jack Palance, and it's directed by 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:53.680 George McAllen, who also directed Two Frogs, which, of course 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.520 we discussed on Weird House Cinema. That's got to be good. 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.680 I think I've seen it, or at least I think 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.080 I watched the riff Tracks version of it. I believe 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:05.280 this came out shortly before the pandemic. When okay, so, 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:10.240 when movies decide to put the author of a book 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.960 or author of an idea's name in front of the 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.400 title of the movie, like Bram Stoker's Dracula, you know, 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:20.080 the Francis Ford Coppola Dracula or Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.479 think that was also in the nineties. Are those a 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.640 result of some kind of I don't know, in the 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:30.479 contractual or intellectual property issue, hard to be hard to 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.960 believe that's the case with Mary Shelley um or is 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.400 it just like there's something about the title where they 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.320 were like, we we've we've got to have the author's 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.200 name in here. That'll that'll make people know what we're 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.000 talking about, because you just say Frankenstein, they're gonna be like, 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.160 I don't know what that is? Who wrote that? Yeah? 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.000 I guess in some level it's about trying to indicate 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.520 this is a return to the book to some extent, 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.480 And of course it's never it's not like bron Stoker's 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.120 Dracula the movie. As as fun as it is, it's 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:03.360 not like it's a like blow for blow faithful adaptation 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.719 of the novel. It's a lot of fun, but it's 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.280 it's not that, And I think it's the I've probably 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.080 I harp on this all the time, but like one 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:12.600 of the things that always stuck with me is the 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.400 mere fact that they had a movie novelization of brom 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.880 Stoker's Dracula by of course not brom Stoker but some 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.720 modern author. Like that's all you need to know, Like 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.479 if it's is it really brom Stoker's Dracula, if the 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:30.599 novel adaptation of it is not just the original novel, Yeah, 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.880 but how do you capture on the page? Keian News 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:39.000 English accent I will return to you, my love. Yeah, 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.760 it was not the not the best performance from Kiana, 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:46.520 was it. Um? But there's so much Yeah, yeah, he's 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.680 he's great in other things. Um. And but of course, yeah, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.960 you have Anthony Hopkins, you have Gary Oldman. Uh, you 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:57.760 have just luscious costumes and sets. It's uh, it more 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.920 than makes up for one performance and picture. And I 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.320 think you could pretty much plot your life by like, 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:08.760 which Gary Oldman incarnation of Dracula are you today? Are you? Um, 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.279 old man with big hair, old man with long hair? 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.040 Do you feel more like you're the dapper sunglasses brown 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.440 stokers Dracula. Do you feel maybe a little more like 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:23.560 a wolf beast or a bat beast armored Dracula. There's 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.760 so many to choose from, so many costume changes and 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:27.880 flesh changes in that one. Yeah, I think I think 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:29.359 you'd have a lot of it. Like I'm a demon 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:33.400 bad until I've had my coffee kind of, I think 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.039 I'm the I'm the the old Dracula with the long 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:38.640 hair towards the end of the film, before I have 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.640 my coffee, um, and then after the first cup, then 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.640 I'm the Dracula with the big hair, and then we 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.320 kind of build up from there until the caffeine starts 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.880 wearing off, and then I began to revert, I guess 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.159 into beast mode at that point. All right, well, if 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.599 anyone else has thoughts on all of this, yes, right in, 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.159 we would love to hear your take. But let's move 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.360 on to another bit of listener mail. This one comes 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:07.599 to us from Carl. Carl says, Dear Rob and Joe, 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.440 just now heard your listener to mail episode about children's 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:14.760 senses of time periods or lack thereof. When our children 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.680 were little, our friends used Gilligan's to explain when something 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.200 in the near future would happen will be there in 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.600 about three Gilligan's. They had a good feel for the 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:28.920 elapsed time of a Gilligan's Island episode. Enjoy your podcast, Carl. Weirdly, 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:34.160 this email triggered a sudden, vivid memory from childhood of 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.840 some adult somewhere expressing a length of time. I guess 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.080 in retrospect this must have been two and a half 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:45.040 hours as two sesame streets and a Mr Rogers, and 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.360 I wondered, did somebody say that to me when I 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.440 was a kid, or was that in like a movie 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.400 or something? So I googled it and discovered this is 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:56.200 a quote from an episode of Full House. Bob Saget 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.760 in Full House was hiding that deep in my brain. 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.120 Oh nice, I will say as a I think I 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.680 growing up, I think I did think about times sometimes 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.400 like this in that in in thirty minute and an 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:12.440 hour blocks based on television blocks of time. And I 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.760 know that when my son was younger we used this 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.840 a little bit, and in part because sometimes on long 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.080 car trips he would have the iPad, he would have 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.800 things he could watch, and so that would be a 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.920 direct way of saying like, not only are we one 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.920 viewing of Totoro away, like you can go ahead and 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.679 start Totoro now, and when you were done with Totoro, 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.560 we will be at our destination. That's good system, all right. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.959 So we also got a couple of messages in response 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.160 to story machines with people cranking out their own AI 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.840 generated narratives. Uh, Rob, I feel like this is kind 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:46.400 of your territory. Do do you do? You want to 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.680 take the first one of these or both of them. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:57.000 I'll take the first one, okay, So he has this 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.920 one also has a reference to two thousand and eighteen 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:05.520 Fartanomicon episode which I tried to. I usually don't go 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.720 back and listen to old episodes, but we had some 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.000 had two nine year olds in the car, and so 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.679 they were talking. One of them in particular, was talking 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.160 about farts a lot. So I was like, well, I'm 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:16.839 gonna hit you guys with the science. I'm gonna load 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.000 up this episode. I found. I found it a very 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.120 hard episode to listen to. I don't think this is 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:25.319 the episode that that that we would record today. It's 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.320 still good, you know, the science is solid, but it's 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.360 it's it's a little FARTI uh so, anyways, this is 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.320 from Scott. Scott writes in and says greetings and salutations. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.200 I've been messing around with this great AI creative writing 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:41.480 tool at story machines dot net at story hyphen machines 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.240 dot net, and it occurred to me to enter the 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:48.240 title of your superb episode from two thousand eighteen, the Fartonomicon. 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.440 I tried several times, providing no other text than the 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.720 title of the results I got these two are the 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:58.560 best and also quite different from each other. So here 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:02.320 we go. The Fartonomicon is the definitive guide to the 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:06.720 Art of flat Lens. Authored by renowned phartologist Dr Gregory House, 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.400 this illustrated volume is a must have for anyone interested 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.400 in learning all there is to know about the mysteries 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:16.720 of gas, from the physiology of gas production to the 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.800 history of flash lens. The Fartonomicon covers it all with 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:25.040 its insightful illustrations and comprehensive information. The farten o Maicon 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.559 is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to improve their 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.680 flash hlen skills. Whether you are a beginner looking to 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.440 learn everything there is to know about gas, or a 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:39.120 seasoned fart enthusiast looking to expand your knowledge, this book 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.360 is perfect for you. Don't wait any longer. Order your 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:47.760 copy of The Fartonomicon today and now help, Wait a minute, 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.880 Why was this not a story at all? This is 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.439 like a This is like a promo for a book. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.320 Why did it spit that out? Sometimes it it does this. 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.480 I've noticed toying around with this interface. Sometimes it gives 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.840 you the story. Sometimes it tells you about the story 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.960 or about the book. So sometimes it sort of is 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.319 within the story. Sometimes it stands outside of the story. 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.920 Scott continues here and here's the second one. In the 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.840 world of fartin Amicon, farting is an art form. It 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.000 is a way to communicate with your fellow humans and 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.120 to show your appreciation for the environment. There are many 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.960 different types of farts and each has its own special meaning. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.760 One day, a farting artist named Gary entered the farten 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.960 a Maicon competition. He was very nervous, but he knew 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:33.760 that he had to try his best if he wanted 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:37.080 to win. Gary started by farting in the air to 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.280 show how powerful his fart was. Then he farted in 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.559 different directions to show how versatile his farting was. Finally, 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.480 he farted in the shape of a heart to show 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:51.360 how romantic his fart was. The impressed by Gary's farting skills, 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.200 and he was eventually declared the winner of the farton 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:58.280 A Maicon competition. Anyways, this may be a bit too 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.320 long or silly for a listener, may know, but it 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:04.520 made me laugh heartily. Your show is great. Keep it up, Scott, Scott, 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.080 obviously your fears were unfounded. Here we are reading the 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:12.200 whole thing. Yeah, yeah, Now is Gregory? How Gregory House is? 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.040 Is that the house from the TV show House? I 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.400 think so I've never watched that show, but I think 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.959 that's his name. That's what what's his name, Hugh Laurie, Yeah, 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.480 oh it is Wow, just totally pulled him and decided 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.080 we're gonna go, um, you know, cross promotional on this. Huh. 