Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind production of My
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Speaker 1: Your Mind? Listener mail. This is Robert Lamb and this
Speaker 1: is Joe McCormick. And it's Monday, the day of each
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Speaker 1: to share something interesting you learned. It's all fair game,
Speaker 1: absolutely all right. I think I'm going to kick us
Speaker 1: off here with this message about our episodes on asymmetry
Speaker 1: from Nathan. I think we have two different messages from
Speaker 1: somebody named Nathan today, but I think they're different. Nathan's so,
Speaker 1: Nathan number one says, Dear Joe and Robert, your recent
Speaker 1: podcast about asymmetry in nature minded me of an observation
Speaker 1: I made about the distribution of stems and leaves that
Speaker 1: branch out of a main stem in a plant. It's
Speaker 1: well known that this branching follows an angle of the
Speaker 1: golden ratio times three hundred and sixty degrees in many plants,
Speaker 1: which results in, for example, Fibonacci numbers appearing in pine
Speaker 1: cone and sunflower spirals. The golden branching angle is very
Speaker 1: easy to spot in small shrubs, and in observing these,
Speaker 1: I found that the direction the golden branching angle turns
Speaker 1: as the stem grows can be either clockwise or counterclockwise,
Speaker 1: but which direction the stem chooses cannot be predicted. I
Speaker 1: first found different branching angle directions among different plants of
Speaker 1: the same species, then noticed that both directions appear even
Speaker 1: on different branches of the same plants. There is nothing
Speaker 1: I've observed about the plants to tell me why the
Speaker 1: golden branching angle would occur either clockwise or counterclockwise. But
Speaker 1: there must be some molecular mechanism choosing for this, and
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated it by what it could be. I thought
Speaker 1: you might find that interesting. Thanks for all the work
Speaker 1: you put into the episodes. I know I'm always in
Speaker 1: for a full meal of knowledge when listening to YouTube
Speaker 1: regards Nathan. Thanks Nathan, Yeah, that's interesting to wonder about,
Speaker 1: and it ties into what we discussed, and I believe
Speaker 1: the last episode of the series on asymmetry, about how
Speaker 1: the about how the handedness of a bilaterally symmetrical body
Speaker 1: or the you know, the pattern of symmetry breaking would
Speaker 1: say the internal organs and a human body might have
Speaker 1: something to do with like the way the cilia, the
Speaker 1: little filament like hairs reaching out from the cell membrane
Speaker 1: on a developing embryo work. Uh. And it's kind of
Speaker 1: hard to imagine it, like that tiny, tiny mechanism on
Speaker 1: the outside of a cell making a difference, but apparently
Speaker 1: it does. Very interesting, very interesting. All right, here's another listener.
Speaker 1: All This one comes to us from Chris. Chris says, Hello, Robert,
Speaker 1: Joe and Seth. On your recent episode of The Skybridge
Speaker 1: Part two, you were discussing how urban planning and design
Speaker 1: of high rise living can impact social connections and overall
Speaker 1: health outcomes of the population. There was some discussion about
Speaker 1: future design for our increasing urban density and the need
Speaker 1: for green space or more connection with the natural world.
Speaker 1: This brought to mind the futuristic city imagined in the
Speaker 1: world of susin Lose three Body Problem. It's been a
Speaker 1: while since I've read the series, but I believe it
Speaker 1: is first described in the second book the Dark Forest,
Speaker 1: additionally featured in the final book, Death's End. In the books,
Speaker 1: eventually all of humanity is driven underground due to catastrophic events.
