Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of
Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.
Speaker 1: Listener mail. This is Robert Lamb and this is Joe McCormick.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's Monday. This is the day of the
Speaker 1: week that we read back messages you've sent into the show.
Speaker 1: Rob if you don't mind today, I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get started with this message we got from Adam. Let's
Speaker 1: do it, okay. This is replying to previous listener mail
Speaker 1: about the Seven Day Week episodes. Uh and uh. A
Speaker 1: note here. Adam, who is a rabbi, wrote in with
Speaker 1: a shorter message about the history of the Sabbath observance
Speaker 1: and public Torah readings in the ancient Near East, and
Speaker 1: he mentioned that his rabbinical thesis was actually on the
Speaker 1: subject of how space colonization might affect the observance of
Speaker 1: the Sabbath week. And obviously that's right up our alley.
Speaker 1: We were very interested in that subject, so he wrote
Speaker 1: in again to share more. So Adam says, Hey, Joe
Speaker 1: and Rob, thank you for the fantastic show. I've been
Speaker 1: listening for years now. I'm thrilled to hear you're interested
Speaker 1: in the topic of my rabbinical thesis. It's called Eyes
Speaker 1: on the Horizon, Theological and Hallockic challenges to the first
Speaker 1: Jewish settlers on the moon, Mars and beyond. I have
Speaker 1: always been very scientifically minded, even as a rabbi in
Speaker 1: rabbinical school, we needed to write a thesis before ordination.
Speaker 1: One day, while sitting in class, I had an epiphany,
Speaker 1: what would a Jewish prayer book look like for future
Speaker 1: exo Jews living on Mars. I reached out to friends
Speaker 1: and colleagues and pose the question. I asked what blessings
Speaker 1: they may recite? For instance, in Judaism, a blessing is
Speaker 1: a formula accidence that makes a moment or ritual holy.
Speaker 1: Before eating an apple, for example, I may say, blessed
Speaker 1: are you Eternal, our God, ruler of the universe, creator
Speaker 1: of the fruit of the tree. So I asked what
Speaker 1: blessing someone on Mars may recite? Is there a blessing
Speaker 1: for landing on a new celestial body, etcetera. Before I
Speaker 1: found a thesis referee, I had been turned down by
Speaker 1: several professors. The first one said, quote, Judaism doesn't exist
Speaker 1: off planet. That's not a thesis. Judaism is the relationship
Speaker 1: between God, Israel and the Earth. I eventually found someone
Speaker 1: who agreed to advise me my thesis. Referee, being an
Speaker 1: expert in Jewish halaca, which is Jewish law put forth
Speaker 1: by the rabbis throughout the centuries, recommended bringing in that aspect.
Speaker 1: So half of my thesis became a theological exploration of
Speaker 1: whether Judaism can exist off planet and what theological complications
Speaker 1: might arise by trying to live Jewishly off planet. My
Speaker 1: second half focused on how one could follow Jewish law,
Speaker 1: particularly concerning the issue of Jewish time off planet at all.
Speaker 1: One main thought experiment, for example, is the Hallockic issue
Speaker 1: of the quote lost traveler. It is as follows. Suppose
Speaker 1: you are a religious Jew who is traveling through the wilderness.
Speaker 1: You realize that you have lost track of the day,
Speaker 1: so you don't know when Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, will begin.
Speaker 1: Jewish law stipulates you must count six twenty four hour
Speaker 1: periods from the moment you lost track. The seventh hour
Speaker 1: period is to be your Shabbat. You must say the
Speaker 1: proper blessings one says on Shabbat. That way you fulfill
Speaker 1: the commandment of keeping the Shabbat. However, you still cannot
Speaker 1: violate the actual Shabbat even if you don't know which
Speaker 1: day it will actually be, So you must remain in
Speaker 1: a state of pseudo Shabbat at all times until you
Speaker 1: have once again found civilization. That means you cannot do
Speaker 1: anything that counts as something forbidden on Shabbat. You may
Speaker 1: only do that which keeps you alive or helps you
Speaker 1: travel towards civilization once again. Thus, to apply to the
Speaker 1: context of Jews living off planet, if one has difficulty
Speaker 1: determining what day of the week it is, whether that
Speaker 1: means you must follow the time on Earth or the
Speaker 1: time of a Martian society, must that religious to remain
Speaker 1: in a state of pseudo Shabbat on Mars. Finally, Adam
Speaker 1: attaches a link to a PDF of his thesis so
Speaker 1: that we can take a look. Maybe we will in
Speaker 1: the future, and then says all the best, Adam, but yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks so much, Adam. Fascinating. I love it. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is exactly what we were hoping we would We would
Speaker 1: hear back from people on Yeah, this is this is fascinating.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think questions like this are actually really
Speaker 1: interesting from the religious point of view, even if you're
Speaker 1: not actually going to be applying them to say, living
Speaker 1: off planet. I mean, we're probably not going to be
Speaker 1: living off planet in our lifetimes. But it's very interesting
Speaker 1: from a religious point of view because it forces you
Speaker 1: to ask questions about, like, what is really the spirit
Speaker 1: of the law or of this requirement within my religion?
