Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, production of My
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.
Speaker 1: Listener mail. This is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick,
Speaker 1: and it's Monday, the day of the week that we
Speaker 1: read back some of the messages you've sent into the
Speaker 1: show recently. Uh, let's see, Rob, if you have no objection,
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to jump right in with some
Speaker 1: responses to our Beast War and Apron episodes. These were
Speaker 1: about non human animals doing various things that you might
Speaker 1: call cooking. Let's do it, okay, So we've we've gotten
Speaker 1: so many responses to those studies about apes and apes
Speaker 1: eating raw potatoes and uh and then people writing in
Speaker 1: to say, sometimes I eat raw potatoes, or one time
Speaker 1: when I was a kid at church that made me
Speaker 1: the whole raw potato or something. Uh So, so Chad
Speaker 1: continues the tradition. Chad says, about twenty years ago, I
Speaker 1: worked in h I worked in food service and took
Speaker 1: a serve safe class. I still remember the horror stories
Speaker 1: of what can happen if cooked potatoes are not cooled properly,
Speaker 1: which can lead to botuli is um. I was unfamiliar
Speaker 1: with the effects of raw potatoes, but a Google search
Speaker 1: indicates they can cause gastro intestinal issues. I'd say, cook
Speaker 1: your potatoes and promptly cool any you won't eat right away.
Speaker 1: And on this part of the message, I wanted to
Speaker 1: respond by saying, yeah, chat, I was looking into this,
Speaker 1: and what I was reading about the danger of baked
Speaker 1: potatoes that haven't been cooled properly was specifically with reference
Speaker 1: to those that had been wrapped tightly in aluminum foil,
Speaker 1: potentially creating an anaerobic environment that is favorable to bauchuli
Speaker 1: is um. So, for example, I found a study in
Speaker 1: the Journal of Infectious Diseases. This was or I guess
Speaker 1: this was a case report called a large outbreak of
Speaker 1: bacul is um the hazardous baked potato by Angulo at All.
Speaker 1: So this is tracing an outbreak of baculi is um
Speaker 1: happened in April nineteen in El Paso, Texas that was
Speaker 1: traced back to a restaurant, and specifically the people who
Speaker 1: were affected primarily were those who ate a potato based
Speaker 1: dip or an eggplant based dip. I guess they'd be
Speaker 1: baba ganochol probably and the author's right quote. Botulism toxin
Speaker 1: type A was detected from patients, and in both dips,
Speaker 1: toxin formation resulted from holding aluminum foil wrapped baked potatoes
Speaker 1: at room temperature, apparently for several days before they were
Speaker 1: used in the dips. Consumers should be informed of the
Speaker 1: potential hazards caused by holding foil wrapped potatoes at ambient
Speaker 1: temperatures after cooking. Uh so, yeah, so I guess they
Speaker 1: baked the potato, but it was tightly wrapped in foil,
Speaker 1: and then they just left it out and uh, didn't
Speaker 1: didn't cool it, and and somehow that created an anaerobic
Speaker 1: environment where the baculinum could thrive or the spores, I guess.
Speaker 1: And uh and yeah, that that's no good. So you
Speaker 1: don't want to do that. Now. I was talking about
Speaker 1: this with with my mother. Uh And as it turns out,
Speaker 1: I didn't remember this or I'd never noticed this, but
Speaker 1: her whole life, whilst preparing to potatoes, she always eats
Speaker 1: the ends of the potato raw when slicing up the potatoes. Huh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she just says that that's what I do like to
Speaker 1: do it, just likes them. Okay, Yeah, cool. But then
Speaker 1: one last note, Rob, you you mentioned in a previous
Speaker 1: episode that you were terrified by your your mandolin or
Speaker 1: I don't know about terrified. Maybe I'm misrepresenting, but you
Speaker 1: you express concerns about the slicing off of your fingertips,
Speaker 1: and Chad comes with a recommendation. He says, as for
Speaker 1: the mandolin, I recommend cut resistant gloves, so they make
Speaker 1: it kind of I don't know if it's a chain
Speaker 1: male sort of thing for your hand, but you can
Speaker 1: just slice away on the mandolin. It's not going through
Speaker 1: those gloves. You know. I just purchased a pair of
Speaker 1: these for my mother, but I didn't even think about
Speaker 1: the fact that I could get a pair of these
Speaker 1: for myself and have some stress free mandolin usage. Because yeah,
Speaker 1: I still haven't bothered to replace the mandolin with the
Speaker 1: safer mandolin. And I'm still just like shredding half a
Speaker 1: carrot and then asking, Hey, who wants to eat this? Uh,
Speaker 1: which often works if if my son is around. Chaz
Speaker 1: is one last thing, which is you might think using
Speaker 1: a glove while using a mandolin as a hassle, but
Speaker 1: I encourage you to take a stab at it. Uh.
