1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:10,719 Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your 3 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: Mind listener mail. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: Joe McCormick, and it's Monday, the day of the week. 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: We read back some messages that you have sent into 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: the show, Rob do you want to get us started today? 7 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: With this message from Daniel. This one actually in a 8 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,159 Speaker 1: in a rare cameo comes from the Facebook module and 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 1: it's in response to some previous listener mail about the 10 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:40,480 Speaker 1: vegetable lamb of tartary. Yeah. Yeah, the Stuff to Blow 11 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: your Mind discussion module. You can look that up on 12 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: Facebook and request to join if you want. Um And 13 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: I'm going to see about getting that added to the 14 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: the I Heart Listening for our website. I was just 15 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: noticing that that some other podcasts in our network have 16 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: additional links on there. It's like, hey, we can throw 17 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 1: some stuff on those links. Why not? Uh? But anyway, 18 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: Daniel writes, um r E colin the listener maile mentioning 19 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 1: eventually grown meat cultured from human celebrity tissue cage sneaks. Yes, 20 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: Daniel rights. It comes up in anti viral from not 21 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: the main plot hook more as background world building, but 22 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: exactly what he suggested fans by steaks grown from their 23 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: idol sell samples to be close to them. Daniel continues 24 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,399 Speaker 1: had never heard of the film before, just happened to 25 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 1: spot it on my local public libraries DVD shelves last 26 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: week and noticed it was written and directed by Brandon 27 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: Cronenberg and wondered how much like his dad's movies his 28 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:42,039 Speaker 1: would be? Quite was the answer? Nice, I had no 29 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: idea this existed. I also don't think I knew that 30 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: David Cronenberg had a son who was also a filmmaker. Yeah, 31 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: I knew that this existed, but I just I hadn't 32 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: watched it. Um not that I wasn't interested, but but 33 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: it is good to hear that the chron in Burghs 34 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: don't fall too far from the Cronenberg tree. It's a 35 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: weird tree. Speaking of the the film collections at public libraries, 36 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: I have a very weird member. There was a period 37 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: where I was I had figured out whoa I can 38 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 1: save money Instead of like looking for scratch DVDs at 39 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 1: the local used book and CD store, I can save 40 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: money by renting DVDs from the library for free, but 41 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: their selection was so odd. I remember there being a 42 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: shelf that the main items that caught my attention on 43 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 1: it were disks for Inland Empire, The Treasure of the 44 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:42,839 Speaker 1: Sierra Madre, and Flubber. You know, I don't remember ever 45 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: renting a movie from the library public library, but I 46 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:47,799 Speaker 1: remember they had them, and I do have family members 47 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: to this day who I think get most of their 48 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: movies from the public library, which, yeah, I mean, go 49 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 1: for it. Why not? Libraries are great. Now. On the 50 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: the issue of Brandon Cronenberg, however, I can't help but 51 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: think that the David Cronenberg was being a little bit 52 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: of a hypocrite just naming his son a normal, boring 53 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: name like Brandon, when he comes up with such remarkably creative, 54 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 1: weird names for characters in his movies. Yes, why was 55 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 1: his Why was his child not named like uh, fleshly 56 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: rector Cronenberg or something? Yeah? Why not? Alright? This next 57 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: message comes from Cindy, also about vegetable name of tartary, 58 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 1: adding to the long chain of responses we've got about 59 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 1: people eating raw potatoes. Cindy says, my first time writing 60 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: in I often have the urge to write in while 61 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: listening to an episode, but I usually procrastinate until I forget. Luckily, 62 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: the raw potato topic has come up in two listener 63 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: males in a row, so I had no excuses this time. 64 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: One of my favorite dishes at Angelo Pietro, a Japanese 65 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: style Italian restaurant in Honolulu, Hawaii, is their raw potato salad, 66 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: and she and lads a link to a photo which 67 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: looks to me. I've never had a raw potato salad, 68 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: but just in a low rez photo, it looks kind 69 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: of like a shredded dike on salad, you know, just 70 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: like strips of white vegetable matter, apparently dressed and covered 71 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: in some herbs. Cindy goes on the link, describes the 72 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: dish and provides a recipe directly from the restaurant. The 73 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: shredded potato salad is definitely served raw. It is crisp 74 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 1: and delicious and readily takes on the flavor of the dressing. 