Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind production of My
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Speaker 1: Mind listener Mail. This is Robert Lamb and this is
Speaker 1: Joe McCormick. And it's Monday, the day of the week
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Speaker 1: what our mondays are made out of. Here. So okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to start off with this message from Josh
Speaker 1: responding to some previous listener mail. And this one needs
Speaker 1: a bit of background. So in the in the previous
Speaker 1: listener mail episode, uh, somebody named Lurch got in touch
Speaker 1: and mentioned the nineteen six H. G. Wells sci fi
Speaker 1: movie Things to Come, which featured a scene of a
Speaker 1: there's a future civilization, uh, traveling to the Moon by
Speaker 1: way of a giant ballistic cannon. They're going to shoot
Speaker 1: somebody into the moon, just like in the It's like
Speaker 1: in the French movie what's it called The Voyage to
Speaker 1: the Moon uh. And our listener pointed out the amusing
Speaker 1: design choice that this giant cannon has an iron sight
Speaker 1: at the end of the barrel, like like somebody's gonna
Speaker 1: be holding it and aiming it. Um so anyway, Josh says,
Speaker 1: Hi Joe Robin Seth the launch gun from Things to
Speaker 1: Come that Lurch mentioned reminded me of an actual company
Speaker 1: that is making something similar. Huh. The concept is they
Speaker 1: put a small rocket in a cent refuge and spin
Speaker 1: it at crazy fast speeds nearly mocked two for their
Speaker 1: SubOrbit tests, and let it go. It rides its inertia
Speaker 1: to a certain altitude, then fires the rocket to get
Speaker 1: the rest of the way to orbit. At least in theory,
Speaker 1: they are still testing oddly enough, there is no iron
Speaker 1: sight to aim. How will they ever manage? I promise
Speaker 1: I'm not making this up. Here's a video that the
Speaker 1: company released recently showing their progress. It's definitely worth watching
Speaker 1: to the end, if only for the massive bullet hole
Speaker 1: in the ground from the landing. All the best, Josh,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I looked this up. The company is called
Speaker 1: Spin Launch, and the launcher mechanism looks kind of like
Speaker 1: a giant ammunition drum on a Tommy gun. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like this big circular disc like a film canister,
Speaker 1: and inside there is I think it's electrically powered, so
Speaker 1: I think there would be sort of electromagnetic rapid cycling
Speaker 1: through the circle and then eventually the thing gets released
Speaker 1: and it flies up out of a tube, straight up
Speaker 1: into the sky. The version they were testing in the video,
Speaker 1: I saw it did not actually have a rocket stage.
Speaker 1: It was just a dummy, you know, a dummy ballistic
Speaker 1: that it would see how high it could reach. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess the idea the end as you do it
Speaker 1: with something that actually has chemical rockets within it, so
Speaker 1: you get it up to a certain altitude and then
Speaker 1: the rockets fire and take over, getting you into orbit
Speaker 1: with less use of chemical fuel. But exactly as Josh says,
Speaker 1: when this dummy ballistic test vehicle is thrown up into
Speaker 1: the sky makes a gigantic arc and then it comes
Speaker 1: back down. And there's a part where they in this
Speaker 1: video they go to find it and it's just a
Speaker 1: hole in the ground. It has it has done a
Speaker 1: mighty piercing of the earth, you know, speaking of H. G.
Speaker 1: Wells as things to come there, I have to remind
Speaker 1: everybody that there is a nineteen seventy nine very loose
Speaker 1: adaptation of H. G. Wells is uh work here titled
Speaker 1: The Shape of Things to Come? In fact, it's it's
Speaker 1: sometimes titled H. G. Wells Is The Shape of Things
Speaker 1: to Come. It stars Jack Palance, and it's directed by
Speaker 1: George McAllen, who also directed Two Frogs, which, of course
Speaker 1: we discussed on Weird House Cinema. That's got to be good.