Speaker 1: There will be a number of dad jokes in this episode. Actually,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, we did recently rerun that episode. That would
Speaker 1: be why Okay, alright, This next one comes to us
Speaker 1: from Amanda. Amanda writes and and says, Hi, Robert and Joe,
Speaker 1: longtime listener here. Stuff About Your Mind was the very
Speaker 1: first podcast I subscribe to, way back in two thousand
Speaker 1: and twelve. Recently, I've been listening during my commute to
Speaker 1: and from the International Primate Protection League sanctuary, where I
Speaker 1: work as a caregiver for thirty white handed gibbons. I
Speaker 1: was pleased to hear gibbons come up in the episode
Speaker 1: The Beast Warren Apron. I've never observed the water cupping
Speaker 1: behavior you mentioned, but they sometimes dip the backs of
Speaker 1: their hands in water and then suck it from their fur.
Speaker 1: I have read that wild gibbons rarely descend to the
Speaker 1: ground and instead drink the water that collects in their
Speaker 1: hairs as they swing through the dewey forest. Gross. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it sounds kind of I mean,
Speaker 1: the the the dewey, it's you know, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's fine, It's fine. Okay, next time you're thirsty, just
Speaker 1: wait till you know you get out of the shower
Speaker 1: and then wring your hair out into your mouth. Delicious
Speaker 1: all right? Anyway, they continue on the cooked versus raw question.
Speaker 1: Our Gibbons love cooked sweet potato. They are offered it
Speaker 1: as part of their breakfast each morning, and it is
Speaker 1: usually the first item they pluck from their bucket of
Speaker 1: mostly raw veggies and brows. Uh. They also prefer their
Speaker 1: beats cooked, and some are willing to try healthy muffins, quiche's,
Speaker 1: and other baked goods. If you do decide to do
Speaker 1: an episode on frozen foods, I can also confirm that
Speaker 1: Gibbons eat banana popsicles. One unpopular prepared food item among
Speaker 1: Gibbons is jello. Many fail to recognize it as food.
Speaker 1: Some are even afraid of its jiggling novelty MAUI are
Speaker 1: greediest Gibbon who has earned the nickname the cookie Monster.
Speaker 1: Fled to a high platform the first time I placed
Speaker 1: a cube beside his lunch bucket. I love this. I've
Speaker 1: attached the video of Nicholas with his morning sweet potato.
Speaker 1: Like us, Gibbons think that it's rude to video others
Speaker 1: while they're eating. You can see more videos of Gibbons
Speaker 1: eating things um on the I p p L Instagram
Speaker 1: and that is I p p L Underscore Summerville. So
Speaker 1: I checked out this video and uh, Nicholas the given
Speaker 1: here he's eating a cooked sweet potato and he's peeling
Speaker 1: the skin back. It looks like like he's eating the
Speaker 1: orange flesh and then the the skin is hanging around
Speaker 1: the outside like a candy bar rapper peeled back. So
Speaker 1: I wonder do they eventually eat the scan or do
Speaker 1: they throw it away? Interesting? Well, thanks for writing in.
Speaker 1: That was all that was. That was That was wonderful.
