WEBVTT - Listener Mail: Cyclopean Stairs

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind production of My

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<v Speaker 1>Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind

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<v Speaker 1>listener mail. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe

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<v Speaker 1>McCormick in. It's Monday, the day of the week that

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<v Speaker 1>we read back some of the messages that you have

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<v Speaker 1>sent in recently. So Rob, if you don't mind today,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to get us started with a message that

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<v Speaker 1>came in from Chris in response to our episodes on

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<v Speaker 1>natural flames and fire coming out of the earth. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, Chris says, Hi, Robert and Joe, I loved

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<v Speaker 1>your episodes about eternal flames and thought you might want

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<v Speaker 1>to see some images of Mount Chimera. And then Chris

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<v Speaker 1>includes a description referring to one of the images they

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<v Speaker 1>sent along, and also, yeah, Artash meaning the rock that

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<v Speaker 1>lights up and Olympus, the modern town and the ruins

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<v Speaker 1>of the Greco Roman city. Oh this is cool because

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<v Speaker 1>this is a place that you actually brought up in

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<v Speaker 1>that pair of episodes, Rob, I think you and Artas

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<v Speaker 1>specifically is the one where it has the fire coming

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<v Speaker 1>out of the rocks on the real side. Yeah. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>But Chris goes on both the modern and ancient cities

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<v Speaker 1>sit on the banks of the Achai River in antiquity,

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<v Speaker 1>known as Harpasso's Right, where it empties into the Mediterranean

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<v Speaker 1>on a beautiful pebble beach surrounded by high cliffs. There

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<v Speaker 1>are a number of rustic pinsions or pincion as I

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<v Speaker 1>think this just means like little houses or huts, where

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<v Speaker 1>most tourists stay between the modern town and the ancient sites.

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<v Speaker 1>There are ruins all along the river, including a Roman

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<v Speaker 1>bath and numerous tombs, all covered in vines and moss

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<v Speaker 1>and surrounded by bright red poppies. The grounds are not

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<v Speaker 1>yet improved, so there are no trails and tourists are

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<v Speaker 1>able to scramble all over the ancient structures. For better

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<v Speaker 1>or worse. The whole place looks very Indiana Jones. Apparently

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<v Speaker 1>the area was a pirate sanctuary for thousands of years,

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<v Speaker 1>and you can feel why if you kayak around the

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<v Speaker 1>cove among the sea turtles and ruins of the Genoese

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<v Speaker 1>fortresses on the surrounding cliffs. You can hike directly dan

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<v Speaker 1>our Touch from the beach, or you can take a

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<v Speaker 1>tourist bus to the base of Mount Chimiro, which is

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<v Speaker 1>what we did the hike from the base takes about

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<v Speaker 1>thirty minutes. The trail has steps, but I can only

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<v Speaker 1>describe them as cyclopean, and most people tried to walk

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<v Speaker 1>around them. The path is littered with carved marble chunks

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<v Speaker 1>of ancient monuments or temples. When you finally get to

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<v Speaker 1>the top, it's a little bit of a letdown. At

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<v Speaker 1>least during the day. Jean Artash is sort of a

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<v Speaker 1>smallish clearing of ashy looking bare rocks, surrounded by forest

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<v Speaker 1>and a few bits of what must have been a

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<v Speaker 1>temple right at the tree line. As the sun goes down, though,

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<v Speaker 1>the place takes on an eerie quality that you can

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<v Speaker 1>imagine might inspire stories about monsters. We saw no lions

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<v Speaker 1>or snakes, by the way. Oh this is referring I

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<v Speaker 1>think Rob to uh you talking about those ancient writings

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<v Speaker 1>about the different animals of the Camira monster being around

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<v Speaker 1>the area. So Chris has no lions, no snakes. But

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<v Speaker 1>picking up there are many domestic goats on the surrounding hillsides.

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<v Speaker 1>The sound of their bleeding, the call of the goat herds,

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<v Speaker 1>and the clanking of the bells around their necks instantly

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<v Speaker 1>evoked the past. It's an amazing trip that I almost

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<v Speaker 1>don't want to recommend so as not to spoil it.

