Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of
Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your
Speaker 1: Mind listener Mail. My name is Robert Lamb, I'm Joe McCormick,
Speaker 1: and we're here with our trustee mail bought Carney for
Speaker 1: our weekly listener Mail episode. Is this the second of
Speaker 1: our weekly listener Mail episodes? I think that's right, it is. Yes.
Speaker 1: I feel like we should jump right in and and
Speaker 1: not delay at all. All right, hit us with it, Carney,
Speaker 1: What what do we have? Okay? This first message is
Speaker 1: about our episodes on spinning, and this comes from Jenna
Speaker 1: that it actually came in before we recorded the episode,
Speaker 1: so it'll require a bit of backtracking. Jenna says, hello, all,
Speaker 1: I've just been listening to your listener Mail episode from
Speaker 1: November nineteenth, and you were talking about ballet dancers dancing
Speaker 1: on point and suggested you may do a future episode
Speaker 1: on spinning humans and the related centrifugal forces. Please consider
Speaker 1: pole dancers if you do pursue this subject. While working
Speaker 1: on a spinning pole, the speeds achieved in the length
Speaker 1: of time spent spinning in a single direction at a
Speaker 1: time are considerable, all while expected to dismount or land gracefully,
Speaker 1: midspin and continue without looking like you're about to face plant.
Speaker 1: I enjoy hearing your episodes whenever they come out, along
Speaker 1: with the Stuff you Should Know podcast, equipping me with
Speaker 1: very random facts which I revel in relating to my
Speaker 1: friends and colleagues. Keep up the good work, Jenna, Well, Jenna.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately we recorded the episodes about spinning before I read
Speaker 1: this message, but I decided to UH to look it
Speaker 1: up and see if there were there was anything interesting
Speaker 1: I could find about pole dancing physics, and wouldn't you
Speaker 1: know what I came across a really good article. There
Speaker 1: was one by Jennifer Ulette that was in Gizmodo published
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, called The Simple Physics of pole Dancing,
Speaker 1: and this actually does get into some very interesting stuff
Speaker 1: that you might not think about. Obviously, pole dancing is
Speaker 1: going to require massive amounts of like core and upper
Speaker 1: body strength. It's a real athletic feat, especially the more
Speaker 1: like athletic you know, competition style people do that I
Speaker 1: was seeing some videos of in this article. But it
Speaker 1: also apparently involves the careful management of friction, which is
Speaker 1: kind of funny but also really interesting. So there's this
Speaker 1: section in the article where Lett is speaking with Valerie Jamison,
Speaker 1: who's a content director for New Scientist and who has
Speaker 1: a PhD in physics, and so Lett writes, quote, you
Speaker 1: need friction, but not too much and not too little.
Speaker 1: It depends on what move you're trying to execute. Quote.
Speaker 1: In some of these moves, people are hanging upside down
Speaker 1: by the crook of their knee and then they slide down,
Speaker 1: says Jamison, just thinking of that as terrifying to me. Um,
Speaker 1: But the dancers can pull it off because they have
Speaker 1: such fine motor control. They contract their muscles and press
Speaker 1: into the poll to stick, then loosen their hoole just
Speaker 1: enough to slide until they need to stop. The skimpy
Speaker 1: outfits can be a boon in that regard, because bear
Speaker 1: skin has the right friction coefficient to help dancers stick
Speaker 1: to the pole, perhaps with a light dusting of resin
Speaker 1: on the hands and thighs to keep sweat at bay.
Speaker 1: And there's also a note about the selection of footwear
Speaker 1: affecting what you can do in pole dancing, because apparently,
Speaker 1: like different materials on your shoes will help you get
Speaker 1: a better grip on the pole. With your foot if
Speaker 1: you're using that to hold yourself up in the air
Speaker 1: while you're doing something else with the rest of your body.
Speaker 1: Um So anyway, Yes, I I am fully impressed by
Speaker 1: the the athleticism of this, just as I am with
Speaker 1: with ballet and skating. Interesting. Yeah, I wish we'd had
Speaker 1: had this one on hand when we'd done those episodes,
Speaker 1: but that's getting to discuss it here on listener mail.