Speaker 1: I know so much more about gibbons now. Yeah, great email,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Amanda. All right, should we move on to
Speaker 1: some responses to the vegetable lamb of Tartari. Let's do
Speaker 1: it all right, Let's see here. This one was from
Speaker 1: This is from James. James says, Hi, guys, love the podcast.
Speaker 1: I've been listening since the early days. Regarding cobwebs, they
Speaker 1: really do work. This was an aside in the episode
Speaker 1: about the traditional remedy of people trying to staunch bleeding
Speaker 1: from wounds by cramming it with cobwebs. James says, my
Speaker 1: grandfather grew up in the slums of Glasgow in the
Speaker 1: thirties and forties and that was all they used on cuts.
Speaker 1: He taught me how to use that and plantain the
Speaker 1: lawn weed, not the banana to stop bleeding when I
Speaker 1: was young. You put a bit on a cut and
Speaker 1: it coagulates and or a minute. Having taken a bit
Speaker 1: of organic chemistry, my guess is it bonds to the
Speaker 1: protein fibroles that form in clotting blood and ties them
Speaker 1: together into a solid mass much more quickly. Not sure
Speaker 1: if any study has been done, but studies have been
Speaker 1: done on using plantain to clot blood. It contains an
Speaker 1: enzyme that accelerates plotting, and I can personally say cobwebs
Speaker 1: are faster. Not a good sample size, but it's very noticeable.
Speaker 1: A great input, James, Thank you. James also says on
Speaker 1: the topic of lab grown meat, a friend of mine
Speaker 1: mentioned and aspect of it that you didn't touch on.
Speaker 1: If you can grow lion meat, you can grow human meat.
Speaker 1: Hear me out. I have no desire to be a cannibal,
Speaker 1: but how long do you think it would be before
Speaker 1: some Hollywood star decided to culture a tissue sample and
Speaker 1: sell steaks seems far fetched, but Nicholas Cage would totally
Speaker 1: do it. Oh yeah, come on a Cage steak. Yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 1: keep it up, love the show and really love weird
Speaker 1: how Cinema cheers James. Well, yeah, that's that's a lot
Speaker 1: to think about what happens when we get into the
Speaker 1: realm of of of cultured human meat and then celebrity
Speaker 1: human meat that has been cultured. Um. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: this guy's the limit, right, Who's the most delicious celebrity
Speaker 1: human I mean maybe it's Nicolas Cage. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess you would. I don't know. I guess you
Speaker 1: want I'm trying to think about some the logic of
Speaker 1: of of meat. I guess you want good marbling. You know,
Speaker 1: want good marbling. I guess you don't want an actor
Speaker 1: who's giving a lot of really energetic performances like Cage though,
Speaker 1: because he's going to be stringy. Right, Yeah that could
Speaker 1: be ye, it could be a like you don't want
Speaker 1: a high stress level uh actor, you want somebody who's good,
Speaker 1: low energy performer. Rob and I have just been several
Speaker 1: minutes trying to look up character actors. Who's whose body's
Speaker 1: cultures of whose bodies we would apparently, But then, like
Speaker 1: everybody we look up, we find out tragically died and
Speaker 1: we didn't realize it or died, you know, of of
Speaker 1: old age. These guys were cold up in years, so
Speaker 1: anyway that it remains an open discussion, all right. Here's
Speaker 1: another one that comes to us from Albert, Hi, Robert,
Speaker 1: and Joe. Once you started describing the Lamb of Tartary,
Speaker 1: my D and D mind immediately remembered wolf in sheep's clothing,
Speaker 1: a carnivorous plant monster that lures its victims to it
Speaker 1: by presenting a part of itself that resembles a bunny rabbit.
Speaker 1: You can search for images of it, but here is
Speaker 1: a link to the lore No mention of whether Guy
Speaker 1: GaX Gary guy GaX was inspired by the Lamb of Tartary.
Speaker 1: Thanks and keep up the good work, Albert Well. I
Speaker 1: dug up some illustrations for you to look at here. Rob.