Speaker 1: Then eventually they enter kind of an enlightened age and
Speaker 1: build beautiful underground cities where all the high rises resemble
Speaker 1: large trees with trunks as the central columns, and then
Speaker 1: branches with leaves hanging off. Each of the leaves is
Speaker 1: in a living space for individuals and families. The books
Speaker 1: do a much better job describing the setting than I do,
Speaker 1: but when I was reading them, in my mind, I
Speaker 1: couldn't help but picture a densely packed urban space that
Speaker 1: didn't feel closed in. I think that a space like
Speaker 1: that would be amazing for future cities with plenty of
Speaker 1: room on the quote unquote forest floor so to speak,
Speaker 1: for commerce, parks, sporting facilities, bike lanes, etcetera. Thanks again
Speaker 1: for the interesting pair of episodes. Chris from Chicago. PS
Speaker 1: have tickets for the Boat Architecture Tour in a few weeks.
Speaker 1: I'll be on the lookout for the Wrigley Building. All right,
Speaker 1: Well that sounds great. Yeah you won't. You won't be
Speaker 1: able to miss it, that's for sure. Oh. Thanks Chris. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is interesting and it comes back to something that
Speaker 1: we did talk about in in the Skybridge episodes, which
Speaker 1: is how to manage the the somewhat zero sum problem
Speaker 1: of if you're trying to pack more and more vertical
Speaker 1: density into a city, density of both infrastructure and living space,
Speaker 1: uh into a city, how to deal with the somewhat
Speaker 1: zero sum access to the sky or access to sunlight.
Speaker 1: Because obviously it would be good to have more parks
Speaker 1: and green space up at the top levels, especially if
Speaker 1: people are going to be spending more time up there
Speaker 1: without coming down. But of course, as you need more
Speaker 1: surface area up above, you are necessarily limiting the son's
Speaker 1: ability to reach what lies below. Yeah. Absolutely, Now when
Speaker 1: it comes to the three body problem. Um, I did
Speaker 1: not read the second two books, but I did the
Speaker 1: first book on on audio and it was it was
Speaker 1: very entertaining, especially since the narrator did kind of a
Speaker 1: voice like this for all the alien characters. All right,
Speaker 1: what do we have next? Do you want to take
Speaker 1: this one from Stacy? Sure? Stacy says, this is also
Speaker 1: about sky bridges. Hello Robert and Joe. First off, thank
Speaker 1: you for your help in dealing with isolation. I work
Speaker 1: in customer service and have been working on telephone or
Speaker 1: email based customer service rather than in person since the
Speaker 1: start of the pandemic. It's gotten to the point where
Speaker 1: we are all working in separate areas of the office.
Speaker 1: Your podcasts are informative and engaging in a great way
Speaker 1: to deal with loneliness. I just listened to your podcast
Speaker 1: on Skybridges and I couldn't help but think back to
Speaker 1: my college days. In my first English short literature class,
Speaker 1: one of the stories we read was The enforced Ers
Speaker 1: The Machine Stops. I'm surprised this story hasn't come up
Speaker 1: in some of your past podcasts, given how many times
Speaker 1: I think back to it while listening to your discussions.
Speaker 1: Granted I haven't listened to every podcast yet. I'm working
Speaker 1: on it, so if I am mistaken, I apologize. In
Speaker 1: the story, the character has become so reliant on technology
Speaker 1: in the form of a machine that sees all of
Speaker 1: their needs, that they turn their backs on the natural world.
Speaker 1: Then the day comes that the Machine Stops. Being a
Speaker 1: work of short fiction, it isn't a long read, but
Speaker 1: I think you would enjoy it. It's certainly left h
Speaker 1: such a mark on me. I can remember it despite
Speaker 1: reading it over ten years ago. Hope you both have
Speaker 1: a lovely day, Stacy. I don't think I have read
Speaker 1: this story, Stacy. What I've read by I. M. Forster
Speaker 1: is uh a very different kind. I read his book
Speaker 1: A Room with a View, which the main thing I
Speaker 1: remember about that it's sort of a modernist romantic novel.
Speaker 1: One of the one of the main things I remember
Speaker 1: about it as a scene where some characters are kind
Speaker 1: of frolicking in a garden in Italy and one tumbles
Speaker 1: into a bed of flowers or something, and then someone
Speaker 1: shouts down at them from the wall above courage and love.