Speaker 1: So if like something, you know, normally you can just
Speaker 1: follow the law as written, but if the circumstances of
Speaker 1: your environment change so that so such that it's not
Speaker 1: really possible to follow the law as written, say, if
Speaker 1: you're on a different planet and the law depends on
Speaker 1: time periods that are contingent on the length of the
Speaker 1: day on Earth or something like that, then it forces
Speaker 1: you to ask, Okay, well, then what is the law
Speaker 1: really about? What is the law trying to get me
Speaker 1: to do? And how could I most closely replicate that,
Speaker 1: uh in a scenario where the law as strictly written
Speaker 1: can't apply. Yeah. Yeah, And and also just the sort
Speaker 1: of general theme of what what happens when you have
Speaker 1: a given religion and new uh cosmological information presents itself,
Speaker 1: you know, and this is always fun to discuss, you know,
Speaker 1: in many cases Uh, nothing changes, and maybe nothing has
Speaker 1: to change because certainly, like you said, we don't have
Speaker 1: people living in space. But then you have some curious examples,
Speaker 1: like you know, some of the some details from from
Speaker 1: Hindu mythology, where you had mythological entities based upon um,
Speaker 1: you know, observable cosmological uh properties, and then as is
Speaker 1: not knowledge of those things changed. So too, then did
Speaker 1: did the structure of the mythological entities change? What do
Speaker 1: you mean by like certain observations of heavenly like the
Speaker 1: moon and the sun and things. Um. Yeah, well, I
Speaker 1: think the the example I'm drawing on we discussed in
Speaker 1: our eclipse episode of years back, where you had in
Speaker 1: different interpretations of what was happening with um I can't
Speaker 1: recall off and it was a solar or lunar or both. Um.
Speaker 1: But as as a Hindu understanding of what, uh you
Speaker 1: know what what the observable phenomena happened to be changed? Uh.
Speaker 1: Then instead of like separating that from the mythological model, Uh,
Speaker 1: they updated the mythological model, which I was found very interesting. Anyway,
Speaker 1: fun episodes as I recall, so go back and listen
Speaker 1: to those if anyone is interested. Yeah, I think those
Speaker 1: may have been my first ever episodes on the show.
Speaker 1: Oh okay a while back then, Yeah, alright, this next
Speaker 1: time when comes to us from Jolt, Hi, Robert and Joe,
Speaker 1: just writing to chime in on the topic of connections
Speaker 1: between the names of days and markets has brought up
Speaker 1: in the recent Listener Mail episode. In my native tongue, Hungarian,
Speaker 1: the word used for Sunday literally means market day. The
Speaker 1: pronunciation itself changed from the original word for market uh
Speaker 1: this is would be with vassah to now being vas
Speaker 1: not uh market day, but the meaning is still there.
Speaker 1: Sunday as the designated day for markets, goes back at
Speaker 1: least to the first King of Hungary and to the
Speaker 1: introduction of Christianity in the eleventh century, but it's still
Speaker 1: very much a cultural reality today with markets being held
Speaker 1: almost exclusively on Sundays, especially in the form of various
Speaker 1: pop up markets in the countryside and in villages. Thank
Speaker 1: you for the great show. I feel like we're seeing
Speaker 1: major themes emerge there. There are like three main branches
Speaker 1: of day naming conventions. One is naming them with numbers,
Speaker 1: so they go first day, second day, third day. The
Speaker 1: other is naming them in relationship to a market day.