Speaker 1: They generally involved like a stump that has a big
Speaker 1: toothy mouth hidden in it, and then a bunny or
Speaker 1: a squirrel on top, maybe some kind of root like tentacles. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks pretty cool, I have to say, I'm a
Speaker 1: little disappointed I haven't seen this before. Um, I wasn't
Speaker 1: familiar with this monster, and looking into it a little
Speaker 1: bit more, it seems this could be because it was
Speaker 1: apparently introduced in the nine eight Adventure Expedition to the
Speaker 1: Barrier Peaks, which I don't know at all, and that
Speaker 1: it was reprinted in Three's Monster Manual two, which I
Speaker 1: also didn't have any exposure too. And if I'm reading
Speaker 1: everything correctly, I do not think this monster has been
Speaker 1: published in an official D n D product since then,
Speaker 1: So that's probably why I've never seen it though. Um
Speaker 1: though even if it had come out, and there are
Speaker 1: some additions like basically I I played a D and
Speaker 1: D second edition, I guess, and then I played fifth edition,
Speaker 1: so uh, there's there's plenty of room for it to
Speaker 1: have appeared and just to be completely off of my
Speaker 1: D n D radar. But it's a cool creature and
Speaker 1: I would I would love to encounter it. The second
Speaker 1: image that you included, and this one looks more recent
Speaker 1: and maybe this is something tied to a homebrew sort
Speaker 1: of thing, but in this one it is a squirrel
Speaker 1: atop the deadly threatening mod stump. So what's the The
Speaker 1: idea is that your heroes would be like, look a squirrel,
Speaker 1: let's approach it with our guard down. I guess. So
Speaker 1: maybe that's why it hasn't popped up as much, because
Speaker 1: it reminds one of the mimic, which is a great
Speaker 1: d n D monster, and you know, has expanded beyond
Speaker 1: d n D, which is of course this thing that
Speaker 1: looks like a treasure chest and then when you get
Speaker 1: close to it or you open it, uh, it's filled
Speaker 1: with teeth because it's a monster that wants to trick
Speaker 1: you into getting close enough to the treasure chests that
Speaker 1: it eats you. And you know that's very it's poetic
Speaker 1: because it's like, oh, your your greed brings you in
Speaker 1: close to the monster's mall. And it's a fun looking
Speaker 1: monster as well. Uh, simple design, every everything works with it,
Speaker 1: but with this, Yeah, like, what's what's the deal? I
Speaker 1: guess If your characters are hungry enough to want to
Speaker 1: eat that squirrel or that rabbit, then it than it works.
Speaker 1: But otherwise, yeah, you just like we could pass these
Speaker 1: by all the day, all the time in the real world,
Speaker 1: and we're just not interested in catching bunny rabbit a
Speaker 1: at squirrel. Okay, now the next message, I gotta warn
Speaker 1: you we got some dad jokes ahead. But this is uh,
Speaker 1: this is from Mark, and Mark says, Dear Joe, Robert
Speaker 1: and Seth. He begins with some nice comments about the podcast,
Speaker 1: but says, you know, I can't believe you would say
Speaker 1: something so ignorant as what you said in the Vegetable
Speaker 1: Lamb of Tartarie episode, which is that you know there
Speaker 1: are no plants that grow animals out of them. There's
Speaker 1: no such thing as a plant animal combination. And he
Speaker 1: goes on to say, I submit the following list a
Speaker 1: partial list. I assure you have actual organisms offering literal
Speaker 1: proof that plants and animals have indeed combined. Have you
Speaker 1: considered the gooseberry, the fruit bat, the eggplant, the cabbage worm,
Speaker 1: the pig nut, the wood tick, the cow pea, the
Speaker 1: dog would, the cat mint, the chickweed, the shad bush,
Speaker 1: the buckwheat, the bird lime, the fruit fly, and the
Speaker 1: crab grass us. Mark, I admit it. I was wrong.
Speaker 1: I stayed corrected. Mark. Mark really had me here with
Speaker 1: this this email because it was it was a real
Speaker 1: roller coaster because I started reading it and I answered
Speaker 1: it was like, Oh my goodness, what would we get wrong?
Speaker 1: We messed something up. Now we got to correct it.
