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Speaker 1: listener mail. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick. Again.
Speaker 1: It's Monday, the day of the week that we reback
Speaker 1: some messages from the mail bag. Here. You know what
Speaker 1: we haven't mentioned in a while, our loyal mailbot, Carney.
Speaker 1: I don't know why we You know, we start to
Speaker 1: take him for granted. Yeah, I mean, if he's he's
Speaker 1: functioning perfectly and he's not destroying all humans, then you
Speaker 1: don't notice he's there at all. That's the thing about technology.
Speaker 1: How about it, Carney, Have you yet decided that human
Speaker 1: beings are a virus? Much like Agent Smith in the Matrix?
Speaker 1: Ambiguous answer? Okay, um? I think maybe we should start
Speaker 1: off with some responses to the episode we did on
Speaker 1: vacuum Airships. Let's see, Rob, do you want to do
Speaker 1: this one from longtime correspondent Jim in New Jersey? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Jim and New Jersey is great about chiming in, especially
Speaker 1: on on like physics and stuff, but also old timey
Speaker 1: sci fi as well. So Jim shares the following Robert,
Speaker 1: Joe and Seth. I think that null ships, which really
Speaker 1: should be called null holes, exist on Earth, but just
Speaker 1: not in the form you presented. I would propose that
Speaker 1: submarines are a type of null hole design. Their buoyancy
Speaker 1: and water is determined by the relative ratio of air
Speaker 1: to sea water in their buoyancy tanks. In these conditions,
Speaker 1: air would be like a vacuum relative to the surrounding
Speaker 1: sea water. Submarines can be subjected to the crushing pressure
Speaker 1: of the surrounding fluid, as is seen in just about
Speaker 1: every submarine movie ever produced. If no airships were ever constructed,
Speaker 1: I'd really be concerned with their integral structure. Any flaw
Speaker 1: would make them susceptible to immediate crushing. The MythBusters demonstrated
Speaker 1: this in their last season when they crushed a railroad
Speaker 1: tanker car only by using air sure. It's implosion was
Speaker 1: one of the most impressive things I remember them doing.
Speaker 1: On the show Jim in New Jersey, Jim attaches a
Speaker 1: link to a video. I couldn't tell if this was
Speaker 1: actually from MythBusters. It didn't really look like it, but uh,
Speaker 1: it was a clip of somebody pumping out Yeah, one
Speaker 1: of those like you know sealed tankers you would see
Speaker 1: being pulled on railroad tracks, and they had it hooked
Speaker 1: up to a big truck. I guess that truck was
Speaker 1: operating the vacuum pump. And it just it doesn't do
Speaker 1: anything for a long time, because of course it's not
Speaker 1: a balloon. It's got a rigid outer shell, and it
Speaker 1: just sits there and sits there and sits there, and
Speaker 1: then suddenly, bam, it just smashes like somebody, like an
Speaker 1: invisible foot from the sky stomped on it. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: just squatches. That's pretty pretty impressive. That is the pressure
Speaker 1: of the atmosphere, same force holding the Magdeburg hemispheres together. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read a message about vac hume airships from Eric,
Speaker 1: who says, Hi, gentlemen, loved the void ships episode. I've
Speaker 1: long wondered about the feasibility of vacuum airships, and one
Speaker 1: thing that occurred to me is the possible use of
Speaker 1: evacuated aero gels. Aero gels are essentially a dried out
Speaker 1: gel that retains its shape. They're estimated to be about
Speaker 1: air inside lots of nanoscopic pores. A common example is
Speaker 1: silica aero gel, which is basically fluffy glass. I did
Speaker 1: some math, and if we could evacuate the air from
Speaker 1: silica aero gel and then somehow seal the surface so
Speaker 1: air could not get back in, it would be capable
Speaker 1: of floating at altitudes of up to four kilometers or
Speaker 1: one point five miles. Its biggest problem would be its
Speaker 1: compressive strength. Although aero gels are rigid, they're not all strong,
Speaker 1: and larger aero gels may not be able to withstand
Speaker 1: sea level pressure, especially for larger vacuum aero gel balloons.
