WEBVTT - Listener Mail: The Prophet's Song 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.600 Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.879 Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. Listener mail. 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:14.240 This is Robert Lamb. 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.200 And this is Joe McCormick. And it's Monday, the day 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:19.319 of each week that we read back messages from the 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.360 Stuff to Blow Your Mind email address. If you have 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.439 never gotten in touch with the show before, but maybe 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.720 you've thought about it, maybe you've felt a little tingle 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:30.680 in your brain that maybe you should get in touch, 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:32.960 this is the time, This is the week you should 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:36.400 do it. Reach out at contact at stuff to Blow 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:40.360 your Mind dot com. All types of messages are fair game. 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.440 We of course, always appreciate feedback to recent episodes. If 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:45.720 you want to suggest a topic for the future for 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:48.400 a core episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, or 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.680 a movie for Weird House Cinema, or if you have 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.400 something interesting you would like to add to something we've 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.240 recently talked about on the show. 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.840 I do want to throw in though, give us a 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.160 little context if you If you're just sending like a 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:05.800 link or a video attachment, so yeah, that just just 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:07.720 get throwing a little text there. Just let us know 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.520 what this is and why it has been sent. Because 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.440 sometimes we have been trained to be a little suspicious 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.279 about some of these things, So just a little added 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:18.920 context in those cases would be great. 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.480 That's a really good point, Rob. Yes, if there's like 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.479 text you'd like to include or something like that, it's 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.840 often better to just copy and paste into the email. 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:28.800 Then give us a link. We got to be cautious 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:29.399 about links. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.240 Yeah yeah, and uh yeah, And I think we've said 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.160 this before, but you know, write in and if you 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:36.280 if you want to share something and you don't want 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.840 it to go on listener mail, you don't want us 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:40.920 to feature it on the podcast, just state that, and 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:42.440 we're happy to honor that as well. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:43.000 Yep. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:44.720 All right, Well let's go ahead and dig into this 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.640 mail bag. Who wants to go first? You want to 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:48.440 grab one, Joe? 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:50.440 Uh, let's see, Well, why don't you do this one 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:51.559 about dust or Matt? 0:01:51.960 --> 0:02:01.760 All right, Matt Wrights, Greetings science humans. I have to say, 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:03.960 last time I wrote in, I did not expect to 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.640 hear it read on air, and it was a wonderful experience. 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:08.800 So thanks for that. It has been a while and 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:10.919 I think I might write more frequently in the future. 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.200 Life is crazy and the show helps ground me. So 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.519 when you were asking for more writers in, I figure 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.280 it's the least I can do. I've been listening to 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.639 a lot a lot to the archive, but I always 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.560 get excited for new episodes. Weird House Cinema has given 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.040 me endless hours of joy. And though I used to 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.160 wrinkle my nose of the kind of movies you talk 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.480 about on there, I have discovered that I have a 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.320 deep well of love for them. And my girlfriend's family 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.120 all think I'm crazy for it. 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.240 How's this coming up with your girlfriend's family? You like? 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:43.519 Have you seen Highlander two? 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.720 Hey? You know? I mean, I think movies are often 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:50.080 a great place to go. It's better than talking about 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.000 the weather as long as that connection's there. So anyway, 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.359 Matt continues, anyway, I wrote in to talk about dust, 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.160 so here goes. I am a veteran of the US 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.960 Navy CEBE, which I'm very proud of. And if you 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.960 don't know anything about CBS, I suggest you look them up, 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:06.040 because we're pretty cool. 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.000 I did look them up. The CBS. That's the nickname 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:13.360 of the US Naval Construction Battalions. So CBS is spelled 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:18.200 like the ocean and like the hymenoptera. But CBS, I 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.280 think comes from the CBE for Construction Battalions, and in short, 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.360 they do engineering and construction for the Navy and the 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:25.160 Marine Corps. 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.960 All right, Mac continues that they spent many months in 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:32.040 different deserts around the world. I was a mechanic when 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:33.519 I was in the Navy, so I had to deal 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.720 with dust destroying our equipment in a myriad of ways. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.480 The most common problem I found was the air filter 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.640 getting clogged every morning before we let any of the vehicles. 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.920 Vehicles exit the yard, particularly in Iraq, we would use 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.960 pressurized air to blow the air filters out, and there 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.560 was at least a pocket full of sand dust in 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.680 each one every day. Now this is reminding me of 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.600 doctor Fhive's rises again that here right. