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Let's 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.840 see and this first message today exactly that, Rob Do 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.000 you mind if I kick things off with this response 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.240 to our series on headless beings? 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:07.480 Yeah, let's have it. 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.959 This is from Joe who has written in before with 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:16.319 sometimes some great lore from Southeast Asia, and Joe has 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:24.720 more to add today, They say, Dear Joe and Robert, 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.000 I'm a little behind on the episodes and just finished 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.160 the one on headlessness. Towards the end of the episode 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:35.640 there was mention of headless ghosts and divine entities. I'm 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.320 not sure if you came across this in your research, 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:42.679 but I believe the panangalon might be of interest to you, guys. 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:47.640 Lore has it. Panangalon are witches that practice black magic. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.960 At night. They detach their heads from their bodies and 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.920 float around in search of blood, children, pregnant women, and 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:59.640 the likes. They are slightly different from other only head 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:04.480 in that they still have internal organs trailing after their 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:09.960 disembodied head as it flies around. Wow, that's gross, just 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.120 like soggy organ bags hanging out of the neck stump. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:18.320 That's that's brutal. Let's see. Their vulnerable headless bodies are 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:22.480 hidden away for safe keeping until daybreak, when the floating 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.480 heads and their entrails return and stuff themselves back into 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:30.520 the body and become whole once again. There are similar 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:36.040 legends throughout Southeast Asia, known under names like krassu or mananangal. 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:40.800 Both penangalon and Mananangol come from the word tongaal, which 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.639 means to be separated, which is apt for such a creature. Ah, 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:48.240 but there's more, Joe continues. It's said that the smell 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:52.440 of vinegar follows them around because they have to soak 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:56.400 their innerids in vinegar before they can fit them back 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.560 into the body. You can ward off these creatures by 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:04.280 placing thorny leaves around your house to damage their floating entrails, 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.720 and you can kill one by stuffing glass and other 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:11.960 prickly material into their necks if you find the headless 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.680 bodies alone. This is gross. I can't believe this. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.120 I was just searching around in my notes because I 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.079 feel like something related to this has come up before, 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.280 but I can't place exactly when it was. I don't 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.480 think I did a monster fact on these, and I 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.240 wasn't aware of all of these grizzly details concerning this 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:34.320 particular variant, but something like this has come up. Maybe 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:38.080 I was just poking around for ideas in folklore. 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.600 At one point I did not know about this, Joe, 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.800 I'm gonna have to look this up after we're done. 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:47.480 Recording here, but the email continues, they say, on a 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.560 lighter note, there was some musing about the origins of 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.960 the quote lock and load sequences in one of the 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.600 Listener Mail episodes. Yeah, this actually goes back to our 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.000 weird House Cinema episode on the movie Critters, which feeds 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.800 is one of these kind of what we ended up 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:06.640 learning was widely referred to as the lock and load montage, 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.720 but it's featured in every Batman movie. There was a 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:13.600 sequence like this in Critters as well, where a character 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.279 is like putting all of their suit and gear on 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.480 and you see all the buckles snapping and the like 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.719 things going into sheaths, all in extreme close up, and 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.920 then finally there's a reveal of the full suit in 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.400 all its glory, and we were wondering, what does that 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.960 go back to, Like where does that film icmeme come from? 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.680 And we never found a good answer to that. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:37.200 Yeah, it remains an open question. 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.800 Joe has an idea here, they say, I believe those 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:46.120 may have been inspired by Japan's common Rider hinchin Superhero 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:50.320 series and Magical Girl series that began in the mid 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:55.000 to late sixties. The initial common Rider transformations were quite simple, 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:59.080 with the protagonists just yelling hinshin and then a shot 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:03.320 of a bell or armor appearing later on. Sailor Moon 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.960 appears to have popularized longer and more drawn out sequences 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:11.039 with more emphasis on various parts of the outfit. These 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:15.000 transformation montages can easily be adapted for non magical series 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.320 just by having the characters getting themselves ready instead of 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:22.719 having a device slash magical item address them. In any case, 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:26.200 both often involve zoomed in scenes of various parts of 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:31.200 the outfit and or weapons, accompanied by thematic music, then 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.640 completed by a slow pan of the completed ensemble or 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.880 full body shot. This also means that the montage of 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.440 Tony Stark summoning his armor also counts as a magical 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.680 girl transformation, and then eyeball. 