Speaker 1: I don't know enough about material sites to try to
Speaker 1: calcul the performance of an aero gel at different atmospheric pressures,
Speaker 1: but it's a fun idea, and maybe, like all the
Speaker 1: other problems in the world, this one will be solved
Speaker 1: by graphine or carbon nanotubes all the best. Eric that's right,
Speaker 1: we can always kick the aero gel can down the
Speaker 1: road to the graphine and nanotubes, for sure. I feel
Speaker 1: like I've seen fewer articles about this in recent years.
Speaker 1: There was a period of time. Oh I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, like two thousand eleven to two thousand
Speaker 1: thirteen or fourteen or so. We're essentially every science or
Speaker 1: engineering article I read ended with well, we can't do
Speaker 1: this now, but maybe with graphine or carbon nanotubes. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you still see it with with any kind
Speaker 1: of discussion that involves the limitations of modern day materials
Speaker 1: or structures. Inevitably that's going to come up, and for
Speaker 1: good reason. But yeah, I think you're right. There was
Speaker 1: a time about ten years ago where it seemed like
Speaker 1: it was everywhere the science headlines were just crazy for nanotubes.
Speaker 1: All right, here's one from Evan. Evan writes in and says, hey, dudes,
Speaker 1: I always love listening to your show and learning along
Speaker 1: with them. One of my favorite episodes was the Lesser
Speaker 1: of two crab Claws series. But as I was listening
Speaker 1: to your recent episode about vacuum airships, I couldn't help
Speaker 1: but be reminded of a scene in the original Willy
Speaker 1: Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: it features in the Tim Burton one, where Charlie and
Speaker 1: Grandpa Joe sneak a sample of fizzylifting drink and are
Speaker 1: almost chopped up by the fans in the ceiling. They
Speaker 1: finally discovered the solution to stop floating, and to get
Speaker 1: down is to burp slowly expelling gas, and each time
Speaker 1: they sink a little lower until they are safe on
Speaker 1: the ground. As you went through all the different attempts
Speaker 1: people came up with to create these null ships, I
Speaker 1: couldn't help but think of this scene and the comparisons
Speaker 1: it drew. Again, thanks for all you do. Love the show.
Speaker 1: Evan chopped up by the fans. That's a little more
Speaker 1: gory than I recall Wonka being. Oh yeah, yeah, they
Speaker 1: were floating. I mean they didn't get chopped up, but
Speaker 1: they were floating up towards the obvious chopping peril of
Speaker 1: fan on the ceiling. I mean, death is real. In
Speaker 1: the Walker Verse, it was implied chopping. There was the
Speaker 1: suggestion that chopping would occur, right, But I mean we
Speaker 1: we established in in the Wonka verse here that terrible
Speaker 1: things canon will happen to children. So it's it's for
Speaker 1: some reason. It's a film where the threat feels very
Speaker 1: real and Charlie and Grandpa are breaking the rules. Oh
Speaker 1: are they? I remember Charlie and Grandpa always doing good
Speaker 1: while it was the other kids who were doing bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, the kids did bad too, but you might
Speaker 1: remember at the end, this is the whole, remember the
Speaker 1: whole wonka um rant about you get nothing anyway, this
Speaker 1: was this was part of it. Okay, great weird film.
Speaker 1: It's certainly one we could We could come back and
Speaker 1: look at on weird. Howse sent him in the future.
