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Speaker 2: My name is Robert Lamb.
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Speaker 3: I mentioned this on last week's Male episode. We have
Speaker 3: been getting a lot of message in response to our
Speaker 3: series on childhood amnesia. Specifically, we were asking about people's
Speaker 3: earliest memories, and boy, that's really been pouring in. So
Speaker 3: we will still we will probably be working through those
Speaker 3: messages for quite some time. There is no way we're
Speaker 3: going to be able to read them all today, but
Speaker 3: we'll try to make some headway and read several here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and just as usual, we have to remind everyone
Speaker 2: we can't read everything on these episodes, especially when the
Speaker 2: floodgates really open, but we do read everything at least
Speaker 2: off the mic as it comes in. So yeah, keep
Speaker 2: it coming regardless.
Speaker 3: Right, and even if your message is not featured on
Speaker 3: the show, we still do appreciate everything we get. It
Speaker 3: always means a lot when people take the time to
Speaker 3: write in. Absolutely, let's see this first message about childhood
Speaker 3: amnesia comes from Mattay. Matey says, Hello, I recently came
Speaker 3: across your podcast and I think it's great. I'm a
Speaker 3: truck driver, so I'm always looking for new things to
Speaker 3: listen to, and you guys will definitely be a continuing
Speaker 3: part of that. Thanks Mite. I just listened to part
Speaker 3: one of your memory episode and I want to share
Speaker 3: some of my earliest memories. I'm in somewhat of a
Speaker 3: unique position because I can one hundred percent verified that
Speaker 3: these memories occurred before I turned four. This is because
Speaker 3: I was born in Germany and then we moved to
Speaker 3: Canada shortly before I turned four. My fourth birthday was
Speaker 3: celebrated in Canada. I have many memories from Germany, but
Speaker 3: one is particularly interesting because it was verified by my
Speaker 3: mother years ago when we were talking about memories and
Speaker 3: she was shocked that I could remember this random event.
Speaker 3: I was in daycare wearing a red sweater and I
Speaker 3: got glue on the sweater, and I remember being scolded
Speaker 3: by my mother for not being more careful. Memory has
Speaker 3: always fascinated me because I used to speak German and
Speaker 3: I have memories with German friends, yet the language is
Speaker 3: completely foreign to me. It's as if my brain completely
Speaker 3: over wrote German as I learned English in Canada. It
Speaker 3: might be interesting to note that we always spoke Slovak
Speaker 3: at home because we are of Slovakian heritage, So perhaps
Speaker 3: there's only so many languages an infant or toddler can
Speaker 3: hold on to at one time. As for my earliest
Speaker 3: jar memory, that would be this is referring to. There
Speaker 3: is a type of test done in some psychological studies
Speaker 3: of memory, where it's called a word Q test, where
Speaker 3: you will say a random word and you will say,
Speaker 3: tell me a memory associated with this word, and then
Speaker 3: you'll see what ages people produce. Memories from if you
Speaker 3: give them a bunch of these kind of prompts. And
Speaker 3: one of the words we talked about was jar. Rob,
Speaker 3: you had a memory of, I think, pulling cherries out
Speaker 3: of a jar before you were old enough to be
Speaker 3: allowed them. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah. I think it sounds like a good prompt
Speaker 2: because I think that we grow up in a world
Speaker 2: with jars around. Jars have things in them that we want,
Speaker 2: so it seems like we would have we would tend
Speaker 2: to have those memories.
Speaker 3: Anyway, back to Mate's message. Matesas as for my earliest
Speaker 3: jar memory, that would be from when I was six
Speaker 3: years old or in the first grade. We loved nutella.
Speaker 3: My parents would buy it in Germany and they continued
Speaker 3: to buy it in Canada on a regular basis, so
Speaker 3: we always had empty jars of nutella. Anyway, we had
Speaker 3: show and tell one day in the first grade and
Speaker 3: I found a baby garter snake and put it in
Speaker 3: one of the empty jars of nutella and put holes
Speaker 3: in the plastic lid and brought that to school to
Speaker 3: show everyone. The teacher was not happy about it, but
Speaker 3: most of the kids loved it. Anyway. Thanks for the
Speaker 3: great content. Keep doing what you're doing sincerely, Mattee. Well,
Speaker 3: first of all, thank you for the message. Second, I
Speaker 3: think that that is very interesting about the language thing. So,
Speaker 3: if I understand correctly, you grew up initially speaking German,
Speaker 3: I guess German and Slovak at home, but then at
Speaker 3: an early age, just before you turned four, moved and
Speaker 3: you still have some memories of the time when you
Speaker 3: spoke when you were learning to speak German, but now
Speaker 3: you don't speak German at all. Yeah, that is strange.