75 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: I've had it many times during my visits and when 76 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: I lived there, and I don't recall any gastro intestinal 77 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: upset after consuming it. So maybe Cindy's here to put 78 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: fears to rest about too many worries about upset stomach 79 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: after eating raw potato, assuming it's not greening and full 80 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: of solanine. Cindy goes on. Unfortunately, the article does not 81 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: provide the origins of the dish. My googling did not 82 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,919 Speaker 1: turn up any information on whether it's a specialty of 83 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 1: either Japanese or Italian food culture. The only thing similar 84 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: that I can think of is Sichuanese. Um. I'm gonna 85 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: try to say this chong ban too. So see a 86 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: spiced shredded potato salad where the potatoes are briefly blanched 87 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 1: or stir fried to lightly cook them and keep them 88 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,840 Speaker 1: crispy and crunchy before being dressed. It's usually served cold. 89 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: Since this is not an American food culture thing crisp 90 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: raw potatoes as a vegetable, I thought a different perspective 91 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: was interesting. Anyway, keep up the wonderful work. I truly 92 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 1: enjoy all of the episodes, be they science or myth heavy. 93 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:32,600 Speaker 1: They keep my brain working and continuously learning. Thank you, Cindy. Oh, 94 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: I had to look up this restaurant. I don't I'm 95 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: not planning to be back in Honolulu anytime soon, but 96 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: it looks great. It looks like a place I'd love 97 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,359 Speaker 1: to check out. Sichuan ease food is one of my 98 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: favorite kinds of food, but I've never I've read about 99 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: this uh shredded potato salad before, but I've never tried it, 100 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: and I would very much like to. Maybe I'll have 101 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: to figure out how to make this at home. I 102 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: have been working on my ability to make Sichuan cuisine 103 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: at home because I found an online market that's sells 104 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 1: a lot of good ingredients you need, like the Sichuan 105 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: peppercorns and the UH and the zatsi and stuff like that. Yeah, 106 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 1: you were telling me about this, Yeah, all right. Our 107 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 1: next bit of listener mail is in response to a 108 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:23,159 Speaker 1: Monster Fact episode about World Turtles. Uh. Specifically, we we 109 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 1: lead in that episode with it being about a Pokemon 110 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: that is a turtle with like a forest on its back, 111 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: but ultimately is it Squirtle? Is it the one Pokemon 112 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 1: I know? No, No, it's it's tort Tara. It's not Squirtle, 113 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 1: though the Squirtle is great too. This one is like 114 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: an enormous turtle with generally depicted as having like a 115 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: tree growing out of its um at the top of 116 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: its shell, like a forest on its shell. Nice. Yeah, 117 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 1: and there they are featured in the the entertaining motion 118 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: picture Pokemon Detective Pikachu. When you get around to seeing 119 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: that one, Joe, does that one have the baby Pikachu 120 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 1: in it? Um? I don't remember seeing the baby Pikachu 121 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: Pechu in that movie, though my son says that he 122 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: was there, or we saw one in a cut scene 123 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 1: or something. I don't know. He does not factor heavily 124 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: into the plot. Anyway, this listener was writing in in 125 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: regard to some of the the more pop culture references 126 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: to this idea of a world turtle, a turtle that 127 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: is upon which the world is placed, or you know 128 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: that they're various versions of this, and anyway, Mike writeson 129 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: And says, when you were talking about examples of mythological 130 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: turtles with the world on their back, I immediately thought 131 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: of Maturin from Stephen King's books. In it, Maturin is 132 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: the is the force of good that opposes Pennyworth, Pennyworth, 133 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: penny Wise, penny Wise. This confusing with Alfred from Batman. 