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.440 Oh right, yeah, the sand flasting in the car. 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.520 Matt continues. One thing I can offer up to you 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.360 folks that may help to answer some questions I heard 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.600 listeners asking in the Listener Mail episode is that dust 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.680 is everywhere all the time, so there doesn't need to 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.839 be a storm walking around kicks it up enough in 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.840 the air for it to clog air filters. In the Navy, 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.279 we called it moon dust, I think because it was 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.719 seemingly lighter than air, and when you stepped in it 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.960 it resulted in what looked like footprints on the moon. 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.520 The moondust caused a lot of issues, not just mechanical ones. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.920 As you walk around in a desert, it is impossible 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.200 to see the texture of the terrain because the moon 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.120 dust coats it and looks so smooth. It is not 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.120 smooth most of the time. The problem is that the 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.119 dust doesn't build up under your foot as you walk, 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.000 it moves and piles around your foot. It covers up 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.880 rocks and bumps in the road, so you have to 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.560 be a lot more careful walking around. I definitely tripped 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.000 a number of times and sprawled out looking silly on 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.839 the ground at first, but overall I think this gave 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.800 me stronger ankles, so maybe it was worth looking like 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.400 a fool a few times. 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:05.000 That sounds perilous. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.160 Yeah, as far as driving in a sandstorm goes, this 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.960 is something I would advise against strongly. I only went 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.000 outside during a storm once in Iraq. It was terrifying 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.040 and extremely dangerous just to attempt to walk to the 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.760 galley chow hall, mess hall place to eat at. My 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.320 friend and I started walking to the galley, which was 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.880 about a fourth of a mile away from camp, and 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.920 as soon as we walked across the street into a 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.120 large sandy flat that covered the distance to the galley, 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.920 the wind, which was loaded with all sizes of grains 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.240 of sand, not just dust, just about knocked us over. 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.000 We walked on for a short time, pressing hard against 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.560 the wind. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a huge chunk of 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:48.080 the fuselage of a plane came bounding by, bouncing like 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.040 a tumbleweed. The only reason we could even see it 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.560 is because it was a foot in front of us, 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.599 which scared us both enough to look at each other 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:00.000 and say, to hell with the galley. I have snacks 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.920 in my room. At the same time, but wait, it's 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.400 not over yet. We turned around and headed back to camp, 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:09.680 only to arrive at the galley. This was slightly demoralizing, 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.359 and I'm sure we cursed a lot at this point, 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.000 but we eventually got back to camp. I never attempted 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.440 to go anywhere during a sandstorm again. I hope my 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.760 email is worth how long it is. Thank you so 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:20.640 much for all that you do. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.640 Much love, Matt, Oh, thank you so much, Matt. Yeah, 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.080 these are exactly the kinds of experiences we love to 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:27.720 hear about in listener mail. It adds a lot of 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:29.640 text here to the stuff we talk about to hear 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:30.960 about personal experiences. 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.120 Absolutely, all right, what else do we have in the 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:34.920 old mail bag. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.760 Year, let's see? Oh well, we got a response to 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.839 the first part in our series on meteorite iron, the 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.080 Iron from the Sky. So this is responding to a 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.200 part of the episode when we were talking about how 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.120 before the process of smelting iron from ore became widely 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.360 known and practiced, in the ancient world, iron was often 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.840 treated as a precious metal like gold or silver today, 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.240 but perhaps even more rare and valuable because most of 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:04.400 it had to be sourced from meteorites that fell from space. 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.599 And though it probably did not happen fast enough for 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:12.520 this scenario to actually occur, we imagined a scene where 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:16.560 somebody's clutching their incredibly scarce and valuable iron trinket, maybe 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:21.040 it's an iron dagger or an iron amulet or something. Meanwhile, 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.720 the local metalworkers are figuring out iron smelting, and iron 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.960 quite suddenly becomes very common and very cheap, sort of 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:32.600 the reverse Goldfinger scenario. So that's context for this message 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:41.680 from listener Joe. Joe says, your story of iron suddenly 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:45.680 losing value reminded me of the Twilight Zone classic with 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.280 which I imagine you're familiar, the Rip Van Winkle Caper. 