WEBVTT - Listener Mail: Earth's Gravity Wears You Out 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.080 Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.320 Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind listener Mail. 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.400 My name is Robert Lamb and I am Joe McCormick, 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.680 and it's Monday, so we are bringing you a listener 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.239 mail episode. This is the day of each week we 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:23.479 read back messages from the Stuff to Blow Your Mind 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.280 email address, which is contact at stuff to Blow your 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.319 Mind dot com. A little announcement for most of this week, 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.080 we are going to be running episodes from the Vault 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:36.040 because we're going to be out for a few days. 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:39.000 So Tuesday and Thursday's core episodes this week will be 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.400 Vault episodes, and we will have a Weird House Cinema 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.560 rewind for you on Friday. But today it is all 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:48.000 new listener mail messages. Let's see, rob Do you mind 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:51.640 if I jump right in with this message from Eden 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:52.680 via Facebook? 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:53.880 Yeah, let's have it. 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:58.560 So this is in response to our Anthology of Horror episode, 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:04.600 specifically my selection of a Kulchak the night Stalker story, 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:10.000 which concerned a type of Cajun bogeyman named Paramoufay, which 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.679 is a monster like a kind of plant based sasquatch. 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:17.560 It is covered head to toe in Spanish moss, and 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:21.800 Paramoufay in this episode would attack his victims by squeezing 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.039 them to death. Now I'm still not one hundred percent 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.560 certain on this, because there are some sources that make 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:32.280 claims to the contrary. But after pretty extensive digging, I 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:36.800 came to the conclusion that Paramoulfay is probably not a 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:41.240 real figure from organic Cajun folklore, but something invented by 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.840 the writers of the show, though based loosely on existing 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:49.160 monsters from Cajun folk tales, for example the rugaroo. Of course, 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.360 if you have any evidence to the contrary, if you 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:55.120 do know of authentic from the people Para Malfay stories, 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:56.760 please write in and let us know. I would love 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:04.320 to be corrected on that. Eden writes in at the 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:09.520 Facebook module to say, paramou Fay may be a television bogeyman, 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:14.320 but moss Man is a very real boogieman. Boogie spelled 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:19.280 bogie in this case, so Eden says, the late great 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.440 Steve nico is how I think you would pronounce it. 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:27.280 It's inn icaud, I think that'll be. Steve Nicode used 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.359 to dress head to toe in a costume of Spanish 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.600 moss and a pair of sunglasses and would show up 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.760 to Marti Gras parades and such a folk figure in 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.560 his own right while he was doing it. After that 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:43.080 episode of Colchak, the idea of a Spanish moss bodysuit 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.880 has surely occurred to many people independently throughout history. It 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.640 just begs to be a costume. In fact, moss Man 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.480 is the name most used for anyone who wears Spanish 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.040 moss as a costume. As far as I know, however, 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.640 Nico was the only one to complete the look with 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.720 air of sunglasses. Nicode died in two thousand and four, 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.320 and there is little trace of his moss Man on 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.280 the internet. I can't find a single photograph of the 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.200 man himself. But I submit these photos of my family's 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:18.920 Mossman poster and kids coloring worksheet. And this is some 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.320 kind of framed poster for a party event or something, 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.280 and it says moss Man and it shows a figure 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.200 covered in Spanish moss with sunglasses on. And then in 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:32.000 the background there's a convertible like a car that also 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.360 looks like it's covered in Spanish moss, with a bunch 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.000 of trees or something poking out of it, and an 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.800 alligator driving the car, and the text on the poster says, 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.160 Moss is boss the most partying dude you'll come across. 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.600 And also there's a page from a coloring book here 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.840 that seems to be a I don't know, some kind 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.600 of promotional item from the New Orleans Rhythm run nineteen 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.640 ninety three. Then Eden says, ps, you should do an 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.040 episode on Christmas witches. There are a lot of them, 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.400 and Louisiana as a creepy one. Oh, I hope I'm 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:07.000 saying this right, Madame grand Dewey. The nice version of 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.680 her has her using her long fingers to place gifts 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:15.160 into children's Christmas stockings. The scary version has her living 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.880 in the attic all year round, just waiting for children 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:22.760 to misbehave so she can snatch them with her long fingers. Wow, 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.200 I did not know about that one. That's really good. 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.200 So she never leaves. She's a crampus that never leaves 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:29.640 your house. She's always there. 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.880 She's like Gary Busey and that movie Hider in the 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.359 House where you have the secret Gary Busey living in 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:35.839 your attic. 