Speaker 1: So you have a day that's called market day, and
Speaker 1: then others are named like I don't know, first from market,
Speaker 1: second from market something like that. And then the third
Speaker 1: is naming them after celestial bodies. So you've got Sunday,
Speaker 1: Moon Day and so forth. And according to that last convention,
Speaker 1: we could actually look at this next message from Jacinth
Speaker 1: who says, listen to your episodes on the seven day week,
Speaker 1: great content. My mother tongue is Tamil, which is the
Speaker 1: language of the state of Tamil Nadu in India. Here
Speaker 1: the days of the week are the names of celestial bodies.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try these. I apologize in advance for mispronunciation,
Speaker 1: but Sunday is Nyayiru meaning the sun, Monday is Thingall
Speaker 1: meaning the move, Tuesday is cheval meaning Mars. Wednesday is
Speaker 1: Pudan meaning Mercury, Thursday is via John meaning Jupiter, Friday
Speaker 1: is Velli meaning Venus, and Saturday is sawny meaning saturn Uh.
Speaker 1: And then Jessin says I'm an English literature graduate and
Speaker 1: generally love different language works. You learn a lot of
Speaker 1: fascinating things from various language literatures. Couldn't agree more absolutely.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to some weird house cinema
Speaker 1: listener mail. This first one comes to us from Charlie
Speaker 1: Um and Charlie writes in and says, hello science boys,
Speaker 1: b O, I s I have a simple question semi
Speaker 1: related to your Beast Master two weird house episode is
Speaker 1: in Sino Man's Brendan Fraser a meat Beast. If the
Speaker 1: requirements are learns about rock music and slushing machines and
Speaker 1: teaching a young me my first Spanish phrase. Thanks Charlie
Speaker 1: X allent choice. You know, I was thinking of Encino
Speaker 1: Man while we were doing the Beast Smester two episode.
Speaker 1: I don't think I ever actually watched in Sino Man.
Speaker 1: I think I was always a little turned off by
Speaker 1: the trailers for that one. I don't think I saw
Speaker 1: it either, I just know of it. That's one of
Speaker 1: those does he escape from a biodome like I didn't
Speaker 1: see Biodome either, So I kind of combined these into
Speaker 1: one film where in Sino Man escapes a biodome with
Speaker 1: Polly Shore, Encino Man is the unfrozen Caveman lawyer skit
Speaker 1: from sn L, but it's a whole movie of it.
Speaker 1: I guess he's not a lawyer. He becomes like a
Speaker 1: rock and roll guy. Okay, but yeah, he's just a
Speaker 1: caveman who they unfreeze him, and here he is learning.
Speaker 1: He's putting on high top sneakers. I mean, there are
Speaker 1: other caveman in the modern day films. I wonder how
Speaker 1: robust that sub genre truly is, and how many of
Speaker 1: those we could quote classify as as meat beast pictures.
Speaker 1: I recall Brendan Fraser being pretty buff in the in
Speaker 1: the poster art for for Encino Man, so I think
Speaker 1: he comes pretty close. I don't know if he's full
Speaker 1: on barbarian, but he's he's something, he's something in the zone.
Speaker 1: One last note here is I'm wondering why Charlie is
Speaker 1: calling us science boys because I'm reading b O. I
Speaker 1: s is, isn't that the French word meaning would wa science? Would?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. Yeah, what Webstre's is saying,
Speaker 1: it's would, but Webstre's is not necessarily hip to uh slang. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I like that we're we're we are now the science
Speaker 1: would build a treehouse out of us? All right? What
Speaker 1: else do we have with this? Can't be the only
Speaker 1: listener man were received about Beast Master two. Oh no,
Speaker 1: it was not. Let's see. Brian wrote in to say, Hi,
Speaker 1: Robin Joe. I was listening to your Weird House Cinema
Speaker 1: episode on Beast Master two this morning during my daily walk,
Speaker 1: and as I always do when you're covering a movie
Speaker 1: I haven't seen, I began looking for stills from the
Speaker 1: movie so I could have more context. I'd seen the
Speaker 1: original beast Smester many times as a child, and the
Speaker 1: site of the leather clad, glowing eyed meat man absolutely
Speaker 1: terrified me. I was mainly interested in seeing if this
Speaker 1: figure that haunted my nightmares returned in the sequel. He
Speaker 1: apparently does not, So, ROBBD. You are the person who
Speaker 1: knows about beast Smester one. Do you know who Brian
Speaker 1: is talking about. There's another meat man, but this one
Speaker 1: is scary. Yeah. I don't recall the name of this
Speaker 1: if this thing even had a name. But there's a
Speaker 1: there's a wonderful sequence in the film where we're in
Speaker 1: the like the Dungeons of of the the the evil
Speaker 1: Max played by Ripped Torn and there's you know, all
Speaker 1: sorts of like evil cult shenanigans going on down there,
Speaker 1: hands reaching out of cages. It's it's wonderful scary stuff.