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<v Speaker 1>I only found out about it because my wife and

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<v Speaker 1>I were teaching in Istanbul at the time and looking

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<v Speaker 1>for something to do on our fall break. The host

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<v Speaker 1>of our pincheon was very friendly and spent most nights

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<v Speaker 1>chatting with guests of all ages from all over the world,

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<v Speaker 1>drinking beer or tea around a fire pit in the

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<v Speaker 1>front courtyard. Idyllic barely describes the experience. Thanks for letting

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<v Speaker 1>me share. Hope you enjoy the photos. I'm the guy

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<v Speaker 1>standing in the river, and then Chris attaches many photos,

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<v Speaker 1>some of which are extremely beautiful. One indeed does have

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<v Speaker 1>one standing in a river. H Well, awesome. It's great

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<v Speaker 1>to hear some firsthand experience from from this fascinating location.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, here's another one when comes to us from

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<v Speaker 1>Stephen in response to our star Gazer in the well episode,

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<v Speaker 1>Dear Joe and Rob, I really enjoyed your recent podcast

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<v Speaker 1>on stargazing in the daytime through wells. I thought i'd

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<v Speaker 1>point your attention to a way the real life, bona

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<v Speaker 1>fide modern day astronomers use wells of a sort to

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<v Speaker 1>observe the night sky. The super Kamio Kandi is a

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<v Speaker 1>massive artificial body of water buried deep in an old

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<v Speaker 1>mine under Japan. This is, in a loose sense, a well,

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<v Speaker 1>though it doesn't have any shafts leading from the water

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<v Speaker 1>straight to the air. Instead, the mind acts as a

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<v Speaker 1>shield against cosmic radiation, allowing only neutrinos to pass through

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<v Speaker 1>into the water below to be picked up by the

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<v Speaker 1>super ai S detectors. Of course, most of the newtrinos

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<v Speaker 1>come for our son, though there are records of neutrinos

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<v Speaker 1>coming from supernova things that would normally only be observable

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<v Speaker 1>in the night sky. Thanks for a great show, much appreciated, Stephen. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I believe I've seen photographs of of this before the right.

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<v Speaker 1>It's quite captivating. It looks very sci fi. Yeah, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know how much I already knew about this one,

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<v Speaker 1>because I realized, um at first I thought I knew

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<v Speaker 1>what he was talking about, but then I realized I

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<v Speaker 1>was thinking of the South Pole Neutrino Observatory, the Ice

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<v Speaker 1>Cube Observatory, which is like a subterranean facility UH in Antarctica,

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<v Speaker 1>but this one in a mine in Japan also sounds fascinating.

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, really good on that connection. I did not

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<v Speaker 1>make that. Yeah, I believe I wrote an article about

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<v Speaker 1>like top ten Amazing telescopes or something like ten years

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<v Speaker 1>ago for our stuff Works, And uh, I remember looking

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<v Speaker 1>at a lot of photographs of these various installations, and

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<v Speaker 1>I believe some of the some of the the images

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<v Speaker 1>I saw of this one. Uh, it reminded me of

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<v Speaker 1>of of yeah, just pure science fiction. It's any of

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<v Speaker 1>these vast spaces with you know, these kind of like

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<v Speaker 1>golden looking lights in it. Quite fascinating. Yeah. The detector

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<v Speaker 1>room looks like a set from two thousand one of

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<v Speaker 1>Space Odyssey. Dave awakens in it and he speaks to

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<v Speaker 1>some being inside his head or something. Yeah. Yeah, And

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<v Speaker 1>so you know, it's, like Steven said, not a direct

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<v Speaker 1>comparison to be made between this in a well, but

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<v Speaker 1>some things line up, so it's worth noting. So thanks

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<v Speaker 1>for writing in about that. All right. This next message

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<v Speaker 1>comes to us from Lauren. It is about our series

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<v Speaker 1>of episodes on document duplication and fact Simile. Lauren says, Hello,

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<v Speaker 1>Robin Joe. I was just listening to your second episode

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<v Speaker 1>on the Facts Simile and had some personal life experiences

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<v Speaker 1>to share about carbon paper and how it is still

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<v Speaker 1>slinking around in the shadows of everyday life. Though it

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<v Speaker 1>feels like it should be obsolete in our modern age,

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<v Speaker 1>carbon copy paper is not quite a curiosity of the past.