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.160 Well, thank you, Eden, I had no idea about the 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.279 Moss Man. The Moss boss, the most partying dude you'll 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.599 come across this. This is all new to me and 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.760 I like his vibe. 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:48.680 Yeah, this is great. I mean this is one I 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.400 haven't been down to New Orleans in a couple of 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.680 years now, hopefully i'll go go back next year. But 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.279 I love all this, like local New Orleans culture stuff, 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:57.640 A lot of it, you know, tied up with Marty 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.159 Grass in a way that you know, it doesn't really 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:04.240 come through in the like the larger public conception of 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.760 Marti Gras, but you get like the early Marti Gras parades, 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:09.840 like the you know, the different crews putting on their 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.400 more localized parades that are often more political and you know, 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.400 focused on local politics. And then you have a lot 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:17.920 of other cool stuff like that. They always do a 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.760 big Crampus, or at least they did in recent years, 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.880 and I know that we actually heard from listeners who 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:26.960 were associated with it or participated in it. So yeah, 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:28.760 there's a lot of fun stuff that goes on down there, 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:30.920 all right. This next one comes to us from a Lurch. 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.280 Lurch says, good morning, gentlemen, listening to Search for Alien 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.839 Live with Doctor Frank. He references a TV show UFO 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.680 in a related Space nineteen ninety nine. UFO was a 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.880 short lived series produced by Gary Anderson, who also produced 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:54.840 Space nineteen ninety nine, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlett Stingray, Fireball XL five, 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.080 and a host of other wonderful for weird house values 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:01.840 of wonderful shows, my favorite being Space Precinct. In some 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.520 shows the actors were human and others they were marionettes. 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.760 All of them featured beautiful, cheap model work. In my 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.479 biased estimation, it's well worth the time it would take 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:16.320 to Binge watch his entire library. Keep the gravy warm, lurch. 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.120 Oh, and Rob, you should probably do this next message 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.919 from Sean because it's on exactly the same subject in 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.479 response to yours, Adam Frank. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.599 Yeah, Sean rides and it says, Hi, Rob love the interview, 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.240 but I cannot believe you've never seen the Gary Anderson 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.719 classic program UFO. Pretty hokey by today's standards, but I 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.200 think the show would suit your aesthetic. The funk is 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.559 strong in this one. There's a moon base of women 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.760 with purple wigs just because, a submarine full of buff 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.640 dudes and mess shirts. If you haven't, I implore you 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.720 as a longtime listener to check it out. Sean, all right, Yeah, 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.080 so UFO is a show that I do not think 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.799 I've ever seen anything. I don't think I've ever watched 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.240 any of it. I have watched Space nineteen ninety nine. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.919 I'm familiar in passing with some of these other series. 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.440 But look into it. Looking at some of the stills, 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:06.360 I've definitely seen stills of these purple headed ladies before 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.720 Space Ladies, and it does look like it might be 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:11.320 a lot of fun. It also looks like maybe there 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.880 have been some like recuts into something like a film, 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.160 or maybe they made a UFO film at some point. 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.600 I'll have to poke around a little bit more. Maybe 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.880 there is something we could consider for weird House in 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:22.480 the future. 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.640 Oh, I had the wrong era in mind for some reason. 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.000 I was picturing this as a show like from the nineties, 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:30.800 but I just pulled it up. Yeah, the moon base 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.520 with the ladies with purple hair, this looks like sixties 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:34.280 or seventies. 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.400 Yeah. Ed Bishop, I believe, was the lead on it, 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.480 a lead actor, and he was in two thousand and 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.360 one A Space Oudus. He played the Lunar Shuttle captain. 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.640 Okay, why do all of the moon dwellers have purple hair. 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.160 Is there something about being on the moon gives you 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:50.760 purple hair? 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:52.800 I don't know. Why are they all gorgeous? I don't 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.120 know these things happen, especially in sixties science fiction. 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:01.120 Exposure to that moon radiation turns all original shades of 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:01.720 hair purple. 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.160 Well, thanks for the recommendation. Yeah, I'll have to check 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:07.960 this out at some point. 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.600 Okay. This next message is from Paul. It is in 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.840 response to an older episode of ours. I guess maybe 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.160 one that ran in the vault or something on the 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:25.920 three pupiled eye. Paul writes, Hi, there, longtime listener, first 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.800 time emailer. I've been catching up on the back catalog 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.320 of episodes, and I was certain that you'd mentioned something 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.640 in your episode about the three pupil die, but to 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.800 my shock, you didn't. When Lance Henrickson was cast as 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.679 the android Bishop in the movie Aliens, he had a 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.400 special set of contact lenses made to give him two 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:49.120 pupils in each eye, but James Cameron said he looked 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.400 just as ominous without the lenses, so they ended up 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:56.520 not being used. Love the podcast. Paul, Oh wow, I 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.400 was not aware of that, but that makes sense. The 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.680 land hit. Lance Hendrickson has a heck of a stare. 