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Well, maybe I'm gonna kick things off with 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.560 some responses to our series on mud, Rob, do you 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:42.120 mind if I do this? One? From Lee Go for it, lisays, greetings, Rob, Joe, 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.840 and JJ. Your recent episodes on mud reminded me of 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.600 a couple of things from my childhood growing up in 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.119 rural Virginia. We had mud daubers. Oh yeah, we talked 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.160 about these in the episodes. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:54.600 Robbie. 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.040 You revealed the fact that I don't think I knew 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.880 this before, that these are parasitic wasps. The mud daubers 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:06.360 like they fill up their little mud sarcophag guy with 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.720 with like paralyzed dead spiders for their young defeat. 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.520 On yep, they got to bring the meat back for 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:11.880 the young. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.720 Well, Lee says, we often knocked the nests off the 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.720 underside of our porch and the rafters of our shed. 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.200 Several times during the summers, we'd have a couple of 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.200 fresh nests where the mud was still soft and damp. 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:28.400 They were constructed in courses not unlike a mud version 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:33.760 of three D printing. Interesting. I remember dismantling these nests 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:38.040 on occasion and separating out some of the sedated spiders 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.400 that had been imprisoned. While they did not revive, they 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.560 did move around some. I love the way Lee is 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:49.880 just painting a supervillain origin story flashback. It's like the 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:56.200 Joker as a child, you know, poking at paralyzed wasps. Anyway, another, 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.480 he's not hurting the spiders here. Yes, I should have 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:01.200 said spiders. 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.000 Yeah, he's just observing, observing what the wasps have wrought. 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:09.200 That's right, that's curiosity, that's nature. Another mud construction we 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:14.760 often saw were the chimneys built by crayfish in our yard. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.520 They were in everyday occurrence during the summer since we 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.720 had a drainage creek in our yard. And then Lee 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.760 attaches a link to an article. I actually got very 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.599 interested in this, so I was looking for articles as well. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.159 I dug up a post on an Ohio State University 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:34.800 blog maintained by a professor named Joe Boggs that seems 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.799 to have a lot to do with like gardening and stuff, 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.960 but it is covering the topic of these burrowing crayfish 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.400 chimneys and rob I've attached a couple of pictures in 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.800 the document here for you to look at. So they yeah, 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.080 some people call them chimneys. They kind of look like 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.320 little mud volcano mounds. 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.760 Yeah. Yeah, I've definitely seen these before out and about. 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:59.000 They instantly recognize them. They stand out in the landscape. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.200 I don't think I would recognized that this was made 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:06.520 by a crayfish. So, according to bogs you find crayfish 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:10.480 chimneys like this in kind of surprising locations, like I 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.680 would expect you'd see it on the banks of a stream, 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.960 like right there where the water is. But apparently they 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.599 can pop up in the middle of fields as long 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.560 as those fields are like poorly drained areas with a 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:26.279 high water table. Boggs writes quote. Burrowing crayfish in Ohio 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.480 belong to one of two genera in the family Cambaridi 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:35.960 Cambaras and Phalliccambarus. These land lobsters are sometimes referred to 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:40.200 as terrestrial crayfish, owing to their lack of a direct 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:45.160 connection to bodies of water. However, just like their aquatic cousins, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:50.760 these crayfish use gills to extract oxygen from water. Unlike 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:54.760 their water soaked cousins, burrowing crayfish spend most of their 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:58.279 lives on land, so that's curious. They breathe water, but 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.440 they live on land. How does that work? Well, Apparently, 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.240 even though they're not living in the water, they access 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:08.040 water for the purpose of breathing, of obtaining oxygen by 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.400 digging down to the ground water. And that's why they 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.520 make these burrows in poorly drained areas, places with a 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.839 high water table. So these grayfish make these muddy burrows. 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.240 They dig them out with their claws and pile up 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.720 the mud around the entrances, and they usually leave their 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.720 burrows at night to forage for food. They're omnivorous, so 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.359 the menu includes basically whatever you got plant or animal, 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.919 living or dead. Whatever they can eat. And Boggs describes 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.839 how these chimneys can dry in the sun and become 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.000 very hard and brick like, which proves a big problem 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:42.760 when you hit one with a lawnmower. 