Speaker 1: And there is this kind of like rampaging um like
Speaker 1: muscle man with like an iron mask, and I think
Speaker 1: they've like jacked him up with some sort of nefarious
Speaker 1: magical chemicals. Uh. So yeah, it's real, real, great nightmare stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have to have to remember with beast
Speaker 1: Master two, if you haven't seen it, um, you know,
Speaker 1: this is the same mind that brought us a phantasm.
Speaker 1: So there's plenty of Yes, I'm sorry beat beast Master one.
Speaker 1: Beast Master two had nothing to do with but uh,
Speaker 1: beast Master one. Uh, this is don A Costarelli. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of like really cool, very creative ideas
Speaker 1: in there. Uh it's not just your blueprint Barbarian film.
Speaker 1: You've got this, You've got the got these, these these
Speaker 1: be these the beefy men with the iron masks. There,
Speaker 1: the the crazy cool bird creatures, the winged creatures that
Speaker 1: externally digest their prey. Oh, there's a there's some a
Speaker 1: bunch of other stuff as well. You have some hags,
Speaker 1: some wonderful hag action going on. Love a hag does
Speaker 1: that have a ball like in phantasm. Uh, there's no
Speaker 1: there's no no ball, but there's a magic ring. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's quote. It's round. Yeah. But anyway, so Brian's message
Speaker 1: is not over. Brian says, while searching for pictures from movie,
Speaker 1: I came across its poster. I thought I might have
Speaker 1: mistakenly searched for Back to the Future too instead of
Speaker 1: BE Semester two, because the posters are shockingly similar, for
Speaker 1: your consideration, And then Brian attaches h little screen captures
Speaker 1: of both posters and whoa I got that? Is that
Speaker 1: that is worthy of a lawsuit right there? I mean
Speaker 1: that is really really close everybody's Uh, it's framed the
Speaker 1: same way, it's got a similar color scheme, it's got
Speaker 1: the car coming out of the portal and the same orientation,
Speaker 1: and the characters posted the same way. Either this is
Speaker 1: just a they're both taking part of a standard template
Speaker 1: for movie posters of the time, or or BE Semester
Speaker 1: two is uh is doing a doing a bit of
Speaker 1: a copycat job. Yeah, I mean it could be the
Speaker 1: same artist as well. I wouldn't discount that. I didn't
Speaker 1: have time to research these and try and figure out
Speaker 1: who might have created them. Uh, but that's always a possibility.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is just how the particular artists tended to
Speaker 1: style things could be, could be, and you know, and
Speaker 1: of course movie posters are they're not always created exlo.
Speaker 1: So maybe they're uh, there's just sort of a template,
Speaker 1: you know. There's there's a format of how you were
Speaker 1: doing movie posters at the time, and a lot of
Speaker 1: them looked like this. Maybe maybe that's the case. There
Speaker 1: are some other posters I was looking around for beast
Speaker 1: Master two. There's one that has a huge wings houser
Speaker 1: on there with his little Phantom of the Opera face plate.
Speaker 1: That one looks pretty good. Well anyway, Brian goes on
Speaker 1: and says, maybe I'm imagining things because I recently watched
Speaker 1: the Back to the Future trilogy, but I have a
Speaker 1: strong mental image of a Simpson's esque ponytailed Hollywood executive
Speaker 1: saying time travel cars lightning high tops. Put them on
Speaker 1: the box in the hopes that beast Master two would
Speaker 1: cause a double take at the local blockbuster. Someone out
Speaker 1: knows the truth. Love the podcast and love the Weird
Speaker 1: House episodes. Please keep doing them, Brian. Now, one last
Speaker 1: thing I have to say about the speace Master two
Speaker 1: poster is that they do not include Wings Houser or
Speaker 1: Sarah Douglas on the poster. You're only seeing the heroes.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a mistake. Yeah, I mean you have,
Speaker 1: you have some fun villains in that movie, so you
Speaker 1: might as well get him on the poster. Um. But
Speaker 1: I don't know this idea of like, yeah, you just
Speaker 1: need to turn heads of the video store. I mean
Speaker 1: that was that was a huge deal. Um. In fact,
Speaker 1: oh man, I was just thinking about this the other day.