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.560 So this is an episode of The Twilight Zone where 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.840 you got like a team of scientists they pull off 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.240 a massive gold heist from Fort Knox, and they believe 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.480 they can evade the law by taking their gold bricks 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:06.000 and then going into specially created suspended animation chambers that 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.040 are going to let them sleep for one hundred years. 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:10.000 So I think the idea is, you know, you come 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.160 out one hundred years later and start trying to trade 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.600 the gold. It's not going to arouse suspicion. 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.520 I remember this episode. This is one I saw as 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.440 a kid on TV watching old episodes of The Twilight Zone, 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.560 and I still distinctly remember it because one of the 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:28.880 plot points is that when they wake up in the future, well, 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:30.720 one of the characters wakes up, but the other character, 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.000 like a rock has fallen from the ceiling and has 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:39.520 broken like the glass panel of the preservation chamber that 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.280 they were in, and so now there's just a skeleton 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:41.640 in there. 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.960 Yeah, yeah, the disrupted hibernation. I think like three of 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.679 the four conspirators survive, but then they after they wake up, 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.800 there is much desperation and betrayal. I think they end 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.640 up stranded in the desert and they're like trying to 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:56.839 buy a drink of water off each other for thirty 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.800 pounds of gold for a sip or something. And then 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.240 here in the email, Joe goes on to quote some 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.640 dialogue from the twist ending of the episode. So you know, 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.680 one of the one of the dying conspirators is like 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.199 trying to buy water from someone in the desert for 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.439 these gold bars. And then the characters say, can you 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.040 imagine that he offered this to me as if it 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:22.319 was really worth something? You know, wasn't it worth something once? George? 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.240 I mean, didn't people use gold for money? Sure, about 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.400 one hundred years ago before they found a way of 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:28.800 manufacturing it. 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:30.520 It's a great twist. I love this one. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.400 Yeah, it totally is that kind of irony the Twilight 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.560 Zone twists are really known for. It's kind of gold 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:37.920 enough at last, right. 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.880 Yeah, yeah, oh man, some of the Yeah, when Twilight 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.240 Zone was at its best, like you just can't touch it. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.679 I need to go back and watch some more episodes 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.080 of it that in the original Outer Limits. We were 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.800 just talking about that off mic the other day about 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.679 some episodes of the original Outer Limits good. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:59.080 Stuff, the one where Donald Pleasance plays a professor who 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:03.160 invents a way of like telekinetically controlling events, but then 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.240 of course it spirals out of control. I think he 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:18.359 ends up subconsciously getting revenge on everyone who wronged him. 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:19.920 All right, let's see what else do we have here? 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:24.120 Always have some more weird House specific email. We're already 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.720 in the basic vibe of weird house, but let's go 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:29.720 all the way in. This one comes to us from Albert, 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.720 subject line Dragon Slayer. Hi, Robert and Joe. I remember 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.320 watching the film in theaters in nineteen eighty one. It 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.120 was such an awesome experience, especially for someone who is 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:43.520 in the midst of playing advanced dungeons and dragons. Anyway, 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:47.080 if you can at all find it, the novelization of 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.480 Dragon Slayer was a great read. It went into a 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.600 lot more details into the background of all the characters. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.400 For example, Ulrick dreams of the first dragon born of 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:01.400 his sorcerer's humorous paid in blood by the innocence, you 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.560 get the backstory to the dragon slaying spear crafted by 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.520 Valarian's father. I'm not one hundred percent sure about the film, 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:12.280 but in the novelization, the father crafted the dragon slaying 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.640 spear under the guidance of Ulrich many years ago. The 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:19.000 price of his hubris to craft such a mighty weapon 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.160 was the loss of his wife to the lottery, leaving 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.960 him with a baby girl. The romance between Galen and 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.040 Valerian is a little more developed, as Galen was not 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.320 imprisoned but was allowed to live in the village for weeks, 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:36.439 spending time with Valarian. There were other developments, so if 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.520 you get the chance, I highly recommend the novelization as 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.080 a companion to the film. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:45.640 Many thanks, Albert, thanks for the recommendation. You know, we've 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:49.480 talked about movie novelizations a good bit on the show before, 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.439 and I can't remember if this specific thing came up, 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.040 but I was thinking about how I read a theory 0:11:55.120 --> 0:12:00.640 somewhere that film novelizations really filled a niche before home 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.800 video existed, so you could if you could only see 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.720 a movie in a theater, maybe you really loved the 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:10.320 movie and then it wasn't playing anywhere near you anymore? 