Speaker 1: That's always in my head. Yeah, I I have not
Speaker 1: read this story either. I was just having to refresh
Speaker 1: myself with the the notable works of I. M. Forrester,
Speaker 1: and I think the only thing I've read is A
Speaker 1: Passage to India, and that was a long time ago,
Speaker 1: and I think I read it really quickly for a
Speaker 1: class I was taking, But I remember liking I remember
Speaker 1: liking it at the time. Yeah, we'll off to look
Speaker 1: this story up. Thanks. As always, nobody hurt themselves trying
Speaker 1: to listen to all the podcast episodes. There's no there's
Speaker 1: no special award for for listening to all of them. Um,
Speaker 1: there is a special award for watching all of the
Speaker 1: movies we cover on Weird House Cinema. But it's but
Speaker 1: that too, is not a physical reward that you hold
Speaker 1: in your hand. It's a reward that you hold in
Speaker 1: your heart. It's a reward based on courage and love.
Speaker 1: But we we we appreciate the kind words. Thank you, Stacy.
Speaker 1: All right, here's one that comes to us from Hannah.
Speaker 1: They write in regarding Weird House Cinema. Um, Hannah begins
Speaker 1: by saying some nice things about the show, but then
Speaker 1: they go on to discuss a couple of different things,
Speaker 1: at least one of which is not directly related to
Speaker 1: Weird how Cinema but is interesting thenetheless less. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna read the whole email first and then we can
Speaker 1: sort of break it down. Hannah writes, I've been binging
Speaker 1: some really early episodes, so I can't remember if this
Speaker 1: is from the Cauldron series or something earlier. But you
Speaker 1: mentioned a Chinese myth about a hero who bursts in
Speaker 1: and eats the demons of despair and loneliness that are
Speaker 1: tormenting the Emperor. Maybe I'm misremembering this in a way
Speaker 1: that suits my interpretation, but let's roll with it for
Speaker 1: a second. I just started my clinical internship as a
Speaker 1: mental health counselor, and I've thought a lot about that character,
Speaker 1: because I think that's part of what we do, is therapists.
Speaker 1: We help people by eating their demons of loneliness and
Speaker 1: despair when we listen to what they share in session
Speaker 1: and digested with them. Anyway, thanks again. I have a
Speaker 1: weird how cinema suggestion that I think you guys would
Speaker 1: get a huge kick out of if you haven't seen
Speaker 1: it already, The Eyes of Laura Mars. It was based
Speaker 1: on a script treatment by John Carpenter and became the
Speaker 1: first of his stories to be made by a major studio,
Speaker 1: though he did not direct it. Despite the major studio production,
Speaker 1: it is deeply and ineffably weird. It stars Mia Pharaoh
Speaker 1: and a shockingly young Tommy Lee Jones. Involves naked photo shoots,
Speaker 1: a serial killer with mommy issues, cars on fire, big
Speaker 1: city glamor, doomed love, men in turtlenecks, psychic visions, all caps.
Speaker 1: This movie is such a mess. I almost forgot that
Speaker 1: part and enough Red herrings for a Midwest church fish fry. Basically,
Speaker 1: imagine deep Red. They're they're referring to the Dario Argento
Speaker 1: film here. Now, think about John Carpenter rewriting riffing. It
Speaker 1: sounds fun right now. Imagine that got taken away from
Speaker 1: John Carpenter and someone tried to make it a mainstream movie,
Speaker 1: but they forgot about the script until the weekend before
Speaker 1: they started shooting, and they had an intern do all
Speaker 1: the rewrites the night before. Oh. Also, Barbara Streisan was
Speaker 1: originally considered for the lead, but she thought the nudity
Speaker 1: and violence wasn't good for her brand, so instead of
Speaker 1: appearing in it, she just wrote the torch song for
Speaker 1: the movie. Whether you review it on Weird House or not,
Speaker 1: please just accept this movie into your life and let
Speaker 1: it enrich you. Thanks Hannah. Wow that I've never seen it.