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.320 Emojis increasingly magical. 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:51.520 I might add, oh yes, anyway, happy holidays if they're 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.719 upon you by the time you read this. As always, 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.520 I love what you do and the im looking forward 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:59.000 to more episodes. Joe, Well, Joe, thank you for the 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.520 great email. As always, and I had not thought to 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:07.240 look to like Hinge in Superheroes or Sailor Moon or 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.080 anything like that, but that is interesting. I could imagine 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:15.160 that indeed being the source of this of this meme 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:16.159 in film. 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.520 Yeah, yeah, I hadn't put this together either, but it 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.240 makes sense this might be the connection. And yeah, I 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.000 mean you have anytime you have a creative minds in cinema, 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.680 they're gonna they're gonna borrow and find inspiration in various 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.000 genres and in different film cultures. So it makes sense 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.520 that somebody realized, hey, we could tweak this a little 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.000 bit and we can use this for more, you know, again, 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:41.040 non magical even non science fiction suiting up sequences. 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.839 It would be truly hilarious if like the Batman suiting 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.560 up montage goes directly back to sailor. 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.400 Moon with a with a camera spinning around and all 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.680 the light. Yeah yeah, yeah, and to come back to 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.720 Iron Man. I've probably hammered this one before, but I 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:00.440 feel like the suiting up sequences and many of these 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.000 superhero movies it's gotten it's gotten too magical, you know, 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.880 like there's no physicality to the suit anymore. I liked 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.480 it more when Iron Man had to have his own 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.960 suit like put on or there's like robot arms putting 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.360 it on for him. But when it just became just 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.600 a sea of nanites that just kind of a symbol 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.120 on his body. It's like it's just so far removed 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.160 from anything that I can touch and feel like, it 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.600 just becomes this magical transformation sequence. He might as well 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:30.320 be turning into Mamra they ever living. Yeah, I'm being 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.960 picky here. I have to drive home that I just 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:37.200 rewatched the Infinity Stone movies with my son and they 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.680 were even better than I remember. So I love those films. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.280 I really enjoy a number of the Iron Man films. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.080 I just wish I could feel the suit a little 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:47.280 bit more in those sequences. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.560 And to be fair, I've seen some of the Iron 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.560 Man standalone movies, but I haven't seen those the big 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:54.440 Avengers ones. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.120 Oh no, they're good. They're there when you're ready for him. Okay, 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.520 all right, This next one comes to us from Nathan. 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:10.680 The subject RoboCop and crossbows. Nathan says, greetings and salutations, gentlemen. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.440 I wrote schall a while back with some comic connections 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:17.120 concerning a ror shark and the question, Well, I've got 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.000 I don't remember that one, but well I kind of 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.320 remember that one. Okay, Well, I've got some more in 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.560 relation to RoboCop and its sequels. Both Robo Cops two 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.920 and three were co written by Frank Miller, probably best 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.040 known as the author of the industry changing comic The 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.640 Dark Knight Returns, published in nineteen eighty six. When the 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.760 highly anticipated animated feature was released in two parts in 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.320 twenty thirteen, the aging Bruce Wayne slash Batman was portrayed 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.319 by none other than the great Peter Weller. Solid adaptation, 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.640 perhaps more accessible than the atypical storytelling approach of the comic, 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.559 definitely worth a view. That's interesting, you know, I've actually 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:52.080 never read The Dark Knight Returns. Even when I was 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.880 in my biggest comic book phases, I ended up going 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.880 more in the Grant Morrison and Alan Moore direction, I think, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.000 than the than then checking these out. I don't know. 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:03.280 It was a time too where I don't think there 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.600 was a great digital solution. So these comic books, they 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.800 get expensive, and do you read them so quickly then 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:11.720 you're out of comic book. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.479 I actually have read that one. I'm not I'm famously 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.720 on the show not up on my comics, Laura, So 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.840 I haven't read a whole lot of especially like superhero comics. 