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Speaker 1: your Mind. Listener mail. My name is Robert Lamb and
Speaker 1: my name is Joe McCormick. Again, It's Monday, the day
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Speaker 1: at Stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. Rob If
Speaker 1: you don't mind, I'm going to start off with this
Speaker 1: message from Lurch, which relates to several episodes. Yeah, Lurch
Speaker 1: it up, Lurch says, good warning, gentlemen, allow me to
Speaker 1: start by flogging a dead lamb, referring back to the
Speaker 1: vegetable lamb of tartary. Wow, we have really been getting
Speaker 1: some stragglers on this one. That's been going on for
Speaker 1: months now. Yeah, this is not sometimes you can you
Speaker 1: know an episode is going to generate a certain amount
Speaker 1: of feedback. Some uh, some don't actually come through like
Speaker 1: you expect they will, and something like the vegetable lamb
Speaker 1: of Tartary just continue to pull in the listener contents,
Speaker 1: which which I love. I love being surprised like that.
Speaker 1: I think I've noticed a pattern that the definitely we
Speaker 1: get the most email in response to any episode that
Speaker 1: offers listeners a chance to tell us about their dreams,
Speaker 1: not like their hopes and dreams, but their nighttime, sleepy dreams. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I guess that's what y'all are like. Okay, anyway, Lurch
Speaker 1: goes on to say, referring referring back to the vegetable
Speaker 1: lamb of Tartary, I was struck by the apparent fact
Speaker 1: I may be misremembering that the earliest references to the
Speaker 1: lamb slash gourd were as food. Knowing how and thoughtful
Speaker 1: humans are to strangers, it seems quite possible that a
Speaker 1: traveler was once offered baked lamb in a gourd as
Speaker 1: a feast provided by some host as a joke. Of
Speaker 1: such things are history made? Well, that's that's an interesting
Speaker 1: point I have had in the past, when I was
Speaker 1: more of a meat eater, I did have meat in
Speaker 1: a pumpkin ones, So such a dishes do exist. It's
Speaker 1: been so long I forgot what the earliest accounts, where
Speaker 1: was it, Sir John Mandeville? And didn't he but I
Speaker 1: think he said like it it was a fully formed
Speaker 1: little lamb. Yeah, you have these different versions of it, right,
Speaker 1: complicated are the roots of the vegetable lamb of tartary? Okay,
Speaker 1: Lurch goes on to say, I'm just glad it didn't
Speaker 1: catch on. Speaking of cooking, let me now turn my
Speaker 1: attention to cauldron's I'm positive I'm not the first to
Speaker 1: float this hypothesis, so I'm rather surprised it wasn't given
Speaker 1: at least a passing mention. In the episodes, several times
Speaker 1: you guys mentioned that cauldrons have been found hidden deliberately
Speaker 1: placed in relatively secure locations, such as bogs. I've never
Speaker 1: thought of a bog as a secure location. But okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a solid investment. Always invest in bogs. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't lose, Lurch says. Relatively speaking, I'd suggest that
Speaker 1: cauldrons were expensive back in the day, and of course
Speaker 1: they're still pretty heavy. Uh yeah. Of course this goes
Speaker 1: along with something we talked about in one of the
Speaker 1: later Cauldron episodes about that paper, arguing that cauldron's had
Speaker 1: social significance because they were sort of something that would
Speaker 1: be used, probably not in preparing normal everyday meals, but
Speaker 1: for preparing communal meals. So if you had a cauldron,
Speaker 1: that was kind of like showing off your your wealth
Speaker 1: and community significance and your power to uh to assert
Speaker 1: social dominance by hosting feasts. But springboarding off the idea
Speaker 1: that cauldrons are expensive, Lurch says, if a horde of
Speaker 1: rampaging outsiders were threatening your home, but you couldn't flee
Speaker 1: with your valuables, what would you do what everybody else
Speaker 1: in that situation is done throughout history, Hide the good
Speaker 1: china and the hope that it will still be there
Speaker 1: when you return if you return. Of course, if you don't,
Speaker 1: you still want to deny the good stuff to the
Speaker 1: bad guys. Okay, so I think I understand Lurch is
Speaker 1: suggesting that somebody may have just hidden a cauldron in
Speaker 1: the bog for safe keeping, rather than intentionally depositing it
Speaker 1: there as a sacrifice to the gods, as has often
Speaker 1: been assumed. Yeah, it's an interesting hypothesis. It's my understanding
Speaker 1: that the historians are are going on more than just
Speaker 1: the finding of cauldrons in bogs. I mean, we have
Speaker 1: other things that have been entered there, such as bodies
Speaker 1: and so forth, that there there seems to be a
Speaker 1: strong understanding that these were sacred places, that they were
Speaker 1: maybe considered you a place between. Right, you might find
Speaker 1: bodies in the bog that are not just anybody, but
Speaker 1: somebody who looks pretty strongly like a case of human
Speaker 1: sacrifice or something like that. Okay. Uh. Finally, Lurch said,
Speaker 1: I turned my attention to weird house in particular Planet
Speaker 1: of the Vampires, one of my all time favorite movies.
