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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of

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Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.

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Speaker 1: Listener mail. This is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick,

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Speaker 1: and it's Monday, the day of the week. We read

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Speaker 1: back some messages from the mail bag provided by our

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Speaker 1: loyal mail bought Carney. Let's see, today's episode is probably

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Speaker 1: gonna be heavier with Weird House Cinema responses than usual,

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Speaker 1: mainly on account of the absolute del uge of messages

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Speaker 1: we have received about Return to Oz. I think this

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Speaker 1: maybe our biggest weird house mail bag ever. Yeah, it's certainly.

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Speaker 1: It's certainly got a lot of responses from folks, a

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Speaker 1: lot of strong memories of the Return to Oz. But

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Speaker 1: before we get to that, I thought we could do

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Speaker 1: a couple of messages about our episode on whistling. Um.

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Speaker 1: Let's see, Rob I'm gonna start off with some selections

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Speaker 1: from an email from Lurch, who write it's in a

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Speaker 1: good bit. Uh this email had a lot of good parts,

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Speaker 1: but it's long, so I'm just gonna pull out a

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Speaker 1: couple of sections. Uh. So Lurch rights when I was

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Speaker 1: brothers Graham actually wrote their books. My grandmother used to

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Speaker 1: tell me stories at bedtime. One of the stories was

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Speaker 1: similar to the pied piper story, except instead of using

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Speaker 1: pipes to lure the rats and then children out of town,

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Speaker 1: he whistled. I've never heard of this version elsewhere, so

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Speaker 1: it may be particular to her Swedish family. Either that,

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Speaker 1: or Jacob and Wilhelm had their own aversion to whistling.

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Speaker 1: Some years later, I served in the United States Coast

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Speaker 1: Guard coincidentally where I met my wife. On my first ship,

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Speaker 1: I was happily whistling a tune on the fantail when

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Speaker 1: the boson came by and admonished me not to do that.

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Speaker 1: When I asked why not, he said it was because

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Speaker 1: I might whistle up a storm. He was at least

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Speaker 1: half serious, adding some gruesome curly cues krakens sirens end

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Speaker 1: I rate chiefs. Well, this is interesting in in two ways.

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Speaker 1: I've never heard of that version of the pipe piper

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Speaker 1: I guess in my brain I always kind of compared

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Speaker 1: it to that image of the snake charmer who plays

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Speaker 1: some sort um and then uh yeah, and then regarding

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't have to be too long ago, because, like

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Speaker 1: like we discussed, you get out on the ocean, you

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Speaker 1: fall back on older patterns of thinking. I wonder how

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Speaker 1: this relates to military discipline, Like if if a commander

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Speaker 1: do you have to obey that order? I guess you

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Speaker 1: have to obey, no matter what the reasoning is, right,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, it sounds like, at least

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Speaker 1: on TV, that would be grounds for mutiny, right if

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Speaker 1: for removing them from duty, Like if one's commander tells

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Speaker 1: good good questions to Paupla. Yeah, I don't know about that.

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Speaker 1: All right, here's another one. This one comes to us

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Speaker 1: from Pamela. Pamela Rides High, Robin Joe. I'm a longtime

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Speaker 1: listener and love this show and thank you from the

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Speaker 1: bottom of my heart for not having seasons and disappearing

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Speaker 1: for two months every ten shows. I don't get to

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Speaker 1: it out with me. Well, Pamela, I did want to

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Speaker 1: But also to be fair to our peers in the

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Speaker 1: podcasting space, uh the shows that take time off in

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Speaker 1: They've just got they've got different production process. They need

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Speaker 1: to the purpose of my message. One of the most

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Speaker 1: unique whistling pieces I can think of in modern popular

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Speaker 1: I am familiar with this tune. Rob is doing Ramstein research.

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Speaker 1: Let's get some Ramstein research music. All right, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: evidently David Lynch was a big Ramstein early adopter and

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Speaker 1: had himself as Gordon Cole whistled the intro to Angel

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Speaker 1: ending of the stanzas and ruins it. It hurts me

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Speaker 1: you while I listen. Take care, Pamela. I love to

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Speaker 1: get a message from a I think I've said the

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Speaker 1: name several different ways now a Romstein fan is it Romstein? Ramstein? Ramstein.

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Speaker 1: Sugar did a remix one of their tracks, or they

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Speaker 1: an FB agent whistling this this Romstein song, and that's

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Speaker 1: pretty weird. I would have had no idea what kind

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Speaker 1: weird house responses. Let's do it all right. This first

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Speaker 1: message comes from d D says Hello, Joe Robin Seth.

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Speaker 1: First off, thank you for the hours upon hours of

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Speaker 1: On's automaton, and I've been hooked ever since. That was

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Speaker 1: an episode I'd wanted to write several times before, but

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Speaker 1: but hadn't gotten to it. But your recent Weird House

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Speaker 1: I believe Robert had asked about people who had seen this,

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Speaker 1: a thing, having worked for David Cronenberg in the early seventies. Well,

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Speaker 1: legacy email d continues. The challenge was that his picks

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Speaker 1: thought that Mola Ram's heart extraction scene was pretty cool

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Speaker 1: a Temple of Doom, but Returned to OZ gave me

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Speaker 1: nightmares for days afterwards. I'd kept swearing I'd seen faces

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Speaker 1: the Wheelies creepy to this day. There was really something

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Speaker 1: excellent weird house selection ninety seventy eight Watership Down, which

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Speaker 1: not win. Regardless, Thank you for the great work that

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Speaker 1: you do. I appreciate the thoroughness, levity, and enthusiasm you

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Speaker 1: this email mentioned some other thoroughly strange films in their

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Speaker 1: own way. I've never actually, I've never seen Coujo. It

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Speaker 1: think I ever watched Watership Down either, But I've listened

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Speaker 1: to the art Garfuncle song from Watership Down, Bright Eyes

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Speaker 1: Don't know if i'd recommend it. It's it's not a

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Speaker 1: Wizard of Oz that's like the twist ending. Yeah, see

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Speaker 1: the Return to Oz episode. Like you you can feel

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Speaker 1: And I don't think we've have we covered anything that

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Speaker 1: Why not? Surely? I surely Merlin has showed up in

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Speaker 1: I gotta watch Excalibur. But I think that does it

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