Speaker 1: I was in Videodrome, are are our local and our
Speaker 1: city's only video store, video rental store, and I noticed
Speaker 1: they had like a new I think a Blu Ray
Speaker 1: edition of the film The Dead Pit, which I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're familiar with this one, Joe, I've I've
Speaker 1: not actually seen. It is directed by Brett Leonard and
Speaker 1: stars nobody in particular. But the crazy thing about it
Speaker 1: is the classic VHS and now you know, Blu Ray
Speaker 1: DVD art for this movie was this kind of Frankenstein
Speaker 1: looking dude, uh, kind of emerging from a uh it
Speaker 1: looks like a hole with the hands reaching out of
Speaker 1: it and there's like a bite behind him. And on
Speaker 1: the old VHS box I guess it was like that
Speaker 1: they must have sent this special you know, uh, the
Speaker 1: eyes lit up. It had a little bitty like Halloween
Speaker 1: costume l e Ed I guess, sort of the predecessor
Speaker 1: to l e Ed little eyes inside, and it would
Speaker 1: light up and possibly make noises. I don't remember particularly,
Speaker 1: but the eyes definitely lit up as it so that
Speaker 1: when you were strolling through the horror section or the
Speaker 1: New Arrival section, it's like it's just shrieking for your attention.
Speaker 1: I wonder if that kind of marketing game but paid off,
Speaker 1: Like you you invest more money into complicated packaging, do
Speaker 1: more people rented. I don't know, maybe they're like maybe
Speaker 1: they just thought, well, heck, we we picked this movie
Speaker 1: up for virtually nothing. Nobody wants to see this thing.
Speaker 1: What if we just throw a little more cash at
Speaker 1: the VHS boxer. Because I think it was also it
Speaker 1: had kind of like a ready coover as well, Um,
Speaker 1: we'll just get people excited about it. They'll just be
Speaker 1: sold on it and they'll just have to rent it.
Speaker 1: And I want to say there was at least one
Speaker 1: other film from the time period that did something like
Speaker 1: this with a light up eye but yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: of course you don't see that anymore. And I was
Speaker 1: so anyway, I was disappointed a little bit when I
Speaker 1: saw it there on the shelf of Video Drone and
Speaker 1: it didn't have light up eyes. And I think even
Speaker 1: commented to the guy working there, It's like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: it doesn't have light up eyes. Don't you remember the
Speaker 1: light up eyes? And he said no. It's funny how
Speaker 1: often we come back to talking about VHS boxes that
Speaker 1: we remember from walking through the video store as a kid.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a this is a recurring theme,
Speaker 1: Like didn't we get into one time the Jason Goes
Speaker 1: to Hell video video box cover? Um? I think, so
Speaker 1: what was special about that one? Well, it's just really
Speaker 1: eye catching. It's it's like a metal looking Jason mask
Speaker 1: that's got this demon snake coming out of one of
Speaker 1: its holes. It's just gross looking and that fitting for
Speaker 1: that movie. Uh well, you know, I just looked up
Speaker 1: a bloody disgusting article the coolest and most Unique car
Speaker 1: VHS boxes reminded me of Dead Pit. It also reminds
Speaker 1: me that, oh, the the VHS box for Metamorphosis, which
Speaker 1: I believe was George Eastman's Uh, This is the film
Speaker 1: he directed and wrote. I haven't seen this one either,
Speaker 1: but it had some sort of light up eye scenario.
Speaker 1: And then this rings the bell as well. Do you
Speaker 1: remember a Fright Night Part two VHS box It was
Speaker 1: shaped like a casket. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm looking it up. Well,
Speaker 1: you may have been planted a false memory, because when
Speaker 1: you said that, I was like, oh, yeah, that does
Speaker 1: seem familiar. I just looked up pictures of it and
Speaker 1: I was like, actually, I don't think I've ever seen this,
Speaker 1: so your enthusiasm is infectious. It it made me remember
Speaker 1: things I've never seen. Well, I'm not even saying this
Speaker 1: casket thing pop up on eBay, but I was curious.
Speaker 1: I was like, how much are these things going for?