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<v Speaker 1>It is still frequently used, especially in restaurants settings. As

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<v Speaker 1>soon as you said this, I knew what you were

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<v Speaker 1>talking about. I have worked in restaurants myself. Yeah. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>But Lauren also says occasionally in the form of receipts,

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<v Speaker 1>but predominantly so that both the kitchen staff and the

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<v Speaker 1>servers have access to the order information. So Rob, do

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<v Speaker 1>you know what she's talking about. Here, you have the

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<v Speaker 1>pad and the carbon paper on it. One one copy

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<v Speaker 1>stays in your hand, and one copy goes to the kitchen. Yeah. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>this this springs about I. I don't have the restaurant

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<v Speaker 1>experience that you have, but but of course I've seen

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<v Speaker 1>now they've been brought to my attention. I've seen this

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<v Speaker 1>take place, and basically it comes down to the fact

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<v Speaker 1>that the kitchen needs to know what the food is

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<v Speaker 1>going to be, but also the front of the restaurant

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<v Speaker 1>needs to know as well. I think another way it

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<v Speaker 1>works sometimes is that one copy goes to the kitchen

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<v Speaker 1>so they can see what to make, and the other

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<v Speaker 1>copy gets like spiked on a stack so they can

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<v Speaker 1>be counted up at the end of the night, so like,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, all the things that got ordered. Funny enough,

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<v Speaker 1>I also have experience with carbon paper for receipts because

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<v Speaker 1>in my days working in the tourist industry, where I

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<v Speaker 1>was a ticket seller for for an attraction in Tennessee,

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<v Speaker 1>when we don't know if it was in power outages

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<v Speaker 1>or something, we'd have some kind of utility problem, power

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<v Speaker 1>internet or something and we couldn't the credit card machines

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<v Speaker 1>wouldn't work electronically. We would still sell tickets with credit cards,

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<v Speaker 1>but we would use these ancient machines that uh that

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<v Speaker 1>like made an impression of the credit card information, so

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<v Speaker 1>you'd like swipe something over the card physically and it

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<v Speaker 1>would punch the carbon paper. Yeah, I distinctly remember that

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<v Speaker 1>one from when I would go shopping with my mom

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<v Speaker 1>when I was a little kid, and you know, should

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<v Speaker 1>be buying clothing for us or whatnot at the you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the mall or sears or whatever, and that was how

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<v Speaker 1>she would pay and they would use that device. And

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<v Speaker 1>I can still hear that sound that it makes in

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<v Speaker 1>my head. That is it as they bear down on

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<v Speaker 1>it and roll it over the paper and then back.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like the pump action on a shotgun. But this

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<v Speaker 1>is getting your tickets to the Imax theater. Yeah, so

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<v Speaker 1>that the shotgun sound of this. The spike receipts and

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<v Speaker 1>processing payment used to be so much more violent. Now

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<v Speaker 1>you just swipe a card. Okay, sorry, we got sidetracked,

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<v Speaker 1>Lauren continues. Also, I can buy carbon copy paper at

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<v Speaker 1>the local discount store a block away, sort of like

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<v Speaker 1>a dollar store, And because I pay my landlord the

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<v Speaker 1>monthly rent and bills in sketchy, cold hard cash, she

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<v Speaker 1>gives me a receipt for the transaction using a carbon

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<v Speaker 1>paper copy pad, especially formatted for monetary transactions. And it

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't stop there, Lauren says, on a final note, though

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<v Speaker 1>my memories are vague, I've also had to sign paperwork

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<v Speaker 1>and official documents at certain places of business and or

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<v Speaker 1>in employment situations on carbon paper. But certainly I always

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<v Speaker 1>felt like I was dealing with an establishment without enough

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<v Speaker 1>money or foresight to upgrade their technology. Have a wonderful week,

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<v Speaker 1>and thank you for the always stimulating podcasts. Lauren, very nice. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>thanks for writing in. Lauren. Again, we always appreciate these

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<v Speaker 1>firsthand tidbits about the various places and devices and and

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<v Speaker 1>other things we discussed on the show. My fingertips feel

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<v Speaker 1>weirdly dusty after reading this email. What was that feeling?

