WEBVTT - Listener Mail: Week Sauce 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.320 Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:11.160 My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:15.120 Listener mail. This is Robert Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:17.520 And uh, it's Monday. This is the day of the 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.280 week that we read back messages you've sent into the show. 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.079 Rob if you don't mind today, I think I'm gonna 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.200 get started with this message we got from Adam. Let's 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:34.120 do it, okay. This is replying to previous listener mail 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.320 about the Seven Day Week episodes. Uh and uh. A 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:41.680 note here. Adam, who is a rabbi, wrote in with 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.840 a shorter message about the history of the Sabbath observance 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.599 and public Torah readings in the ancient Near East, and 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:53.199 he mentioned that his rabbinical thesis was actually on the 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:57.440 subject of how space colonization might affect the observance of 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.680 the Sabbath week. And obviously that's right up our alley. 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.960 We were very interested in that subject, so he wrote 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.000 in again to share more. So Adam says, Hey, Joe 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.320 and Rob, thank you for the fantastic show. I've been 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.160 listening for years now. I'm thrilled to hear you're interested 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.160 in the topic of my rabbinical thesis. It's called Eyes 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:18.720 on the Horizon, Theological and Hallockic challenges to the first 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.360 Jewish settlers on the moon, Mars and beyond. I have 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:26.039 always been very scientifically minded, even as a rabbi in 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.559 rabbinical school, we needed to write a thesis before ordination. 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.880 One day, while sitting in class, I had an epiphany, 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.680 what would a Jewish prayer book look like for future 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:39.360 exo Jews living on Mars. I reached out to friends 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.919 and colleagues and pose the question. I asked what blessings 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.160 they may recite? For instance, in Judaism, a blessing is 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.440 a formula accidence that makes a moment or ritual holy. 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.200 Before eating an apple, for example, I may say, blessed 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.360 are you Eternal, our God, ruler of the universe, creator 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.520 of the fruit of the tree. So I asked what 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.960 blessing someone on Mars may recite? Is there a blessing 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.600 for landing on a new celestial body, etcetera. Before I 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.160 found a thesis referee, I had been turned down by 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:13.520 several professors. The first one said, quote, Judaism doesn't exist 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:17.239 off planet. That's not a thesis. Judaism is the relationship 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:21.160 between God, Israel and the Earth. I eventually found someone 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.280 who agreed to advise me my thesis. Referee, being an 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.960 expert in Jewish halaca, which is Jewish law put forth 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:32.040 by the rabbis throughout the centuries, recommended bringing in that aspect. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.800 So half of my thesis became a theological exploration of 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:40.200 whether Judaism can exist off planet and what theological complications 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:44.080 might arise by trying to live Jewishly off planet. My 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.320 second half focused on how one could follow Jewish law, 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:51.679 particularly concerning the issue of Jewish time off planet at all. 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.240 One main thought experiment, for example, is the Hallockic issue 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:59.720 of the quote lost traveler. It is as follows. Suppose 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.720 you are a religious Jew who is traveling through the wilderness. 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.480 You realize that you have lost track of the day, 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.919 so you don't know when Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, will begin. 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:13.000 Jewish law stipulates you must count six twenty four hour 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:16.960 periods from the moment you lost track. The seventh hour 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.960 period is to be your Shabbat. You must say the 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.400 proper blessings one says on Shabbat. That way you fulfill 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.520 the commandment of keeping the Shabbat. However, you still cannot 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.000 violate the actual Shabbat even if you don't know which 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.000 day it will actually be, So you must remain in 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.440 a state of pseudo Shabbat at all times until you 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.880 have once again found civilization. That means you cannot do 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.400 anything that counts as something forbidden on Shabbat. You may 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.840 only do that which keeps you alive or helps you 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.400 travel towards civilization once again. Thus, to apply to the 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.760 context of Jews living off planet, if one has difficulty 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.560 determining what day of the week it is, whether that 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.920 means you must follow the time on Earth or the 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:01.680 time of a Martian society, must that religious to remain 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:06.080 in a state of pseudo Shabbat on Mars. Finally, Adam 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.640 attaches a link to a PDF of his thesis so 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:10.640 that we can take a look. Maybe we will in 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:14.040 the future, and then says all the best, Adam, but yeah, 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:17.000 thanks so much, Adam. Fascinating. I love it. Yeah, this 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.360 is exactly what we were hoping we would We would 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.120 hear back from people on Yeah, this is this is fascinating. 