134 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: I well, uh, yeah, I'm sure Mike means the penny Wise. Uh. 135 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: And in the Dark Tower series, Maturin exists as a 136 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: mythological character for the people of Midward World. The main 137 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: character in the Dark Tower series tells the others about 138 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: a poem from his childhood quote see the turtle of 139 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: enormous girth on his shell, he holds the earth. His 140 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: thought is slow but always kind. He holds us all 141 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: within his mind on his back. All vows are made. 142 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: He sees the truth but mayn't aid. He loves the land, 143 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 1: and loves the sea, and even loves a child like me. 144 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: Thanks for the show. It's always entertaining and educational. Well, 145 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: you know, um, this is a great point. I forgot 146 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: all about, um the world Turtle from Stephen King's Dark Tower. 147 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: And also Yet. Yeah, it does show up, and it's 148 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: been a very long time since I read that. But 149 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 1: there's all that additional stuff that I don't think made 150 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 1: it into the movies, about the the ritual of Chud 151 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: and the World Turtle and so forth. I think that's 152 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: one of those books that must be paired down, even 153 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: if made into multiple movies or a four hour mini series. Yeah. 154 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 1: I did really enjoy the first of the two recent 155 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: I in general both film adaptations of Yet. I liked 156 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:10,959 Speaker 1: the first part and wasn't crazy about the second part. Yep, yep, 157 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 1: I'm pretty much right there. You know who directed the 158 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 1: TV mini series of it, the original one with Tim Curry. 159 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they tie into something we were watching us, 160 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: Tommy Lee Wallace, director of Halloween three season. That's right, 161 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: that's right. Well, there's some great stuff in that. In 162 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 1: that that old the first part of the old mini 163 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: series version of it that came out in Okay, Rob, 164 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 1: you ready for this one from Lurch? Yes, let's hear 165 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: from Lurch. Okay, this is an about an old episode 166 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: on tidally locked planets. Lurch says, good morning, gentlemen. I 167 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,439 Speaker 1: am interrupting my driving out here in the back of 168 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 1: Beyond to offer some thoughts on a very old episode. 169 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: I apologize for not being very pacific. I listened to 170 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: it months ago and just don't remember the title, but 171 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: it's been percolating in the dark recesses of my mind 172 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: ever since. At the end of the episode, you asked 173 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: for a listener input on what we thought the weather 174 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:15,679 Speaker 1: might be like on a relatively earthlike planet if said 175 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: planet was tidally locked to the local star, and a 176 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: quick reference at tidal locking means that the planet's rotation 177 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 1: has become synchronous with its orbit around something, either around 178 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:30,319 Speaker 1: the planet or around a star, so the same side 179 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: of the planet always faces into the into the thing 180 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: that it's orbiting. Yeah. So like if it was an 181 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,680 Speaker 1: earthlike world, it would mean that one side of the 182 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:43,439 Speaker 1: Earth it's locked in perpetual daylight and the other side 183 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: of perpetual darkness. Yeah. Earth's moon is tidally locked with 184 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 1: the Earth, so the same side of the Moon is 185 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 1: always facing the Earth. You never see the far side 186 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: of the Moon unless from like a spacecraft photo. Right. 187 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 1: Lurch goes on to say, if said planet was tidally 188 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: locked to the local star, I don't think it would 189 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: be earth like for very long geologically speaking. Once it 190 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: stopped rotating in relatively short order, there would be a 191 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: continuous wind storm racing it hundreds of miles per hour 192 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:14,319 Speaker 1: or faster from the dark side to the light side 193 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: than rising as the air warms near the center of 194 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,559 Speaker 1: the sunlit face, before racing back to the night side, 195 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: where it cools and sinks to ground level and flows 196 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: sunward again. The air flow cross section would look rather 197 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 1: like a stretched out rubber band, but it's a mistake 198 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 1: to think it would be that simple. The surface of 199 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:36,319 Speaker 1: a planet is not really homogeneous. Some places will warm 200 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 1: more and faster than others. This would twist the wind flow. 201 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: Eventually there would be a ginormous cyclonic storm centered at 202 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: the most sunward point in the hemisphere, where all the 203 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 1: shrieking winds will eventually run out of room and fountain 204 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:54,679 Speaker 1: up towards space, driven by the mass of air coming 205 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: up behind. As the air races to the sunlit side, 206 