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<v Speaker 1>You know, that handling carbon paper feeling? You know what

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<v Speaker 1>I'm talking about. I guess I don't know. I don't.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't have a distinct memory of that, no sense

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<v Speaker 1>memory of that. Okay, maybe it's a kind of a

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<v Speaker 1>kind of dusty, kind of waxy strange. Now, before we

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<v Speaker 1>get into Weird House Cinema, we just want to call

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<v Speaker 1>attention to a couple of of tidbits from first the

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<v Speaker 1>Stuff to Bow your Mind discussion module, which you can

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<v Speaker 1>join on Facebook. Look it up and you have to

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<v Speaker 1>you know, like apply and then we let you in

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<v Speaker 1>that sort of thing. But UM listener by the name

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<v Speaker 1>of William just shared a post that said toad dug

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<v Speaker 1>out vegetables the fastest, which when I read that at

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<v Speaker 1>the end of the day one day, I was I

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<v Speaker 1>just I was like, what is this craziness? Is there?

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<v Speaker 1>Should I report? This is somebody in crisis here or something?

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<v Speaker 1>UM and I think I even asked them. I was like, wait, what, like,

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<v Speaker 1>what are you talking about? And then they reminded me

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<v Speaker 1>that we had asked what was Toads special ability in

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<v Speaker 1>Super Mario Brothers Too. It's apparently the Toad dugout vegetables

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<v Speaker 1>the fastest, right, so you pull those radishes out of

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<v Speaker 1>the ground, Toad does it faster than Mario Luigian Peach

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<v Speaker 1>because Peach could float. That was peaches thing, right, and

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<v Speaker 1>Mario was just even distributed. Now the other bit I

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<v Speaker 1>want to call attention to on the stuff to blow

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<v Speaker 1>your mind discord page, which if you want the link

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<v Speaker 1>for that, just email us and we'll send you the link.

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<v Speaker 1>That seems to be the only way to really make

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<v Speaker 1>this work. But Fletch wrote in and says the episode

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<v Speaker 1>on creatures with transparent bodies reminded me of this novel

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<v Speaker 1>that I read as a teenager Legacy of the Stars.

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<v Speaker 1>No idea if it still holds up. But the central

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<v Speaker 1>concept was that aliens had attempted to colonize Earth in

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<v Speaker 1>the Ice Age, leaving behind some technology that a group

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<v Speaker 1>of prehistoric humans discovered and were able to exploit. Living

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<v Speaker 1>underground in total isolation only to be recontacted in modern times.

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<v Speaker 1>Because of millennia subterranean living, they had become almost completely translucent.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't remember much more about it, since it must

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<v Speaker 1>be thirty years since I read it, but I remember

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<v Speaker 1>the idea capturing my imagination at the time. Also, like

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<v Speaker 1>the humans turned into glow worms or something. I guess, yeah. This,

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<v Speaker 1>and then the title of this book is The Legacy

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<v Speaker 1>of the Stars by John Gregory. I'm not familiar with that.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think I've read anything by John Gregory, but

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<v Speaker 1>that this sounds sounds very very interesting. Uh you know

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<v Speaker 1>what one of those um one of those sci fi

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<v Speaker 1>novel concepts that very much speaks at the time, Like

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<v Speaker 1>you can imagine, uh how cool the the cover art

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<v Speaker 1>probably looks without even looking it up, you know. All right, well,

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<v Speaker 1>let's move on into the Weird House Cinema feedback. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>let's see, Uh, this first one comes from Nan uh

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<v Speaker 1>the I think both of our Weird House messages today

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<v Speaker 1>are about Jason takes Manhattan. But Nan says, Hi, guys

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<v Speaker 1>just wanted to say that today's Weird House Cinema episode

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<v Speaker 1>on j t M needs to go in the stuff

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<v Speaker 1>to blow your mind. Hall of Fame if one exists.