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.720 I mean, I think questions like this are actually really 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:29.800 interesting from the religious point of view, even if you're 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.240 not actually going to be applying them to say, living 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:33.880 off planet. I mean, we're probably not going to be 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:38.440 living off planet in our lifetimes. But it's very interesting 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.440 from a religious point of view because it forces you 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.000 to ask questions about, like, what is really the spirit 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.280 of the law or of this requirement within my religion? 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.599 So if like something, you know, normally you can just 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.000 follow the law as written, but if the circumstances of 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.680 your environment change so that so such that it's not 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.160 really possible to follow the law as written, say, if 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.359 you're on a different planet and the law depends on 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.520 time periods that are contingent on the length of the 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.560 day on Earth or something like that, then it forces 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.320 you to ask, Okay, well, then what is the law 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.200 really about? What is the law trying to get me 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.000 to do? And how could I most closely replicate that, 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.320 uh in a scenario where the law as strictly written 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:22.880 can't apply. Yeah. Yeah, And and also just the sort 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:27.000 of general theme of what what happens when you have 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:32.520 a given religion and new uh cosmological information presents itself, 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.960 you know, and this is always fun to discuss, you know, 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.279 in many cases Uh, nothing changes, and maybe nothing has 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.720 to change because certainly, like you said, we don't have 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:45.040 people living in space. But then you have some curious examples, 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.760 like you know, some of the some details from from 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:53.440 Hindu mythology, where you had mythological entities based upon um, 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:59.560 you know, observable cosmological uh properties, and then as is 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.200 not knowledge of those things changed. So too, then did 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.680 did the structure of the mythological entities change? What do 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.440 you mean by like certain observations of heavenly like the 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.719 moon and the sun and things. Um. Yeah, well, I 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.080 think the the example I'm drawing on we discussed in 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:19.960 our eclipse episode of years back, where you had in 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:24.560 different interpretations of what was happening with um I can't 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.200 recall off and it was a solar or lunar or both. Um. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:33.240 But as as a Hindu understanding of what, uh you 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:38.040 know what what the observable phenomena happened to be changed? Uh. 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:44.279 Then instead of like separating that from the mythological model, Uh, 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:49.400 they updated the mythological model, which I was found very interesting. Anyway, 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.960 fun episodes as I recall, so go back and listen 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.360 to those if anyone is interested. Yeah, I think those 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.120 may have been my first ever episodes on the show. 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:07.520 Oh okay a while back then, Yeah, alright, this next 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.960 time when comes to us from Jolt, Hi, Robert and Joe, 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.600 just writing to chime in on the topic of connections 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.600 between the names of days and markets has brought up 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:21.440 in the recent Listener Mail episode. In my native tongue, Hungarian, 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:25.840 the word used for Sunday literally means market day. The 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:30.400 pronunciation itself changed from the original word for market uh 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:36.080 this is would be with vassah to now being vas 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.720 not uh market day, but the meaning is still there. 