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.760 Oh oh, man, I bet yeah. I've never been in 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.360 a position to do that, but this is fascinating, the 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.440 whole idea about them. They are living on the land 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.400 but having to go down and find water in order 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.800 to breathe. They're basically reverse dolphins. 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:01.760 That's great, yeah, reverse yeah, reverse marine mammals. Anyway, Lee 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.600 says You're mention of safety films put me in mind 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.800 of the old driver's education films we were shown in 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.440 the classroom. Looking online, I found a couple of websites 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.040 as well as the Internet archive where some of these 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.400 can be found. And then Lee attaches some links along 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.960 with a trigger warning as some of these included pretty 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.400 gruesome crash footage. And then Lee says, I don't know 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.200 when exactly they stopped showing these films, but they were 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.400 alive and well when I was in high school Driver's 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.640 ED in the late seventies. Always look forward to the 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.880 next topic on tap from the Stuff to Blow your 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:38.200 mind team, Thank you sincerely, Lee. Well, thanks for the message, Lee, 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:44.520 I remember some incredibly cheesy videos that we had to 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.600 watch when I was in Driver's Ed. Also, the strange 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.640 thing is I remember like there were more films about 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.440 the dangers of drinking and driving than there were about 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.400 like how to drive a car. And I was just like, okay, 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.640 So like, assuming I'm not planning on drinking and driving anyway, 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.440 I could be getting a lot more out of this class. M. 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.200 Yeah, you know, I don't remember what I watched in 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:09.440 drivers at I simply watched something, but I haven't seen 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.000 a lot of these, Like basically, the only safety films 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:16.200 I've seen, aside from of course, Shake Hands with Danger 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:22.280 and what the aforementioned a forklift driver claus have been 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.320 the ones that have been featured as short sun Mystery 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:26.200 Science Theater three thousand in the past, and maybe a 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:27.440 few riff tracks here and there. 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:31.720 There's one I remember very vividly that is about how 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.440 even if you are old and you think that you 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:39.240 can handle your liquor because you've been drinking for many years, 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:43.319 you still are impaired after you drink. So it showed 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.480 a guy like drinking alcohol and then getting on a 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.959 golf cart and then driving the golf cart off the 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:53.920 golf pathway. Again, I think like most of the people 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:55.520 in this class were like fifteen. 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.840 So yeah, that's some confusing messaging. I shouldn't like. Maybe 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:00.800 that needs to be in a video aimed at like 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.560 older drivers or golfers. I don't know. All right, here's 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.520 another mud one. This one comes to us from Eric. 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.839 Eric says, Hi, Robin Joe, great episodes on mud and 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:21.040 mud related stuff. Regarding Arnold, one thing that occurred to 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.760 me years ago was not so much weather the mud 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.120 we're talking about predator. By the way, of course, not 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.839 so much whether the mud would have hidden him from 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.720 the predator, but whether the predator's infrared vision would actually 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.360 work very well to detect warm blooded organisms in a 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:41.319 sweltering Central American jungle. What kind of temperature resolution does 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.839 the predator's vision have. Can he easily distinguish between the 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.880 ninety five degree ground and the ninety nine degree human? 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.600 I guess he can, because he did, right. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:52.640 This is a great question. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.720 Yeah, and this is one that you know. I didn't 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.360 do a lot of deep, deep research into this, and 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.760 I didn't rewatch the sequence, but one of the ride 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.120 ups that I was looking at was alluding to the 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:08.920 fact that, Okay, the predator has natural infrared vision, but 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:10.960 it is not as focused and he had those some 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.679 of those technological filters we see, or about him better 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:20.840 adapting his already inhuman vision for this specialized terrestrial environment. Yeah. 