Speaker 1: During your commentary, Joe mentioned that he loves a good uniform.
Speaker 1: I think we both said that I quite agree. Let
Speaker 1: me share my favorite, the uniforms of the Technocrats in
Speaker 1: Things to Come. What puts these uniforms at the top
Speaker 1: of the list is the absolutely over the top helmet.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, these are the best cinematic uniforms ever made.
Speaker 1: Robbi included some pictures for you to look at. We
Speaker 1: can come back and uh and address these in a bit,
Speaker 1: but just to finish lurches message. On a side note,
Speaker 1: near the end of the movie is a set that
Speaker 1: leaves me in stitches every time I watch. They're preparing
Speaker 1: to use a huge gun to fire people into space
Speaker 1: to the moon. Aside from the fact that this idea
Speaker 1: cannot work, why is there a site on the end
Speaker 1: of the barrel? Thank you for helping the miles go
Speaker 1: by more quickly, lurch. Okay, so I guess we should
Speaker 1: briefly introduce the idea of Things to Come. This this
Speaker 1: movie from the thirties. I believe I talked about it
Speaker 1: in the previous Listener mail episode that I did by
Speaker 1: myself while you were out of town once. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is um this is one of those films. I've
Speaker 1: never actually seen it, but I'm familiar with it, and
Speaker 1: of course I've been admiring this space suit for for ages.
Speaker 1: Things to Come n six widely regarded as a sci
Speaker 1: fi classic, and what one that Michael Weldon actually had
Speaker 1: of the psychotronic film Guides lists as one of his
Speaker 1: top ten films of the nineteen thirties. This one's also
Speaker 1: notable because H. G. Wells adapted his own novel for
Speaker 1: the screen in this one, and I believe this is
Speaker 1: the only time that he did this. Uh so, Yeah,
Speaker 1: these space suits are pretty great. They have basically imagine
Speaker 1: a traditional space suit, and there's a lot of same
Speaker 1: noess in space suit designs and science fiction. Now imagine
Speaker 1: one that has enough room for your head to grow
Speaker 1: in size by what uh and the three sizes are more.
Speaker 1: Or one that has enough room for the most outrageous
Speaker 1: hairstyle imaginable. If you ever played Golden I for the
Speaker 1: Nintendo sixty four and you use the cheat known as
Speaker 1: d K mode, where it would turn all the characters
Speaker 1: into Donkey Kong with giant heads and arms. This is
Speaker 1: a space suit made for for DK mode people. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's but the thing is so yes, you can when
Speaker 1: you describe it like this, it sounds ridiculous. It does
Speaker 1: look a little ridiculous, but it also looks really cool
Speaker 1: in a way that's hard to really drive home. Wine.
Speaker 1: I think part of it is that it just does
Speaker 1: look so different, and therefore it feels like a product
Speaker 1: of a of a of a different age. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: I love a big, very sort of globular helmet like this.
Speaker 1: You know, I always love the helmets in Alien, like
Speaker 1: in the Alien franchise, because they're kind of oh, you know,
Speaker 1: they're like a big glass ball on the front. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: those are those are solid helmets for sure. Now coming
Speaker 1: back to what Lurch says, a out the space gun
Speaker 1: that's gonna send people into orbit in the movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never noticed this before, but it is true. The
Speaker 1: barrel of this giant guns, this is not something that
Speaker 1: would be held by a human. It's like building sized.
Speaker 1: It has an iron sight at the end of the barrel,
Speaker 1: like somebody's going to be looking down it aim. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe. Weldon also said in his summary of the
Speaker 1: city that he thinks like it's it's one of those
Speaker 1: films you can really only compare it to Metropolis, like
Speaker 1: he in terms of the scope of it. And I
Speaker 1: guess the end of the time period of science fiction involved.
