WEBVTT - Listener Mail: Desperados Under the Eaves 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.560 Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:12.800 Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind Listener mail. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:14.240 My name's Robert Lamb. 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:17.160 And I am Joe McCormick. And it's Monday, the day 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.400 of each week that we read back messages from the 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.479 Stuff to Blow Your Mind email address. If you have 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:24.720 never gotten in touch with us before, maybe you should 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.520 give it a try. You can reach us at contact 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.840 at stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. Whatever you 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:32.760 want to send us fair game. But we of course 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:37.040 always appreciate feedback to recent episodes, especially if you have 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.040 something interesting you'd like to add to a topic we've 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:43.400 talked about. Let's see, Rob if you don't mind, I'm 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:46.159 going to kick things off with this message from Hannah 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.440 in response to our series on Strange Ice. Yeah, let's 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:58.320 have it, Hannah says, Hi, guys, I've been listening for years. 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:02.120 I love your podcast stimulating conversations with people in my 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.760 daily life that are inspired by your episodes regarding the 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:09.760 Strange Ice. Have you guys covered super cool liquid water? 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.440 Once my father took a water bottle from our home freezer. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.920 It was in liquid form inside the bottle as he 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:20.119 opened it. And tilted it downward to poor We both 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.800 watched as the water began freezing from the mouth of 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.320 the bottle all the way to the end of the bottle. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.840 It's been many years since this happened, and I know 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:32.000 the phenomenon exists, but I'm starting to doubt that I 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.279 saw it in real life as opposed to a dream 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.960 or something. Do you know anything about this and is 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.840 it something that can happen in a conventional domestic freezer? Again, 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.600 love your podcast, Keep up the good work, Robert, Joe 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:49.000 and team. Sincerely, Hannah. Yes, Hannah, Yes, you are right. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.360 This is an example of what is called super cooling. 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:56.400 It happens when water gets below the freezing point, below 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.600 the temperature where it would normally freeze, while somehow still 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.720 remain a liquid, and in this super cooled state, it 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:07.560 can freeze very rapidly all of a sudden, and it's 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.480 not even especially rare from what I can tell. You 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.440 can look up tons of videos of this online. Often 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:17.919 it seems to be happening with water inside smooth plastic 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:22.880 bottles or water or just bottled water. You pre bottled 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.720 water that's sold in stores when it is stored in 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:30.360 the freezer or maybe outside in sub zero temperatures. And yeah, 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.760 it seems that it can happen in a normal domestic freezer. 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.919 And that's because from everything I've read, it doesn't really 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.840 actually depend very much on the environment outside the container 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.240 of water, apart from it being below the freezing temperature. 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:48.120 It is more related to what's inside the container. It's 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.600 related to the makeup of the water and the container 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:55.600 in which it is stored. So the common explanation is 0:02:55.639 --> 0:03:00.639 that ice crystals need what are called nucleation points. So 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:05.280 that's a place where where crystals of ice can begin 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:09.240 to form within the mass of liquid water. And usually 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.880 this is some kind of impurity in the water, maybe 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:17.040 some kind of particle suspended within it or something dissolved 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.520 in it, or it can be a rough place in 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.240 the wall of the container in which the water is stored. 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:27.040 But in a smooth container with very pure water, sometimes 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.600 there isn't any nucleation point that would allow ice crystals 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.280 to begin to form, and the water goes sub zero 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.520 while remaining a liquid. This comes to an end when 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.240 the liquid is disturbed or agitated in some ways. So 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.640 if you bonk the bottle against something, or you shake it, 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:45.960 or you tip it over to pour it. In all 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:50.160 these cases, suddenly some kind of nucleation point is found 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.400 and then the water freezes all at once. And really 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.960 interesting thing I've noticed is that in all the videos 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.640 I've seen of this, the ice forms from the top 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.720 down rather than from the bottom up, so it forms 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.320 away from the Earth center of gravity, moving toward the 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.520 Earth center of gravity. I don't know exactly why that is, 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.840 but that seems curious. Another interesting fact is that a 