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.560 So I wonder why did it pull in that name, Like, 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.720 what does that have to do with the phrase fardon 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.320 omicon that is put in here? I don't know, but 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.960 it is interesting the way that the AI interacts with 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:43.160 proper nounds like that, if you put a name like 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:47.600 Santa Claus or like Morbius or whatever in the in 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.280 the title or in the first line, it will it 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:55.280 obviously knows some pre existing associations with this character, and 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.839 it will shape the narrative accordingly. It doesn't just treat 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.640 it as a as a neutral prop her name. So 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.280 that makes me think also that when it pulls in 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.679 a different proper name on its own, like it just 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.040 decides to retrieve Gregory House, there must be a reason 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.480 for that. It's not like randomly selecting a name. I 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.840 don't know. I just don't know. Was there an episode 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.000 of House that was about the fart an omicon. I 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.120 don't think that would make any sense. I don't know, 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.440 but I did a search for Dr Gregory House and 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.240 farts just to see because who knows, I had a 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:27.880 long run. They had to come up. They might have 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.480 come around to it. Eventually. Nothing was turning up from me. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.720 But maybe listeners out there can shine in. There aren't 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.840 very many fart mystery shows, I guess, like even the 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.960 long running ones that did. Did they ever do a 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.760 fart episode of murder? She wrote? I don't know murder 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:50.199 she farted? Okay, Um, this story machine when when we've 0:13:50.240 --> 0:14:01.880 got got the human creativity? Okay? This next message is 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:06.120 also a story machine submission. It's from Derek. Derek says, Hi, 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.000 Robert and Joe Derek here really love your podcast. Your 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.800 episode on creative writing machines was very interesting and it's 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.600 been helpful to me as an amateur writer, helping me 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.720 complete thoughts and sentences or simply giving me an idea 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.840 or direction on how to put thoughts to words. And 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.880 then Derek attaches something, so he he begins with a 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:29.520 kind of biblical prompt that goes It wasn't with rolling thunder, 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.200 a crack of lightning, or a big bang that the 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:36.160 architect came to be. It just was one moment there 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.240 was nothing, and the next it simply was the moment 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.400 after it came into being. It spread its consciousness outwards, 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:46.160 creating the vast and endless void of space. And then 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.400 I think he signals, this is where the AI takes over. 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.360 And then from that void the Architect began to create. 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.560 The first thing it created was the laws of physics, 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.760 then the molecules that make up the world, followed by 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:04.280 the doors and planets. It worked tirelessly, creating the blueprints 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:08.360 of everything I'm gonna read directly here, everything that would 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:13.080 ever will exist. As it worked, the Architect grew more 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.400 and more tired. It created everything, but it was alone. 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.160 Oh that that's kind of a creepy conclusion there, Rob. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.280 I don't know if in all your experiments you've seen 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.920 a few kind of like grammatical nonsense creep in. Most 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.760 of the time, I feel like It's sentences are pretty tight, 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.120 like they actually work syntactically. But occasionally I think you 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.640 get something like this, the blueprints of everything that would 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:39.000 ever will exist. Yeah, And I would find that sometimes 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.440 if I threw too many things into a sentence to 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.080 like if I were to write something like the son 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.160 of the duck, who was also a frog. Like that 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:48.760 sort of thing can sort of throw it off a 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.760 little bit, I think. Yeah. Anyway, Derek says he was 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.000 pleasantly surprised by how coherent the output of the Story 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:59.160 Machines program was, and also ends by recommending for Weird 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.320 House the movie Kung Fu Hustle, which I don't know 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.640 if we do on the on Weird House. It's it's 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:09.120 pretty recent, but but yeah, I love Kung Fu Hustle. 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.280 I remember discovering that movie when I was in college 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.400 and watching it way too many times. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.360 it's it's a fun one. And I know it's come 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.040 up on Weird House because we've covered some films that, 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:24.200 Oh I think it's like um uh like Waguan has 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.080 been in some of the films we've talked about, so 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.440 um it's yeah, it has a great cast, and so 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.160 it's one that will probably continue to come up as 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:41.240 we discuss other um Kung fu movies. All Right. We 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.680 continue to hear from folks about sky Bridges, which has 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.400 been delightful. Uh. This one comes to us from Chelsea. 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:51.560 Chelsea writes, Hi, Rob Joe and Death. Nicholas Johnson. I 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.680 believe that that was one of our Halloween names for 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:58.560 for seth Uh. The summer after my freshman year of college, 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.440 I stayed on campus for summer research project and ended 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:05.760 up staying in Mead Hall at Pitser College. Mead Hall 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.399 was a main building with two towers behind it, all 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.919 connected by sky bridges with see through metal railings on 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:16.840 the second and third floors see attached pick and indeed, 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.080 looking at the pics, looks looks nice, looks nice like 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.520 the garden in the middle. I lived on the third 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.400 floor of one of the towers, which meant I had 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.199 to use the bridges to get to laundry, the kitchen, 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.600 the main entrance, et cetera. The inside of the towers 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:36.960 are painted a dirty white covered in school sanctioned student graffiti. 