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<v Speaker 1>This was the funniest and most nostalgia inducing episode ever,

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<v Speaker 1>with some surprisingly insightful cinematic analysis and uh I think.

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<v Speaker 1>She mentions rob your comparison between James Bond and Jason

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<v Speaker 1>Vorhees the striking number of similarities between these two franchises. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>And she also calls out the appeal of Tina's quote

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<v Speaker 1>telekinetic home alone. Oh yeah, Tina's great. The new podcast

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<v Speaker 1>format took some getting used to, but I'm really loving

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<v Speaker 1>the rhythm and variety of episodes. Now keep up the

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<v Speaker 1>great work. Nan uh Nan says that this is the

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<v Speaker 1>same Nan who wrote the email about landfill goats. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I remember that one. And then finally Nan says, ps,

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<v Speaker 1>my Canadian husband says he's never heard of Danger Bay,

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<v Speaker 1>but the show name sounds very Canadian. What was that?

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<v Speaker 1>There were actors in jt M that we're in something

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<v Speaker 1>called Danger Bay. Oh yeah, a lot of Canadian actors

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<v Speaker 1>and and so some of at least one of them

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<v Speaker 1>had a connection to Danger Bay, maybe a couple of them. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>And Danger Bay was a show that when I when

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<v Speaker 1>I was a small child and lived in Canada for

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<v Speaker 1>you know, a year or so. Um. I distinctly remember

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<v Speaker 1>we had one TV channel, and so whatever was on

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<v Speaker 1>TV we would, you know, sometimes watch, especially it was

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<v Speaker 1>cold out obvious, and two shows I distinctly remember, We're

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<v Speaker 1>Danger Bay, which had like seaplanes and uh, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>sea life in it. And then there was a show

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<v Speaker 1>called Seeing Things that had a really catchy tune theme

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<v Speaker 1>song to it, and it starred the guy whose head

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<v Speaker 1>blows up at the beginning of Scanners. Yeah, yeah, the

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<v Speaker 1>the the bald head kind of I think it had

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<v Speaker 1>a mustache, kind of looks like Frank Oz. But I

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<v Speaker 1>have no idea how truly memorable either of these shows

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<v Speaker 1>are two true Canadians. They're just you know, two shows

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<v Speaker 1>that were on TV that I caught sometimes when I

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<v Speaker 1>was like in kindergarten. Nice, all right. This next one

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<v Speaker 1>comes to us from Dan. It is also about Jason

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<v Speaker 1>Takes Manhattan. Hello, Robert and Joe. I listened to your

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<v Speaker 1>Weird House Cinema episode on Jason Takes Manhattan, and I

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<v Speaker 1>think this might be one of your best weird House episodes.

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<v Speaker 1>I've never been much of a fan of the Friday

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<v Speaker 1>the Thirteenth movies. I've only seen the original the Cronenberg

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<v Speaker 1>scenes of Jason X and the two thousand nine reboot.

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<v Speaker 1>I really enjoyed Joe's passionate analysis of the series, and

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<v Speaker 1>I especially loved your commentary on the trailer. Maybe this

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<v Speaker 1>is something you could explore in a future of special

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<v Speaker 1>episode where you do a commentary track on an entire

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<v Speaker 1>film attack of the Crab Monsters or it conquered the World.

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<v Speaker 1>Perhaps he learned too late that man is a feeling creature.

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<v Speaker 1>When Joe said Jason is a nature spirit, I was

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<v Speaker 1>reminded of something you may have brought up in a

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<v Speaker 1>stuff Toble your Mind episode from a few years ago.