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:22.880 I don't know exactly how the math would work out, 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.680 but I very much see Eric's point here. So they 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.520 specify in the movie that the predator comes to the 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.160 Central American jungle, which is going to be very hot 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.839 and very humid, So he's coming to a place with 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:38.760 high heat and high humidity. And they say that he 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:43.480 only comes in the hottest years. So that seems kind 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.920 of backwards, right, Wouldn't it be easier for him to 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.760 hunt to going to like the coldest place that humans are. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.000 I mean, I guess he's not really here for an 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.520 easy time, though he's supposed to be. This the Challenge 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.719 super Warrior game Hunter, right. Yeah, so he's drawn to 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.199 places like the jungle daring, you know, some sort of 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:05.640 a war environment. He's drawn to nineteen ninety No, I'm sorry, 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:10.720 nineteen ninety seven Los Angeles. That was the future of 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.360 Los Angeles as presented in the nineteen ninety film Predator two. 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.720 Predator two, I recall they put like some kind of 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.280 color filter on that film that makes it look like 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:24.760 it's one hundred and forty eight degrees fahrenheit in Los Angeles. Yeah, 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:29.480 Like the sides of the buildings are vaguely red. Yeah. 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.640 I mean, I'm not sure how it actually matched up 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.800 to the summer of ninety seven off hand, but I mean, 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.520 we were living in a pretty hot summer right now, 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.720 So I guess they're just predators out there NonStop. Yeah, 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.199 it may be too hot for him, Predator drops into 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.160 Phoenix and it's just like, I don't know, I just 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:46.840 don't know if I can do this. I quit. 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:47.559 Yeah. 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.320 Anyway, Eric continues related to mud pots and mud volcanoes. 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.160 I thought you might be interested to hear about the 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:57.080 only known moving mudpot in the world, located in California's 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:01.600 Imperial Valley, just north of Mexicali. Over the last few years, 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.520 this mud pot has traveled several miles, endangering an important 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.600 highway and a rail line. A possible cause is that 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.480 a hot spring deep underground is located under a large 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.080 rock plate that is slowly shifting due to the frequent 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.760 earthquakes in the area, So the spring is pushing hot 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.000 mud up at an angle that is gradually changing. The 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:24.240 area is rife with geothermal activity, including several geothermal power 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:28.920 generators and a burgeoning lithium and rare earth mud extraction industry. 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:32.400 I think this is referring to the same moving mud 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.840 puddle that we talked about in was it the last 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.600 Listener Mail episode? I'm not sure, but in a recent one, 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.240 but yeah, I mean, I guess it would have to 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.080 be the same one, since there seems to only be 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.200 one moving mud puddle. So this is the nyland in 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.800 Ila and d mud puddle. Again, look that up if 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:49.640 you haven't seen it. 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.440 And Eric continues once more. Also related to your mention 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.200 of Dracula on the Moon, have you ever encountered the 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.520 webcomic Doctor mc ninja. It's weird and funny enough that 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.559 it might just strike your fancy. There is one issue 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:07.200 season question Mark, in which Doctor mc ninja battles Dracula, 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.280 who has a base on the moon. Incidentally, would vampires 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.719 be affected by exposure to vacuum? I don't think they 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.440 need to breathe, and thus they wouldn't risk rupturing their lungs, 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.320 and if they are exposed slowly, any gases in their 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.720 bodies would dissipate, so they would not swell up. Also, 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.640 I've never heard the verb to vamp before. Is that 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:29.480 common parlance whether or not? I love it and I 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:31.520 am going to use it from now on. Thanks again 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:33.120 for your great work, Eric. 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:37.120 Thanks for the message. Eric, I thought vamp was a verb, 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:41.200 and not just in the musical sense. You know, when 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.480 you bite somebody turn them into a vampire, that's vamping them, right? 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:45.839 Yeah? 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.000 Sure, I don't think I made that up. 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.880 Also, known as dracking. I guess you could track. Yes, yeah, maybe, 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.440 I don't know, just throwing that out there. I'm not 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:58.000 familiar with doctor mc ninja, but anything with Dracula on 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.199 a moon base sounds good. As for the rule of 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.400 vampires in space, well, a lot of great minds have 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.960 have tackled this topic. But I guess a lot of 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:11.960 it comes down to exactly what your slice of the 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.560 vampire myth or you know, some sort of speculative biology 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:16.160 is going to. 