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.840 Sunday as the designated day for markets, goes back at 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.400 least to the first King of Hungary and to the 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.640 introduction of Christianity in the eleventh century, but it's still 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:52.320 very much a cultural reality today with markets being held 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.440 almost exclusively on Sundays, especially in the form of various 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:59.480 pop up markets in the countryside and in villages. Thank 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.400 you for the great show. I feel like we're seeing 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:06.280 major themes emerge there. There are like three main branches 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:10.720 of day naming conventions. One is naming them with numbers, 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.280 so they go first day, second day, third day. The 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.200 other is naming them in relationship to a market day. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.320 So you have a day that's called market day, and 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.520 then others are named like I don't know, first from market, 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.480 second from market something like that. And then the third 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.360 is naming them after celestial bodies. So you've got Sunday, 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:35.720 Moon Day and so forth. And according to that last convention, 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.160 we could actually look at this next message from Jacinth 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.600 who says, listen to your episodes on the seven day week, 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.280 great content. My mother tongue is Tamil, which is the 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.720 language of the state of Tamil Nadu in India. Here 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.440 the days of the week are the names of celestial bodies. 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.959 I'm gonna try these. I apologize in advance for mispronunciation, 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:59.200 but Sunday is Nyayiru meaning the sun, Monday is Thingall 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.400 meaning the move, Tuesday is cheval meaning Mars. Wednesday is 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:08.959 Pudan meaning Mercury, Thursday is via John meaning Jupiter, Friday 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:14.920 is Velli meaning Venus, and Saturday is sawny meaning saturn Uh. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:18.400 And then Jessin says I'm an English literature graduate and 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.240 generally love different language works. You learn a lot of 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:26.520 fascinating things from various language literatures. Couldn't agree more absolutely. 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:33.520 All right, let's move on to some weird house cinema 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.360 listener mail. This first one comes to us from Charlie 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:41.720 Um and Charlie writes in and says, hello science boys, 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.960 b O, I s I have a simple question semi 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.760 related to your Beast Master two weird house episode is 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.680 in Sino Man's Brendan Fraser a meat Beast. If the 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.160 requirements are learns about rock music and slushing machines and 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:59.520 teaching a young me my first Spanish phrase. Thanks Charlie 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.200 X allent choice. You know, I was thinking of Encino 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:06.040 Man while we were doing the Beast Smester two episode. 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.480 I don't think I ever actually watched in Sino Man. 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.400 I think I was always a little turned off by 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.120 the trailers for that one. I don't think I saw 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.520 it either, I just know of it. That's one of 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.080 those does he escape from a biodome like I didn't 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.720 see Biodome either, So I kind of combined these into 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:26.000 one film where in Sino Man escapes a biodome with 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:30.560 Polly Shore, Encino Man is the unfrozen Caveman lawyer skit 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.680 from sn L, but it's a whole movie of it. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.640 I guess he's not a lawyer. He becomes like a 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.840 rock and roll guy. Okay, but yeah, he's just a 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:42.280 caveman who they unfreeze him, and here he is learning. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.640 He's putting on high top sneakers. I mean, there are 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:50.640 other caveman in the modern day films. I wonder how 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.280 robust that sub genre truly is, and how many of 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.600 those we could quote classify as as meat beast pictures. 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:01.320 I recall Brendan Fraser being pretty buff in the in 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.439 the poster art for for Encino Man, so I think 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:06.800 he comes pretty close. I don't know if he's full 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:11.800 on barbarian, but he's he's something, he's something in the zone. 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.120 One last note here is I'm wondering why Charlie is 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.840 calling us science boys because I'm reading b O. I 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:23.480 s is, isn't that the French word meaning would wa science? Would? 