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.159 similar thing can happen in the opposite direction as well, 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.839 with the creation of super heated water, and this is 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.919 one reason it can be hazardous to microwave plane water 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:30.599 without anything in it. Sometimes water in the microwave can 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.880 exceed the normal boiling point of water while still remaining 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:39.239 a liquid if there is no nucleation point allowing steam 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.320 bubbles to begin to form. So in the case of 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.520 like a microwaved mug or bowl of water, this can 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.440 mean the water gets above one hundred degree celsius or 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:52.280 two twelve fahrenheit, and then you know, it just stays 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.839 a liquid, sort of still liquid without bubbles in this 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.640 superheated state. And then when you put something in it 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.000 like you stick a spoon or a tea bag in it, 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.200 or you add some ingredient to it. Suddenly it has 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.839 nucleation points where it didn't have them before, and it 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:12.560 sort of explodes, sending a splash of boiling water all 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.800 over the place, and of course can burn people. In 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.960 both cases. Superheating and super cooling seem to be more 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.400 likely with very pure water, so I've read that the 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:28.240 microwave thing is more likely to happen. It's more dangerous 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:32.000 if you are using distilled water. Most of the time, 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.960 tapwater has enough impurities that bubbles will form, but it's 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.280 still better to exercise caution when microwaving water, even if 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:40.120 it is tapwater. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:42.560 All right, This next one comes to us from Jeff 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:51.440 with one f Jeff Rights, greeting Science Humans. I believe 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:55.920 Imma Frost's diamond powers. This is a character in the 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:00.560 X Men comics are supposed to make her essentially in vulnerable, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.920 but based on your diamond episodes, it seems as though 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.800 her archinemy should be thor or at least anyone else 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.000 with access to hammer technology. 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.000 Very good, referring to the fact that you usually cannot 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.920 dent or scratch a diamond but you can shatter one 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:16.159 with a hammer. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.279 Right, And I believe that in that episode, I kind 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:20.800 of just put the call out of there any other 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.599 diamond related comic book things we should know about to 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.120 write in, And so that's what Jeff gets to. Just 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.120 as in the DC Comics universe, there's a character named Jeanette, 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.240 a proper mythological banshee who kills one of her tormentors 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.479 by repeatedly mixing not diamonds but ground glass into her 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.560 daily meals. It did take years for the victim to 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.839 die in prolonged agony of what was thought to be 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:45.200 an undiagnosable disease, which is more plausible than death by 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:49.360 a single hit of crushed diamond. I had to look 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.520 this character up, and it looks like that at some 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.800 point in the telling and creation of this character. She 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:02.200 also ties into the household of Count Elizabeth Bathory. So 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.680 it sounds like the creators had a lot of fun 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:07.080 putting this character together. 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.240 Yikes, And yeah, that does seem more plausible, I'd agree. 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:16.000 Whatever the poisonous properties or lack thereof of a you know, 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.080 single small amount of powdered diamond, I'd imagine if you 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.520 just keep feeding it to people over and over for 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.760 a long time. It's got to do something not great. 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.560 Yeah, Jeff continues on a completely different note, allow me 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:32.440 a moment to proselytize the tuna crab. They are a 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.680 most adorable, colorful and slightly nightmarriagh species, and I believe 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:41.600 worthy of your attention. And at that point, I believe 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.080 the author Jeff here included a bunch of links and Joe, 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.840 you dragged in some images of these creatures. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:52.080 Yeah, they looks kind of like cooked crayfish. They have 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:56.760 crawd because you know with crawdads often they have a 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.120 more kind of well, they can have different colors, but 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.120 might have more like a bread appearance on the shell 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.920 before cooking. After you cook them, the shell turns bright red. 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.679 These in life appear bright red. And they are also 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.560 kind of shaped like crayfish. And that they've got these 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:16.720 curling tails with fins on them and claws in the front, 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.040 so they're shaped kind of like crayfish, but they have 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.160 these elongated front pincers. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.680 Jeff continues. They spend most of their lives swimming in 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.720 the open ocean, migrating from the deep to the surface 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.440 at will. While they are very different creatures, they look 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.280 a bit like squid while swimming, traveling in a jerky, 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:37.240 non fish like motion, with the hydrodynamic portion of the 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.680 animal in the front in the limbs dangling behind, and 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.720 then as an aside, snorkeling near squid can be quite 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:48.480 disorienting after you've acclimatized or climated to normal fish behavior, 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:50.880 when you see a squadron of them in the distance, 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.800 they look like a bunch of deformed mutant fish with 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.440 all the body parts in the wrong place, which may 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:00.200 be an enormous jaw or possibly shredded body on the 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.760 back of the animal. I have to throw in that 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:07.280 I've only seen maybe one or two squid out while snorkeling, 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:12.080 but and they're isolated, but are It's a really cool 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.760 experience because they are so strange, especially if you have 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:18.320 been looking at fish all day. Jeff continues. Tunicrabs are 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.400 not actual crabs, but squat lobsters, which are also not 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.560 actual lobsters. They are more closely related to hermit crabs. 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:29.120 They are also related to the langstino red lobster that 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.560 got in trouble for passing off as a real lobster. 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.720 The tunicrabs been their early life floating around as plankton. 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.840 Some crustaceans have an insane life cycle with around fifteen 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:43.560 distinct larval stages, putting Pokemon evolutions to shame. Scientists have 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.240 a lot of trouble distinguishing between different species and simply 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.440 different forms of the same creature. One major complication of 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:55.720 domesticating marine species for aquaculture is these microscopic stages of life, 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.360 which would be inadvertently removed from any aquarium with a 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:03.280 normal filter system. Imagine the difficulty of raising cows or 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.200 pigs that have millions of offspring at once, all of 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.000 whom are in great danger of being sucked into the 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:12.319 ventilation system. Thanks for tolerating my meandering spam, and more importantly, 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.280 thanks for presenting us all with so many varied and 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:16.800 interesting topics to ponder. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.800 Jeff, Oh, thank you, Jeff, great email. You know, I 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.360 don't think I knew that red lobster ever got in 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:26.400 trouble for trying to sell langestines as real lobster, especially 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.520 because I thought langestines were, like are a delicacy. I've 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.680 had them before, and I thought they were considered good. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:34.600 Yeah, I mean I guess. You know, people want to 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:36.520 know what they're buying, but they're supposed to be in 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.839 the tank right with the rubber bands, so it should 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.120 be a situation where you're maybe there were I have 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.640 no idea about the details of the story, like were 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.360 the langostino's in the tank with rubber bands on? Because 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:49.920 if that's the case, it's like, as long as you 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.720 get the one you point out, then what's the problem. 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:57.720 Well, I do think they're typically smaller than lobsters, but 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.640 they're good. I remember the langustines I have. It seemed 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.000 like the sort of a cross between like lobster and 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:04.280 shrimp somewhere in the middle. 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:10.319 There the mention of the complex life cycles. This reminds 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.559 me on the series Futurama, we of course have doctor 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:18.240 John A. Zoidberg who is a decapodian, so he has 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:24.600 this crustacean squid like alien species, and there's one episode 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.959 in particular where they outline the life cycle of a 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.520 decapodian and it has like all of these crazy life cycles, 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.760 the stages of the life cycle that are based on 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.000 what we actually see in the natural world, and it 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:37.199 was quite clever. 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:48.400 Nice all right, This next message touches on a variety 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:52.840 of topics, including some stuff about diamonds and some stuff 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:56.360 about weird house cinema. This is from Jeremy. Jeremy says, Hello, 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.160 Robert and Joe. In your recent Nature of the Diamond 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.840 Part four episode, the subject of body implants came up, 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.640 in particular forehead implants. I was surprised that the epic 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.800 webcomic Kill six Billion Demons wasn't mentioned here, as many 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.480 of the characters, including the main protagonist, have embedded forehead 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.760 gems as a source of power. I'm sure you've recommended 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.880 Kill six Billion Demons on one of your reading list episodes. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:22.839 This is funny because I feel like this just came 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.640 up recently that like somebody else was saying we had 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.559 recommended this, but I don't. I'm not familiar with it. 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.320 I think I think I recommended it oh so ago, 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.760 But I okay, I'd forgotten a lot of the details 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.600 about it. I haven't read it since then. It's tremendously enjoyable, 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.840 beautiful art, but I had just honestly forgotten that they 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.480 had forehead diamonds or gems or what have you. 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.440 Shame on you, I know, I know, I love the 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.679 failed to mention emails. But don't worry, Jeremy, it's fine, 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:57.880 it's fine, Jeremy goes on. In your recent The Magic 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.520 Sword Weird House episode, concern was expressed that there would 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:05.959 be insufficient handy princesses available to keep the dragon healthy 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.839 with a regular food supply. Oh yeah, this is because 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.920 you got the impression once you got to Basil Rathbone's 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.160 castle that he's just like churning through princesses about once 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.839 or twice a week. He's got new princesses coming in 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.040 all the time. The dragon obviously, you know, takes a 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.960 lot of calories to feed a dragon. They'll only eat princesses, 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.320 I guess. And so that really has to add up 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:30.120 how many princesses are there? Well, Jeremy says, I suspect 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.480 that you underestimate the number of quote kings and hence 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.520 castles there used to be in Europe, as the number 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.280 of castles runs into the tens of thousands. For example, 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:45.840 there are estimates of Germany twenty five thousand, France ten thousand, 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:51.480 Spain six thousand, UK fifteen hundred, which includes Wales which 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.199 has six hundred, making it the country with the most 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.400 castles per square mile in the world. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:57.640 Oh wow. 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.840 I don't know where Jeremy is going to these numbers from, 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.000 but if that's true, that is that's a lot of 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.080 kings and I guess maybe a lot of princesses. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:09.400 Yeah, if it's any indication, then maybe it was a 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.000 good racket for an evil wizard to have. 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.840 Finally, Jeremy says, you often mentioned checking your podcast feed 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.199 on Apple devices, and I've experienced this. I switched to 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.400 the UK feed when it was released and it worked 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.800 perfectly until the fifth of January when it stopped and 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.720 I can't get it to reactivate. Thankfully, I was able 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.040 to switch back to the original global version, which still works. 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.440 Best regards Jeremy. Okay, Rob, is this a good point 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:37.760 to do another explainer on this? Just briefly, We are 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.760 very sorry for the inconvenience listeners. We love you, we 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.400 appreciate the fact that you listen, and we're very sorry 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.560 for the run around on this. But this was just 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.400 a result of stuff. We were told by corporate that 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.320 we were going to have to move UK listeners to 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:56.680 a separate feed, and then that requirement went away. 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We don't always know what you're seeing in 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:07.920 the place and way you get the podcast. Yeah, all right, 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.840 let's do a message or two about weird house cinema. 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:14.400 This one comes from Maria Angela, who says, Hi, I 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.600 am a faithful Italian listener and I love your podcast. 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:22.320 I stumbled upon an old Hugh Grant movie, namely The 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.240 Layer of the White Worm. I watched the trailer and 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:29.080 I immediately thought of you. It seems quite ludicrous and hilarious, 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:33.560 maybe not intentionally. I immensely enjoy your work, Maria Angela 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.840 in Italy. Well, Maria Angela, thank you for bringing this 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.680 to our attention. No, I am quite familiar with Layer 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.880 of the White Worm, and I am quite certain it 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:47.760 is intentional in its hilarity. That's a favorite of Rachel 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.080 and I have watched that one many times. It's it's 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.080 so I don't even know how to describe it. It's 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:54.480 a hoot. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.600 Yeah. I mean, it's a great director and Ken Russell 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.760 based on brom Stoker Stokers work, and then you got 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:03.400 a great cast, not only Hugh Grant, but you've got 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:09.240 Peter Capaldi, You've got Katherine Oxenberg, Sammy Davis, a great cast. 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.800 I mean, I wonder if it's scandalous in a way 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:13.760 that we're not brave enough to do on Weird House. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:18.159 But it is great and there is a there was 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.919 so many like great, just giffable moments and it I 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.200 think of one where Amanda Donaho just like vomits acid 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:25.240 on a crucifix. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.879 Yeah, oh, yes, that's right, because she she plays the 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.480 good can you remember Snake Woman, Vampire Lady Goddess. 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.240 She's like a serpent sorceress. Yeah. 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.760 Yeah, And it would be great to do a kN 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.040 Russell film at some point or another in Weird House, 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.400 but he's one of those directors where I'm not sure 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.640 exactly which one would be the right Kim Russell film 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.560 for us to discuss. Yeah, all right, this next one 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:59.960 comes to us from Chris. Chris says Joe and Robert. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.719 Listener Roberta mentioned her viewing of the Magic Sword at 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.960 a drive in as a young child. This incidentally was 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.160 the listener mail that reminded us that, hey, we should 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:11.960 just go ahead and do the Magic Sword for Weird House, 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:15.240 and so we did, so, thank you, Roberta. Yeah, so 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.919 Chris continues, She referred to a comment one of you 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.240 made about attack of the puppet people, maybe wanting to 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.440 hear from listeners who saw the movies during their original release. 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.400 This prompted me to peruse the list of previous Weird 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.600 House Cinema episodes. I noticed that I had watched a 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.679 number of the films Gorgo, Doctor X, The Thing from 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.720 Another World, and others. You two may have opened a 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.080 bucket of blood oops, I mean can of worms. It 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.119 would be an interesting project to have listeners write in 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.320 about first seeing the movies, but you might want to 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.520 widen your criteria. I can remember the theater and or 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.320 other circumstances when I first saw some of them, but 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.720 not the actual date, since I might have seen them 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.880 as a second or third run. Movies were routinely part 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.439 of second or later runs, including drive ins when I 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:02.960 was growing up. I think such later distributions often produced 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:07.160 pairings of double features different from their original ones. Some 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:09.840 of us with a good number of birthdays might have 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:13.520 seen older films primarily on television as part of local stations, 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:18.399 late night chiller theater, etc. Fair rather than in a theater. 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.760 Chris Well, this is a great point, Chris. So when 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.280 it comes to listener mail for Weird House Cinema, Yeah, 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.520 I don't want to limit anybody to writing in only 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.119 about seeing a movie on the original run in the theater, 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.880 if you saw something on what was it called Thriller 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.640 with Boris Carloff or maybe I'm getting that name wrong, 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:40.480 any of these shows that had like late night horror 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:42.960 host shows on TV when you were a kid, or 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.680 if it was a second run or whatever, that's fine too. 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:47.960 We just want to hear your great stories about seeing 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:48.439 these movies. 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:50.800 Yeah, I want to hear about you discovering movies in 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:52.480 the theater. I want to hear about you going to 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:56.000 video rental stores. I want to hear about you discovering 0:19:56.040 --> 0:20:02.400 them in the depths of Amazon Prime, which, as I've 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:04.200 mentioned before, for a good minute, there had a whole 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.000 lot of like weird stuff just in the back catalog, 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.480 and I think it's still there, but you have to 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:15.040 find the right channels to subscribe to be it like 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:18.320 like a full Moon you know, subscribe to the full 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.240 Moon channel, or even like the MGM Plus channel. I've 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:24.320 noticed I had to dip into a subscription there to 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:28.359 watch something, and like, there's a whole bunch of fabulous 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:31.240 looking garbage in there that I'm gonna have to sift 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.760 through at some point or another. So, yeah, all of 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:36.320 these stories of cinematic discovery or fair game. 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:39.560 I also want to hear your plot summaries of movies 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.760 that you haven't seen since you were like five years old, 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:47.800 with no refreshing Sure, sure, how do you remember it? 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.280 What do you think the magic Sword was about? 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:53.840 All right, then we're gonna go ahead and close out 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:55.960 this episode, but we'd love to hear from you again. 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:58.440 Stuff to Blow Your Mind primarily a science podcast, core 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:01.480 episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and on Mondays we do 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:03.520 a little listener mail. On Wednesdays we do a short 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:06.280 form episode, and on Fridays we set aside most serious 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:10.520 concerns just talk about a weird film on Weird House Cinema. 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