Speaker 2: I was mostly just distracted by the nutella mentions because
Speaker 2: this this I've never looked into this, but I had
Speaker 2: like a cousin of who's older than me, and I
Speaker 2: remember them traveling to Europe coming back with nutella, and
Speaker 2: I had had no experience with nutella, and it was
Speaker 2: like a thing that had to be acquired in Europe
Speaker 2: and brought back to the States. But you can buy
Speaker 2: nutella everywhere now. And I was trying to like figure out, well,
Speaker 2: when did nutella become widely available in the United States,
Speaker 2: And I don't know. I ended up looking at the
Speaker 2: corporate website, which tells me that positivity is the main ingredient,
Speaker 2: so but it doesn't it was sugar. That's like hazel
Speaker 2: nut and chocolate, right, but also positivity apparently. But I
Speaker 2: couldn't find a ready answer on when they have other
Speaker 2: dates on here. But I'm still scratching my head about
Speaker 2: when this became so widespread. When did it become an
Speaker 2: empire of creamy a hazel nut chocolate goodness? It eludes me.
Speaker 2: We'll have to come back to it. Maybe we'll do
Speaker 2: an Invention episode on chocolate hazel nutspread.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I do remember when I first found out about nutella.
Speaker 3: My reaction was, like, that's a thing that isn't allowed
Speaker 3: to exist. Do you can't have spreadable chocolate like peanut butter?
Speaker 2: That just no, Yeah, I remember my cousin had nutella.
Speaker 2: And then the actual kinderregs, the German style ones where
Speaker 2: you have chocolate encasing a capsule with a toy inside
Speaker 2: of It's something that does not fly in the United States,
Speaker 2: So you can't get that style of kinderreg in recent years,
Speaker 2: during my son's childhood, at least probably before that, you know,
Speaker 2: they introduced the kind that is designed differently where it's
Speaker 2: an egg and then one half contains a spreadable chocolate
Speaker 2: and the other half contains a toy, but there are
Speaker 2: no toys inside of chocolate shells.
Speaker 3: Is there positivity in there somewhere?
Speaker 2: It depends on the toy, you know. It varies wildly.
Speaker 2: All right, let's move on to another one. This one
Speaker 2: comes to us from Jess. Jess rights to be honest
Speaker 2: with you, I couldn't even pretend to know what my
Speaker 2: first memory is. I've often pondered that fact and thought
Speaker 2: it very strange that I couldn't. When forced, I can
Speaker 2: summon a sort of memory, but I've never really felt
Speaker 2: it to be real. It's a memory of crawling into
Speaker 2: my big brother's bedroom, all the way across the single
Speaker 2: wide trailer I grew up in. At the same time,
Speaker 2: I recall a specific picture of me setting on the
Speaker 2: floor of my brother's bedroom, holding a toy gun of
Speaker 2: his and sporting a grin on my face. Because of
Speaker 2: this picture, I almost feel a sort of disembodied sensation
Speaker 2: about the memory when I try and summon it. Now
Speaker 2: that I think about it, I'm not entirely certain as
Speaker 2: to whether it's the potentially false memory it's self that
Speaker 2: causes the sensation, or the picture. Having been forced to
Speaker 2: have a third person perspective on something that my memory
Speaker 2: allegedly recalls as being experienced as first person. I wonder
Speaker 2: how much that sort of thing influences our ability to
Speaker 2: recall memories, or whether it might influence us to recall
Speaker 2: false memories. Anyway, thanks for making my electric brain meat
Speaker 2: cogitate in new and interesting ways. Yeah, this whole subject
Speaker 2: of remembered photographs is fascinating when you think of that,
Speaker 2: a thing that certainly did not exist for the vast
Speaker 2: majority of human history and the history of human memories.