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: it will soon scour away anything in its path. Even 207 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 1: mountains will be erased. In a few million years, When 208 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: the mass of the air piles up, it will slow 209 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: and drop most of the dust it's been carrying. As 210 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 1: the mountains elsewhere erode, a new single mountain, comprised of 211 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: their dust and bones will grow and take shape at 212 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: the center of the sunward vortex. Eventually it will make 213 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 1: Olympus Mons, the biggest mountain on Mars, look like an 214 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: ant hill. The dark side is not without it's called 215 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: a tourists though. Just as on the day side, uneven 216 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: ground temperatures will set up a hemisphere spanning vortex as 217 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 1: the air being pushed from the hot side cools and 218 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 1: sinks instead of a mountain of dust and debris. Though 219 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,319 Speaker 1: the water carried by the air will condense and freeze, 220 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: leading to another mountain of ice not stone. It seems 221 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:49,559 Speaker 1: to me this mountain will probably be smaller than the 222 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 1: daylight one. I think it likely that much of the 223 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,559 Speaker 1: water will continue to cycle from the cold side to 224 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: hot then back again somewhere near the terminator, and that 225 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,439 Speaker 1: would be the border between the lit side. In the 226 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: dark side of the planet, liquid water runoff from the 227 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: ice sheet will flow sunward, carrying sediment and dust that 228 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: got blown to the cold zone. Eventually, the streams and 229 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: rivers will vanish as the wind whips the surface of 230 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 1: the water to a froth and carries the spray away 231 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:20,200 Speaker 1: on another cycle. At either weather pole. The lightning display 232 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,199 Speaker 1: would be phenomenal given the amount of static electricity that 233 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 1: would be generated by the winds. Life could even survive 234 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: on such a planet, though I'm of the opinion it 235 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 1: would buy necessity be small, too much cross section, and 236 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 1: the winds would tear it apart. Whether it be a 237 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: dirt dweller or airborne bacteria and the like. Yeah, subsurface 238 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: marine life, yes, even something like coral capable of building small, 239 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: low lying shelters might work. Tarte grades would probably call 240 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: it an amusement park with a heck of an e 241 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: ticket ride, but I doubt anything bigger than a quarter 242 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: could cut it. Maybe at the relative center of the vortices, 243 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure the atmosphere wouldn't freeze out, not 244 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 1: so long as the star provides enough heat to drive 245 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 1: the weather engine of such things, does the occasional truck 246 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: driver ponder on the long highways. Thank you for taking 247 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: the time to read this. Thanks for easing my day's lurch. 248 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: Oh thanks lurch. This is a great email, um, and 249 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: it lines up somewhat with with with hypothetical scenarios I've 250 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: read in the past. It's been a while, so I 251 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: forget some of the details, but yeah, this seems to 252 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 1: line up mostly with the kinds of things I've read 253 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 1: people describing about what a planet like that might be like. Though, 254 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: I wonder how far away a planet can be from 255 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: a star and and be tidally locked to that star. 256 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 1: I would think that tidle locking, I think tends to 257 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: happen when things are closer to the thing they're orbiting, 258 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: And of course, as a rocky world gets closer to 259 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: it's uh, it's host star, there's there's a greater and 260 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: greater chance that this atmosphere is just blown away into space. Yeah, yeah, 261 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 1: this isn't. This is a much older episode. I don't 262 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:00,040 Speaker 1: remember how this episode is. It's old enough that I 263 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 1: have on occasion recently thought I wonder if that's a 264 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: topic that we should revisit on the show. But after 265 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: an email this good, maybe we don't have to. So Yeah, bravo, lurch. 