Speaker 1: I think I've seen it, or at least I think
Speaker 1: I watched the riff Tracks version of it. I believe
Speaker 1: this came out shortly before the pandemic. When okay, so,
Speaker 1: when movies decide to put the author of a book
Speaker 1: or author of an idea's name in front of the
Speaker 1: title of the movie, like Bram Stoker's Dracula, you know,
Speaker 1: the Francis Ford Coppola Dracula or Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I
Speaker 1: think that was also in the nineties. Are those a
Speaker 1: result of some kind of I don't know, in the
Speaker 1: contractual or intellectual property issue, hard to be hard to
Speaker 1: believe that's the case with Mary Shelley um or is
Speaker 1: it just like there's something about the title where they
Speaker 1: were like, we we've we've got to have the author's
Speaker 1: name in here. That'll that'll make people know what we're
Speaker 1: talking about, because you just say Frankenstein, they're gonna be like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is? Who wrote that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I guess in some level it's about trying to indicate
Speaker 1: this is a return to the book to some extent,
Speaker 1: And of course it's never it's not like bron Stoker's
Speaker 1: Dracula the movie. As as fun as it is, it's
Speaker 1: not like it's a like blow for blow faithful adaptation
Speaker 1: of the novel. It's a lot of fun, but it's
Speaker 1: it's not that, And I think it's the I've probably
Speaker 1: I harp on this all the time, but like one
Speaker 1: of the things that always stuck with me is the
Speaker 1: mere fact that they had a movie novelization of brom
Speaker 1: Stoker's Dracula by of course not brom Stoker but some
Speaker 1: modern author. Like that's all you need to know, Like
Speaker 1: if it's is it really brom Stoker's Dracula, if the
Speaker 1: novel adaptation of it is not just the original novel, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but how do you capture on the page? Keian News
Speaker 1: English accent I will return to you, my love. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was not the not the best performance from Kiana,
Speaker 1: was it. Um? But there's so much Yeah, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he's great in other things. Um. And but of course, yeah,
Speaker 1: you have Anthony Hopkins, you have Gary Oldman. Uh, you
Speaker 1: have just luscious costumes and sets. It's uh, it more
Speaker 1: than makes up for one performance and picture. And I
Speaker 1: think you could pretty much plot your life by like,
Speaker 1: which Gary Oldman incarnation of Dracula are you today? Are you? Um,
Speaker 1: old man with big hair, old man with long hair?
Speaker 1: Do you feel more like you're the dapper sunglasses brown
Speaker 1: stokers Dracula. Do you feel maybe a little more like
Speaker 1: a wolf beast or a bat beast armored Dracula. There's
Speaker 1: so many to choose from, so many costume changes and
Speaker 1: flesh changes in that one. Yeah, I think I think
Speaker 1: you'd have a lot of it. Like I'm a demon
Speaker 1: bad until I've had my coffee kind of, I think
Speaker 1: I'm the I'm the the old Dracula with the long
Speaker 1: hair towards the end of the film, before I have
Speaker 1: my coffee, um, and then after the first cup, then
Speaker 1: I'm the Dracula with the big hair, and then we
Speaker 1: kind of build up from there until the caffeine starts
Speaker 1: wearing off, and then I began to revert, I guess
Speaker 1: into beast mode at that point. All right, well, if
Speaker 1: anyone else has thoughts on all of this, yes, right in,
Speaker 1: we would love to hear your take. But let's move
Speaker 1: on to another bit of listener mail. This one comes
Speaker 1: to us from Carl. Carl says, Dear Rob and Joe,
Speaker 1: just now heard your listener to mail episode about children's
Speaker 1: senses of time periods or lack thereof. When our children
Speaker 1: were little, our friends used Gilligan's to explain when something
Speaker 1: in the near future would happen will be there in
Speaker 1: about three Gilligan's. They had a good feel for the
Speaker 1: elapsed time of a Gilligan's Island episode. Enjoy your podcast, Carl. Weirdly,
Speaker 1: this email triggered a sudden, vivid memory from childhood of
Speaker 1: some adult somewhere expressing a length of time. I guess
Speaker 1: in retrospect this must have been two and a half
Speaker 1: hours as two sesame streets and a Mr Rogers, and
Speaker 1: I wondered, did somebody say that to me when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, or was that in like a movie
Speaker 1: or something? So I googled it and discovered this is
Speaker 1: a quote from an episode of Full House. Bob Saget
Speaker 1: in Full House was hiding that deep in my brain.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, I will say as a I think I
Speaker 1: growing up, I think I did think about times sometimes
Speaker 1: like this in that in in thirty minute and an
Speaker 1: hour blocks based on television blocks of time. And I
Speaker 1: know that when my son was younger we used this
Speaker 1: a little bit, and in part because sometimes on long
Speaker 1: car trips he would have the iPad, he would have
Speaker 1: things he could watch, and so that would be a
Speaker 1: direct way of saying like, not only are we one
Speaker 1: viewing of Totoro away, like you can go ahead and
Speaker 1: start Totoro now, and when you were done with Totoro,
Speaker 1: we will be at our destination. That's good system, all right.