Speaker 1: That's that's close enough. Yeah, uh, Rob, do you want
Speaker 1: to read this message about anti metaboli. Yeah, here's one
Speaker 1: on anti metabolis from Christopher Christopher. I hello. As someone
Speaker 1: whose bachelor's degree was in linguistics and psychology, the topic
Speaker 1: of anti Metaboli's on your Stuff to Blow Your Mind
Speaker 1: podcast was a nice treat in my daily playlist this morning.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that very much. As someone whose masters
Speaker 1: was in human factors engineering and whose pH d was
Speaker 1: oriented around topics of situated cognition, I felt compelled to
Speaker 1: try and write into a podcast host for the first time.
Speaker 1: I typically listened to podcasts while I walked my dog
Speaker 1: twice each day, so maybe it was an easier connection
Speaker 1: for me to make, But I was surprised your discussion
Speaker 1: did not approach any of the physical aspects that might
Speaker 1: well coincide with your explored topic of human proclivities. For A, B, B,
Speaker 1: A patterns, before humans could write, they could walk, and
Speaker 1: assumably most successful walks bring the walker back home again
Speaker 1: in the same path. In reverse, when you set off,
Speaker 1: you might encounter things in a specific order A, B, C, D, E,
Speaker 1: and then when coming back, the bread crumbs can lead
Speaker 1: you home in a comforting and secure matter e, D, C,
Speaker 1: B A. In the most simple terms, I go from
Speaker 1: here to there A than b, and then return from
Speaker 1: there to here be than A. I am the same
Speaker 1: person in the same place, so I feel complete, satisfied, accomplished, etcetera.
Speaker 1: So this primitive spatial dimension might easily be associated with
Speaker 1: an intuitive feeling of comprehensiveness when exposures are experienced in
Speaker 1: a reverse order. Moreover, time and some randomness has passed
Speaker 1: between in a unidirectional manner, between the start and end
Speaker 1: of the walk, or between successive days of similar routines,
Speaker 1: so the opportunity for change is also there, such as
Speaker 1: with an A, B, B A pattern that presents a
Speaker 1: negation or change in meaning e g. The journey is
Speaker 1: the destination I am not exactly the same as when
Speaker 1: I started out, and isn't that sometimes of interest and importance.
Speaker 1: My interests in pursuits and situated cognition as another perhaps
Speaker 1: they're extended or advanced paradigm of cognitive psychology e g.
Speaker 1: Behavioralism than cognitivism, than situativism. Challenge me to imagine and
Speaker 1: explore how cognition and thinking does not really only simply
Speaker 1: exists slash reside within the brain, but also outside of it,
Speaker 1: in the body and its movements and environments through various artifacts, technology, cultures, etcetera.
Speaker 1: My profession in human factors and user experience tends to
Speaker 1: reward more holistic study and understanding of operations and environments
Speaker 1: in which usage based interfaces and designs succeed in respects
Speaker 1: to given constraints. So again, thank you for your interesting discussion,
Speaker 1: and I hope these above thoughts may bring you new
Speaker 1: and exciting ones. Cheers, Christopher. This is really interesting, you know, Joe,
Speaker 1: because this uh discussing you know, returning in reverse order,
Speaker 1: the backtracking to come back. Uh. This reminds me of
Speaker 1: our recent episode on foraging and the one paper that
Speaker 1: looked at potential differences in the division of labor between
Speaker 1: hunters and foragers, and how the forager would would would
Speaker 1: be more likely to return along the exact same route,
Speaker 1: whereas the hunter would go out to kind of a
Speaker 1: winding track trailing, you know, trailing the prey, but then
Speaker 1: would have to make it They couldn't retrace their steps
Speaker 1: because it was such a winding trail. They would have
Speaker 1: to make a direct bee line back to camp. Interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that has any any real role
Speaker 1: in this discussion, but but it made me think of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's another It's one of those things that I think
Speaker 1: it'd be difficult to demonstrate this, but it's definitely an
Speaker 1: interesting idea that something about uh, you know, basic types
Speaker 1: of foraging and exploration activities would have psychological relevance even
Speaker 1: to abstract concepts like the words and the sentence or
Speaker 1: ideas in a list. Yeah, and the the A B,
Speaker 1: B A thing too. Like it makes me think of
Speaker 1: the classic sitcom format, right, you must always in your
Speaker 1: journey at the beginning again, you know, uh, there there's
Speaker 1: something comforting in that that you must come back to
Speaker 1: the same place and then the next episode will be
Speaker 1: another departure and a return. Yeah. Oh, because in the
Speaker 1: sitcom nothing ever changes. So are you ready for the
Speaker 1: next message? Let's do it. This is from Akhmed. Ahmed says,
Speaker 1: hey guys, longtime listener and stuff to blow your mind
Speaker 1: lover here. Your episode on anti metaboli and its frequency
Speaker 1: in old Middle Eastern texts made me think of the
Speaker 1: kali Vala, which is absolutely jam packed with similar repetitious
Speaker 1: turns of phrase. I think the kali Vla might make
Speaker 1: for a rich subject for you to do an episode on.