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:22.640 I've read, like, you know, some of the Alan Moore 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.320 novels and stuff, but I have done this one. It 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.720 was like in a batch that I did some number 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.439 of years ago, and it's like, Okay, I'm going to 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.360 read some of the big superhero comics that everybody says 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.000 are great. So I read Dark Knight Returns. I read 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.439 I think Long Halloween, you know, some other stuff like that, 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.400 and I don't remember a lot of detail about it, 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.160 but I remember thinking most of those that I read 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:43.560 were great. 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.960 This this is one that I remember I had as 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.160 like an older cousin at the time when I was 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.480 a kid, and he had the Dark Knight Returns. I 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.360 remember him like showing me the cover and it was like, like, 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.800 this is the real business right here. This is the 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.640 serious comic book, you know, and you know this kid 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:06.400 had nunchuck, so I just had to believe. Anyway. The 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.320 email continues. Multiple on theme comics can be seen incidentally 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.560 in RoboCop. Among them, an issue of the now world 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:18.080 renowned Iron Man RC. Three was directed by one Fred Decker, 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.240 who's writing partner Shane Black, known for, among other things, 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.280 their collaboration on the exquisite The Monster Squad also nineteen 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.800 eighty seven, who would also go on to direct the 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:32.880 Christmas Laiden critical hit iron Man three, also twenty thirteen. Yeah, 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.400 I think I think we. We referenced Shane Black a 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:40.280 little bit in the episode that came out Friday, but 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.160 was not out at the time of this email. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.800 About how he sets all his movies at Christmas, and 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:46.560 a lot of them. 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:47.360 Yeah. 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.640 Yeah, and wait, iron Man three. I almost said RoboCop three, 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.240 iron Man three was set at Christmas. That sounds right, 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:54.360 I had I believe it was. 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.720 Yeah, I barely. I like that one. That one was fun. 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:58.319 I remember it was funny. 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:02.240 Yeah, Monsters Quad was also fun back in the day. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.160 I don't I'm not in a big hurry to revisit 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.280 it because I think there's some things about it that 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.760 are not going to age all that well. But still 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:10.839 great looking monsters in that film. 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.679 Great cast tom noonan this as Frankenstein. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:19.319 Yeah, all right. It continues in terms of sequel watchability, 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:23.200 I think you both said that you'd not seen them. Well, 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.400 I think we we haven't seen three, but we've both 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:30.040 seen two a lot. I think, speaking as a longtime fan, 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:31.920 I was eight or nine when RoboCop came out on 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.160 VHS and I first saw it, I'd say number two 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.600 for sure worth the watch. Agree tom noonan is the villain, 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.760 carries the picture, and a lovely montage of failed attempts 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.840 to create another cyborg is superb once more. 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.839 Agreed, grimly hilarious. Yes. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.160 Part three, on the other hand, is a dud, difficult 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.800 to sit through, but the excellent and unexpected cast makes 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.000 it ideal for a background viewing. The same can be 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.440 said of the cartoon Yes, another of those R rated 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.440 film turned toy turned cartoon properties. It's not good, but 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.200 the credits revealed names I recognize from legit good work 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.040 later on the TV series A Snooze the remake Snooze, 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:09.800 though I have to add that one has a great cast. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.480 I haven't seen it. You may be wondering about RC comics, 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.520 and I must regretfully report, despite at least some having 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:20.400 been written by the often remarkable aforementioned Frank Miller, also 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.079 a snooze. Unfortunately, I've found that to be the case 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.520 to be true of basically all movie turn comics. I've 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.240 read tons of Aliens, Predators, Terminators, etc. Hoping to recapture 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.760 some of the delight the movies provide, but they never 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.600 really work. I'm fairly certain it's the lack of the 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.720 iconic scores and sound effects that led to my disappointment. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:43.280 Yeah, I recall at one point trying to pick up 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.680 one of those I don't know, some kind of Aliens 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.599 colonial marine, kind of comic, and it just did not 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.319 click with me. I was getting in there. I was 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.679 like that this does not have the magic of Aliens 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:53.160 the film. 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.600 Yeah. I think I did an Alien Versus Predator novel 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.600 at some point before they did the movie, so back 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.640 when it was just like comics and novel franchise, and 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.000 I remember enjoying it. But I also remember virtually nothing 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.520 about the plot. But it was better than the movies 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:09.200 that would come. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.600 As to the RoboCop remake, don't want to spoil anybody's 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.280 fun if they like it, because we did get an 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:20.120 email from a frequent correspondent who I believe said that 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.840 he enjoyed the remake, But I was not a big fan. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.760 I'm not a person who says as a rule that 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.880 one should not try to remake an already great film. 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:31.880 You know, you can remake a film that was good 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.160 the first time and find a new angle on it 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.000 find it a new interesting way to approach it. But 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.200 this is one that did, in the end just feel 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.199 completely unnecessary. It's just like, why does this exist? 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.160 Now, Nathan goes on a little bit more about RoboCop. 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:46.719 I'm gonna I'm gonna skip through some of this a 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.680 little bit, but it's all good stuff. But I'm gonna 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:53.360 get to the crossbows. Nathan says, Now, finally, if I 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.320 could back up to the topic of crossbows, there's a 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:00.000 subcategory I think deserves a mention, the wrist mounted crossbow. 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:04.360 Notable examples of users in users in fiction include the 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:09.880 Drow of the under Tark, Poison Ivy and Batman, and 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:13.040 a hunter in Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust. Who's been a 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:14.480 long time since I've seen that one. 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:15.320 I don't know it? 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.920 Oh, you know this is another one that when I 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.360 was younger, there was a time when everyone was all 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:26.120 about Vampire Hunter D. Anyway, Nathan closes up by saying, 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.840 chances are you've already seen Bloodlust. In any event, I 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.520 highly recommend it. It's full of great Castlevanian creatures, and 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.800 multiple recent Core episodes make me think of it. Crossbows obviously, 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.080 but something you said in the shows on Shadows reminded 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.040 me of a sneaky fiend who travels through two dimensional shadow, 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.880 and while he isn't headless like the subject of those episodes, 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.720 there is a neat take on lacanthropy where the Wolfman's 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.760 entire torso opens up, revealing enormous jaws. I think I'll 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:56.800 finish listening to your episode on RoboCop, finish rewatching RoboCop, 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:58.160 and then rewatch Bloodlust. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.000 Fun sounds great, Nathan. 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:08.320 Yeah, that sounds like some good viewing lined up there. Yeah, 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:12.880 the idea of many crossbows. This is kind of like 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:14.840 a side tangent I might have to come back to 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.840 in the future because there is this whole world. Like 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.040 we touched on this a little bit talking about that 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:25.400 very early ancient repeating crossbow that there's evidence of in 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.920 China that may have just been a toy or like 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.760 just an example of the basic principles of a design, 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.200 but it probably didn't have much strength at all, and 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.960 most of the firing power came from the string rather 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.240 than the bow. And so you do get into interesting 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:45.400 design problems when you scale a bow or crossbow down 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.680 too much. And yet you do find examples of fairly 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.320 small ones that were used because there would be environments 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.840 where you would still want a ranged weapon, but not 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.600 have a tremendous amount of room to fire said ranged weapon. 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.520 I forget this specif on it, but there was recently 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.880 a samurai show at the High Museum here in Atlanta, Joe. 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.480 I know you went to this as well, I said JJ. 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.240 And if memory serves there was a small bow or 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.760 crossbow I don't remember which that was intended to be 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.480 fired from a carriage or inside of a carriage, but 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.640 probably inside a carriage firing outside. Should there be bandits 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:20.200 or whatnot? 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.400 Hmmm, I don't recall that specifically though. There were a 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.000 lot of amazing gizmos there. 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.760 Yeah, anyway, Nathan, Yeah, thanks for all the thoughts there, 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.440 and all the film recommendations as well, Like you know, 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.520 the Vampire Hunter d thing. I hadn't thought about that 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.400 in a while, so I'll have to revisit it and 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.880 see if maybe maybe I'll rewatch it as well. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.200 All right, This next message comes to us from Daniel. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.960 It's in response to our series called The Sunken Lands, 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:56.680 about areas of land that have been covered up by water. Specifically, 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.200 there's a part where we talked about the observation and 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:06.919 areas around like the southeastern coast of Great Britain, of 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:12.000 tree stumps down underneath the surf that would sometimes be 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:17.640 revealed by like movements of sediment by heavy storms, and 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.640 how this is evidence that actually forests used to go 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.520 down into the space that is now filled in with 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:28.399 the North Sea. Daniel says, Hi, Robin Joe, I just 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.040 listened with interest to your Sunken Lands episode one the 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.639 other day as I actually had a genuine experience like 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.760 this where I live. In the nineties, I lived just 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:41.040 short walking distance from the beach the same village I 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:46.359 grew up in grassy Head, Trial Bay, NSW, Australia. I 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:50.160 guess that's New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia. In fact, 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.520 you can hear the sea roaring from our property, being 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.439 only a few hundred meters from the beach. After some 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.600 wild weather I went for a beach walk to see 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.640 if any of the many shipwrecks were visible that uncover 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.640 sometimes if the sand washes out of Trial Bay parentheses 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:11.639 Trialbay named after a ship called the Trial stolen by 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:15.560 convicts from Sydney and wrecked on my beach in eighteen sixteen. 