266 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 1: Richly imagined and as far as I can tell, mostly 267 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: pretty physically plausible. If anybody in the geophysical sciences wants 268 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: to chime in and agree, disagree, or expand on this scenario, 269 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,359 Speaker 1: please write in as well. Anyway, it's it's a fascinating 270 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: topic and one that's been explored in numerous uh sci 271 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: fi treatments and uh and speaking of science fiction, let's 272 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 1: get into a little weird house cinema. Oh yeah, man, 273 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 1: we got some messages from people who have more diver 274 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: knowledge than I would have imagined existed. Yeah. Yeah, I 275 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 1: was pleasantly surprised with the amount of giver feedback we 276 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: we heard. You know, I wasn't sure if this one 277 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 1: was one where I just didn't know what kind of 278 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: a following the Giver had. But this one comes to 279 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 1: us from Matthias. Matthias says, Hey, Robert and j I 280 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: normally don't listen to the Weird House Cinema episodes because 281 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 1: I'm not much of a movie buff, but I happened 282 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: to be a fan of Geiver. When I saw that 283 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: episode pop up in my feed, I listened to it immediately. 284 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: My history with Geiver goes back to when I was 285 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: a child in the mid nineties. I rented the VHS 286 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: anime tapes from the likes of Blockbuster and Rogers Video 287 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: or no Rogers Video. Maybe it's a regional thing. Wait, 288 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: is that a compound? Is it Blockbuster and Rogers Video? No? 289 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: Unless that is a regional thing at any rate, is is? 290 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: Uh uh? And I was hooked, although I'm not sure 291 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: why my parents allowed me to watch them with all 292 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: the violence and swearing. When I was older, I discovered 293 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: the live action Guiver movie, the one you guys watched. 294 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: And it wasn't until my late teens, when I showed 295 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: the movie to my friends that I discovered Mark Hamill 296 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: is in fact not the Giver. As a kid, I 297 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: knew Mark Hamill was Luke Skywalker, but I didn't understand 298 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: that he looked that way in the seventies and this 299 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: movie was from the nineties. I then associated the person 300 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 1: that look the closest to Luke Skywalker as Mark Hamill. 301 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,119 Speaker 1: It's something my friends and I still laugh about to 302 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: this day. So he thought that the young guy in 303 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: the movie, what's the character, Sean or whatever, the blonde 304 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: boy that was Mark Hamill, when really Mark Hamill is 305 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: this mustache man. That's interesting because we we speculated and 306 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,439 Speaker 1: has been speculated by others as well, of course, that 307 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 1: this is what the filmmakers intended. They're like, well, Mark's 308 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: too old to play this character. Can we get somebody 309 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:30,360 Speaker 1: who kind of looks like Mark Hamill to play this part? Uh? 310 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: The kids won't know the difference, and lo and behold, 311 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: Uh it seems to be the case. Right, So we 312 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 1: have his name on the box and that'll get you 313 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: in there, and then you just assume it's this guy. Yeah. Now, 314 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: Matthias shares a lot of excellent information about the Guy 315 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: over franchise, including various clips, and I will share you Matthias. 316 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 1: I looked at these. Uh, there's one when we pointed 317 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,399 Speaker 1: out that there's a great fight scene in one of 318 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:58,719 Speaker 1: the animes, and I did check that out. I'm always 319 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 1: game for some sort of a great weird alien versus 320 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: dude in alien costumes suit. But I'm not going to 321 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:08,360 Speaker 1: go through all of these tidbits just because I don't 322 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: know how. I don't know how deep the thirst is 323 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 1: for most listeners when it comes to to the Gueiver. 324 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: But here's here's one thing that Mathiah shares about the sequel, 325 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: Geiver Dark Hero quote. The live action sequel Geiver Dark 326 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,880 Speaker 1: Hero took itself a lot more seriously than it's prequel, 327 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 1: but it is entertaining enough if you wanted to kill time. 328 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: There's a lot more superhuman martial arts that goes on. 329 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,399 Speaker 1: While Sean now David Hayter, well known as the voice 330 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: of Solid Snake, searches for information on Chronos, the Geiver 331 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: and the aliens that created the Geiver unit, I don't 332 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: think it's Memi enough to warrant a weird House Cinema episode. 333 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:50,159 Speaker 1: What do you mean by Mimi? At any rate? Mathiah 334 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,919 Speaker 1: shares some more tidbits from the Geiver universe, and I 335 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: enjoyed learning more about it. But also ends with I 336 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: don't want to bomb you guys with too much Geiver lore, 337 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 1: so I'll leave it at that. Thanks for the episode. 