Speaker 1: That sounds great. So I guess there's two main parts
Speaker 1: to address from this message. Well, let's keep rolling with
Speaker 1: the eyes of Laura Mars first, since since that's fresher here.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I've been eyeing this one for a bit
Speaker 1: and it does have a terrific cast. So you've got
Speaker 1: fade done away. Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dorriff, Renee Auberzonwa
Speaker 1: and Rawle Julia and by Irvin Kirshner as well. So
Speaker 1: it's there's a lot of great names involved in this film.
Speaker 1: I have not seen it yet, but especially after this description,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm very interested. But yeah, can you believe we
Speaker 1: haven't watched a Rale Julia film yet? You had me
Speaker 1: at Rawl Julia. He's great and everything. Yeah, elevated everything
Speaker 1: he touched. We we should just do a whole like
Speaker 1: month of the show where we watch rale Julia's for
Speaker 1: weirdest movies. Yeah, I mean he he made so many
Speaker 1: things watchable. And you know, sometimes you have a you
Speaker 1: have actors who can say that they did that once
Speaker 1: or twice. Right, I elevated an otherwise low level film
Speaker 1: and it was memorable. But for Rale Julia, it was
Speaker 1: a Tuesday street Fighter reference there for everybody. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: I think it was a Tuesday I could be misquoting that,
Speaker 1: but it's a great thing in a great movie. As
Speaker 1: for the demon Eater, this would be zen Qua, the
Speaker 1: Demon Queller. We talked about this character in the episode
Speaker 1: of Demon Eaters and Possessed Tools, and this was I
Speaker 1: had to look back. This is January nineteen, which I
Speaker 1: guess in the grand scheme of things, wasn't that long ago,
Speaker 1: but it sure feels like a long time ago because
Speaker 1: this was back when we were recording in person U.
Speaker 1: But the basic story here, I'm not going to tell
Speaker 1: the whole thing because I think we gave a pretty
Speaker 1: good treatment of it in the episode. But basically, eighth century, Uh,
Speaker 1: the emperor has a fever one night and he's assailed
Speaker 1: by demons dressed in red hill a demon dressed in red,
Speaker 1: and the demon identifies itself as being emptiness and desolation,
Speaker 1: and the Emperor's powerless to stop it. But then incomes
Speaker 1: this ghost in rag and he just swallows the demon hole. Uh.
Speaker 1: And this is the This is the ghost of our
Speaker 1: our demon eller, a demon eat or our demon queller
Speaker 1: and uh, yeah, he's he is the immortal Exorcist and
Speaker 1: their various stories involving him, and there's at least one
Speaker 1: really cool piece of art. I think he's called the
Speaker 1: um uh the gong Kai scroll from the Late Song dynasty.
Speaker 1: And he's put the demons that he's quelled to work,
Speaker 1: and so they're carrying him around on a litter. They're
Speaker 1: carrying his sister around on a litter, and they're also
Speaker 1: carrying I think, um like a dog and possibly some packages.