Speaker 2: But here is this thing that is, you know, generally
Speaker 2: considered to be like this one hundred percent accurate, you know,
Speaker 2: with an asterisk there, of course, snapshot of a moment
Speaker 2: in time, and then how that influences our highly malleable
Speaker 2: memory of and and of course, at times the lacking
Speaker 2: memory of our early life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, Jess. Okay, this next message is from Jonathan.
Speaker 3: Jonathan says, I'm just catching up on episodes after a
Speaker 3: period of life changes that kept me off my regular
Speaker 3: listening schedule and have just finished part one of Before
Speaker 3: you could remember It might be connected with having gone
Speaker 3: through those life changes that thinking about our earliest memories
Speaker 3: put me in mind of something else. What are the
Speaker 3: through connections between the way we remember ourselves in those
Speaker 3: memories and our current experience remembering them. Presumably we are
Speaker 3: now adults, even young adults, and very different physically and mentally.
Speaker 3: It's easy to think about the situation as a ship
Speaker 3: of theseus thought experiment. What is the real me and
Speaker 3: the real ship? Belated congratulations to Joe and Rachel on
Speaker 3: their parenthood. I can guarantee it will enrich both of
Speaker 3: your lives. And congrats to your daughter. Great choice of parents,
Speaker 3: Best Jonathan. Thanks Jonathan, This is a really good question,
Speaker 3: the ship of theseus question about ourselves and memories. Is
Speaker 3: the person you're remembering from years ago really yourself in
Speaker 3: a meaningful way? And how do the differences between those
Speaker 3: two people affect what it means to remember? In fact,
Speaker 3: we got another message along these lines from Scott rob
Speaker 3: If you don't mind, I'm going to read this too,
Speaker 3: because it's on a similar subject. Go for it, Scott
Speaker 3: says Hi writing into comment on your recent episodes on
Speaker 3: the subject of memory, formation and children, and now the
Speaker 3: most recent listener mail, where a listener reports memories related
Speaker 3: to sinse one thing that your episodes, and the listener
Speaker 3: mail from Rose made me think of is how as
Speaker 3: a child grows, their body schema updates rather quickly compared
Speaker 3: to the speed of any normally expected updates in later life.
Speaker 3: I think it's possible that old memories may become impossible
Speaker 3: to decode due to that rapid change in one's body
Speaker 3: schema as one transitions from a completely helpless infant body
Speaker 3: into what in most cases is a less vulnerable body.
Speaker 3: My thinking here is that as the infant body grows
Speaker 3: into an adult body, the perceptions of the individual's surroundings
Speaker 3: are changing so drastically that the brain can't later make
Speaker 3: sense of any potentially stored memories from the earlier period
Speaker 3: of life in the quote old body, once an individual
Speaker 3: is well out of infancy. This change in perspective and
Speaker 3: sensations from an infant who can hardly move on its
Speaker 3: own to a child moving about freely and inspecting the
Speaker 3: world on their own terms from multiple points of view
Speaker 3: can be compared to attempting memory recall with a human
Speaker 3: body from memories formed and stored using the sensory experiences
Speaker 3: and hardware of a dog body. This chimera analogy may
Speaker 3: be a bit of a stretch, but hopefully it helps
Speaker 3: get across the idea I'm trying for here. The idea
Speaker 3: has no backing I'm aware of, just some thoughts on
Speaker 3: the episodes. Thank you for the show and idea flows.
Speaker 2: Hmmm, now that's fascinating. I mean, our body scheme is
Speaker 2: pretty amazing, but we also have such an amazing ability
Speaker 2: to update it to make a tool of varying complexity
Speaker 2: a part of our body and an extension of our body.
Speaker 2: And I don't think I've ever read anything about it,
Speaker 2: you know, leading to distortions of memory per se. This
Speaker 2: would have been a good one to potentially ask David
Speaker 2: Eagleman about because I know one of the things that
Speaker 2: he's discussed in his book Live Wired is the idea
Speaker 2: of plugging in new senses to the human brain. And
Speaker 2: then his argument is that the brain can then make
Speaker 2: use of those new information feeds and that has an
Speaker 2: impact on just your entire mindset and your entire shape
Speaker 2: of your consciousness. And would that have any change any
Speaker 2: effect on your memory? I would tend to suspect it wouldn't,
Speaker 2: but Eagleman would have been the one to ask about it.