Speaker 1: For one, the religion slash myth of the pre Christian
Speaker 1: Finnic people's is very interesting and relatively neglected compared to Greek, Norse, Egyptian,
Speaker 1: etcetera myths. The story of how Elias Loan wrote, a
Speaker 1: nineteenth century physician went about collecting scraps of oral tradition
Speaker 1: stories and putting them, sometimes with the seems very much
Speaker 1: showing in a front to back order. Is also neat
Speaker 1: and reminiscent of the hard task that other compilers of
Speaker 1: folk tradition like Avid have also had to do. Lastly,
Speaker 1: there are cool echoes of the kala v Ala in
Speaker 1: modern culture. For example, there seems to be some evidence
Speaker 1: that the Call of Vla is Demi god protagonist Vina
Speaker 1: Moynan contributed greatly to Tolkien's creation of Tom Bomba Dill
Speaker 1: or Gandalf. Anyways, keep up the great work, Ahmed. And
Speaker 1: I looked up Vina Moyn and uh, I hope I'm
Speaker 1: saying that sort of close. I listened to a pronunciation
Speaker 1: and that that's about as close as I can do. Um.
Speaker 1: He is like a figure who was born of this
Speaker 1: like ocean creature, and like when he was born, he
Speaker 1: was already an old wizard with the knowledge of the world.
Speaker 1: Strange magical figure. There's a scene I was reading about
Speaker 1: in the in the epic poem where he has to
Speaker 1: build a harp out of fishbones. Is pretty cool. But
Speaker 1: I also looked up some quotes from the Kla Valla
Speaker 1: and these are some passages I found from the John
Speaker 1: Martin Crawford translation that I wanted to read. So this
Speaker 1: first one he goes like this. Thus the ancient Vina
Speaker 1: Moinen in his copper banded vessel left his tribe in
Speaker 1: Kali Valla sailing or the rolling billows, sailing through the
Speaker 1: azure vapors, sailing through the dusk of evening sailing to
Speaker 1: the fiery sunset, to the higher landed regions, to the
Speaker 1: lower verge of heaven. And so there I think you
Speaker 1: see some of those repetitious phrasings that Ahmed was talking about.
Speaker 1: But then also there was another passage that doesn't have
Speaker 1: the same stylistic effects, but I just liked it. Quote.
Speaker 1: Thus the wise and worthy singer sings not all his
Speaker 1: garnered wisdom. Better leave unsung some sayings than to sing
Speaker 1: them out of season. Oh that's beautiful. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: you know one of the things about this character, if
Speaker 1: I am not mistaken, this is the primary character in
Speaker 1: the Day the Earth Throws, which was uh you know
Speaker 1: the Russo Finish film from ninety nine that was featured
Speaker 1: on Mystery Science Theater three thousand. You know, the saga
Speaker 1: of the Sampo. Oh, I don't know if I've seen
Speaker 1: this one. Oh, it's it's quite good. Um, I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's also quite beautiful and like an undegraded uh you
Speaker 1: know copy of the film. But yeah, you also you
Speaker 1: look up this character and you see various illustrations of him, say,
Speaker 1: defending the Sampo against herpet type creatures. Uh so, so yeah,
Speaker 1: this this, this character is the real deal. Nice all right.