Speaker 1: All right. We also heard back from some folks on
Speaker 1: our Vault episode about Numerouscy. This one comes to us
Speaker 1: from Anna, Hello, Robert, Joe, and Steath. I enjoyed your
Speaker 1: recent Vault episode on Numerousy and whether it is innate
Speaker 1: or learned. I was wondering how this relates to time
Speaker 1: as a small child, you conceptualized time differently, Like when
Speaker 1: you were told you can play for fifteen minutes, that
Speaker 1: doesn't really have much meaning. You just stopped playing when
Speaker 1: your mom says it's dinner time. But you do have
Speaker 1: an idea of time passing. Rob's story about his son
Speaker 1: reminds me of something that happened to my niece, Mim.
Speaker 1: She was staying with my parents, Granny and granddad. To
Speaker 1: her and my brother, her father had taken the opportunity
Speaker 1: to go to the shops child free. Nim and Granny
Speaker 1: were playing out front of the house. Mim asked when
Speaker 1: will Daddy be home. Granny said, Daddy will be home soon,
Speaker 1: and with the absolute confidence of a four year old,
Speaker 1: Nim said, but it's soon. Now hard to argue with
Speaker 1: that smiley face. I really enjoy all the content you
Speaker 1: put out, and I love the way you presented. Keep
Speaker 1: up the good work. That's great. And so the first
Speaker 1: paragraph here about like being told you can play for
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes as a child and that not really having meaning,
Speaker 1: I think it's absolutely squares with my memories of childhood,
Speaker 1: where time being given time periods up to a certain
Speaker 1: point was very mysterious to me, and at a certain point,
Speaker 1: I re remember deciding, like when I was asking on
Speaker 1: a car trip how much time was left. Essentially, if
Speaker 1: I was told anything less than an hour, I knew
Speaker 1: that we would be there immediately. It's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: we're pretty much there. And anything more than an hour,
Speaker 1: I knew it would be forever. Yeah, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a it's it's a it's a timeless question, especially for children.
Speaker 1: How soon as soon? How soon is now? All right?
Speaker 1: Here's another one about our numerous the episodes. This is
Speaker 1: from Andrea. Andrea says, Hi, Robert and Joe, I've been
Speaker 1: listening to the show for at least four years, but
Speaker 1: I've never written in until now. Your vault episode discussing
Speaker 1: whether animals have been number since reminded me of a
Speaker 1: cat we had years ago who was both very very
Speaker 1: smart and very very strange. When she was a kitten,
Speaker 1: one of her favorite pastimes was to go to the basement,
Speaker 1: pick up a strip of rag that we had torn
Speaker 1: up for staking tomato plants, carry it up the stairs
Speaker 1: in her mouth, deposited on the kitchen floor, then return
Speaker 1: to the basement for the next one. If, however, to
Speaker 1: mess with her we removed rag number six while she
Speaker 1: was down getting number seven. She would notice immediately when
Speaker 1: she returned to become very upset and search for it
Speaker 1: while me owing accusingly at us. We surmised from this
Speaker 1: that she could indeed count I'm open to other explanations though.
Speaker 1: Oh and then Andrea has some other comments about enjoying
Speaker 1: listening to our show as as one drifts off to sleep.
Speaker 1: But either way, yes, so we we we fully support
Speaker 1: that usage as well. Um so so, Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: this is an interesting story about the cat. Rob Have
Speaker 1: you ever seen anything like this? Uh? No, but I
Speaker 1: I absolutely have no reason to doubt that this cat
Speaker 1: has a full range of numerousy. I mean, I can't
Speaker 1: make any other hypothesis that could possibly explain this. This
Speaker 1: cat has the maths. This cat will prove the Rimond conjecture. No,
Speaker 1: I seriously though, I yeah, I don't even I really
Speaker 1: don't even know what to make of this. I would,
Speaker 1: I would seriously guess that the cat does not have
Speaker 1: any kind of a number sense. Um, that there's some
Speaker 1: other reason for one rag rather than the other rag,
Speaker 1: but that it has nothing to do with the numbers
Speaker 1: that are printed on there. Yeah, it's been a while
Speaker 1: since we did the episode, so now I'm afraid it's
Speaker 1: you know, we we talked about these things, and sometimes
Speaker 1: they sort of partially leave my head, or sometimes more
Speaker 1: than partially. I think it was that, you know that.