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.080 What do you do? Maybe in this case, you go 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.400 buy a novelization of the film, and this is your 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.880 only way to experience the film again is to sort 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.360 of read the movie. 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.439 Yeah, yeah, And I think it's they can still serve 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.240 that purpose. There aren't as many of them as they 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.280 used as there used to be, but they still buzzt 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.360 out novelizations from time to time and all occasionally, I 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:34.240 haven't done this in a while, occasionally given and use one. 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.720 And yeah, I mean it costs cost a fair chunk 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.240 of change to go see a movie in the theater, 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.080 and if you don't have some sort of a theater 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.280 membership going on and the spare time to do it, 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.880 you might not be up for another two to three 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.960 hours in the theater to experience it again. And novelizations, 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.120 you know, often give you a chance to revisit it 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.560 the material, but with slight tweaks and changes, they can 0:12:58.600 --> 0:12:59.280 be a lot of fun. 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:04.040 I think we've also talked about before that the interesting task, 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.160 like the creative task of a writer of a film 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:12.840 novelization to sometimes fill in like paper over gaps, like 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.480 a movie might have plot holes that are never explained, 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:19.439 but the novelization provides an author with like these sort 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.640 of challenges, these clever, clever ways to come up to 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.640 get around to the plot holes or explain inconsistencies and 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:26.200 so forth. 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:30.520 Yeah, yeah, so yeah, they can be great. I love 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:34.000 hearing about the ones I haven't read. And it seems 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:35.360 like a lot of people I talked to all have 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.280 that one favorite, you know that they distinctly remember, perhaps 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.240 reading as a kid. You know, when you're at times 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:45.320 your obsession can be just absolutely maximized over some movie 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.440 you've just seen, So like, yeah, I remember reading the 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:54.880 novelization of Tim Burton's Batman, among others, and you know, 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.920 they're they're often extra scenes and then also a little 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.000 insights sometimes into like what this film was looking like, 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.840 perhaps before final editing or you know, before everything was 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.360 fully shot and so forth. Now I know what some 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.040 of you are wondering, Well, who wrote the Dragon Slayer novelization? 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.480 And was it Alan Dean Foster who wrote so many 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.080 of them. Now I looked it up. It was a 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.960 writer by the name of Wayland Drew who of nineteen 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.440 thirty two through nineteen ninety eight, who I don't think 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.040 I've read anything by this individual. But some of the 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.840 other novelizations that they did include Corvette Summer, which came 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.840 up in Dragon Slayer Batteries Not Included, which is also 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:33.800 connected to the same filmmakers. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.920 And Willow. Okay. I did a quick check to see 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.440 if that was the same author as the novelization of 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.640 Halloween three Season of the Witch, but that's not. That 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:43.560 was Jack Martin. Okay. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.520 And then you know, like most of these writers, they 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:51.560 also have original works and I have not read any 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.960 of these either, but this was a Canadian writer. 0:14:55.600 --> 0:15:04.560 Okay. This next message comes from b Z. BZ says, Greetings, 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.320 Robin Joe. I have listened for years to your podcast 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.800 and greatly appreciate your well researched approach to the broad 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.640 range of topics you discuss. At the moment, I am 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.680 behind on my listening, but have thoroughly enjoyed getting caught up, 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.440 and just recently listened to your July twenty first, twenty 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.880 twenty three Weird House Cinema episode on nausicaa of the 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.280 Valley of the Wind. Normally I enjoy your breakdowns of 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.040 strange movies, but have maybe only seen one or two 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.200 of them. I felt a strange pull as you began 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.440 describing the art and the story of Nausica. I could 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.640 truly feel your love of the film and had to 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.080 experience it myself. After all, Rob did describe it as 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.600 a perfect film. I paused the episode and that evening 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.800 rented the English dub. I was immediately taken by the 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:52.040 beautiful animation, the thoughtful story, and the compelling characters. It 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.880 was a truly moving work of art. Thank you for 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:59.040 creating a new experience for me. Keep up the fantastic work. Sincerely, 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:03.320 b z PS. As a land surveyor, I work with 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.240 boundary markers, both modern and historical. I think the topic 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.600 of boundary stones in history would make an excellent episode. 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.960 There are curses both petty and grand in nature, and 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:20.400 even the Old Testament wides in with Deuteronomy twenty seven seventeen. Yeah, 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:24.040 we actually have talked about boundary markers and boundary stones 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.600 from the ancient world in some episode we did years ago. 