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<v Speaker 1>Unless I'm misremembering, I don't remember who said it, but

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<v Speaker 1>you were waxing about how Jason is a pagan god

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<v Speaker 1>who demands human sacrifice of teenagers in order to appease

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<v Speaker 1>his bloodthirst. I thought that this could make for an

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<v Speaker 1>interesting spin that could take the series into Cabin in

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<v Speaker 1>the Woods territory, where the longtime residents of Crystal Lake

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<v Speaker 1>must every few years provide teenagers to be sacrificed to

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<v Speaker 1>He who never died lest he turned his sights on them.

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<v Speaker 1>Does this sound familiar of all the work you do Dan, Well, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I'm not positive, but I think that older

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<v Speaker 1>episode you're remembering may have been the one where we

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<v Speaker 1>talked about the masked killer in It was like a

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<v Speaker 1>Halloween season episode, and we we talked about how Jason

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<v Speaker 1>strangely connects back to uh multiple older traditions, Like there

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<v Speaker 1>have been some scholars who argued that Jason emerges from

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<v Speaker 1>the traditions of like the public execution or you know,

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<v Speaker 1>he's like the hooded axe man. But then the other

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<v Speaker 1>half is, yeah, that he's like the God who must

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<v Speaker 1>be sacrificed too, And I think that is in fact

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<v Speaker 1>being pretty directly lampooned in Kevin in the Woods. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>Kevin in the Woods fun flick. By the way, Dan

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<v Speaker 1>watched all of Jason X. It's worth seeing from beginning

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<v Speaker 1>to end, aunds pretty solid. The Cronenberg David Cronenberg's canny

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<v Speaker 1>alway is also a lot of fun. I think the

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<v Speaker 1>most brilliant moment in Jason X is whoever came up

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<v Speaker 1>with the idea of putting Jason into a hollow deck. So, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, it's firmly established at this point that Jason

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<v Speaker 1>cannot be killed, but I that just awoke. My mind

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<v Speaker 1>was like, how creative a solution to Jason. You just

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<v Speaker 1>put him in a hollow deck with infinite fake victims,

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<v Speaker 1>so then no real person is harmed. He's just entertained

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<v Speaker 1>forever being in there, and that's a win win. Yeah. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's It's a film that totally embraces the silliness of

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<v Speaker 1>the concept and his orders of magnitude better than any

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<v Speaker 1>of the other horror franchises Go to Space Films. Oh

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<v Speaker 1>and as for commentary tracks, yeah, yeah, we could do

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<v Speaker 1>a commentary track sometime. I don't know. I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>if you're if you're putting out one of these classic

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<v Speaker 1>horror movies with crab monsters in it on Blu Ray

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<v Speaker 1>or something, and you need somebody to do, uh do

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<v Speaker 1>a commentary track. I don't know. Let's talk, let's see,

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<v Speaker 1>le's see what we can work out. That's how you

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<v Speaker 1>make the big bucks. That's that's what we're angling for.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the big bucks. The commentary track Monday. Uh oh oh.

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<v Speaker 1>Speaking of Weird House, by the way, if you are

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<v Speaker 1>and you can look at some of these designs, including

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<v Speaker 1>you name it all right, right, I gotta get me

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<v Speaker 1>some of our merch Yeah, yeah, merch hub. I Um,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think I currently have one of our merch shirts.

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<v Speaker 1>My my son has a couple of them though, Like

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<v Speaker 1>the last few times where we had like a new

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<v Speaker 1>shirt design, I was like, Okay, I'll get I'll get

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<v Speaker 1>one for him. I'm gonna I have too many T

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<v Speaker 1>shirts right now. I get him for him. Hey, he

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<v Speaker 1>looks good at him. Yeah, we get some some cool

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<v Speaker 1>designs in there, so check them out. I don't likewise

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<v Speaker 1>right in, if you there's like a certain design, you're like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't wear any of these, but I would wear this.

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<v Speaker 1>This would be fun, because ultimately that's what the merch

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<v Speaker 1>store is about. It is just if something is if

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<v Speaker 1>you have a fun idea. Right in let's talk, let's

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<v Speaker 1>figure it out. All right, We're gonna go and close

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<v Speaker 1>up the mail bag there, but hey, we'd love to

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<v Speaker 1>hear from you. Do you have thoughts on anything we

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