Speaker 1: So we also got a couple of messages in response
Speaker 1: to story machines with people cranking out their own AI
Speaker 1: generated narratives. Uh, Rob, I feel like this is kind
Speaker 1: of your territory. Do do you do? You want to
Speaker 1: take the first one of these or both of them.
Speaker 1: I'll take the first one, okay, So he has this
Speaker 1: one also has a reference to two thousand and eighteen
Speaker 1: Fartanomicon episode which I tried to. I usually don't go
Speaker 1: back and listen to old episodes, but we had some
Speaker 1: had two nine year olds in the car, and so
Speaker 1: they were talking. One of them in particular, was talking
Speaker 1: about farts a lot. So I was like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hit you guys with the science. I'm gonna load
Speaker 1: up this episode. I found. I found it a very
Speaker 1: hard episode to listen to. I don't think this is
Speaker 1: the episode that that that we would record today. It's
Speaker 1: still good, you know, the science is solid, but it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a little FARTI uh so, anyways, this is
Speaker 1: from Scott. Scott writes in and says greetings and salutations.
Speaker 1: I've been messing around with this great AI creative writing
Speaker 1: tool at story machines dot net at story hyphen machines
Speaker 1: dot net, and it occurred to me to enter the
Speaker 1: title of your superb episode from two thousand eighteen, the Fartonomicon.
Speaker 1: I tried several times, providing no other text than the
Speaker 1: title of the results I got these two are the
Speaker 1: best and also quite different from each other. So here
Speaker 1: we go. The Fartonomicon is the definitive guide to the
Speaker 1: Art of flat Lens. Authored by renowned phartologist Dr Gregory House,
Speaker 1: this illustrated volume is a must have for anyone interested
Speaker 1: in learning all there is to know about the mysteries
Speaker 1: of gas, from the physiology of gas production to the
Speaker 1: history of flash lens. The Fartonomicon covers it all with
Speaker 1: its insightful illustrations and comprehensive information. The farten o Maicon
Speaker 1: is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to improve their
Speaker 1: flash hlen skills. Whether you are a beginner looking to
Speaker 1: learn everything there is to know about gas, or a
Speaker 1: seasoned fart enthusiast looking to expand your knowledge, this book
Speaker 1: is perfect for you. Don't wait any longer. Order your
Speaker 1: copy of The Fartonomicon today and now help, Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: Why was this not a story at all? This is
Speaker 1: like a This is like a promo for a book.
Speaker 1: Why did it spit that out? Sometimes it it does this.
Speaker 1: I've noticed toying around with this interface. Sometimes it gives
Speaker 1: you the story. Sometimes it tells you about the story
Speaker 1: or about the book. So sometimes it sort of is
Speaker 1: within the story. Sometimes it stands outside of the story.
Speaker 1: Scott continues here and here's the second one. In the
Speaker 1: world of fartin Amicon, farting is an art form. It
Speaker 1: is a way to communicate with your fellow humans and
Speaker 1: to show your appreciation for the environment. There are many
Speaker 1: different types of farts and each has its own special meaning.
Speaker 1: One day, a farting artist named Gary entered the farten
Speaker 1: a Maicon competition. He was very nervous, but he knew
Speaker 1: that he had to try his best if he wanted
Speaker 1: to win. Gary started by farting in the air to
Speaker 1: show how powerful his fart was. Then he farted in
Speaker 1: different directions to show how versatile his farting was. Finally,
Speaker 1: he farted in the shape of a heart to show
Speaker 1: how romantic his fart was. The impressed by Gary's farting skills,
Speaker 1: and he was eventually declared the winner of the farton
Speaker 1: A Maicon competition. Anyways, this may be a bit too
Speaker 1: long or silly for a listener, may know, but it
Speaker 1: made me laugh heartily. Your show is great. Keep it up, Scott, Scott,
Speaker 1: obviously your fears were unfounded. Here we are reading the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Yeah, yeah, Now is Gregory? How Gregory House is?