Speaker 1: I think the conclusion was that a lot of animals
Speaker 1: seem to have maybe a sense of numerousy for a
Speaker 1: few numbers, like like one to three or so, but
Speaker 1: after that, differences get get kind of lost. Like you
Speaker 1: wouldn't expect a non human animal to tell the difference
Speaker 1: between six and seven, does that quantity? Yeah, like here's
Speaker 1: six cat treats, here's seven cat treats. Um. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: if my memory is correct on this, yeah, it means
Speaker 1: that the cat probably can't tell the difference between those
Speaker 1: quantities where it could tell the difference between say two
Speaker 1: and seven, and in terms of the numbers six and seven,
Speaker 1: absolutely not, unless I mean, they would have to be
Speaker 1: some other factors involved, something sent related or I don't
Speaker 1: even know if the sound related. It could be possible,
Speaker 1: I guess if there was something attached to the uh
Speaker 1: to to the strips um. Yeah, I don't know. There
Speaker 1: have to be some other elements in play here. The
Speaker 1: closest studn seed to that is my dog knows that
Speaker 1: he gets too dog treats after dinner, and if he
Speaker 1: just gets one, he knows that he has owed another
Speaker 1: one he doesn't forget. But I don't know if he
Speaker 1: were to get seven after dinner, he might just lose track. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to test tonight. It's um, it's seven treats,
Speaker 1: and then keep that up for a little bit and
Speaker 1: then bring him down to six and see if he complains.
Speaker 1: All right, you want to do some of these messages
Speaker 1: about sky bridges. Yeah, this is one where I knew
Speaker 1: we would to hear from from folks on these, and
Speaker 1: I was not disappointed. This one comes to us from Jeff.
Speaker 1: Jeff says, Hi, Robert and Joe. I just finished listening
Speaker 1: through the first and second episode on sky bridges, and
Speaker 1: I've got a few thoughts. I grew up and currently
Speaker 1: live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, which regularly gets colder than negative
Speaker 1: forty degrees celsius for days or weeks at a time
Speaker 1: during the winter, and often gets warmer than thirty degrees
Speaker 1: celsius in the summertime. As a result, our entire downtown
Speaker 1: is basically connected by various sky bridges, underground tunnels, and
Speaker 1: covered arcades, making quite simple to get from a person's
Speaker 1: house then to work, and including a chance to walk
Speaker 1: around underground tunnels to do some additional shopping on your
Speaker 1: lunch break in the underground mall. I lived in a
Speaker 1: high rise for a few years, and navigating indoors to
Speaker 1: get to concerts, restaurants, and even my grocery shopping was
Speaker 1: quite simple if I wanted to avoid it the elements.
Speaker 1: I also used to work at the University of Manitoba,
Speaker 1: which is almost entirely connected by underground tunnels, so that
Speaker 1: in the extreme cold, it is easy for students and
Speaker 1: staff to get from building to building. A benefit to
Speaker 1: having this protected connectivity that often goes overlooked is the
Speaker 1: increased accessibility for people with mobility concerns, especially in a
Speaker 1: city like Winnipeg that gets tremendous snow when ice builds
Speaker 1: up throughout the year, and navigating with assistance devices and
Speaker 1: bulky clothes can be quite difficult and cumbersome. I could
Speaker 1: talk about the subject for hours, so I will end
Speaker 1: it there, but I appreciate what you do. Keep up
Speaker 1: the good work. Jeff Great points Jeff. Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 1: first on you know, a cold city or a city
Speaker 1: that is often cold, and then the mobility issues that's
Speaker 1: that's that's a big concern. Along the same lines with
Speaker 1: the with the relationship between skybridge density and weather, we
Speaker 1: got a message from Kenya. Kenya says, hello, I'm surprised
Speaker 1: you focus so much on Atlanta instead of Minneapolis or St. Paul,
Speaker 1: which have intricate mazes of skywalks connecting a good number
Speaker 1: of buildings downtown. I went to St. Paul and a
Speaker 1: work trip in the dead of winter. Our team stayed
Speaker 1: at a hotel that wasn't on the Skyway, while the
Speaker 1: client team stayed in a hotel that was connected to
Speaker 1: the Skyway. I remember them showing up without their coats
Speaker 1: while we were freezing. They forgot to tell us about
Speaker 1: this on subsequent days. Walking to the work site from
Speaker 1: our hotel, we walked to the closest building on the
Speaker 1: Skyway and snaked our way through buildings to get to work.
Speaker 1: Food convenience stores, a post office, and everything you could
Speaker 1: need were in that maze. I would also love for
Speaker 1: you guys to talk about underground tunnels that work the
Speaker 1: way that skywalks do. At at one point in the
Speaker 1: Crystal City part of Arlington, Virginia, there was no foot traffic.