Speaker 1: You mean the old one. You cannot make me watch
Speaker 1: the Tim Burton one. I saw it. I don't over
Speaker 1: much about it, but I mean the original and it's
Speaker 1: is golden. Yes, okay. How about a couple of messages
Speaker 1: about whistling. Uh. This first one comes from Duncan. Duncan says, Hi,
Speaker 1: I've loved your deep dive into whistling. I had no
Speaker 1: idea it was such a large subject. In the third episode,
Speaker 1: you talked about the use of whistling from the audience
Speaker 1: as a negative display in ancient debates, and mentioned the
Speaker 1: modern day British theater. Although this is more a cultural
Speaker 1: memory as audiences in the UK don't really do this anymore.
Speaker 1: I thought i'd share that the French rugby team have
Speaker 1: to contend with quote the bird, a whistled display of
Speaker 1: disappointment in turgid play from their own fans when not
Speaker 1: performing well. This is in wide use across France today.
Speaker 1: Keep up the good work, all the best, Duncan, Duncan.
Speaker 1: I tried to look this up and find an example,
Speaker 1: and I could not, But maybe I didn't know what
Speaker 1: the right search terms were. But I believe you interesting,
Speaker 1: all right. This one comes to us from Mark hawdy
Speaker 1: All in part three of the Whistling series, there was
Speaker 1: a discussion of the audience in a theater whistling at
Speaker 1: the at a performance that they didn't like. And if
Speaker 1: I recall I listened to it a few days ago,
Speaker 1: you segued into Sailor's superstitions about whistling. I think there
Speaker 1: may be some overlap between the two. There's a superstition
Speaker 1: in the theater about whistling backstage. I asked around during
Speaker 1: a show. I'm a musician that does a lot of
Speaker 1: work in theaters here in Atlanta as to where this
Speaker 1: particular superstition came from. And the only answer that was
Speaker 1: given with any confidence is the surprisingly practical. And this
Speaker 1: explanation is purely anecdotal, so take it with a grain
Speaker 1: of salt. Many of the curtains, scrims, and other set
Speaker 1: pieces are flown in from the loft using cables. Now
Speaker 1: these cables are steel cables with easy to use locks
Speaker 1: and counterweights. But before that there were ropes that had
Speaker 1: to be weighted and tied to secure them. Sailors were
Speaker 1: accustomed to running around in high places and working with
Speaker 1: stout ropes and not unts, so when not at sea,
Speaker 1: the theater was a good place to find work. How
Speaker 1: do they communicate it? See whistling, which if it's even
Speaker 1: audible to the audience, would not interfere with the dialogue. Thus,
Speaker 1: if you whistle backstage, you risk telling the stage crew
Speaker 1: to do something that could be embarrassing in the show,
Speaker 1: catastrophic or even deadly, like any old cartoon that involves
Speaker 1: a sand bag dropped on someone's head. My hypothesis is
Speaker 1: that the audiences of old new this then perhaps an
Speaker 1: audience whistling is an attempt to spook a superstitious actor,
Speaker 1: cause some technical mayhem, or even to do harm to
Speaker 1: the folks on stage. Just a bit of speculation, but
Speaker 1: seems plausible. Thanks for the great shows, topics and movies,
Speaker 1: Mark Well Mark, I'm of two minds about this. On
Speaker 1: one hand, I am taking this with a grain of salt.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but it's a beautiful story. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I I like these possible connections. Um, it certainly changes
Speaker 1: the um the the flavor of whistling at someone on
Speaker 1: a stage of what you're ultimately trying to do is
Speaker 1: get a chandelier dropped on their head. Yeah, or make
Speaker 1: the sets start lifting off the ground or something. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean nobody wants to hear you know, your favorite
Speaker 1: musician do any new material, but you don't want stuff
Speaker 1: to fall on them. Oh, I was just taken to
Speaker 1: a to a moment I lived through. I remember when
Speaker 1: Art Garfunkel was doing an outdoor festival show in Chattanooga, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: and uh and he announced to a crowd of many
Speaker 1: thousands that he was going to do a song off
Speaker 1: his new album, and everyone at once got up to
Speaker 1: get a beer. There exceptions to this rule, but but