Speaker 2: You have to write into him. But of course what
Speaker 2: we would be talking about here in this example that's
Speaker 2: brought to mind is something that would occur as part
Speaker 2: of growing out of childhood into adulthood, and not because
Speaker 2: as an adult you suddenly started using some sort of
Speaker 2: complex tool or decided to plug the stock exchange directly
Speaker 2: into your brain. Well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the things I think highlighted in this
Speaker 3: email that does seem relevant to me is the distinction
Speaker 3: of basically the adaptation for agency as you get older,
Speaker 3: like as you can move on your own or really
Speaker 3: even as you can start using your hands for things,
Speaker 3: there's an increasing awareness I'm sure that you can act
Speaker 3: upon the outside world, whereas in you know, when you're
Speaker 3: just a newborn, you can't really do anything. The world
Speaker 3: just sort of acts upon you, and then you can
Speaker 3: only do a few things. You know, you can like cry,
Speaker 3: and you can suck and things like that, but you
Speaker 3: really you can't like move, you can't like I want
Speaker 3: to know about this to go over and look at it.
Speaker 3: You can't talk, you can't you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the crying is pretty effective though, Yeah, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, I mean I wonder if as you mature,
Speaker 3: your increasing awareness of your ability not just to exist
Speaker 3: in the world, but to act upon the world, to
Speaker 3: you know, move about freely and to change things by
Speaker 3: your own volition. If that changes your cognition so radically
Speaker 3: that I don't know that it would be it would
Speaker 3: be hard to make sense of experiences from before that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that makes sense to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a It's wonderful, thought provoking idea, that's
Speaker 2: for sure. All right. Before we go into the next listener, mail,
Speaker 2: I do have to quickly refer to The Daily Beast
Speaker 2: to a twenty seventeen article how Nutella Conquered America by
Speaker 2: Emily Schier. I found a partial answer quote, but Nutella's
Speaker 2: path to a American hearts has been far slower and
Speaker 2: more meandering than its European route to success. After appearing
Speaker 2: on supermarket shelves in the Northeast as early as nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty three, it would be decades before it had the
Speaker 2: kind of fan base that might spend a work day
Speaker 2: morning queued up to celebrate its existence. So there you go.
Speaker 2: Partial answer eighty three is maybe when it starts really
Speaker 2: creeping into some markets, but it's still going to be
Speaker 2: a couple of decades after that before. It's just really
Speaker 2: widespread and popular in the United States. So that kind
Speaker 2: of explains some of these my experience and part of
Speaker 2: that listener mail about nutella being a primarily a European
Speaker 2: thing at the time.
Speaker 3: I've never lived in the Northeast, but I don't recall
Speaker 3: seeing nutella any on supermarket shelves or anywhere really until
Speaker 3: I don't know, probably the late two thousands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that would that would make sense. That'd be
Speaker 2: about when I would have begun to notice it. But
Speaker 2: it's one of those things where like at the time,
Speaker 2: I was just like, oh, I guess nutella has always
Speaker 2: been around, and I just wasn't very observant like before that,
Speaker 2: you know, I didn't really put those those memories of
Speaker 2: my cousin bringing it back from Europe on trial and
Speaker 2: really think about it.
Speaker 3: The family that I grew up knowing that I associate
Speaker 3: with nutella were like euro traveling people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was. It was like having like frankencense
Speaker 2: or something on hand.
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, here's here's a box of Underberg shooters
Speaker 3: and some some neutella.
Speaker 2: All right. This next listener mail message comes to us
Speaker 2: from Chris. Chris wrights, since says Hi, Joe and Robert.
Speaker 2: I just finished listening to your series on childhood memory,
Speaker 2: and I thought I would share an experience of mine.