Speaker 1: Everything was underground. The Crystal City Underground isn't what it
Speaker 1: used to be. At one time it had an arcade
Speaker 1: in a movie theater. Now it just contained some lunch
Speaker 1: spots in a theater while connecting several buildings to the
Speaker 1: metro station. I've always thought it dark and day, but
Speaker 1: it's a similar concept, just without sunlight. Toronto has a
Speaker 1: similar underground tunnel system. Your show is always a good listen, Kenya, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Kenya. Um Well, it's the first on the
Speaker 1: Atlanta point. I mean, first of all, we are in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: so it is kind of what's kind of neat to
Speaker 1: focus a little bit on our home city here. But
Speaker 1: also I found that some of the social elements in
Speaker 1: play and some of the social criticism of of of
Speaker 1: sky bridges in these in some of these connected walkways,
Speaker 1: they're a little more pronounced here in Atlanta versus a
Speaker 1: city that has extreme cold weather going on. But still
Speaker 1: I'm very much enjoying these examples that are coming to
Speaker 1: us from northern cities. And as for tunnels, so I
Speaker 1: mean don't don't tempt us. Uh, we'd we'd love to
Speaker 1: do some episodes on tunnels in the future. I'm always
Speaker 1: fascinated by subterranean passageways um for humans, for for trains
Speaker 1: full of humans, for non human entities as well. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that I think we could we could easily explore that
Speaker 1: in the future. I I rob, I would say, you
Speaker 1: have chronic tunnel bug in the brain. You you are
Speaker 1: will never pass up a chance to talk about tunnels.
Speaker 1: I'd I love a tunnel, and we have a feeling,
Speaker 1: we have a we have some. We have some tunnels
Speaker 1: here in Atlanta, though we're not nearly as underground a
Speaker 1: city as as as many others. I mean, so's the
Speaker 1: best examples are certainly far from here. But even then,
Speaker 1: I love I love it when I'm in like a
Speaker 1: train tunnel here in Atlanta on our Marta system. Alright,
Speaker 1: one last message about sky bridges. This is from Pat.
Speaker 1: Pat says, very interesting episodes, Thanks ever so much. I
Speaker 1: was reminded of a not so spectacular example in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: When I was a boy, I loved visiting the Abraham
Speaker 1: Strausse department store on Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn. The
Speaker 1: development and history of department stores is a cool subject.
Speaker 1: This wonderful old store had many departments and an annex
Speaker 1: building with availability of products not found in other department
Speaker 1: stores in the sixties. At this one story, you could
Speaker 1: buy quote underdrawers and I'm not sure I understand the
Speaker 1: the accent being portrayed in this uh in this quote
Speaker 1: underdrawers and the machine to wash them in One reached
Speaker 1: the annex through a sky bridge. I loved this entrance
Speaker 1: and I never missed the opportunity. You talked briefly about
Speaker 1: roofs over cities. I read long ago about an idea
Speaker 1: about creating a second level in Manhattan. The lower level
Speaker 1: would be traffic only, the upper level would be pedestrian only. Sure,
Speaker 1: there would be a dark underground, but this is not
Speaker 1: a living space. It's a way of securing pedestrians from
Speaker 1: the perils of vehicular traffic. Do keep up the fun work,
Speaker 1: pat Well. That last point is very much in keeping
Speaker 1: with some of the you know, the reasons behind creating
Speaker 1: the sky bridges. Yeah, and and some of these sort
Speaker 1: of fantas aastic architectural solutions like let's get the people
Speaker 1: away from the from the vehicular traffic. Well, let's create
Speaker 1: a safe barrier between the two. By the way, speaking
Speaker 1: of Brooklyn, UM, I know I've mentioned this on the
Speaker 1: show before, but if anyone out there, if you find
Speaker 1: yourself in New York in Brooklyn as a tourist, or
Speaker 1: maybe you just live there and you haven't checked this
Speaker 1: out for yourself, the New York Transit Museum is excellent. Uh.
Speaker 1: It is in an old um subway station, and so
Speaker 1: you get to check out these examples of older cars
Speaker 1: with the older style advertisements on them on the train
Speaker 1: tracks themselves in an actual subway station. All right, And
Speaker 1: here's one more, and uh, this is I guess this is.
Speaker 1: This is not really a direct response to a Weird
Speaker 1: House so much, but it's kind of in keeping with
Speaker 1: the stuff we talked about on Weird House. Uh, this
Speaker 1: is a response to recent discussions of local TV horror hosts.