Speaker 1: And and then I quick then I realized, oh, it
Speaker 1: is a joke. It is a joke. He got me. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: me too. I read the beginning and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: do we screw something up? Okay, well, thank you Mark.
Speaker 1: Oh and maybe while we around the subject of dad jokes,
Speaker 1: I'll move on to this next email. We got a
Speaker 1: response from our listener Anna on the dad Joke episode.
Speaker 1: I'll just read a couple of the jokes she includes
Speaker 1: in this message. The first one she says, I have
Speaker 1: to set up by saying, I enjoy your passing mentions
Speaker 1: of the book Jane Eyre in the movie Wuthering Heights. Question,
Speaker 1: what do you call a dinosaur that gets lost on
Speaker 1: the Yorkshire Moors? Don't know? What do you call a
Speaker 1: dinosaur that gets lost in the Orcshire Moors? It's a
Speaker 1: bronte saurus. And the second one is why are mountains
Speaker 1: funny because their hill areas? Oh? That one hurt, that one,
Speaker 1: that one cut deep. Thank you Anna. Okay. This next
Speaker 1: message we're gonna look at was in response to older
Speaker 1: episodes we did on the Arc of the Covenant. That
Speaker 1: was a bit of background to explain this message. In
Speaker 1: those episodes, we talked about stories of the arc in
Speaker 1: the Hebrew Bible and elsewhere, and at some point we
Speaker 1: discussed this bizarre idea that some professor published in a
Speaker 1: newspaper in the nineteen thirties that the Arc of the
Speaker 1: Covenant did exist but was actually an electrical condenser, and
Speaker 1: that Moses was a was a skilled electrician. Suffice to say,
Speaker 1: there is there is no real evidence that this is
Speaker 1: actually at the Ark of the Covenant story is about.
Speaker 1: I would say this explanation is just operating on the
Speaker 1: ancient aliens principle. You know. It's what if when a
Speaker 1: story describes some magical event from the ancient world, it
Speaker 1: did actually happen, but it was caused by aliens or
Speaker 1: by anachronistic future technology. So in this case, it would
Speaker 1: be when the arc, you know, strikes someone dead for
Speaker 1: touching it, or or kills them with a tongue of
Speaker 1: flame for approaching in the wrong way, it must have
Speaker 1: actually been because this was an electrical condenser and they
Speaker 1: got ten thousand volts of static electricity and so forth,
Speaker 1: which is certainly a fun game to play, not a
Speaker 1: very good way to get an accurate understanding of ancient literature.
Speaker 1: But Lex gets in touch about these episodes. Starts off
Speaker 1: by saying some nice things about the show and then
Speaker 1: goes on with the message Rob, Rob, do you want
Speaker 1: to read this one? Sure? Lex writes, I recently listened
Speaker 1: to some old episodes and love your discussion of the
Speaker 1: arc of the Covenant in your episode from However, I
Speaker 1: did not want to write in about an episode that
Speaker 1: was recorded over three years ago and last aired in
Speaker 1: twenty nine. However, you mentioned Raiders of the Lost arc
Speaker 1: in your recent Weird House episode on the Devil Rides Out,
Speaker 1: so that felt like that was my chance. I especially
Speaker 1: loved part two of the episode, focused on the Electric arc.
Speaker 1: It instantly reminded me of one of my favorite songs
Speaker 1: of late It's called Mercy Seat by Nick Cave and
Speaker 1: the Bad Seeds. But you only should listen to the
Speaker 1: live version that I have linked below, because the studio
Speaker 1: version is inferior. I was not familiar with this song.
Speaker 1: Were you were you? Joe? Oh? Yeah? Uh? And I
Speaker 1: looked up this live version. This is this is a
Speaker 1: great song. Uh. And I've never noticed the connection that
Speaker 1: you're about to make here, Lex, But this is wonderful, Rob.