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.440 Right outside my suite was a quote that wasn't abandoned 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.720 all hope who enter here, but it definitely had the 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:46.480 same pipe. The shipping graffiti and campus being almost completely 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:50.240 deserted combined to make the whole summer feel pretty post apocalyptic. 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.560 Then I saw the film twenty eight days later and 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.760 developed a sudden paralyzing fear of zombies. My brain took 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:59.400 the movie The Isolation and Major Depression, and turned that 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.760 into an imagining flying zombies that would attack me from 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.520 over the railings of this on the sky bridges. I 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.919 was fine on the bridges during the day, but at 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.120 night I walked down the exact center and dreaded every 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.680 minute of it. I think the sky bridge was where 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.920 the fear finally hit because I was completely exposed potential 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.359 attacks from almost three hundred sixty degrees around me, but 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.359 I only had a linear escape route. Fortunately, over the 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.160 last decade, the zombie fear has faded somewhat, and I'm 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.920 sure i'd be fine on a skybridge now. Weird House 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:30.760 Cinema has been a great way for me to experience 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:32.919 and enjoy horror films without the risk of developing a 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:37.120 new phobia. Thanks for the constant flow of information and commentary, 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:40.679 Chelsea Wow. I I don't know. First of all, thanks Chelsea, 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:42.399 but also I don't know if this is a huge 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.639 coincidence or if it says something about the college dorm 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.439 experience in the I'm guessing it was also in the 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:52.960 two thousands for you, um, but I distinctly remember thinking 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:57.760 about zombie defense plans in my undergraduate dorm buildings. Uh uh. 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.159 And actually they seemed like a pretty good spot, as 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.280 they had kind of solid brick walls, solid metal doors, 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.439 balconies with sturdy metal railing. Uh in you know, a 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.080 hundred pack of corn dogs in the freezer. It seemed 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:13.760 like a defensible position. Oh man, I don't not think 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.280 I would ever get that far with with this line 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:18.720 of thinking, because I would sort of reach the conclusion 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:22.720 pretty early that oh well, we'd be dimmed, Like, I 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.800 don't know, that doesn't survival was an option as soon 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:28.520 as the utilities are cut. It's like, what, I'm gonna 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:32.119 go to Walmart and fight people for Walmart stuff. I 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.199 don't know. I don't know. Maybe I can kind of 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:36.320 deal with the zombies and I can like speak for them. 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:37.920 I can be like the low Ax of the Dead 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.480 or something. Yeah, I, for one, welcome our new undead overlords. 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:49.560 All right, I guess we're gonna wrap up by doing 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.440 a couple of responses on weird House. First one, Rob, 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.199 I didn't even know what this was. This must be 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.080 something you you put out into the world. There's something 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:00.480 about a doodle contest. Somebody sent in draw wings of 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:05.520 us and I'm screaming two bees. Oh yeah yeah, so 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.240 um uh yeah, I think this will this will be fun. 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:10.720 It's been fun so far. And we've only uh, you know, 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:14.760 received a couple of submissions. But as we've mentioned before, 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:17.080 we do have a store we that has some merch 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:19.880 in it. It's a T Public store. And the other 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:23.240 day I received an email from our contact, a T 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:24.960 Public and they're like, hey, why don't you do a 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:26.919 contest and give away a shirt? It can be anything, 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:29.639 don't overthink it. And so I was like, Okay, I 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.040 will not overthink it. How about a doodle contest about 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:36.520 an action scene from one of our episodes and you 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:40.199 can interpret action scene however you want? And uh and 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:42.640 who will pick a prize? A prize winner or we'll 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:44.000 have Seth pick one. I don't know, we'll have the 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:46.359 random person just out in the world picket. I don't know. 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.399 I haven't figured that part out yet. But whoever wins 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:53.520 the contest gets a free Classic T shirt from the store. 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:56.359 So we put that out there. I believe it's on 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:58.840 It's it's been posted in the Stuff to Blow your 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:03.040 Mind discussion module all which you'll find on Facebook. You 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.600 can just request to be added and the answer a 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.040 question you get in. It's also been put in our discord. 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:11.040 If you want to access to the discord, email US 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:13.000 will send to the link. And I may have even 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:15.720 just thrown up a link on the old Facebook itself, 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:18.320 which I haven't used in forever. But anyway, those are 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:20.800 some places where you will find the details. So though 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:22.959 it is not true to reality, I'd like that this 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:25.800 picture has a sitting side by side sharing a Mike 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:28.240 and Rob. I don't know if you noticed, but you're 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:31.119 wearing You're wearing a long sleeve V neck T shirt, 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:35.000 whereas I am wearing a collar shirt because I obviously, 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:39.120 you know, I dressed for the occasion. Yeah, mine also 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:41.240 kind of looks like a jumpsuit. I kind of because 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:43.240 I kind of get a kind of get an M. S. 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:44.800 T vibe from this, you know, I feel like we're 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:48.160 on a spaceship or something. But but you are yelling 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:50.359