Speaker 1: Is that the house from the TV show House? I
Speaker 1: think so I've never watched that show, but I think
Speaker 1: that's his name. That's what what's his name, Hugh Laurie, Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh it is Wow, just totally pulled him and decided
Speaker 1: we're gonna go, um, you know, cross promotional on this. Huh.
Speaker 1: So I wonder why did it pull in that name, Like,
Speaker 1: what does that have to do with the phrase fardon
Speaker 1: omicon that is put in here? I don't know, but
Speaker 1: it is interesting the way that the AI interacts with
Speaker 1: proper nounds like that, if you put a name like
Speaker 1: Santa Claus or like Morbius or whatever in the in
Speaker 1: the title or in the first line, it will it
Speaker 1: obviously knows some pre existing associations with this character, and
Speaker 1: it will shape the narrative accordingly. It doesn't just treat
Speaker 1: it as a as a neutral prop her name. So
Speaker 1: that makes me think also that when it pulls in
Speaker 1: a different proper name on its own, like it just
Speaker 1: decides to retrieve Gregory House, there must be a reason
Speaker 1: for that. It's not like randomly selecting a name. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just don't know. Was there an episode
Speaker 1: of House that was about the fart an omicon. I
Speaker 1: don't think that would make any sense. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I did a search for Dr Gregory House and
Speaker 1: farts just to see because who knows, I had a
Speaker 1: long run. They had to come up. They might have
Speaker 1: come around to it. Eventually. Nothing was turning up from me.
Speaker 1: But maybe listeners out there can shine in. There aren't
Speaker 1: very many fart mystery shows, I guess, like even the
Speaker 1: long running ones that did. Did they ever do a
Speaker 1: fart episode of murder? She wrote? I don't know murder
Speaker 1: she farted? Okay, Um, this story machine when when we've
Speaker 1: got got the human creativity? Okay? This next message is
Speaker 1: also a story machine submission. It's from Derek. Derek says, Hi,
Speaker 1: Robert and Joe Derek here really love your podcast. Your
Speaker 1: episode on creative writing machines was very interesting and it's
Speaker 1: been helpful to me as an amateur writer, helping me
Speaker 1: complete thoughts and sentences or simply giving me an idea
Speaker 1: or direction on how to put thoughts to words. And
Speaker 1: then Derek attaches something, so he he begins with a
Speaker 1: kind of biblical prompt that goes It wasn't with rolling thunder,
Speaker 1: a crack of lightning, or a big bang that the
Speaker 1: architect came to be. It just was one moment there
Speaker 1: was nothing, and the next it simply was the moment
Speaker 1: after it came into being. It spread its consciousness outwards,
Speaker 1: creating the vast and endless void of space. And then
Speaker 1: I think he signals, this is where the AI takes over.
Speaker 1: And then from that void the Architect began to create.
Speaker 1: The first thing it created was the laws of physics,
Speaker 1: then the molecules that make up the world, followed by
Speaker 1: the doors and planets. It worked tirelessly, creating the blueprints
Speaker 1: of everything I'm gonna read directly here, everything that would
Speaker 1: ever will exist. As it worked, the Architect grew more
Speaker 1: and more tired. It created everything, but it was alone.
Speaker 1: Oh that that's kind of a creepy conclusion there, Rob.
Speaker 1: I don't know if in all your experiments you've seen
Speaker 1: a few kind of like grammatical nonsense creep in. Most
Speaker 1: of the time, I feel like It's sentences are pretty tight,
Speaker 1: like they actually work syntactically. But occasionally I think you
Speaker 1: get something like this, the blueprints of everything that would
Speaker 1: ever will exist. Yeah, And I would find that sometimes
Speaker 1: if I threw too many things into a sentence to
Speaker 1: like if I were to write something like the son
Speaker 1: of the duck, who was also a frog. Like that
Speaker 1: sort of thing can sort of throw it off a
Speaker 1: little bit, I think. Yeah. Anyway, Derek says he was
Speaker 1: pleasantly surprised by how coherent the output of the Story
Speaker 1: Machines program was, and also ends by recommending for Weird
Speaker 1: House the movie Kung Fu Hustle, which I don't know
Speaker 1: if we do on the on Weird House. It's it's
Speaker 1: pretty recent, but but yeah, I love Kung Fu Hustle.