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.560 To my surprise, not only were their shipwrecks, but also 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:23.439 a never before seen mudflat about a foot high and 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:28.120 tree stumps sticking out in the breakers. These stumps were 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.200 from an ancient mangrove forest, and some were a good 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.080 two feet wide. I did take photos, but if they 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:37.040 aren't attached, it's because I didn't find them. Well, Daniel, 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.520 there weren't any photos, so I guess you didn't find them, 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.320 Daniel says. Over the next few weeks it all covered 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.880 up again. So there was at one time a forest 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:49.040 where the beach is now. It was a strange experience 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.720 to walk among the tree stumps in the waves at 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.359 the beach. Thank you for your show. I've been listening 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.360 for ages now, cheers Daniel. 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.720 Excellent. That's exactly the sort of in the field reporting 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:01.440 where hoping to hear from our listeners. 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.760 Yeah. Love getting emails like this. Thank you, Daniel. 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.200 All right, let's get into the weird house cinema listener 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.720 mail a little bit. This one comes to us from Lee. 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.960 Lee says, greetings, Rob, Joe, and jj I hope you 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.480 are all well. The recent episodes regarding headless Men had 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.960 me wondering about disembodied heads. The search quickly sent me 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:27.320 into horror and sci fi film best off lists. One 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.560 of note was the Den of Geek website. The list 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.879 features notable movies and describes the scenes. They also include 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:38.480 disembodied brains or one at least, since they mentioned Total 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.480 Recall in The Thing nineteen eighty two, for specific scenes, 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.080 I might further require the head or brain play a 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.119 pivotal or at least interesting role in the plot. So 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:50.119 others because I guess, yeah, I mean there are films 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:55.040 where heads incidentally fly around without bodies. I guess yeah. 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.960 There's like the scene in Total Recall where Arnold Schwarzenegger 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:01.159 is at the customs desk and he takes off a 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.199 fake head that I don't know he was using to 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.200 sneak into the planet disguised. 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:07.600 But that's it. 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:09.840 It's just like a fake talking robot head and then 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:11.760 it explodes. It's not a major plot point. 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:17.359 Get ready for a surprise, yes, two weeks. And there 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:19.400 are other films like you know, Big Trouble. Little China 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:21.960 comes to mind is one that has a fabulous beholder 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.879 like creature that's essentially a floating head, but it's not 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:30.159 central to the plot. It's just really cool anyway. The 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:33.720 email continues here. So others on the list include the 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:37.880 Brain from Planet Aros. That's nineteen fifty seven. We haven't 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:41.200 watched it, but it has come up before, The Thing 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:44.720 that Couldn't Die nineteen fifty eight, The Fiend without a 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:47.160 Face nineteen fifty eight. Now, we did cover that one 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:48.760 on Weird House, Yes we did. 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:51.639 That's about the I just sprayed for brains last week. 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.680 Tzardas from seventy four. That comes up from time to time. 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:00.199 Not sure if that's one we'll cover, and and then 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:02.240 they say, as well as a couple I would add 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:05.399 on my own the Frozen Dead from nineteen sixty six, 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:09.520 Invaders from Mars mentioned during the Maze episode, and looking 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:12.880 into information on Modoc, I stumbled across the teenage mutant 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:16.600 Ninja Turtle villain Kraying. Both of these could lend themselves 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:20.440 to the monster fact treatment. Yeah. I'm a big Krang fan. 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:23.840 I like Modoc, So if there's anything to pull on 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:27.160 there that's a little bit science y, I'll go for it. 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:30.320 The Crossbow episodes brought to mind the DC comics hero 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:34.760 vigilante Huntress. Not familiar with Huntress whose weapon is a 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:38.800 crossbow pistol, as well as the Slee Stack from the 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:41.760 seventies Saturday Morning Live action Showland of the Lost, who 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:44.679 had a crossbow weapon. While the slee Stack were one 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:46.920