Speaker 1: You should click on the link and and listen to
Speaker 1: it when you get a chance. Alex continues. The song
Speaker 1: is called Mercy Seat in reference to the Arc, but
Speaker 1: it's primarily about an inmate waiting to be executed in
Speaker 1: an electric chair. I thought that this was fantastic given
Speaker 1: the sometimes electric origin of the alien fire coming from
Speaker 1: the Ark of the Covenant. But I can't help but
Speaker 1: wonder if Nick Cave was exposed to and contemplated this
Speaker 1: mythology when writing the song. It certainly incorporates some other
Speaker 1: religious themes. Either way, I find the song to be
Speaker 1: chilling and emotional and everyone should give it a listen.
Speaker 1: Johnny Cash also covered the song on his album American
Speaker 1: Three Solitary Man, which I think you have talked about
Speaker 1: on the show. Thanks for always giving me such great content, Lex, Well,
Speaker 1: I definitely, yeah, I've definitely listened to that album. So
Speaker 1: I have heard a cover of this song before. I
Speaker 1: just have I'm blanking on it. Oh yeah, okay, well,
Speaker 1: it's it's an excellent song. So Mercy Seed, of course,
Speaker 1: is the the traditional name for the top of the
Speaker 1: Ark of the Covenant the Lid, where it is described
Speaker 1: as the the angels with their wings outstretched towards the
Speaker 1: center of the the arc lid, but also as a
Speaker 1: euphemism for the electric chair. And uh, I never would
Speaker 1: have noticed this connection that like these weird bronze punk
Speaker 1: theories of the electric arc being the the uniting theme.
Speaker 1: So excellent catch, Lex And I have to say, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think three years is too old of an episode.
Speaker 1: Now right in about whatever you want. If it's really
Speaker 1: old and we're going to feature it, we we might
Speaker 1: do like a refresher at the top of your message.
Speaker 1: It's no big deal, alright. This next message was about
Speaker 1: our episodes on the three pupil die. Uh. And this
Speaker 1: is from Josh warning this email describes an eye injury.
Speaker 1: But it uh, it's it does actually connect to a
Speaker 1: condition that we talked about in the episode of polychoria
Speaker 1: or pseudo polychoria, where it appears that a person has
Speaker 1: more than one pupil in their iris or in the
Speaker 1: same iris. And so Josh says, Hi, all when I
Speaker 1: was in middle and high school, air soft was very popular.
Speaker 1: If you aren't familiar, there are low power guns that
Speaker 1: shoot plastic bbs about the size of a pencil eraser.
Speaker 1: A particularly popular activity was having air soft wars, which
Speaker 1: were similar to paintball, but with less of a mess.
Speaker 1: Of course, an essential piece of equipment was safety glasses.
Speaker 1: On one occasion, a member of my church congregation was
Speaker 1: engaging in such an air software without safety glasses. There
Speaker 1: was a Murphy's Law moment when he was hit in
Speaker 1: the eye. I wasn't there, so I don't know the
Speaker 1: full story, but after a couple of months with an
Speaker 1: eye patch, he revealed that a small portion of his
Speaker 1: iris had detached, leaving him with a second pupil. I
Speaker 1: think he said it did blur his vision a bit
Speaker 1: in that eye. That goes to show how fragile the
Speaker 1: eyes can be in comparison to pretty much every other
Speaker 1: part of the body. On a less gross note, the
Speaker 1: last time I wrote in you read my message on
Speaker 1: the podcast. Shortly after it dropped, I got a text
Speaker 1: from my mom asking if I had written in. I
Speaker 1: had no idea she listened. This was the second podcast
Speaker 1: that something similar to this happened. Keep up the great work, Josh.
Speaker 1: What was the other podcast? I mean, I I just
Speaker 1: love that Josh's mom is keeping such good tabs on.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't remember what this message was, Josh,
Speaker 1: So so I don't know what you're talking about, but
Speaker 1: I guess your mom knows you well. Yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's speaking of which you know. It goes without saying
Speaker 1: I would hope, but I'll go and say it. If
Speaker 1: if there's something you want to write in to us
Speaker 1: about and there's something you don't want, if you don't
Speaker 1: want it Red on the air, just say it. Just
Speaker 1: just let us know. Or if there's a portion of
Speaker 1: it you don't on Red on the Air, Uh, just
Speaker 1: let us know and we can we can do that
Speaker 1: so in the future, Josh, we can keep your mom
Speaker 1: out of this entirely. Also shout out to Josh's mom. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, here's another one. This one comes to us.