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.040 Yeah, yeah, it's a great presence. So I can understand, 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.160 you know, realizing, you know what, we're just gonna trust 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.200 we just to go with the actor on this one. 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.880 We don't actually need to mess with the eyes. So 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.800 I can imagine. It was a pretty cool looking effect 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.520 in its own way. But part of the appeal of 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.280 Bishop is that you grow to see his humanity, so 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:27.040 you know, yeah, any way you shake it, I feel 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:28.040 like that was the right decision. 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.719 That's a good point. Yeah, so in Aliens, you come 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.360 in biased against him because the android made by the 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.400 same company in the previous Alien movie was Ian Holme, 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.640 and he like goes nuts and tries to kill Ripley 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:42.199 to prevent her from what to prevent her from destroying 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.640 the alien or something, and so there's that whole thing. 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.480 But yeah, so you're expecting Bishop to be worse than 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.040 he is. He turns out to be quite helpful and sympathetic. 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.080 So maybe if he'd had two pupils it would have 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.360 been harder to sell that turn. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.079 Yeah, all right, you know, we recently had some so 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.640 it's about crossbows. I'm gonna read one here. This one 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:07.000 was sent to us on discord. This is from Steve. 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:16.160 Steve writes, the Crossbow episodes were great fun. What about 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.000 Star Wars If a blaster like a gun is the 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:23.280 analogous weapon to the crossbow, and the lightsaber to the sword, 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.880 is the blaster bad Obi Wan obviously thought so in 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.840 his reference to a more civilized age of lightsaber combat. 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.920 Yet Han Solo is all about using blasters, as are 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.280 the majority of the Rebel soldiers. These are the kinds 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.280 of hair splitting questions to keep me up at night, 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.720 smiley face. Also, why did the Jedi never practice force 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.320 enhanced archery with lightsaber esque arrows? Steve? 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.920 Yeah, I mean, I think it does play into the 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:55.320 convention in storytelling that there's something more honest or virtuous 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:59.560 or noble about a sword or a handheld weapon, even 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.280 though we do see, Yeah, of course the rebel the 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.040 rebel soldiers have blasters and all that, and Han Solo 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.280 uses a blaster, and though he's kind of a scoundrel, 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:11.480 he's a good scoundrel. I guess. I guess the thing is, 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.800 there's like there's like two dimensions of distinction. One is 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.120 good and evil, and then the other is more sort 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.520 of like ground level fighter versus your night your elite. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.400 You know that even the Jedi are called Knights, so 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.080 the elite good guys use the sabers, though I guess 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:28.720 the elite bad guys do as well. 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:30.800 Yeah, I mean, I guess. Obviously. One of the things 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.360 about Star Wars is it's a it's a cinematic mashup. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:37.160 You've got elements of Knights and swashbuckler movies. You have 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.880 elements of war movies and elephant elements of the Western 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.440 among other things, all smashed together. And so you have 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:50.280 combating military ethics in all of this. But to lean 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:54.120 into the lower you know, it's like there is the 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.440 nobility of the Jedi and all. And it's not like 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:00.800 the Jedi don't do things at range. They use their 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.960 voices at range, they can use Jedi mind tricks at range, 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:07.760 they can use telekinesis at range. And if you are 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.439 a follower of the Dark Side, other abilities open themselves 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.760 up to you that they may be used at range, 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.520 including the lightsaber. Of course, Darth Vader throws his lightsaber 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.480 and has it come back to him. We see that 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.240 in his final battle with Luke Oh. 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.160 Does he I forgot about that. 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.880 Okay, yeah I didn't. I didn't really pick up on 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.120 it until my son and I started playing the Star 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.640 Wars war game where you have a card for saber throw, 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.280 and I was like, oh, yeah, saber throw and Darth 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.440 Vader's on the picture. And then we rewatched the film, 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.760 I'm like, oh, yeah, he totally throws his throws his 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:41.840 saber at one point during that battle. 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:43.840 That's weird that I forgot that happened. 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.120 Yeah, it's a solid battle, solid battle. 