Speaker 1: it does seem to see a common occurrence with especially
Speaker 1: older performers. Okay, I think it's time for some weird
Speaker 1: house cinema messages. And we got so many emails about
Speaker 1: return to OZ we are not going to be able
Speaker 1: to do them all today. Maybe we'll feature more OZ
Speaker 1: in the in the next episode, but let's do a
Speaker 1: selection at least. First message I've got lined up here
Speaker 1: is from Brian. Brian says, when I saw Return to
Speaker 1: Oz in my podcast feed, I had a visceral reaction
Speaker 1: and a chill ran down my spine. I was transported
Speaker 1: back to nineteen eighty six, when as a five year
Speaker 1: old boy, I was subjected to a home viewing with
Speaker 1: my older sister. I'm not sure if I watched it
Speaker 1: more than once over my childhood years, but I could
Speaker 1: clearly picture each segment you discussed, and I recalled those
Speaker 1: scenes as I had originally experienced them through a haze
Speaker 1: of confused horror. I suspect if I watched it today, I,
Speaker 1: like you would appreciate the weirdness, the beautiful production design,
Speaker 1: and the creativity involved. However, I was not prepared for
Speaker 1: any of it as a child. The Wheeler specifically gave
Speaker 1: me nightmares for months, if not years. Mom b and
Speaker 1: her hallway of severed heads were also a bit much.
Speaker 1: In summary, it thoroughly messed me up. I remember late
Speaker 1: are in my preteen and teenage years having memories of
Speaker 1: these scenes, but as they were during pre internet times,
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure what movie, if any, they had come from.
Speaker 1: I remember that feeling Brian, I believe I finally stumbled
Speaker 1: back upon it during college in the late nineties and
Speaker 1: was gladdened and relieved to learn I hadn't simply dreamed
Speaker 1: the whole thing up a surreal, trippy experience. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the memories, Brian, Ah, that's good. Yeah. I enjoyed hearing
Speaker 1: from everybody out there who had memories of having seen
Speaker 1: the film and also specific childhood memories that could attest
Speaker 1: to the the dark tones and the sense of fear
Speaker 1: and the picture. Now one of my favorites came from
Speaker 1: a listener, Shana. Shana writes then and says, Okay, weird
Speaker 1: emailing you guys two weeks in a row, but ah,
Speaker 1: you covered one of my favorite movies of all time.
Speaker 1: I have such a deep relationship with Return to Oz
Speaker 1: from many different stages in my life. I was a
Speaker 1: baby and my mother took me to see this film
Speaker 1: when I was a wee little child. It is actually
Speaker 1: one of my earliest foundational memories because as soon as
Speaker 1: momby pulled off her head, I ran screaming from the
Speaker 1: movie theater. I became a well established scaredy cat and
Speaker 1: also ran out of my friend's house crying during the
Speaker 1: Dark Crystal and ampted this day traumatized by Grimlin's older brothers. Yes,
Speaker 1: say no more on both those fronts, but especially on Gremlins,
Speaker 1: which is among all of these films, I think especially
Speaker 1: potentially traumatic because it is so uh miscalibrated as a film.
Speaker 1: It really doesn't know of it if it's trying to
Speaker 1: be cute or um or grotesque or frightening. Is it
Speaker 1: a kid's movie that also doesn't mind using a grizzly
Speaker 1: scenario to spoil Santa for viewers. So it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a weird film to to take in. It is.
Speaker 1: But you know what this makes me think, Rob, I
Speaker 1: think on weird house cinema, we should do ones too,
Speaker 1: which is just up bonanza. Yeah, g two baby, um,
Speaker 1: well for Christmas we should do that with it. It's
Speaker 1: definitely in the movie, all right. Shana continues. I rediscovered
Speaker 1: Returned to Oz in high school after falling in love
Speaker 1: with Rouza Balk from the Craft The Return to Oz
Speaker 1: DVD from My local Video store Rental Store Silver Screen
Speaker 1: Video r I p. Twenty nineteen Auto started with an
Speaker 1: interview with Bog talking about her experiences on set watching
Speaker 1: the film again with Surreal It was like having deja vu.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been able to tell you what was
Speaker 1: going to happen, but as soon as I saw it,
Speaker 1: I remembered cut to college where I'm studying TV film editing.