Speaker 1: And uh, who does this? Who's this coming out? We're
Speaker 1: not I was trying to I'm not sure what name
Speaker 1: this guy wanted us to use, so we'll skip the name.
Speaker 1: I guess. Okay, from somebody here comes some listener mail.
Speaker 1: All I grew up on Sanny Terry hosting horror films
Speaker 1: in the seventies and some of the eighties. The picks
Speaker 1: on the wiki page don't do him justice. So I
Speaker 1: have attached a picture for your viewing pleasure, enjoying the
Speaker 1: show and encouraging you to keep up the good work. Uh,
Speaker 1: and there's uh you know what we have what we
Speaker 1: have your Joe, We have some pictures of Samuel Terry
Speaker 1: and we were you shared some video footage with me earlier. Well,
Speaker 1: so this picture is a screen grab I took that.
Speaker 1: This listener attached some other links in the in the email.
Speaker 1: But Sammy Terry, if you're not getting it yet, that's
Speaker 1: a that is a pun name, like cemetery. But when
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I'm not familiar. Sammy Terry was
Speaker 1: an Indianapolis area local TV horror host. You can look
Speaker 1: up it's there's clips of him on YouTube. The one
Speaker 1: I watched was an intro to some movie. I don't
Speaker 1: know what movie he was going into, but he gave
Speaker 1: the most bizarre monologue about how, um, let's see like
Speaker 1: you could be running from a madman, and then while
Speaker 1: you're running from the madman, perhaps you get abducted by aliens,
Speaker 1: and then you finally make it home safe, only to
Speaker 1: discover that your tap water has been poisoned by a
Speaker 1: like brain eating virus. And uh so strap in for
Speaker 1: the movie. Uh and when it introduces Sam Sammy Terry,
Speaker 1: he gets out of a coffin, he stands up, he's
Speaker 1: got he's got sort of a Frankenstein face makeup, he's
Speaker 1: kind of green. Uh and he's got a big red
Speaker 1: cape with a hood. And it introduces him with a
Speaker 1: local news style chiron like a name tag at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the screen, except it doesn't do the punt.
Speaker 1: It calls him Samuel Terry, and then under that it
Speaker 1: says Google, I guess as his occupation. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think I've seen footage of this guy before, but I
Speaker 1: like the stick. I think he had a good thing
Speaker 1: going here. He also had a pet, rubber spider named
Speaker 1: George Nice. Yeah, it seems like the main things you
Speaker 1: need needed for one of these uh these these daytime
Speaker 1: horror host gigs, was you need a little bit of makeup,
Speaker 1: a few props, you know, maybe you have you know,
Speaker 1: some sort of a coffin and the shot get one
Speaker 1: from the local funeral home. But then mostly you just
Speaker 1: need to have a lot of enthusiasm to ham it
Speaker 1: up in front of the camera and talk well, in
Speaker 1: this example, about basically anything in order to set up
Speaker 1: the motion picture. I would say that, at least in
Speaker 1: the one clip I watched, Sammy Terry seemed less oriented
Speaker 1: around puns and jokes than someone like Elvira or the
Speaker 1: crypt Keeper, who they were just like chock full of
Speaker 1: densely packed comedy about the movies. If I recall, Sammy
Speaker 1: Terry seemed more like a sort of campy Hammy direct
Speaker 1: to monologue about monsters and frights. I mean, maybe he
Speaker 1: wasn't actual Ghoul. That's the thing we're doubting the authenticity
Speaker 1: of the character. This is he's he's risen from the
Speaker 1: tomb here and he's here to talk about tomb stuff.
Speaker 1: He didn't even know there's a movie coming. I didn't
Speaker 1: mean to disrespect his life's work. Google things are important. Well,
Speaker 1: this was great. If anybody out there has any other
Speaker 1: examples of local TV horrows, I'd certainly love to to
Speaker 1: hear about them. Like I said, there there's so many
Speaker 1: of them, um, each one with their own kind of
Speaker 1: regional flare. I saw one very heartwarming YouTube comment that's
Speaker 1: not a common phrase. Uh, where the whoever it was
Speaker 1: was just like I remember every Friday night it was,
Speaker 1: you know, some particular local pizza delivery place in Sammy Terry.
Speaker 1: Ah see that was That was event television. That's what
Speaker 1: they call it now. Yeah, all right, no, no, they
Speaker 1: don't call it event television. Appointment television. That was appointment television.
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