Speaker 2: When I was maybe six to ten years old, I
Speaker 2: would have occasional nightmares about being chased down by construction equipment,
Speaker 2: specifically backos, front end loader types of things. They would
Speaker 2: have the bucket at the front with arms that could
Speaker 2: grab me, and I don't really recall what happened next
Speaker 2: apart from being scared. My parents have an excavation business,
Speaker 2: so I was very familiar with this type of equipment
Speaker 2: and knew to be safe around it. It definitely wasn't
Speaker 2: something that should have caused fear. By eight, I was
Speaker 2: comfortable driving a back hoe. I later learned that when
Speaker 2: I was around one year old that I was involved
Speaker 2: in an accident. Dad was working with the back ho
Speaker 2: with the rear wheels up. If you're not aware, when
Speaker 2: working with the hoe, use rams to lift the rear
Speaker 2: wheels for stability. Apparently I tried to climb up to
Speaker 2: Dad and fell and was struck by the wheel. I'm
Speaker 2: not really sure what happened. I don't remember beyond what
Speaker 2: my parents have told me. I ended up with a
Speaker 2: broken pelvis and not being able to walk until months later.
Speaker 2: I've always wondered if the two things were connected. Was
Speaker 2: there part of my brain that remembered when I consciously
Speaker 2: could not? Anyway, your series prompted me to ride in
Speaker 2: as always. Thanks for the content. I look forward to
Speaker 2: it each week, even if I wait until series are
Speaker 2: completed before listening to them.
Speaker 3: Chris, Well, thanks Chris. That is interesting. Yeah, so like
Speaker 3: you wonder if somehow the memory inspired the dream even
Speaker 3: though you couldn't consciously remember the memory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's an interesting argument to me made there.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously there are different memory systems in the
Speaker 2: brain and when you know when parts of the when
Speaker 2: when one memory system is impacted by one condition or another,
Speaker 2: sometimes we fall back on another memory system. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it's an interesting thought here.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, I think we're gonna have to cap
Speaker 3: it there on the before you could remember messages for today,
Speaker 3: but we will keep reading through as many of them
Speaker 3: as we can get to in subsequent weeks as we
Speaker 3: as we move on down the road. But before we
Speaker 3: wrap up today, we also wanted to do a bit
Speaker 3: of weird house cinema email.
Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, let's jump into it. This one comes
Speaker 2: to us from Michael. Michael says, Hello, Joe and Rod.
Speaker 2: I admit I usually skip the Weird House Cinema episodes,
Speaker 2: but you've drawn me in again with this one. It's
Speaker 2: just not my cup of tea to listen about movies
Speaker 2: I've never seen. But I'm a child of the eighties,
Speaker 2: so of course I've seen The never Ending Story. I
Speaker 2: just wanted to share a thought on the comment about
Speaker 2: it being strained. The narrator changed at some point during
Speaker 2: the film. I haven't seen the movie recently, but I
Speaker 2: remember it well. It may just be a plot hole,
Speaker 2: but perhaps they changed the narrator at the point that
Speaker 2: Bastian becomes part of the story. At the beginning, he's
Speaker 2: reading the book and there's no expectation that anyone other
Speaker 2: than him is taking us the viewer through the story. Later,
Speaker 2: Bastian starts to leak into the story, or the story
Speaker 2: starts to leak into Bastian's world. At that point, it
Speaker 2: would be sensible to have a new narrator that is
Speaker 2: now describing the whole world, including what's happening with Bastian
Speaker 2: and Atreyu. It would be a complete misunderstanding. It could
Speaker 2: be a complete misunderstanding on my part, But if I'm right,
Speaker 2: I think that would be a pretty cool nuance to
Speaker 2: the storytelling best Michael good insight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think my any confusion I had
Speaker 2: on it was probably colored by watching too many films
Speaker 2: that are are less well executed, because I know I've
Speaker 2: encountered a film or two before that have multiple narrators
Speaker 2: in them. But I don't think there's any like high
Speaker 2: concept behind it. It's just at some point they're like,
Speaker 2: I think we need narration here, all right, let's add
Speaker 2: some and then they forget that they have another narrator
Speaker 2: elsewhere in the film, or they're like, well, you need
Speaker 2: another narrator, let's get this character in.