Speaker 1: In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Merch was required.
Speaker 1: Reading IMDb dot com was kind of new and discovering
Speaker 1: this world famous editor directed that childhood trauma turned beloved
Speaker 1: movie blew my Mind. I got married in twenty eleven
Speaker 1: in a steampunk themed wedding. We had the privilege and
Speaker 1: honor to have a robotic ring bear created by one
Speaker 1: of the best humans who has ever lived, Grant Immahara.
Speaker 1: When creating the head, Grant took inspiration from TikTok TikTok,
Speaker 1: being the the cool automaton ian returned to Oz. I've
Speaker 1: included two photos of Heisenborg as he was named, and
Speaker 1: indeed here are the photos. Jip so his head is
Speaker 1: a copper sphere with the with the big walrus mustache
Speaker 1: or not walrus. What do you call that can handlebar mustache? Ah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess so. Yeah, it's a tiktoki kind of mustache
Speaker 1: with a monocle a top hat. I think it's got
Speaker 1: a bow tie. Uh, TikTok didn't have a bow tie
Speaker 1: as far as I recall, but so this one is
Speaker 1: more finely dressed. But maybe this is what TikTok would
Speaker 1: look like if he was going to a wedding. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and as we can see in the second photo it
Speaker 1: it seems to be a fully functioning automaton. We see
Speaker 1: the tracks, we see the remote control that was used
Speaker 1: to operate it. So yeah, kudos. I mean this, this
Speaker 1: looks like a steampunk wedding that really went for it.
Speaker 1: They finish up here listening to you guys fall in
Speaker 1: love with this film made me so happy. Avon reviewing,
Speaker 1: y'all will find more details and surprises. As always, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for the content. If you end up
Speaker 1: looking for more weird, dark Disney children's films, I recommend
Speaker 1: Escape to Which Mountain Vour. The music is fantastic and
Speaker 1: it's just a super weird movie. Also available on Disney Plus.
Speaker 1: I've heard very good things about Escape to Which Mountain,
Speaker 1: but I've never seen it. I saw it as a kid,
Speaker 1: and I don't remember the particulars of it other than
Speaker 1: it was one of there were I think a couple
Speaker 1: of Disney films from this era that we're a little
Speaker 1: creepy and felt like they weren't quite meant for kids,
Speaker 1: even though I mean, clearly it was okay for kids
Speaker 1: to see them, but they felt a little dangerous seeing
Speaker 1: the trailers for them as a as a child. On
Speaker 1: other Disney VHS tapes, this one had Donald Pleasants in
Speaker 1: it all that. Oh yes, wait, they just they did
Speaker 1: a remake this movie with with Wayne the Stone, didn't they.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think yeah. I don't know if the
Speaker 1: Rock plays Donald Pleasants's role or or not. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I assume he plays maybe the Eddie Albert role. But um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I did not see the Rock remake. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean neither. Well, maybe I will check out the original.
Speaker 1: I feel like there was some other Disney film of
Speaker 1: this era that was frightening looking in the trailers, something
Speaker 1: with ghosts in it. Perhaps it had it had Hayley
Speaker 1: Mills in it, but I don't, I mean, it wouldn't Pollyanna, right,
Speaker 1: Pollyanna is not a ghost story. It's not the parent Trap.