Speaker 1: So it's it's really fun stuff. So if Hannah or
Speaker 1: any other listener wants to look this up, how is
Speaker 1: uh the name of this character usually spelled an English
Speaker 1: script um. Usually I'm seeing it as as z h
Speaker 1: O n G k U. I. There you go. That
Speaker 1: that's a good memory. Good memory, Hannah, and I guess
Speaker 1: the rest of that episode pertained to mostly Japanese traditions
Speaker 1: of tools that had been possessed so um I. I
Speaker 1: can't remember what was the bulk of that episode, but
Speaker 1: a lot of magic in that one. If anyone wants
Speaker 1: to to to look it up, well, I think a
Speaker 1: big part of it was the Japanese folk concept of
Speaker 1: the suku mogami um or the tool kami that were
Speaker 1: like the spirits that would um, I don't know, spirits
Speaker 1: that would inhabit disused tools, or maybe the tools would
Speaker 1: gain sentience or gain a soul. And it had something
Speaker 1: to do with tools that had been around for a
Speaker 1: long time, like a tool that's like a hundred years
Speaker 1: old or something without being thrown away sort of comes alive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then they go and there's like a parade of
Speaker 1: these things. Yeah. Technically a form of yokai, I think,
Speaker 1: or at least by some classifications. Anyway, I've seen it
Speaker 1: is discussed in yokai books before. I also seem to
Speaker 1: recall that there's a major story of Out the Possessed
Speaker 1: Tools that is used as as religious apologetics for a
Speaker 1: certain strain of Buddhism. Okay, that sounds familiar. Okay, anyway, Robert,
Speaker 1: you ready for the final message. Let's do it. The
Speaker 1: final message. The final message, This one actually comes from
Speaker 1: a different Nathan. Nathan had a lot to say about
Speaker 1: a bunch of different topics. This was a great email,
Speaker 1: but it's very long and there's no way we can
Speaker 1: read the whole thing, so I'm going to feature a
Speaker 1: few selections from it. Nathan says, greetings, gentlemen. First, during
Speaker 1: listener mail this week on July two, the d C
Speaker 1: character the question was mentioned. You probably know him better
Speaker 1: than you think, as he served as the model for
Speaker 1: Rorschach in The Watchman. The lore goes that Alan Moore
Speaker 1: pitched his gritty tale depicting the demise of lesser known characters.
Speaker 1: UH recently acquired by d C from the defunct Charlton Comics,
Speaker 1: and he was ultimately allowed to create analogs. Most, if
Speaker 1: not all, were Steve did co creations, the author best
Speaker 1: known for co creating Spider Man and Doctor Strange. For Marvel,
Speaker 1: Blue Beetle became the night Owl. I think Captain Adam
Speaker 1: became Dr Manhattan, and other details elude me, but it's
Speaker 1: interesting to trace the roots of what became one of
Speaker 1: the best selling comics of all time. I'll echo the
Speaker 1: other listeners sentiment and say, Jeffrey Combs makes that character remarkable.
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Combs did the voice of this character of the
Speaker 1: question on UM I think the animated Justice League. Nathan says,
Speaker 1: you can find Justice League Unlimited on HBO Max, and
Speaker 1: it would be worth your time to find the episodes
Speaker 1: that focus on him, such as season two episode six,
Speaker 1: Double Date, which is top notch. But he makes small
Speaker 1: appearances in a season long subplot involved in an actual
Speaker 1: conspiracy named for the god slaying mortal Cadmus, and it
Speaker 1: totally pays off. A couple of years ago, I was
Speaker 1: rewatching the quoted episode and this is referring to the
Speaker 1: episode quoted in the earlier listener mail. The message was
Speaker 1: about the question having a sort of Dale Gribble style
Speaker 1: paranoid theory about the sinister implications of aglets, which are
Speaker 1: the little plastic tips on shoelaces. Nathan goes on, I'd
Speaker 1: heard the term before, I guess aglets and went to
Speaker 1: look it up, but wasn't sure how to spell what
Speaker 1: the question was calling the plastic tips on shoelaces. In
Speaker 1: searching for aglet, I ran across an Inuit mythical creature
Speaker 1: that might make for a good Monster Fact episode called
Speaker 1: an adlet. Check out here if you're not familiar, and
Speaker 1: Nathan provides a link. Also were referring to aglets. Nathan
Speaker 1: asks if we remember the Seinfeld hosted SNL from long
Speaker 1: ago with the Jeopardy parody where the parting gift was
Speaker 1: thousands of quote? What do you call those things? Nobody knows.
Speaker 1: I do not remember this, Rob, did you see this one?
Speaker 1: I had no memory of this one. There there are
Speaker 1: old episodes of SNL that that stand out of my mind,
Speaker 1: like Patrick Stewart hosting with with special musical guest Salt
Speaker 1: and Pepper, But I don't remember Seinfeld all Right after this,
Speaker 1: Nathan makes some good suggestions for core episode topics on
Speaker 1: things like space exploration and the biological evolution of sentience,
Speaker 1: but then to to come towards the end of Nathan's message,
Speaker 1: Nathan says, next Weird House. It's been a while, but
Speaker 1: I still laugh about Blood Beat often because I happened
Speaker 1: to reside near a fire station at the end of
Speaker 1: the scene in Blood Beat where the first body was discovered.