Speaker 1: I remember discovering that movie when I was in college
Speaker 1: and watching it way too many times. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a fun one. And I know it's come
Speaker 1: up on Weird House because we've covered some films that,
Speaker 1: Oh I think it's like um uh like Waguan has
Speaker 1: been in some of the films we've talked about, so
Speaker 1: um it's yeah, it has a great cast, and so
Speaker 1: it's one that will probably continue to come up as
Speaker 1: we discuss other um Kung fu movies. All Right. We
Speaker 1: continue to hear from folks about sky Bridges, which has
Speaker 1: been delightful. Uh. This one comes to us from Chelsea.
Speaker 1: Chelsea writes, Hi, Rob Joe and Death. Nicholas Johnson. I
Speaker 1: believe that that was one of our Halloween names for
Speaker 1: for seth Uh. The summer after my freshman year of college,
Speaker 1: I stayed on campus for summer research project and ended
Speaker 1: up staying in Mead Hall at Pitser College. Mead Hall
Speaker 1: was a main building with two towers behind it, all
Speaker 1: connected by sky bridges with see through metal railings on
Speaker 1: the second and third floors see attached pick and indeed,
Speaker 1: looking at the pics, looks looks nice, looks nice like
Speaker 1: the garden in the middle. I lived on the third
Speaker 1: floor of one of the towers, which meant I had
Speaker 1: to use the bridges to get to laundry, the kitchen,
Speaker 1: the main entrance, et cetera. The inside of the towers
Speaker 1: are painted a dirty white covered in school sanctioned student graffiti.
Speaker 1: Right outside my suite was a quote that wasn't abandoned
Speaker 1: all hope who enter here, but it definitely had the
Speaker 1: same pipe. The shipping graffiti and campus being almost completely
Speaker 1: deserted combined to make the whole summer feel pretty post apocalyptic.
Speaker 1: Then I saw the film twenty eight days later and
Speaker 1: developed a sudden paralyzing fear of zombies. My brain took
Speaker 1: the movie The Isolation and Major Depression, and turned that
Speaker 1: into an imagining flying zombies that would attack me from
Speaker 1: over the railings of this on the sky bridges. I
Speaker 1: was fine on the bridges during the day, but at
Speaker 1: night I walked down the exact center and dreaded every
Speaker 1: minute of it. I think the sky bridge was where
Speaker 1: the fear finally hit because I was completely exposed potential
Speaker 1: attacks from almost three hundred sixty degrees around me, but
Speaker 1: I only had a linear escape route. Fortunately, over the
Speaker 1: last decade, the zombie fear has faded somewhat, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure i'd be fine on a skybridge now. Weird House
Speaker 1: Cinema has been a great way for me to experience
Speaker 1: and enjoy horror films without the risk of developing a
Speaker 1: new phobia. Thanks for the constant flow of information and commentary,
Speaker 1: Chelsea Wow. I I don't know. First of all, thanks Chelsea,
Speaker 1: but also I don't know if this is a huge
Speaker 1: coincidence or if it says something about the college dorm
Speaker 1: experience in the I'm guessing it was also in the
Speaker 1: two thousands for you, um, but I distinctly remember thinking
Speaker 1: about zombie defense plans in my undergraduate dorm buildings. Uh uh.
Speaker 1: And actually they seemed like a pretty good spot, as
Speaker 1: they had kind of solid brick walls, solid metal doors,
Speaker 1: balconies with sturdy metal railing. Uh in you know, a
Speaker 1: hundred pack of corn dogs in the freezer. It seemed
Speaker 1: like a defensible position. Oh man, I don't not think
Speaker 1: I would ever get that far with with this line
Speaker 1: of thinking, because I would sort of reach the conclusion
Speaker 1: pretty early that oh well, we'd be dimmed, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, that doesn't survival was an option as soon
Speaker 1: as the utilities are cut. It's like, what, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go to Walmart and fight people for Walmart stuff. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. Maybe I can kind of
Speaker 1: deal with the zombies and I can like speak for them.