Speaker 1: I've never seen it. I don't know. Well, let's look
Speaker 1: up the Hailey Mills Philip Filmography. See, it might not
Speaker 1: have been Haley Mills. It might have been just another
Speaker 1: child actor that reminded me of her, But there was
Speaker 1: some other Disney film from this era that gave me
Speaker 1: the creeps. And or maybe I'm just it's just like
Speaker 1: a splinter memory of Escape from which Mountain? I don't know. Waiter,
Speaker 1: are you thinking of Watcher in the World? I am
Speaker 1: thinking of Watcher in the Woods? Yes, eight film. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's the one. I should have known immediately. I was
Speaker 1: wondering that one is one. Yeah, I just distinctly remember
Speaker 1: being troubled by the trailers for that on other Disney
Speaker 1: VHS tapes. And uh, yeah, I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: sat down and watched it as an adult, but I
Speaker 1: have read about some of the like the stuff that
Speaker 1: got cut. There was something to do with like the
Speaker 1: entity in the film, and they had a more frightening
Speaker 1: vision of that entity that they were going to use.
Speaker 1: But then they had to they had to pull back
Speaker 1: a little bit, and they had to remind everybody, no,
Speaker 1: this is Disney, we can't we can't do do something
Speaker 1: this dark and uh and ethereal Robert, stop right now
Speaker 1: and google Watcher in the woods. Monster. You need to
Speaker 1: see it. Oh god, yeah, this is this is terrifying.
Speaker 1: It's like a like a a fallen slime angel. And
Speaker 1: this is not the way that it appears in the movie, right,
Speaker 1: this is that I don't remember. I remember there being
Speaker 1: something scary in the movie, but this maybe this isn't
Speaker 1: it was this the cut one. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: can't sort it out right now. Well, the trailer was
Speaker 1: creepy that much. I remember you and you have like
Speaker 1: the weird girl with the blindfold on. Yeah, alright, let's
Speaker 1: do at least one more return to OZ message. Let's
Speaker 1: see how about this one from Athena, who said subject
Speaker 1: line returned to return to Oz Hi Robin Joe. When
Speaker 1: I was in middle school, I remember a friend giving
Speaker 1: me a play by play of everything that happened in
Speaker 1: the movie returned to OZ with these wild, wide eyes,
Speaker 1: as if they had to tell me everything just to
Speaker 1: get it out of their head. I didn't watch it
Speaker 1: for years. I read all the books when I was
Speaker 1: a teenager much later, and I could see how it
Speaker 1: would be very disturbing. I would absolutely one recommended that
Speaker 1: you read at least the first three Wizard of Oz books.
Speaker 1: They're very short. It won't take long. Uh. There was
Speaker 1: so much more to the Wonderful Wizard of Oz than
Speaker 1: what happened in the thirty nine movie. There was a
Speaker 1: whole town of breakable porcelain people. There were people with
Speaker 1: heads that shoot from their necks, etcetera. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if I even understand what that means, shoot like a
Speaker 1: bullet from their necks, like their heads are little rockets
Speaker 1: that take off. In the successive books, every time Dorothy
Speaker 1: goes back to Oz, years have passed when only a
Speaker 1: short amount of time has passed by in our world. Rob.
Speaker 1: This may explain one of your son's questions about the movie,
Speaker 1: which is that if if that's true, maybe there's even
Speaker 1: a reverse time lineup, which is why Dorothy is younger
Speaker 1: in the sequel than she is in the original movie.
Speaker 1: Nade Anyway, Athena says, I would say that Returned to
Speaker 1: Oz is very true to the spirit of the books.