Speaker 1: I notice the sheriff turned on the sirens as he
Speaker 1: was leaving the crime scene. What's the rush? Sometimes, your sheriff,
Speaker 1: you just gotta you just gotta get to lunch. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm glad to hear from someone else who
Speaker 1: saw Blood Beat. It's it's it's worth worth checking out.
Speaker 1: There aren't aren't too many Christmas I geeks slasher films
Speaker 1: with animate Samurai armor in them. But this is this
Speaker 1: is the one, Okay. Nathan goes on with more recommendations
Speaker 1: such as brain Scan, underrated Edward Furlong flick that had
Speaker 1: a big impact on me and my buddies when it
Speaker 1: was okay, all smart speakers should be named Igor. Haven't
Speaker 1: seen it, so I don't know what that refers to
Speaker 1: another one. Nathan says, have you guys mentioned Oblivion? I
Speaker 1: feel like I remember someone saying not the tom Cruise one,
Speaker 1: but it didn't turn up when I searched the feed
Speaker 1: it's from. And the credits are unbelievable. Only Charles Band
Speaker 1: could bring together Catwoman, Lurch, the Gin, and Mr Sulu,
Speaker 1: among others on what looks like I set borrowed from
Speaker 1: Sliders Rob, I looked up the Oblivion cast. Okay, First
Speaker 1: of all, the plot summary on IMDb goes like this.
Speaker 1: On another planet which resembles the Old West, a die
Speaker 1: hard pacifist is forced to re examine his ways after
Speaker 1: an evil alien ba and It and his gang murder
Speaker 1: his estranged sheriff father, take over his hometown and threaten
Speaker 1: his friends. Planet West World, a man comes to embrace
Speaker 1: the way of violence. Oh and looking at the cast list,
Speaker 1: it is Divine. So uh. Nathan mentioned the Gin. I
Speaker 1: think that would be a reference to Andrew Divoff. Am
Speaker 1: I right about that? Uh? And then he also says Catwoman,
Speaker 1: I believe that's the fact that Julie Newmar is in
Speaker 1: this movie. Uh. He says Lurch, I think that's Carol.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how to say his name, Carol Stroychan
Speaker 1: something like that. He's in there. Mr Sulu. Of course,
Speaker 1: George de kay is in the movie, but it also
Speaker 1: has Meg Foster and Isaac Hayes. What and what an assemblage? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love Meg Foster and I've I've looked around for
Speaker 1: reasons to to watch a Meg Foster movie. There are
Speaker 1: a few sort of I've been that I've been eyeing,
Speaker 1: But yeah, She's she always was a was a fun
Speaker 1: screen presence for sure, and this movie at least the
Speaker 1: first Oblivion him. I have seen this, but I watched
Speaker 1: it with some friends and it was the Riff Track's
Speaker 1: version of it, and so I remember it being, you know, funny,
Speaker 1: but also that's a very You've got like two layers
Speaker 1: of distraction there between you and the film, So I
Speaker 1: can't say that I've really gotten in there and appreciated
Speaker 1: it as a motion picture. Okay, a couple more thoughts
Speaker 1: from Nathan. First of all, he has a comment for Seth.
Speaker 1: He says, imagine Brainy Smurf's voice, saying, it depends on
Speaker 1: if you're talking about Mirage or Archie. I have no
Speaker 1: idea what that means, but Nathan says, okay, so here
Speaker 1: Brainy Smurf's voice saying that, and you'll know how fifty
Speaker 1: percent of my conversation started from fourth to seventh grade.