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.400 Here's my nerd brain working. I was thinking, wait, why 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.920 am I aware that you can throw a lightsaber? I 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:56.160 think I'm thinking about that from the Super Nintendo Super 0:12:56.200 --> 0:13:00.200 Star Wars or Super Empire Strikes Back game where when 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.000 you're playing as Luke and you gain force powers later 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:04.719 in the game, one of them is that you can 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.240 throw your lightsaber and make it fly around the screen. 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.120 Yeah, it's become a staple of the video games, for sure. 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.560 You can still throw those sabers around in some of 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:13.920 the recent installments. 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:23.679 All right, would you like to do some weird house 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:24.520 cinema messages? 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:26.000 Sure? What do you got? 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.120 Let's see. Oh, here's one that we previously several episodes 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.560 back featured the ps from this message without the main body. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.080 But this comes from Brian and it's in response to 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:41.680 the episode we did on Faster Pussycat Kill Kill. Brian says, 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.400 I was enjoying Faster Pussycat Kill Kill a few weeks 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.880 ago when I saw it on the feed and I 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:52.200 realized that I recognized Varla's voice. Varla is the main 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.160 character in the film, sort of the main villain, played 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:59.600 by the actress Tura Sitana, and she has, yeah, an 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:03.080 extra dreamly distinct voice and delivery style. She kind of 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:07.440 like just venomously spits out every line she says in 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:11.720 the movie, no matter how mundane A legend. Yeah, Well, 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.240 Brian goes on to say so he recognized Varla's voice. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.440 He says it wasn't because I had seen the movie, 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.760 but because I grew up listening to White Zombie. Like 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.360 most metal loving teenagers who came of age in the 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.960 early nineties, I was a big fan and their major 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:29.000 label debut Las Sex or Cisto Devil Music Volume one, 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:34.840 Oh Oh, Rob Zombie and You and Your Title Selections 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:39.640 is filled with exploitation, horror and camp sound bites. Classics 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.640 like quote do you have to open graves to find 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.120 girls to fall in love with are so permanently fixed 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.360 in my brain they sometimes just fall out during conversation. 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.560 In the days before lyrics and audio were easy to 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.160 search and discover, we spent many fun weekends trading rumors 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:00.240 and stories about where these audio clips came from. And 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.160 then I think, as an example, like quote, my friend 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.560 told me there's a horror movie that his cousin saw 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.600 that contained the clips in thunder Kiss, and I think 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.000 that's one of the songs. Was like thunder Kiss sixty 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:12.680 five or something. 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:13.760 Yeah, that's the. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah. This would lead us to search out 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.080 these movies and sparked an interesting classic horror that many 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.480 of us carry to this day. It's now common knowledge 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.400 that Rob Zombie grew up a fan of classic horror 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.800 and exploitation films, so there's not much mystery anymore. But 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.520 it's still fun to be watching something like Faster Pussycat 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.520 and be able to recite I never try anything, I 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.000 just do it as it comes on the screen. Thanks 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.320 for the trip down memory lane. Well yeah, I appreciate 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.600 this note. Brian. Whatever your full thoughts about Rob Zombie's 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.560 output as a filmmaker and musician. I think it's hard 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:56.960 to deny that his movie audio clips selection game is powerful. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.000 Yeah. Yeah, And I really should have mentioned it because 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.880 is because I think, you know, I mean, I listened 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:04.720 to White Zombie and rob Zombie back in the day 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:08.240 as well, and there are a number of clips like 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.520 this that ultimately were my first exposure to some of 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.880 these movies. They just didn't know what the sound bites 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.160 were from. But I've always been a sucker for this, 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.000 whether you're dealing with metal, you know, whether you're dealing 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.880 with you know, a White Zombie or Electric Wizard, or 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:26.600 you're dealing with various DJs, you know, Depth Charge, DJ Food, 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.720 DJ Chiba, wax Factor, a lot of these guys, Pete Sasquatch, 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.160 you know, they I always love someone who doesn't just 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:35.720 you know, go in and get a few clips of 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.560 Kiple of easy clips. Anybody can sample Blade Runner and 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.760 it's great fun. I like the DJs and the musicians 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.280 who go deeper, you know, and they unearthed that little 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.680 sample that for the longest, especially before you know, the 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.560 resources were that robust online, you just had no idea 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.560 where they got it. They got it from another dimension 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.440 and within the texture of a song or a mix, 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.360 it takes on new energy and meaning. 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:01.480 It is one of the ways that like, the abundance 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.800 of information and media made available by the Internet has 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:09.200 made some other some types of experience is less special. 