Speaker 1: This is a from a Vault episode on carnivorous plants, Uh,
Speaker 1: which is timely. We're just doing some some a lot
Speaker 1: of plant content recently. Jeremy writes in and says hello,
Speaker 1: Joe and Robert. Jeremy begins by saying he's been listening
Speaker 1: to some older episodes, including the Carnivorous Plant. It's the
Speaker 1: episode that aired in and reran Um, which that's interesting.
Speaker 1: We usually don't that's that correct, We usually don't do
Speaker 1: reruns like that, but I trust him. Anyway, it was
Speaker 1: one of those big playlists. Oh yes, at the beginning
Speaker 1: of We Were We Were, it was requested that shows
Speaker 1: put out some big playwritt playlists, and uh we we
Speaker 1: tried to make it fun and and so that was
Speaker 1: one that probably came out. So anyway, Jeremy says, you
Speaker 1: asked whether there are any plants that have evolved to
Speaker 1: feed on anything other than insects. I believe there's a potential,
Speaker 1: uh evolving. Example in the Personia tree on here An
Speaker 1: Island Great Barrier reef. The tree produces sticky, burr like
Speaker 1: seeds which entangle the naughty turn chicks which hatch in them.
Speaker 1: The chicks become so entangled that they cannot fly or
Speaker 1: escape and hence die beneath the tree, thereby fertilizing the
Speaker 1: soil so the tree grows better. It produces more ease
Speaker 1: and captures more chicks, etcetera, etcetera. Well, not quite up
Speaker 1: to your example of vines lashing out to grab prey.
Speaker 1: The seeds are doing the same job. Cheers Jeremy. I
Speaker 1: believe this tree is sometimes known as the catchbird tree.
Speaker 1: And uh and yeah, there there was an article I
Speaker 1: found about it in j Store Daily that was pretty
Speaker 1: good if you want to look that up. This is interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is this is not just local hearsay like
Speaker 1: there's there's been there there, There's been some serious work
Speaker 1: on this. But it also reminds me of the dream
Speaker 1: of G. K. Chesterton that that Borges relates in his
Speaker 1: book that I that I read that passage concerning in
Speaker 1: our episodes on the Vegetable Lamb of Targari. All right,
Speaker 1: should we dip into a little weird house cinema devoted email?
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, let's go for it, all right. Uh, this
Speaker 1: one from Pat is regarding the Devil Right, it's out.
Speaker 1: This is the The Hammer horror film that we discussed.
Speaker 1: So Pat, ride's another great episode, a favorite film. I
Speaker 1: had fun going over the details. I wonder about your
Speaker 1: review of Christopher Lee. Could it be that you are
Speaker 1: not in tune with British sensitivities. I'm reminded of the
Speaker 1: demeanor of English Bob and unforgiven. I think Bridge would
Speaker 1: expect the Duke to quote unquote take on Airs, highly
Speaker 1: recommend the seven Percent Solution. Nicole Williamson as an over
Speaker 1: the top, coked up Holmes, Alan Arkin is Freud, Robert
Speaker 1: Duval as Watson, and a great cast of support. As always,
Speaker 1: you guys need to keep it up. Thanks a lot, Pat,
Speaker 1: We need to, huh, we need to. We have to.