Speaker 1: This one comes to us from Jennifer. Jenniver, says Robert
Speaker 1: and Joe. I enjoyed your recent episode on anti Metaboli's.
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, I was comparing a few
Speaker 1: of the chi asthmas in the Bible and began to
Speaker 1: wonder if that was a literary device that was still
Speaker 1: used today. I found, as you did, that the A,
Speaker 1: B B A anti metaboli is quite common, but the
Speaker 1: longer chiasmas is more difficult to find. Key asthmas kai asthmas.
Speaker 1: It's a, it's a It's gonna be a tough one.
Speaker 1: We keep I was thrilled, thrilled to run across the website.
Speaker 1: Pasted below on it, the author maps a thirty point
Speaker 1: chiasthmus in the Back to the Future trilogy and suggest
Speaker 1: that some of the greatness of the franchise comes from
Speaker 1: its use of chiasthmus to bring the viewer to a
Speaker 1: satisfying ending thought. You might enjoy taking a look at
Speaker 1: it and watching the trilogy again while watching out for it.
Speaker 1: Thanks for what your podcast teaches me and for what
Speaker 1: I teach from your podcast to others. This is a
Speaker 1: great point, and a lot of really structurally satisfying fiction
Speaker 1: does exactly this. It It takes the form of a
Speaker 1: broad structural chiasmus that's sort of like goes from A
Speaker 1: to Z and then back from Z to A. Okay,
Speaker 1: This next message is about Thanksgiving food, specifically gravy. This
Speaker 1: is from Matt. Matt says good Day, Robert and Joe,
Speaker 1: Good Day. Regarding gravy and its historical slash cultural importance
Speaker 1: and origins, I'd like to highlight the importance of fat
Speaker 1: in neutral Shan. Gravy in its traditional form, anyway, is fat.
Speaker 1: Fat was in many ways a most important component of nutrition,
Speaker 1: or at least it was for some people based on
Speaker 1: the conditions in which they lived e g. Traditional Inuit
Speaker 1: diets come to mind. Though I'm no expert. It's the
Speaker 1: taste and the energy just as important as the meat itself,
Speaker 1: perhaps more so in some cases. I would propose the
Speaker 1: reverence for gravy historically stems in part from the recognition
Speaker 1: that it is a highly valuable energy source, essentially an
Speaker 1: extension of meat itself, a highly valuable food food source
Speaker 1: historically waste, not particularly when the energy factor is so high.
Speaker 1: This might be a hot take, but worth reiterating. I
Speaker 1: think thanks for the episode, Matt. This is a good point, Matt,
Speaker 1: and it made me think about one of the important
Speaker 1: functions of the invention of pans for cooking. Now, you
Speaker 1: could cook meat that you you know, if you you
Speaker 1: caught and killed an animal, you could roast its meat
Speaker 1: over an open fire. But if you think about it,
Speaker 1: you could actually be losing a lot of energy, like
Speaker 1: just dripping off into the fire and burning up and
Speaker 1: creating smoke. Once you have a pan to cook in,
Speaker 1: you can catch everything, so you really don't don't lose
Speaker 1: a drop. Yeah, and it it allows you to create
Speaker 1: those those secondary products that are that are often Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's extremely tasty, all right. This one comes to us
Speaker 1: from Eric. Hey, mind blowers, that's us, I guess um,
Speaker 1: He says, I was delighted to see that you did
Speaker 1: an episode on one of my favorite topics. Venus so
Speaker 1: much interesting stuff to say about it. First of all,
Speaker 1: you speculated that it would be easier to get a
Speaker 1: rocket to orbit from a balloon than from the surface.