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:27.959 I don't. I don't know. Yeah, what Webstre's is saying, 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:34.640 it's would, but Webstre's is not necessarily hip to uh slang. Okay, well, 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:36.680 I like that we're we're we are now the science 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:47.800 would build a treehouse out of us? All right? What 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.360 else do we have with this? Can't be the only 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.080 listener man were received about Beast Master two. Oh no, 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.360 it was not. Let's see. Brian wrote in to say, Hi, 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.120 Robin Joe. I was listening to your Weird House Cinema 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.040 episode on Beast Master two this morning during my daily walk, 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.199 and as I always do when you're covering a movie 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.960 I haven't seen, I began looking for stills from the 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.600 movie so I could have more context. I'd seen the 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:13.080 original beast Smester many times as a child, and the 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.720 site of the leather clad, glowing eyed meat man absolutely 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.200 terrified me. I was mainly interested in seeing if this 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.440 figure that haunted my nightmares returned in the sequel. He 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.760 apparently does not, So, ROBBD. You are the person who 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:28.760 knows about beast Smester one. Do you know who Brian 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.199 is talking about. There's another meat man, but this one 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.040 is scary. Yeah. I don't recall the name of this 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.320 if this thing even had a name. But there's a 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.800 there's a wonderful sequence in the film where we're in 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:42.880 the like the Dungeons of of the the the evil 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.280 Max played by Ripped Torn and there's you know, all 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.200 sorts of like evil cult shenanigans going on down there, 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:53.280 hands reaching out of cages. It's it's wonderful scary stuff. 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.920 And there is this kind of like rampaging um like 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.719 muscle man with like an iron mask, and I think 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:04.439 they've like jacked him up with some sort of nefarious 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:09.000 magical chemicals. Uh. So yeah, it's real, real, great nightmare stuff. 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:10.520 I mean, we have to have to remember with beast 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.200 Master two, if you haven't seen it, um, you know, 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.400 this is the same mind that brought us a phantasm. 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:21.080 So there's plenty of Yes, I'm sorry beat beast Master one. 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.040 Beast Master two had nothing to do with but uh, 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:27.200 beast Master one. Uh, this is don A Costarelli. So yeah, 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.600 there's a lot of like really cool, very creative ideas 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:35.840 in there. Uh it's not just your blueprint Barbarian film. 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.400 You've got this, You've got the got these, these these 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:42.000 be these the beefy men with the iron masks. There, 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:46.320 the the crazy cool bird creatures, the winged creatures that 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.880 externally digest their prey. Oh, there's a there's some a 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:52.920 bunch of other stuff as well. You have some hags, 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:56.679 some wonderful hag action going on. Love a hag does 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:00.559 that have a ball like in phantasm. Uh, there's no 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.960 there's no no ball, but there's a magic ring. Okay, 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:08.480 that's quote. It's round. Yeah. But anyway, so Brian's message 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.800 is not over. Brian says, while searching for pictures from movie, 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.600 I came across its poster. I thought I might have 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.760 mistakenly searched for Back to the Future too instead of 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.520 BE Semester two, because the posters are shockingly similar, for 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.880 your consideration, And then Brian attaches h little screen captures 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:30.600 of both posters and whoa I got that? Is that 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:34.760 that is worthy of a lawsuit right there? I mean 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:38.440 that is really really close everybody's Uh, it's framed the 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.640 same way, it's got a similar color scheme, it's got 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:44.040 the car coming out of the portal and the same orientation, 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.320 and the characters posted the same way. Either this is 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.400 just a they're both taking part of a standard template 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.320 for movie posters of the time, or or BE Semester 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.840 two is uh is doing a doing a bit of 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.720 a copycat job. Yeah, I mean it could be the 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.120 same artist as well. I wouldn't discount that. I didn't 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.560 have time to research these and try and figure out 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:08.239 who might have created them. Uh, but that's always a possibility. 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.720 Maybe this is just how the particular artists tended to 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.520 style things could be, could be, and you know, and 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.080 of course movie posters are they're not always created exlo. 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.720 So maybe they're uh, there's just sort of a template, 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:22.920 you know. There's there's a format of how you were 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.160 doing movie posters at the time, and a lot of 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.640 them looked like this. Maybe maybe that's the case. There 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:29.760 are some other posters I was looking around for beast 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.320 Master two. There's one that has a huge wings houser 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.680 on there with his little Phantom of the Opera face plate. 