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:20.480 Be very important. Question does Blade need to breathe oxygen? 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:21.960 I think he does? Doesn't he? 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.480 I believe so. I've never I don't remember ever seeing 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.280 anything that indicated he didn't. 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.600 No day walkers on the moon, but perhaps full undead. 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.360 All right, what sounds like we're already venturing into weird 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:45.240 house territory here. Do we have any weird House listener 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:45.920 mail to read? 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.760 Why? Yes, we have several here. Oh, I'm going to 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:53.960 read this one from Carrie. Carrie says Robin Joe. I've 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.560 gotten a bit behind on my listening, and I've just 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.920 finished the fourth episode on mud. You mentioned science fic 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.000 treatments of mud, but I don't think you mentioned X 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.960 the unknown and I wondered if you were aware of it. 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.720 It's a nineteen fifty six British movie that is all 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.200 about the mud. It's said in rural Scotland, and the 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.680 premise is that a large, deep crack appears suddenly in 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:20.640 the ground, and soon a huge, sentient, radioactive mass of mud, 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:24.280 a true mud monster comes and goes in and out 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.480 of the hole. It feeds on radioactive elements and grows 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:31.520 significantly every time it encounters some. Its nightly forays are 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.360 in search of food, and it causes death and destruction 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:38.000 along its path. Oh wow, I'm already seeing some parallels 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.920 to the burrowing crayfish here. You know, mound of mud 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:46.840 comes out of the earth, nocturnal foraging. Yeah, omnivorous carry 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.160 goes on. A scientist has to figure out a way 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.520 to defeat the monster before it can reach a nuclear 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.880 power plant and grow large enough to begin to take 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.760 over the world. I like the movie and feel it's 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.280 weird house cinema material, But even if you don't use it, 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.280 you should check it out out before if you haven't. 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.360 If you haven't seen it, thanks for the great work, Carrie. Well, 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.240 thank you, Carrie. I think you neglected to mention that 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:12.120 this is a Hammer film. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.200 Always a good sign. 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.600 Yeah. It was written by Jimmy Sangster, the same guy 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.760 who wrote the original Hammer Dracula in nineteen fifty eight, 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.080 with Christopher Lee as DrAk and Peter Cushing is Van Helsing. 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:27.120 Also same guy wrote the nineteen fifty nine Hammer Mummy, 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:31.160 which starred Christopher Lee as the Mummy and Peter Cushing 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.400 as I don't know, some British guy who is opposed 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:38.520 by the Mummy, but that one is more notable to 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.200 me as a poster than as a film. The fifty 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.080 nine Mummy has a really great poster where like a 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.880 police officer is shining a flashlight at the Mummy's back 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.480 and it pierces through the Mummy as if it were 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:51.040 a shadow. 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.160 That's a great poster. I'm not even looking at it 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.520 right now, and I can I remember it clearly in 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:57.000 my mind. 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.240 It's hanging next to me on the wall right now. 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.360 Speaking of posters, extually unknown, I looked up the poster. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.200 It has a very unusual looking poster. I don't feel 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.600 like the color scheme makes a lot of sense. It's 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.520 like a red, white and blue color scheme. I just 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.320 that's that's not the palette for a horror poster. 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.400 Hmmm, yeah, I know what you mean. And I think 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.199 this is when like the title doesn't really get give 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.200 me much to go on. It certainly doesn't say anything 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.040 about in mud. There's nothing on the on the poster 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.800 that really calls out to me. I had to look 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:30.919 this one up. It sounds like it was at some 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.560 point going to be a quarter Mass picture. 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:34.879 Yeah. 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:36.800 This is like a whole, you know, franchise of films 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:40.240 about Professor Bernard quarter Mass, and I haven't seen most 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:43.720 of them, and I haven't seen them the TV series, 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:47.040 but quarter Mass in the Pit from sixty seven is great. 