Speaker 1: But uh, maybe they're just too rare literally priceless. M
Speaker 1: all right, more beast Master. This one comes to us
Speaker 1: from Brad. Hello, gentlemen. I apologize if I am the
Speaker 1: thousandth person to write in about this, but just in
Speaker 1: case I'm not, I had a thought as to why
Speaker 1: Jackie may have reacted the way she did to Dars Ferrets. Now,
Speaker 1: remember this is a thing from the movie where the
Speaker 1: character played by Carrie were she she sees Mark singers ferrets,
Speaker 1: and she reacts as if there's some kind of like, uh,
Speaker 1: fantasy creature, like an animal unknown in the real world,
Speaker 1: like a unicorn or something. But they're just ferrets, ferrets
Speaker 1: or earth animals. Brad continues. See, ferrets are actually not
Speaker 1: native to California and also have been deemed too invasive
Speaker 1: of a species to allow them as pets, So ferrets
Speaker 1: are actually illegal in California. I have heard that special
Speaker 1: arrangements can be made to get one that is declaude
Speaker 1: to prevent predation on other critters and uh descented, meaning
Speaker 1: they remove the scent glands I believe to make finding
Speaker 1: mates and therefore breeding more difficult if they were to
Speaker 1: get out in the wild. But I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: these rumors are true. Coincidentally, Darr actually commits a federal
Speaker 1: crime by giving them to Jackie that one pair could
Speaker 1: have designated California wildlife had they been a breeding pair.
Speaker 1: L O L. Brad, very good note, Brad, thank you,
Speaker 1: and yeah, this does bring to bind the controversy about
Speaker 1: ferrets in the Big Lebowski, you know, where Walter clarifies
Speaker 1: that you're not allowed to have an animal like that
Speaker 1: in California. Oh yeah, that's right. Wouldn't it be funny
Speaker 1: if that's where the interrogation when when Mark Singer gets
Speaker 1: arrested by the police. Uh, if that's where the interrogation went,
Speaker 1: it's like I need to know about these ferrets. How
Speaker 1: do you get them into the state? And that becomes
Speaker 1: the central plot. Yeah, okay. One last message. This comes
Speaker 1: from Alan and it is about the Green Bays Vampire
Speaker 1: and the song about green stamps. Alan says, greetings England
Speaker 1: and thanks for the fascinating show. I am having trouble
Speaker 1: believing that trading stamps are so forgotten that adult people
Speaker 1: don't even know what they were. Here. Green Shield stamps
Speaker 1: were given out by supermarkets, so many stamps for each
Speaker 1: pound spent, and I remember sticking them into books for
Speaker 1: my parents. Then full books could be taken into the
Speaker 1: Green Shield shop and spent like money on goods out
Speaker 1: of their catalog. You can imagine the piles of books
Speaker 1: necessary as the big co Ops stamps fill a whole
Speaker 1: page and is worth one pt thirty three pence. The
Speaker 1: US blue Chip stamp is worth one quote mill, which
Speaker 1: I take to be a tenth of ascent. I believe
Speaker 1: when the stamps went obsolete, the stores continued just selling
Speaker 1: for cash and still exist under the name Argos All
Speaker 1: the Best Alan or maybe maybe that's Argo A R
Speaker 1: G O S. And then Alan attaches pictures of the
Speaker 1: green shield stamps. It's funny. After I saw these, I
Speaker 1: had a memory of within the past year, um, some
Speaker 1: of my in laws going through a relatives possessions and
Speaker 1: finding a bunch of these in a box. And I
Speaker 1: didn't know what they were, all right. I was doing
Speaker 1: a little searching in the background, and I just want
Speaker 1: to let everybody know that I did find on eBay
Speaker 1: um an old entry, well not that old from January, uh,
Speaker 1: the Ultra Rare Fright Night, Part two VHS in the
Speaker 1: Coffin presentation pack. It went for three and eighty dollars. Whoa, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's a serious collector's item there, maybe literally worth
Speaker 1: its weight in gold. Yeah yeah, all right, Well, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and call it there. But we'd love
Speaker 1: to hear from everyone if you have responses to any
Speaker 1: of these listener mails right in, let us know. Let's
Speaker 1: keep a conversation rolling. If you have anything you want
Speaker 1: to add regarding previous episodes of the show Stuff to
Speaker 1: Blow Your Mind or Weird House. Uh thoughts about potential
Speaker 1: future episodes, Uh, right in and let us know if
Speaker 1: you have memories of particular weird v A chess tapes
Speaker 1: from from VHS rental stores of old. Yes, definitely, right
Speaker 1: in and tell us all about that. Send us pictures
Speaker 1: if you have them. In the meantime, if you want
Speaker 1: to check out other episodes of listener Mail, they come
Speaker 1: out on Monday's We do Artifact on Wednesday at short
Speaker 1: Form Core episodes of Stuff to Blow Your Mind Tuesdays
Speaker 1: and Thursdays, and on Fridays we do Weird How Cinema.
Speaker 1: That's our time to set aside most serious matters and
Speaker 1: just discuss a weird film. Huge thanks as always to
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