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Speaker 1: a listener mail episode. Let's do some listener mail. That's right.

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Speaker 1: So we got a bunch of great responses to our

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Speaker 1: series on horror vakuih the Fear of the Void and

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Speaker 1: it's many manifestations. This first message came from Corina Rob

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Speaker 1: Corina says, Hello, guys, I've enjoyed listening to your podcast

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Speaker 1: for a couple of years now, but what made me

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Speaker 1: creative project of mine by coincidence. I am an avid

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Speaker 1: hobby artist, and I listened to podcasts while I'm drawing

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Speaker 1: me focus on my work. Anyway, I had just finished

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Speaker 1: chuckling to myself about old maps so convoluted with details

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Speaker 1: a good one, Rob, that that was you, Corina says,

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Speaker 1: it hit me. This issue had cross time and space

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Speaker 1: can take a look, which should be easy enough. I've

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Speaker 1: horror akawy at work. Now, please excuse me while I

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Speaker 1: archive and wait for Friday's Weird House Cinema episode. Best

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Speaker 1: Wishes and lots of luck from across the Ocean Corina

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Speaker 1: and then Rob. I've attached both of the images she

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Speaker 1: one comes to us from Chuck five. Chuck five says,

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Speaker 1: in your conversations about the abhorrent void, I suggest discussing MOM,

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Speaker 1: the Japanese aesthetic theory that what is not there defines

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Speaker 1: only an interdependence but also a reconciliation of voids and solids.

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Speaker 1: Hassegawa to Haku. I see exactly what that means about.

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Speaker 1: moss space. The empty space is kind of hard to

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Speaker 1: quote unquote gratuitous motion in his films. Instead of every

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Speaker 1: a full eighty degree anti horror Vakawe not only tolerance

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Speaker 1: So when I look at this Pines artwork, the pine

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Speaker 1: Tree screen, it's in the empty space where the imagination dwells.

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Speaker 1: also makes me think of various lines from Corey McCarthy

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Speaker 1: from Karen Karen Rides, Robert and Joe. I've enjoyed your

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Speaker 1: Cinema every Friday, I rarely watched the films you review.

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Speaker 1: Your descriptions and banter are usually entertaining enough, and even

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Speaker 1: considering that Forbidden Planet is still one of my favorite movies,

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Speaker 1: I've largely lost my taste for horror and sci fi schlock.

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Speaker 1: As I near seventy. This week was an exception. My

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Speaker 1: the Criterion Channel so we could stream Invention for Destruction,

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Speaker 1: and what a treat. It was everything you promised and

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Speaker 1: then some. You were right in that it was impossible

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Speaker 1: and for continuing to provide interesting and entertaining content. You're

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Speaker 1: listen to to best Karen, Oh well that's too nice, Karen,

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