Speaker 1: They are evocative of an early American idea of what
Speaker 1: foreign lands are like, and they are really quite scary
Speaker 1: in the best way possible. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: the great show, Athena. Yeah, I'm tempted to to pick
Speaker 1: one up now. I was talking to a friend the
Speaker 1: other day who'd read a bunch of them when when
Speaker 1: they were a kid. I also think that there I agree,
Speaker 1: even not having read the books and just seeing the movies,
Speaker 1: that there is some thing distinctly American about the kind
Speaker 1: of fantasy in them, because like the Wizard, it turns out,
Speaker 1: essentially is a patent medicine salesman, like a huckster and
Speaker 1: Carnival Barker. It seems like a very American kind of choice. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And you know one thing that I thought was interesting
Speaker 1: really in in both the thirty nine Ods and in
Speaker 1: Return to Oz, there's also this sense of of the
Speaker 1: Emerald City that, uh that kind of reminds me of
Speaker 1: some of the futuristic optimism concerning the nature of the
Speaker 1: American city. Uh. That that I think is as president
Speaker 1: of the fiction here. All right, let's do one more
Speaker 1: here from the oz bag. This is from Nathaniel. Nathaniel says, Hello,
Speaker 1: Robert and Joe. I was excited when Joe solicited calls
Speaker 1: for the best forest sets because I also love a
Speaker 1: good forest at peace, and my all time favorite, without
Speaker 1: any competition, is the queue for the Et Adventure ride
Speaker 1: at Universal Studios, Florida. The ride itself is fine, and
Speaker 1: against all odds, still appears to be open. However, the
Speaker 1: indoor queue for the ride was wonderful, winding through an
Speaker 1: air conditioned indoor forest. It was relatively quiet and dark,
Speaker 1: and there were sound effects throughout, possibly also an ominous soundtrack,
Speaker 1: but I can't say if that's part of my memory
Speaker 1: that I generated or not. I never cared for the movie,
Speaker 1: but when I think of Et, this forest still comes
Speaker 1: to mind and brings back delightful memories. Thanks for the show, Nathaniel, oh,
Speaker 1: and I do want to to stress too that we
Speaker 1: are even though this episode is airing after our Weird
Speaker 1: Out Cinema episode on Crawl, which features tremendous indoor forest
Speaker 1: environments as well. Were um, we're recording this before we
Speaker 1: record the Crawl episode. Strangely, I have not been to
Speaker 1: Universal Studios, Florida since episode A kid Um sometime in
Speaker 1: elementary school my family went, but I remember this line.
Speaker 1: I remember it very clearly, much like I remember the
Speaker 1: line for the Jaws ride where they they're playing like
Speaker 1: interview clips, I think, and at least of the time
Speaker 1: I was there. One of them was Quint claiming that
Speaker 1: the after the shark ate him, it barfed him back
Speaker 1: up and they just played the movie where he gets
Speaker 1: the scene where he gets eaten in reverse. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was weird. But but at the e T Ride, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember this kind of peaceful, dark indoor forest where
Speaker 1: the line curl curls around and I think it's sort
Speaker 1: of recreating the environment of the beginning of the movie, right,
Speaker 1: because it doesn't the movie start with like the ship
Speaker 1: landing in a this like mountain forest in California. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it does. I haven't seen et in forever.
Speaker 1: Um attempted to introduce the boy to it, but we
Speaker 1: haven't sat down and watched it. I remember Reese's candy.
Speaker 1: It was Reese's right, Reese's pieces. I remember the shock
Speaker 1: of the where they you think that E. T Is
Speaker 1: dead in a gutter and you see his crumpled, um
Speaker 1: old body down there. That that's stuck in my head
Speaker 1: from watching the film as a kid. The scenes where
Speaker 1: the the the humans and the bio containment outfits have
Speaker 1: shown up. That was pretty frightening. Yeah, And I guess
Speaker 1: his finger glows yeah, And the flying bicycle and that's it.
Speaker 1: That's what I remember. I've seen Mac and Me more
Speaker 1: recently than I've seen the same same and I've seen
Speaker 1: pod People more than any of these films. Definite et vibes,
Speaker 1: the excellent Spanish film What was the Was it? Alien Invaders?
Speaker 1: This the original title of that one. This Potato has
Speaker 1: big ears? All right? You want to wrap it up there? Yes,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and uh cap this one off. But
Speaker 1: we'll be back with more listen mail next Monday. And
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