Speaker 1: I can be like the low Ax of the Dead
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, I, for one, welcome our new undead overlords.
Speaker 1: All right, I guess we're gonna wrap up by doing
Speaker 1: a couple of responses on weird House. First one, Rob,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know what this was. This must be
Speaker 1: something you you put out into the world. There's something
Speaker 1: about a doodle contest. Somebody sent in draw wings of
Speaker 1: us and I'm screaming two bees. Oh yeah yeah, so
Speaker 1: um uh yeah, I think this will this will be fun.
Speaker 1: It's been fun so far. And we've only uh, you know,
Speaker 1: received a couple of submissions. But as we've mentioned before,
Speaker 1: we do have a store we that has some merch
Speaker 1: in it. It's a T Public store. And the other
Speaker 1: day I received an email from our contact, a T
Speaker 1: Public and they're like, hey, why don't you do a
Speaker 1: contest and give away a shirt? It can be anything,
Speaker 1: don't overthink it. And so I was like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: will not overthink it. How about a doodle contest about
Speaker 1: an action scene from one of our episodes and you
Speaker 1: can interpret action scene however you want? And uh and
Speaker 1: who will pick a prize? A prize winner or we'll
Speaker 1: have Seth pick one. I don't know, we'll have the
Speaker 1: random person just out in the world picket. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I haven't figured that part out yet. But whoever wins
Speaker 1: the contest gets a free Classic T shirt from the store.
Speaker 1: So we put that out there. I believe it's on
Speaker 1: It's it's been posted in the Stuff to Blow your
Speaker 1: Mind discussion module all which you'll find on Facebook. You
Speaker 1: can just request to be added and the answer a
Speaker 1: question you get in. It's also been put in our discord.
Speaker 1: If you want to access to the discord, email US
Speaker 1: will send to the link. And I may have even
Speaker 1: just thrown up a link on the old Facebook itself,
Speaker 1: which I haven't used in forever. But anyway, those are
Speaker 1: some places where you will find the details. So though
Speaker 1: it is not true to reality, I'd like that this
Speaker 1: picture has a sitting side by side sharing a Mike
Speaker 1: and Rob. I don't know if you noticed, but you're
Speaker 1: wearing You're wearing a long sleeve V neck T shirt,
Speaker 1: whereas I am wearing a collar shirt because I obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, I dressed for the occasion. Yeah, mine also
Speaker 1: kind of looks like a jumpsuit. I kind of because
Speaker 1: I kind of get a kind of get an M. S.
Speaker 1: T vibe from this, you know, I feel like we're
Speaker 1: on a spaceship or something. But but you are yelling
Speaker 1: to be's and I can I can hear your voice
Speaker 1: as I read it, so I think that's pretty accurate.
Speaker 1: All Right, Well, I'm gonna read last thing today. This
Speaker 1: message from Andrew uh in response to some weird house
Speaker 1: male subject Samuel Terry ghoul In a previous episode, we
Speaker 1: talked about local TV horror hosts. One of them was
Speaker 1: this guy from Indiana named Sammy Terry. Sammy Terry, um
Speaker 1: and so, Andrew says, Hi, there it's me again with
Speaker 1: some weird house cinema adjacent Mayle. I grew up and
Speaker 1: live in central Indiana and didn't realize Sammy Terry was
Speaker 1: a regional phenomenon until after your discussion on the show.
Speaker 1: I do not remember him as a movie feature host,
Speaker 1: but he would pop up in random commercials during the
Speaker 1: month of October. Not surprisingly, he would be advertising the
Speaker 1: spooky savings said car dealerships and so forth. Furthermore, my
Speaker 1: favorite local brewery pays homage to Sammy Terry, as one
Speaker 1: of their house beers is named for him. I've attached
Speaker 1: photo evidence this time. Rob. You take a look at
Speaker 1: these photos while I'm finishing the email here. Uh. Andrew says,
Speaker 1: this serves as a good segue to hype up the
Speaker 1: weird awesomeness of Scarlet Lane Brewing. In my current place
Speaker 1: of residence, Mccordsville, Indiana, there are TVs typically playing b
Speaker 1: horror films which capture my attention. To my wife's great annoyance.