Speaker 3: When I think of intrusive narration, I think of the
Speaker 3: abrupt ending of the animated Lord of the Rings movie,
Speaker 3: where you know they they're nowhere near the end of
Speaker 3: the story, but suddenly and thus concludes the tale of
Speaker 3: the Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I haven't seen it, and forever so I
Speaker 2: forgot about that. I keep trying to get my son
Speaker 2: to watch it, or to finish the book. The books
Speaker 2: with me, but he's just like he really enjoyed the Hobbit,
Speaker 2: and I just can't get him interested again in the
Speaker 2: Lord of the Rings just yet.
Speaker 3: All Right, I think I'm gonna do this message from Daniel.
Speaker 3: If you don't mind, go for it, Daniel says, dear
Speaker 3: Robin Joe. I listened with interest to your Weird House
Speaker 3: Cinema episode on the Incredible Shrinking Man. This brought up
Speaker 3: many nostalgic memories for me, as I had this film
Speaker 3: along with it came from outer space and many others
Speaker 3: on two hundred and four hundred foot condensed eight millimeter film,
Speaker 3: and some full length feature movies on sixteen millimeter sound parentheses.
Speaker 3: The sixteen millimeter was due to my media connections back
Speaker 3: in the set. By the way, what he's about to say,
Speaker 3: I had no idea about this. Back in the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 3: you could buy two hundred foot and four hundred foot
Speaker 3: that is, ten and twenty minute condensed versions of movies.
Speaker 3: These were optically printed from the thirty five or seventy
Speaker 3: millimeter releases and so were at the sound speed of
Speaker 3: twenty four frames per second. Even though most were silent
Speaker 3: with captions, most people saw these films at the slow
Speaker 3: lethargic silent speed of eighteen frames per second, as they
Speaker 3: did not have sound equipment. These reels usually contained the
Speaker 3: most exciting action scenes with just enough context to sometimes
Speaker 3: guess what the movie was about. I remember the mix
Speaker 3: of large and small elements in The Shrinking Man to
Speaker 3: be very well done by the standards of the time.
Speaker 3: The other movie you mentioned was It Came from Outer Space.
Speaker 3: I had it on two hundred foot silent Standard eight
Speaker 3: with captions. It was also one I remember being visually stunning,
Speaker 3: with lots of rotoscoping, laser and killer ray effects. Anyway,
Speaker 3: thank you for the memories. I'd forgotten about both of
Speaker 3: these until I heard your show, as I long since
Speaker 3: have gone out of film. The last time I actually
Speaker 3: shot cinema film was in two thousand and one, and
Speaker 3: I assume he means the year two thousand and one,
Speaker 3: not the movie two thousand and one. And it costs
Speaker 3: two dollars a second to use once you accounted for processing, etc.
Speaker 3: Cheers Daniel.
Speaker 2: Oh, some fascinating av details, nice too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so ten or twenty minute condensed versions of movies
Speaker 3: on film. I wonder how those were mainly used I mean,
Speaker 3: do people literally just like buy them for entertainment to
Speaker 3: project them at home.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe in the nineteen seventies people were like, look,
Speaker 2: we've made a lot of films by this point, but
Speaker 2: maybe it's not employ impossible to catch up with all
Speaker 2: the movies that have come out. If we just get
Speaker 2: some shorter cuts of these films, then we'll be okay.
Speaker 2: And then later, you know, by decades later, you're just like, well,
Speaker 2: I'll never see all the films I want to see,
Speaker 2: no matter what the cut happens to be. I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna have to accept the fact that I'll never see
Speaker 2: I don't know, Funky Monkey.
Speaker 3: Fortunately, though, Rob, You're gonna see all of Funky Monkey
Speaker 3: when we do it on Weird House Cinema. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: So you can imagine what might be in the ten
Speaker 3: minute cut of The Incredible Shrinking Man. You had missed
Speaker 3: a lot of the great character drama and those aspects
Speaker 3: of the story. Uh, there's probably like the fight with
Speaker 3: the spider or the confrontation with the cat or whatever.
Speaker 3: What do you think would be in the ten minute
Speaker 3: condensed version of Attack of the Puppet People?