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.600 That one looks pretty good. Well anyway, Brian goes on 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.720 and says, maybe I'm imagining things because I recently watched 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:44.920 the Back to the Future trilogy, but I have a 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:49.280 strong mental image of a Simpson's esque ponytailed Hollywood executive 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:53.240 saying time travel cars lightning high tops. Put them on 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.560 the box in the hopes that beast Master two would 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.880 cause a double take at the local blockbuster. Someone out 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.080 knows the truth. Love the podcast and love the Weird 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.720 House episodes. Please keep doing them, Brian. Now, one last 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:08.440 thing I have to say about the speace Master two 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.240 poster is that they do not include Wings Houser or 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.200 Sarah Douglas on the poster. You're only seeing the heroes. 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.200 And I think that's a mistake. Yeah, I mean you have, 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:18.840 you have some fun villains in that movie, so you 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.320 might as well get him on the poster. Um. But 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:23.800 I don't know this idea of like, yeah, you just 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.520 need to turn heads of the video store. I mean 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:29.640 that was that was a huge deal. Um. In fact, 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.480 oh man, I was just thinking about this the other day. 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.640 I was in Videodrome, are are our local and our 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:39.160 city's only video store, video rental store, and I noticed 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.160 they had like a new I think a Blu Ray 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:45.560 edition of the film The Dead Pit, which I don't 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.200 know if you're familiar with this one, Joe, I've I've 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.760 not actually seen. It is directed by Brett Leonard and 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:55.240 stars nobody in particular. But the crazy thing about it 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:59.280 is the classic VHS and now you know, Blu Ray 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:03.120 DVD art for this movie was this kind of Frankenstein 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:08.320 looking dude, uh, kind of emerging from a uh it 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.600 looks like a hole with the hands reaching out of 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.240 it and there's like a bite behind him. And on 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.440 the old VHS box I guess it was like that 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:19.000 they must have sent this special you know, uh, the 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.800 eyes lit up. It had a little bitty like Halloween 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.240 costume l e Ed I guess, sort of the predecessor 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.680 to l e Ed little eyes inside, and it would 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.639 light up and possibly make noises. I don't remember particularly, 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.320 but the eyes definitely lit up as it so that 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.919 when you were strolling through the horror section or the 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.760 New Arrival section, it's like it's just shrieking for your attention. 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.000 I wonder if that kind of marketing game but paid off, 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.439 Like you you invest more money into complicated packaging, do 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.560 more people rented. I don't know, maybe they're like maybe 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.640 they just thought, well, heck, we we picked this movie 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.320 up for virtually nothing. Nobody wants to see this thing. 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:56.679 What if we just throw a little more cash at 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:58.800 the VHS boxer. Because I think it was also it 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.600 had kind of like a ready coover as well, Um, 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:04.800 we'll just get people excited about it. They'll just be 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:06.719 sold on it and they'll just have to rent it. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.360 And I want to say there was at least one 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.680 other film from the time period that did something like 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:15.800 this with a light up eye but yeah, you know, 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:17.159 of course you don't see that anymore. And I was 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.560 so anyway, I was disappointed a little bit when I 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.399 saw it there on the shelf of Video Drone and 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.120 it didn't have light up eyes. And I think even 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.800 commented to the guy working there, It's like, oh, man, 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:27.840 it doesn't have light up eyes. Don't you remember the 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.239 light up eyes? And he said no. It's funny how 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:34.560 often we come back to talking about VHS boxes that 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.160 we remember from walking through the video store as a kid. 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:40.280 I feel like this is a this is a recurring theme, 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.880 Like didn't we get into one time the Jason Goes 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.960 to Hell video video box cover? Um? I think, so 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:49.200 what was special about that one? Well, it's just really 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.960 eye catching. It's it's like a metal looking Jason mask 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.480 that's got this demon snake coming out of one of 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:58.040 its holes. It's just gross looking and that fitting for 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.199 that movie. Uh well, you know, I just looked up 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.800 a bloody disgusting article the coolest and most Unique car 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.520 VHS boxes reminded me of Dead Pit. It also reminds 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:12.200 me that, oh, the the VHS box for Metamorphosis, which 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:15.600 I believe was George Eastman's Uh, This is the film 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:19.280 he directed and wrote. I haven't seen this one either, 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:21.399 but it had some sort of light up eye scenario. 