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.639 I think we've talked on the show before about how, like, 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.280 you know, the easy availability of any piece of music 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:17.560 you could want to listen to now sometimes makes it 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.040 feel less special when you discover a piece of music 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.720 you like and also like, even though I do appreciate 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.280 being able to look up where any clip of audio 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.480 comes from, in other cases, like I miss that mystery 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.439 of not being able to look that up and just 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.440 having it, Yeah, just be something out of the ether. 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:35.760 I think there are still some mysteries out there with 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.880 some samples, with maybe some of the less cataloged groups. 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.200 Occasionally I'll run across a sample and something and I'm like, wow, 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:43.880 I just I can't figure out what this is from 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.800 Good job, you found something obscure. All right, here's another 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:51.600 weird house cinema missive. This one comes to us from Richard. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.000 Richard says, Hi, Robert and Joe, I have a couple 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:02.520 of suggestions for weird house cinema movies for your consideration. 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.520 The first is, and I hope I'm saying this correctly, 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.439 the title is R R R. Where am I supposed 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.520 to go? I don't know. 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:13.119 I think it's an acronym. 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.560 I think, okay, okay, because I've I have friends who 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:19.199 mentioned this one to me, but only over text, and 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:20.800 I don't think I've seen any media about it, so 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.119 I'm not sure how I'm supposed to tackle it anyway. 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:27.159 Rigid continues say larger than live action slash historical drama 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:30.520 slash musical Hollywood film written and directed by S. S. 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.600 Roja Mooley. I thought of it immediately when I was 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.960 listening to your episode on Piranha Mandir. I had the 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.960 good fortune of seeing R not once but twice in 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.679 the theater cranked up to full volume, and was absolutely 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:47.080 captivated by it. It's like a remix of Lawrence of Arabia, Indiana, Jones, 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.959 die Hard, and a capital F for family, fast and 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.679 furious Bromance. It's one of the greatest movie going experiences 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.240 of my life, and I highly recommend watching it, even 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.040 if you don't watch it for the show. 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.120 Oh, I'd be all four doing doing a Hollywood film 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:03.720 at some point, so yeah, that'd be great. 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:05.879 Yeah, everyone seemed to love this one. I think I 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.560 got a number of awards. I have friends who watched 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.000 it and really loved it. Uh you know, I've heard 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.359 I've heard praise from it for it from folks that 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.600 don't even watch a lot of films from India. So 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.800 it just seems to have like wide appeal. And I 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:23.480 want to say, there's somebody somebody of note. Uh uh 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:26.000 oh yeah, Ray Stevenson, isn't it. He plays like a 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.440 villain or something oh okay in one of his final performances, 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:31.679 So uh yeah, I'd be interested to check that one 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.840 out at some point. The second, he continues, is pure 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.600 weird house gold. The Happiness of the Kata Kurus from 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:43.080 extremely prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi me E k a kind 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.800 of remake of the South South Korean movie The Quiet Family. 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.480 While he has a number of pictures that would fit 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.880 comfortably on the weird house list, Happiness of the Kata 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:55.840 Kurus is still one of my favorites. Part comedy, part horror, 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:59.040 part family drama, and with a healthy dose of musical 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.560 numbers and clamation scenes added in, it is fun. Highly 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:06.240 watchable and very weird. Thanks as always for the podcast. 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:08.879 I've been listening to you all for several years and 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:11.920 look forward to every iteration of the show throughout the week. 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.240 All the best, Richard, Well, Richard, thank you for the 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:20.400 recommendations and the kind words. Yes, I have. Somehow I've 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:23.480 never seen Happiness of the categories, but I've heard it. 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:25.920 It's been recommended to me. I feel like all my life, 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.360 since I was like a teenager, people have been saying, Joe, 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:30.119 You've got to see this movie, and for some reason, 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:33.640 I never have yet. But what I've always heard about 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:36.720 it is that it's great and it is super bizarre. 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:41.640 Yeah, I think I almost saw it several times. It's 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:43.919 one of those movies where it's long been on my 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.840 radar because I went through a phase where I did 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:51.280 watch several me e K films, though I tended at 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:52.960 the time, I was more into like, all right, give 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.640 me the give me the horror, give me the brutal 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:59.800 world of cinema. So I watched Audition, which is terrific 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:04.720 and very well crafted but also just very a very 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:07.200 rough watch in many respects. And I also watched It'sy 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:10.400 the Killer that was another one that you know, everybody 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:13.440 was into back in the day, and that one's hard 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.640 to watch in many places. But on the other hand, 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:19.159 I also remember watching his yokai film. It was The 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:23.000