Speaker 1: I even recently caught the beautiful train wreck that is
Speaker 1: Jason Takes Manhattan. The decor stays in line with the
Speaker 1: viewing options, and I recently spotted a low key Halloween
Speaker 1: three item this past weekend. Photo evidence of this is
Speaker 1: also attached, and so uh Andrew has a couple of
Speaker 1: photos here. One is I guess these are both of
Speaker 1: the brewery. One is of a TV screen that's showing
Speaker 1: the Silver Shamrock uh flashing pumpkin commercial, and the other
Speaker 1: is some It's like a mannequin wearing I think a
Speaker 1: lab coat, but then on its head it has the
Speaker 1: pumpkin mask from Silver Shamrock. And then the other thing
Speaker 1: is just a sort of life size sticker on the
Speaker 1: wall of Sammy Terry advertising a beer that I think
Speaker 1: is called the Semi Terry Colch. Yeah, I'm, I'm. I
Speaker 1: looked up the website for this place, and I was
Speaker 1: looking at some other photos and it looks pretty cool.
Speaker 1: They got quite a little horror vibe going on here.
Speaker 1: If I ever make it to Central Indiana, I will
Speaker 1: I will go out of my way to find this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: four locations, Joe, you don't have to go that out
Speaker 1: of your way. All right? Does that do it for today?
Speaker 1: I suppose so, I suppose that will be a good
Speaker 1: place to close it out there. But yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: help but think about spooky savings. Someone should should explore
Speaker 1: that concept in a like a haunted car dealership movie.
Speaker 1: Figure out like, what what are spooky savings? Can savings
Speaker 1: truly be so spooky? Uh that that the humans cannot
Speaker 1: even speak of it? They just turns your hair white.
Speaker 1: Deal so unbelievable, they will send you straight to hell.
Speaker 1: I like it. Somebody do it. This is why we
Speaker 1: have the story machine. You can just turn to the
Speaker 1: story machine to do it. Um. Yeah, I've actually found
Speaker 1: myself using the story machine for um dungeons and dragon stuff.
Speaker 1: Here and there we had in our groups there was
Speaker 1: somebody was creating a new character, and they're like, I'm
Speaker 1: creating an autonome. I need some ideas for an autognown backstory.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, I don't have time to
Speaker 1: think about that, but I do have this website. So
Speaker 1: I went there and I started putting in just a
Speaker 1: few things to get it going about an autonome, and
Speaker 1: he busted out some pretty good ideas and uh and
Speaker 1: they weren't the final ideas that my friend ended up using,
Speaker 1: but he ended up taking some of those ideas, tweaking
Speaker 1: him a little bit. And now he's off to gen
Speaker 1: Con with his autognome to tear it up. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is actually the last thing today. I just did a
Speaker 1: story machine title Spooky Savings. First line deal so unbelievable
Speaker 1: they will send you straight to hell, Rob, Do you
Speaker 1: want to hear what comes next? The tale it tells
Speaker 1: goes as follows. Once upon a time, a devilish bank
Speaker 1: decided to offer its customers some of the most outrageous
Speaker 1: deals ever. Just by opening an account with them, customers
Speaker 1: could earn insane interest rates on their deposits, and even
Speaker 1: earn bonus cash if they managed to save a certain
Speaker 1: amount each month. Naturally, many people signed up for these deals,
Speaker 1: and soon the bank was flush with cash. However, as
Speaker 1: the deals continued to get better and better, some customers
Speaker 1: started to regret their decision. They found themselves struggling to
Speaker 1: make ends meet and had to sell their souls in
Speaker 1: order to pay their bills. Finally, the devilish bank ran
Speaker 1: out of juicy deals, and all of its customers were
Speaker 1: left penniless and stranded in hell. There you go. That's perfect. Wow.
Speaker 1: All right, well, well we'll go ahead and close it
Speaker 1: out there. We'll leave you with that horrific scene. But
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