338 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: It was fun, Matthias and the Guiver males. Do not 339 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 1: stop because next we've got one from Devon. Devon says, Hello, 340 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: Rob and Joe. I've been a fond listener of your 341 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:18,680 Speaker 1: podcast for several years now, but have not been moved 342 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 1: to right until now. With two Weird House Cinema episodes 343 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 1: touching on pieces of my teenage life and stray mentions 344 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 1: of the movie version of my favorite book, I decided 345 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 1: the time is now. I was a large anime geek 346 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: in the nineties, as was the style at the time, 347 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,439 Speaker 1: and was a fan of both the Za Ram's anime 348 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 1: counterpart za Ram was another movie we did about an 349 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 1: alien and a bounty hunter uh and the Giver anime. 350 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: To hear you both talk about these series brought me 351 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: into a rabbit hole of nostalgia. Well, I don't have 352 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: much to add to the Za Ram discussion the Guiver discussion. 353 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,879 Speaker 1: I can shed some light on Geivers anime only lasted 354 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:00,719 Speaker 1: twelve episodes, covering the Chronos Japan arc from the manga 355 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: This is the same plot that the first movie roughly covers. 356 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 1: While condensing and americanizing the plot, some of the broader 357 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: strokes are intact with a PG. Thirteen schlock coating to 358 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:15,439 Speaker 1: cover the disturbing gore of the anime series. Geiver was 359 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 1: an attempt at a dark tokusatsu series. As at the time, 360 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 1: traditional tokusatsu was on a bit of a decline in 361 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,479 Speaker 1: Japan and late eighties and early nineties, anime and manga 362 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: were being pulled in a dark, violent and sexual direction. 363 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 1: As such, combining the style of other popular dark body 364 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: horror anime, they did their own spin on the tokusatsu hero. 365 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 1: This is why the original Geiver had the coloration of 366 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 1: Ultraman Hey, Ultraman uh from what was the movie we 367 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:50,400 Speaker 1: did uh Hanuman and the Seven Ultraman Devon goes on 368 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:54,640 Speaker 1: and many features reminiscent of Kaman Rider, a still very 369 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 1: popular tokusatsu series. These are the ones that are much 370 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:02,640 Speaker 1: more directly similar or to the Power Rangers. Devon writes, 371 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: what caught me most about this film was that it 372 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 1: tried to keep most of the creature design and translated 373 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 1: to rubber suit monsters, you can actually draw parallels between 374 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,639 Speaker 1: some of the monsters in the manga and those in 375 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: the American movie. This plus a number of details and 376 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: dedication to the gross cronin Bergeean aspects that were a 377 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 1: staple of the original. In fact, I remember that the 378 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: second movie actually tries to rhet con in a lot 379 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 1: of information and characters left out of the first movie, 380 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:34,200 Speaker 1: such as the second geiver unit. Oh boy, uh that 381 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: is damaged and working for Chronos, the Chronos Corporation. Something 382 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 1: tells me that screaming Mad George was actually a fan 383 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 1: of the original source material. Uh. Now there's more of 384 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 1: this email that I think we don't have time to 385 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: get into today, where Devon goes into great detail about 386 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: the movie of the Last Unicorn, which we may come 387 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 1: to someday. Um, But but I think we'll have to 388 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 1: leave it there for now. Though, I have to share 389 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: Devon's transition, which is saying, now that we have eaten 390 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,360 Speaker 1: the meat we slapped together, let's take a slightly more 391 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: wholesome turn. Very very well done, Yes, and I do 392 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 1: appreciate that the additional tidbits about the Last Unicorn. It's 393 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,199 Speaker 1: been been a while since I read that, And actually, 394 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: when I think back. I think I only read the 395 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 1: first half to my son and then we had to 396 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: return the book to the library. But the book of 397 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 1: the book was pretty pretty good as well. I definitely 398 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,679 Speaker 1: read up through uh the end of the cycle with 399 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,400 Speaker 1: with Mommy Fortuna, who is wonderfully voiced in that by 400 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 1: Angela Lansbury. Um, great, great, which voice, And really that's 401 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: the I think that's the best part of the That's 402 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,399 Speaker 1: the best part of the movie to the first half 403 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 1: in my opinion, but well worth checking out. All right, 404 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 1: We're gonna go ahead and close up the mail bag 405 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 1: on this episode, but we will be back with more 406 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,159 Speaker 1: Listener Mail in the future. 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