Speaker 1: It's it's required. Um yeah, I still haven't seen the
Speaker 1: seven percent Solution. I need to. I need to get
Speaker 1: around to it. Um. I love the cast. As for
Speaker 1: Christopher Lee taking on Airs, this is something that I
Speaker 1: think Kim Newman brought up in the extras on that
Speaker 1: Blue for the Devil rides out that there. You know,
Speaker 1: you talked about the the Britishness and ultimately the kind
Speaker 1: of the to a modern view or unlikable upper cross
Speaker 1: Britishness of the Duke. Like there's that scene where he tells,
Speaker 1: I think he's telling Rex to quote unquote take one
Speaker 1: of the automobiles, take one of the cars. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's no big deal. And there there's another character,
Speaker 1: you know, more than one character just sort of leaves
Speaker 1: an automobile somewhere like it it doesn't even matter. You've
Speaker 1: got more at home. Simon I'd rather see you dead
Speaker 1: than take the tube. Well, we'll have to come back
Speaker 1: and do a Christopher Lee movie at some point where
Speaker 1: he plays a more more likable character, which is to say,
Speaker 1: even a villain. Well, I mean he's the most lovable
Speaker 1: villain ever in The wicker Man. Yeah, all right, should
Speaker 1: we do one more? Let's do one more? Okay. This
Speaker 1: one from Macarius mccarrius says, Hey, Robin Joe, long time listener,
Speaker 1: first time writer, really enjoyed your podcast on the Mark
Speaker 1: Hamill Geiver movie. I've never seen it personally, but I
Speaker 1: have a real fondness for the Geiver Too Dark Hero,
Speaker 1: which is the sequel. My uncle actually owned the VHS
Speaker 1: copy from the nineties, but I didn't ever watch the movie.
Speaker 1: I was just kind of entranced by the alien looking
Speaker 1: dude on the cover. It was only many years later
Speaker 1: that I actually sought out the film a little bit
Speaker 1: of trivia. The main actor in it, David Hayter, who
Speaker 1: plays Sean, is the voice behind Solid Snake in the
Speaker 1: Metal Gear Solid series of games. I knew for years
Speaker 1: that he was at first an actor and had heard
Speaker 1: it was this anime esque Geiver movie, but didn't put
Speaker 1: two and two together until watching the film on YouTube
Speaker 1: it's still there and searching on the internet and recognizing
Speaker 1: the cover from my childhood. It's not an especially great movie.
Speaker 1: It's a very low budget, wooden acting kind of stilted
Speaker 1: action sequences, but I still have an overbearing fondness for it.
Speaker 1: It helps that there was a two month long span
Speaker 1: where my wife was working very early mornings and it
Speaker 1: became something of a morning ritual that following her five
Speaker 1: am alarm, I'd wake up, pop Geiver, too Dark, hero
Speaker 1: On and try to get a couple of hours dozing
Speaker 1: before heading to work. Anyways, love the show Macarious. Oh wow, wow,
Speaker 1: that that's such a heartwarming story. I I love hearing
Speaker 1: when people have some sort of a very particular relationship
Speaker 1: with an ultimately kind of obscure film like this. Um
Speaker 1: you know where it's it's it's not it's not everybody's tradition,
Speaker 1: but it has become this person's tradition or it was
Speaker 1: their tradition at some point. So so that's great. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: the David Hayter detail about solid Snake, that's that's fascinating
Speaker 1: as well. The Geiver what does that mean? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So this thanks for writing in on this um and
Speaker 1: like I said, I love I love stories like this. Uh.
Speaker 1: We also heard from another listener about the Geiver who
Speaker 1: really uh filled us in on the lore of the Geiver.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to save that one for next time.
Speaker 1: So if you want more Geiver listener mail, uh, you
Speaker 1: know you know where where to find it. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be next Monday on Stuff to Blow your Mind listener mail. Perfect.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, what else do we put out in
Speaker 1: the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast feed? While we
Speaker 1: put out episodes of Stuff to Blow your Mind, we
Speaker 1: do that on Tuesdays and Thursdays. That's those are the
Speaker 1: core episodes. That's the science and the culture and the
Speaker 1: mythology and and so forth. On Wednesdays we're still doing
Speaker 1: short form artifact or monster fact episodes. And on Friday,
Speaker 1: that's the time for listening. That's the time, No, take
Speaker 1: that back, that's the time for weird how cinema. That's
Speaker 1: when we set aside most serious matters and we just
Speaker 1: talk about a weird film, all right. So, yeah, those
Speaker 1: are the episodes. That's where you find them. Uh, And yeah,
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