Speaker 2: Oh? Well, I mean it would be a it would
Speaker 2: be easier to cut that one down. I think just
Speaker 2: because there's there's there's a there's a maybe a little
Speaker 2: more wasted space, there's a little more uh you know,
Speaker 2: fat on the bone in that one that you could
Speaker 2: potentially trim. Uh you know, you'd want all those special
Speaker 2: effect shots in there, but you can maybe maybe cut
Speaker 2: a lot of the meandering around the office.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd have the scene where the puppet people are
Speaker 3: running around while mister Franz is like telling his friend
Speaker 3: to go away so he can get back to his
Speaker 3: living dolls.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Or oh, the scene where John Agar beats up the
Speaker 3: puppet that's got to be in the.
Speaker 2: Oh, well, that's that's that's key, that's that's that's an
Speaker 2: important moment in the film. All right, let's do one
Speaker 2: last Weird House Cinema listener mail. This one comes to
Speaker 2: us from Alena. Elena says, Robert and Joke, thanks for
Speaker 2: the great podcast. I have a couple of movie recommendations
Speaker 2: for weird House Cinema. The Troehlenberg Terror aka Crawling I
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty eight. The creature is a giant eyeball with
Speaker 2: tentacles that kills people in the Swiss Alps, and then
Speaker 2: also Fantastic Voyage nineteen sixty six, a submarine and its
Speaker 2: crew get reduced to microscopic size to enter the human
Speaker 2: body and say a life.
Speaker 3: We always appreciate suggestions for weird house cinema. In fact,
Speaker 3: we have done movies before that were suggested by listeners,
Speaker 3: so never give up. In fact, we did one recently.
Speaker 3: Treasurer of the Four Crowns was a listener suggestion.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Like these suggestions sometimes introduce us to something
Speaker 2: that we were not familiar with, or if it's a
Speaker 2: film we're familiar with, sometimes it like bumps, it towards
Speaker 2: the top of the list. So yeah, the crawling I
Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember. Yeah, yeah, this was featured on
Speaker 2: Mystery Science Theater three thousand back in the day, and
Speaker 2: I think it was it was a ktm A episode,
Speaker 2: So I don't know that I've actually seen it, but
Speaker 2: I remember seeing a clip from it in the old
Speaker 2: old intro to MST. And then as far as Fantastic
Speaker 2: Voyage goes, I mean, that's that's a classic. Isaac Asimov
Speaker 2: wrote a novel based on the screenplay, but also worked
Speaker 2: on the screenplay, and I think I read that book
Speaker 2: When I Was a Kid has a pretty strong cast
Speaker 2: as well, and for the time, had some pretty amazing effects.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I wrote, Raquel Welch is in it. Donald
Speaker 2: Pleasants is in it. Author Kennedy is in it. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that would be a fun one to potentially watch.
Speaker 3: At some point when we did our back back Shrink movies,
Speaker 3: I think multiple listeners suggested fantastic voyage. Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 3: we may have to come back to it. By the way,
Speaker 3: I just looked up the poster for the Crawling Eye
Speaker 3: to see does the eye somehow like is it carrying
Speaker 3: a screaming woman or an unconscious woman? Yep, yep, it is.
Speaker 3: It's an I I guess the tentacles are what's holding her.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like how she's kind of screaming. It's
Speaker 2: almost like the when I look at it, it's like
Speaker 2: the eyes like, I'm not really sure how to pick
Speaker 2: this up. Yeah, my tentacles are not really leadbearing, They're
Speaker 2: more for undulating as I float through the astral plane.
Speaker 2: I don't really know how to how to hold this
Speaker 2: woman in my arms, but the director and the promotions
Speaker 2: team says that I must do it.
Speaker 3: I cannot yet I must Yeah, how do you calculate that? Okay,
Speaker 3: we got to wrap it up there.
Speaker 2: Oh we do. Oh, but I have to point out
Speaker 2: the Janet Monroe is in that film, so that's kind
Speaker 2: of exciting. She was in Darby O'Gill and the Little
Speaker 2: People opposite Sean Connery, which is a film I have
Speaker 2: a lot of affection for. So I don't know. Both
Speaker 2: of these are strong candidates. Maybe we'll come back and
Speaker 2: consider one of them in the future.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm on the hook.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll go and shut the book. But we'll
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