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:30.600 It might have been an episode of Invention, though, that's possible, 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.480 which was another podcast we did that. We eventually sort 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:35.760 of just folded the format of back into stuff to 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:36.680 blow your mind. 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.360 But it's still out there if you want to check 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:42.040 out all the Invention episodes. The feed is still still alive. 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.160 That's right. But anyway to come back to your the 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.800 curses about boundary markers from Deuteronomy twenty seven to seventeen. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.760 This is in a section of Deuteronomy known as the 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:56.640 twelve curses. So you've got curses for a variety of offenses. 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.920 On one hand, you've got curses for anyone who lies 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.560 with an animal or lies with his mother in law. 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.639 But also you've got curses for anyone who leads the 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.920 blind to stray on the road, kills a neighbor in secret, 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.679 or a curse for anyone who mistreats a widow, an orphan, 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:15.520 or a stranger from another country. And then one of 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.840 the curses also shows heightened concern for the tampering with 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.440 land boundaries. It said curse would be anyone who moves 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:26.520 a neighbor's boundary marker. All the people shall say, amen. 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.119 Oh man, I almost moved a boundary marker this morning. 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.879 I need to know that the that you know that 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.520 the curses may be in play, But did you literally 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.320 did you you know how they do? Sometimes you know, 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.760 there's boundary markers in the legal sense, and then there's 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.120 like where the fences were built. And so sometimes when 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.639 like neighboring properties, they're measuring things out, they'll throw a 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.560 stake over on your side of the fence, or a 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:52.399 little bit of a you know, marker tape or whatever 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.080 will be on your side. And I was looking at 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.119 one of these and I was cutting back some weeds, 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:58.680 and it was like, should I give this a cut too? 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:02.200 And then I'm like that, I'll 's fine. So I 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.639 might have spared myself a curse there. Oh and as 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:08.320 far as Nausica goes, that's tremendous. I mean, if I 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:12.720 if we can help introduce folks to new movie experiences 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:16.760 like Nausica, then that's wonderful. I'm glad you enjoyed it. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.280 Yeah, I mean that one is well known and widely 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.080 known to be wonderful. So I don't know if it 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.600 needs our help as much as some of the movies 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:25.840 we talk about that are more more obscure gems, but 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.240 it is truly wonderful in every single way. So yeah, yeah, 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.680 if we can encourage people to see it, I will 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:32.439 always take that. 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.200 Yeah. Yeah, push it up the to watch list a 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.840 little bit for some some listeners. That's that's what we 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.639 can do? All right? We have another one here. This 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:48.800 one comes to us from Chris. It goes as follows 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:51.760 Robert and Joe. I was prompted to write after listening 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.840 to The Vault episodes about childhood amnesia and watching Star 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:58.040 Trek Bicards season three DVD specials in Shorts this weekend, 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:02.480 especially actors actions to the recreation of the Enterprise d 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.200 Bridge set from Star Trek the Next Generation, and how 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:09.800 memory and emotion can be strongly associated with location. I 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.439 can easily remember the actual theaters I viewed seventeen of 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:17.680 your Weird House subjects, partially because in my much younger days, 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:21.200 going to a theater usually required at least some modicum 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.520 of thought and effort, even if only to ride my 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:27.800 bicycle into town. Of the seventeen Weird House films I 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:29.960 saw in a theater, they were often part of a 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:34.159 double feature including the usual newsreel and cartoon. However, I 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.679 have seen one way or another fifty two of the 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:39.680 Weird House films. Eight were on TV as a late 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:44.480 night feature or other regular local broadcast fair as well, 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:49.600 before rental, cable or PayTV availability like that, you youngsters 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.680 grew up with my family held onto a Zenith black 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.760 and white model very like this. There's a picture they attached, 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:00.360 maybe even the same until about nineteen sixty seven, when 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:04.200 it was relegated to us kids upstairs, where it finally died. 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.520 It was called a portable, but perhaps luggable would be 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:08.600 a better category. 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:12.640 This huge, old bulky TV with like a brass handle 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:14.360 on top. I love that luggage. 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:19.359 Yeah, easily lugged around there. Keep this information in mind 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:23.159 when I finally send my novella length I mean short 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:26.080 list of suggestions for Weird House episodes with comments, you 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:28.639 will have no one to blame but yourselves. Naturally, it 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.399 will include the creation of the Humanoids, the film that 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:33.320 started my flood of emails Chris. 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.359 Thanks Chris, Well. I want to watch movies on a 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.080