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.199 And then this rings the bell as well. Do you 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.800 remember a Fright Night Part two VHS box It was 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:33.600 shaped like a casket. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm looking it up. Well, 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:35.760 you may have been planted a false memory, because when 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.400 you said that, I was like, oh, yeah, that does 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.680 seem familiar. I just looked up pictures of it and 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:42.639 I was like, actually, I don't think I've ever seen this, 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:47.600 so your enthusiasm is infectious. It it made me remember 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:50.320 things I've never seen. Well, I'm not even saying this 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.440 casket thing pop up on eBay, but I was curious. 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:54.960 I was like, how much are these things going for? 0:19:55.119 --> 0:20:00.080 But uh, maybe they're just too rare literally priceless. M 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:07.560 all right, more beast Master. This one comes to us 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.000 from Brad. Hello, gentlemen. I apologize if I am the 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:12.320 thousandth person to write in about this, but just in 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.160 case I'm not, I had a thought as to why 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:20.040 Jackie may have reacted the way she did to Dars Ferrets. Now, 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.800 remember this is a thing from the movie where the 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:27.560 character played by Carrie were she she sees Mark singers ferrets, 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.520 and she reacts as if there's some kind of like, uh, 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.920 fantasy creature, like an animal unknown in the real world, 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:36.719 like a unicorn or something. But they're just ferrets, ferrets 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:40.520 or earth animals. Brad continues. See, ferrets are actually not 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:43.720 native to California and also have been deemed too invasive 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.600 of a species to allow them as pets, So ferrets 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.959 are actually illegal in California. I have heard that special 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:53.160 arrangements can be made to get one that is declaude 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:57.840 to prevent predation on other critters and uh descented, meaning 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:01.160 they remove the scent glands I believe to make finding 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.399 mates and therefore breeding more difficult if they were to 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:06.080 get out in the wild. But I'm not sure if 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:10.200 these rumors are true. Coincidentally, Darr actually commits a federal 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.440 crime by giving them to Jackie that one pair could 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:17.440 have designated California wildlife had they been a breeding pair. 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:21.159 L O L. Brad, very good note, Brad, thank you, 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:23.840 and yeah, this does bring to bind the controversy about 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:27.199 ferrets in the Big Lebowski, you know, where Walter clarifies 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:29.200 that you're not allowed to have an animal like that 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:33.200 in California. Oh yeah, that's right. Wouldn't it be funny 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:36.640 if that's where the interrogation when when Mark Singer gets 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:40.000 arrested by the police. Uh, if that's where the interrogation went, 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:41.879 it's like I need to know about these ferrets. How 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:44.720 do you get them into the state? And that becomes 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:53.120 the central plot. Yeah, okay. One last message. This comes 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:56.240 from Alan and it is about the Green Bays Vampire 0:21:56.400 --> 0:22:00.600 and the song about green stamps. Alan says, greetings England 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:03.560 and thanks for the fascinating show. I am having trouble 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:07.280 believing that trading stamps are so forgotten that adult people 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:11.160 don't even know what they were. Here. Green Shield stamps 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:14.120 were given out by supermarkets, so many stamps for each 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:17.240 pound spent, and I remember sticking them into books for 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:20.119 my parents. Then full books could be taken into the 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:23.360 Green Shield shop and spent like money on goods out 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:26.359 of their catalog. You can imagine the piles of books 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:29.800 necessary as the big co Ops stamps fill a whole 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:34.439 page and is worth one pt thirty three pence. The 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:38.000 US blue Chip stamp is worth one quote mill, which 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.600 I take to be a tenth of ascent. I believe 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:43.520 when the stamps went obsolete, the stores continued just selling 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.920