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.639 So at some point it would be interesting to come 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.840 in and watch either a quarter Mass film or one 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.000 of these sort of related films in this genre. Rob. 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.159 I have to note because I think I spent my 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.560 entire life saying quarter but when I zoom in on 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.280 the word, it appears it is quator mass. 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:05.440 It's quator mass. 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.280 Oh my goodness, quator Mass. I mean I've said quarter 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:09.639 Mass probably a million times. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.400 Yep. I've just been seeing that Invisible are in there 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.639 full time? Okay, quator Mass in the Pit. If you 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:18.720 will I will get it right if if we do 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:24.120 one of these films speaking of British franchises and mud monsters. 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:25.960 I do, and also mention real quick that Susan in 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:27.919 the Stuff to Blow your Mind discussion module, which you 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:29.520 can join as well if you just shoot us an 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:31.160 email we'll send to the information about how to join, 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.240 points out that one of the recent seasons of Doctor Who, 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.720 I think series eleven, had some sort of mud monsters 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.840 running about, So so Doctor Who fans out there, we 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:44.000 are now aware. 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:46.639 Doctor Who has a lot of monsters. That would be 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.880 a really rich well if I knew it. But I've 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.080 only seen a very little bit of Doctor Who, so 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.280 I'm mostly ignorant on that. 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.960 Yeah. Same. I dip into it a little bit every 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.600 now and then when I visit my wife's uncle and aunt, 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.520 who were big Doctor Who fans, and I'll watch a 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:06.560 little bit of old Doctor Who. Usually there was the 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:08.760 really old stuff, And I'm really not up on the 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.480 more recent adventures, but. 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.240 It does look like a lot of fun. Maybe maybe 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:14.320 I'll get in there one day. 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:16.840 All right, here's another one. This one comes to us 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:25.040 from Aldrin. Aldrin writes Sen and says, hi, Robert and 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:29.600 Joe wonderful episode on Pirana Mandir loved it. I can't 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:32.080 remember if I've ever watched this movie. As a kid, 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.800 we used to watch a lot of Bollywood movies, but 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.560 they were typically love romances with some drama. The horror 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.040 genre was not mainstream at the time, so I probably 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.800 missed this movie. Wanted to say a couple of things 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.679 in general. Number one, like you mentioned, almost all of 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.600 these movies had to have a few musical numbers. Some 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.760 movies even had a very feeble story and only the 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.680 songs were what attracted audiences. Songs were almost never sung 0:19:56.720 --> 0:20:00.280 by the actors, but by actual solo singers. The those 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:03.399 singers would often have very successful careers as a solo artist, 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:07.280 singing for numerous movies. We would even have MTV type 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:11.159 programs with just the musical sequences from the movies. Huh. 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:15.000 Interesting Now, the next point, Aldrin shares is interesting because 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:18.520 we were asking for Hindi speakers to weigh in on this. 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.640 In the movie, there was something that in the subtitles 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:25.760 kept being translated as Satan, but the religious context of 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:30.880 the movie is Hindu and so and also I thought 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:33.960 I heard in the in the Hindi audio people saying 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:36.960 a word that sounded like shaitan or something like that, 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:39.639 and so we were asking, what is the significance of 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.199 this word in the cultural context, Like it probably wouldn't 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:46.359 mean exactly the Christian Satan, So like, what is it 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:47.600 they're talking about. 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:51.640 Right, And so Aldrin writes about the words chaetan. As 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:54.000 far as I know, this means devil. I don't think 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:57.640 it refers to Satan unless they are etymologically derived from 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.119 the same thing. Chaetan is the word often used to 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:05.760 admonish mischievous children, so its meaning is more towards devil 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:08.640 than satan. Just wanted to point it out. Love your podcast, 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:10.280 Keep rocking tears, Aldron. 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.240 Oh, thank you very much, Aldrin. Okay, so that makes sense, 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:17.920 Like if you would admonish unruly children by calling them 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:22.000 little chatans like they're being little demons, they're being a 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:25.720 little imps, that would make sense that it means more 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:30.480 just like a wicked creature, wicked spirit of some kind. Yeah, well, 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.000