Speaker 1: I was given teenage mutant Ninja Turtles number one, fifth
Speaker 1: printing on my tenth birthday, and things have never been
Speaker 1: the same by the way. I began as a Mikey
Speaker 1: but rapidly turned Raphael alongside adolescence. This is referring back
Speaker 1: to our discussion of which turtle did you identify? With?
Speaker 1: Which one did you inevitably select act in the arcade?
Speaker 1: Beat him up? And you talked to you. We talked
Speaker 1: with you a little bit about this as well. I
Speaker 1: think we were what all Leonardo's or did you have
Speaker 1: a different pick? I thought we were all Donna tell O's. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, we're all Donna Tellos with the staff. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: somebody could read into that that we're just like boring nerds.
Speaker 1: But I think the real issue is that the bow
Speaker 1: staff is longer than the other weapons. We like our
Speaker 1: personal space and uh and then the staff helps to
Speaker 1: uh make sure that that personal state space is present
Speaker 1: both on either side of our body and also above
Speaker 1: our bodies. Finally, just to mention a few comments Nathan
Speaker 1: makes about dog names. First off, he says that he
Speaker 1: meant to right in after the Ark of the Covenant
Speaker 1: episodes because he has a dog named Ichabod. And apparently
Speaker 1: there is an origin story in the Hebrew Bible for
Speaker 1: the name Ichabod. It's in the Book of Second Samuel,
Speaker 1: where a woman gives birth to a child after she
Speaker 1: learns that her husband and her father in law have
Speaker 1: both been killed and the Ark of the Covenant has
Speaker 1: been stolen by the Philistines, and she names the baby Ichabod,
Speaker 1: which literally means something like no glory or where's the glory,
Speaker 1: And Nathan says, in this context it could be taken
Speaker 1: to mean God has abandoned us, which Nathan finds funny
Speaker 1: as a dog's name, And I agree that is an
Speaker 1: amusing thing to consider as the name of a dog.
Speaker 1: But then Nathan also says, by the way, Joe, my
Speaker 1: step dog is named Brody, a fact I previously found embarrassing,
Speaker 1: but since rewatching Jaws last summer, I've been introducing him
Speaker 1: as Chief Brodie. Not too good? Is it? I kink
Speaker 1: that sounds good? That sounds good? Uh? I think he's
Speaker 1: making it not too good as a chief reference. Oh yes, yes,
Speaker 1: but as but taking it literally, I would say that
Speaker 1: that's a good dog name. Oh yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: think with dogs and cats you you should name your
Speaker 1: animals things like Edward. Um. But the Brodie feels appropriate.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I don't know what the problem originally with
Speaker 1: Brodie would have been. But Chief Brodie is a great
Speaker 1: name for a dog, especially since I'm assuming you're associating
Speaker 1: it with the Chief Brody in the movie played by
Speaker 1: Roy Scheider, who is who is a lovable protagonist, versus
Speaker 1: the Chief Brody in the book, who is as nasty
Speaker 1: and detestable as every other character in the book. I
Speaker 1: do not recommend reading Jaws. Yeah, Roy Scheider, though, that
Speaker 1: would not be a good name for a dog. But
Speaker 1: Brody good name for a dog. Quin good name for
Speaker 1: a dog. Hooper, good name for a dog. Vaughan Meadows, Hendrix. Really,
Speaker 1: these are all just dog names. Vaughn, my dog, Vaughn.
Speaker 1: I named him after the mayor of Amity, wants to
Speaker 1: keep the beaches open. Oh but no, that is actually
Speaker 1: a good description of of my dog's personality. I'm sure
Speaker 1: most dogs personality, you know, whatever dangers there are, they
Speaker 1: want to keep the beaches open. That's true. That that's
Speaker 1: the dog personality right anyway, Nathan says, thank you sincerely
Speaker 1: for the years of service loyal listener. Nathan. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna wrap it up there. Yeah, we've have We have
Speaker 1: a lot to chew on there, some great suggestions for
Speaker 1: our different episode types, and hey, keep it coming. If
Speaker 1: anyone out there has some feedback on recent episodes of
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