Speaker 1: This is absolutely true on Earth, and there have been
Speaker 1: several attempts to design balloon launched rockets or raccoons, most
Speaker 1: notably a Spanish company called Zero to Infinity. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to Venus, that is a mind boggling understatement.
Speaker 1: Assuming we could build a rocket that could actually survive
Speaker 1: on the surface of Venus, which is not possible with
Speaker 1: current technology, a rocket would have to push against that
Speaker 1: absurdly thick atmosphere, which is hard enough on Earth but
Speaker 1: is ninety times as hard on Venus. We would have
Speaker 1: to land a Saturn five rocket on Venus, fully fueled
Speaker 1: with machinery to keep the the cryogenic fuel below negative
Speaker 1: a hundred degrees celsius in six hundred plus degrees celsius
Speaker 1: temperatures just to get something like the mercury capsule into orbit.
Speaker 1: That might actually be an overestimate estimation, as I haven't
Speaker 1: tried to do the math. I can't stress enough how
Speaker 1: horrible Venus is atmosphere fear is for space exploration. You
Speaker 1: have to go up to fifty kilometers just to get
Speaker 1: to earth like pressures that high up on Earth, and
Speaker 1: you're almost in vacuum. I don't remember you mentioning uh this,
Speaker 1: so my apologies if you did. One difficulty with balloons
Speaker 1: on Venus is the sulfuric acid clouds. I don't recall
Speaker 1: offhand at what altitude these clouds form, but it means
Speaker 1: that any balloon not made of glass will have an
Speaker 1: operational lifetime much shorter than on Earth. Balloons might not
Speaker 1: last long enough to make the return to Earth window
Speaker 1: for crude missions. One thing you mentioned off hand was
Speaker 1: whether it was safe to have balloons floating in the
Speaker 1: tops of gas giants owing to radiation. In fact, it's
Speaker 1: actually not as dangerous as you might think. One thing
Speaker 1: the Juno probe discovered is that Jupiter's ionosphere, which is
Speaker 1: the cause of most of the radiation in the region
Speaker 1: of Jupiter, actually has a lower limit, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: extend below a certain altitude. They modified the probes planned
Speaker 1: orbit to pass below this level to boost its lifetime.
Speaker 1: The real problem for a balloon on a gas giant
Speaker 1: is lift. Since gas giants are mostly composed of the
Speaker 1: lightest possible gas, hydrogen, there isn't anything lighter to use
Speaker 1: as a lifting gas except warmer hydrogen. That is, unless
Speaker 1: you can build a rigid balloon that can hold a
Speaker 1: low pressured gas or a vacuum, which is not technically
Speaker 1: feasible yet venus is much better for balloons be since
Speaker 1: its atmosphere is mostly CEO two. Even oxygen or nitrogen
Speaker 1: will work as a lifting gas. So in the future
Speaker 1: we could have habitats not just suspended under a balloon,
Speaker 1: but housed within one. Sorry for it such a long email,
Speaker 1: but as I said, venus is a very exciting topic
Speaker 1: for me. Best wishes and I hope to see thousands
Speaker 1: more great episodes from you, Eric, Eric, You're gonna see
Speaker 1: thousands more great episodes for us in the next two months,
Speaker 1: well certainly before the before two thousand, um and twenty
Speaker 1: one is done. Yeah, there will be what I guess,
Speaker 1: there'll be a thousand more episodes plus right, I can't
Speaker 1: do math in my head right now, it's getting late
Speaker 1: in the day. OKAYET, fantastic email, Eric, Thank you very much. Okay,
Speaker 1: this next message comes to us from Kate. It's about
Speaker 1: our ice episodes from earlier in the year, about pike
Speaker 1: crete and stuff like that. Kate says, Hi, Robert and Joe,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for all you do. I'm a research
Speaker 1: scientist to the National Renewable Energy Lab and your show
Speaker 1: is my go to listen for when I have routine
Speaker 1: housekeeping work around the lab. You keep me entertained while
Speaker 1: making buffers, preparing samples are running simple but time consuming experiments.
Speaker 1: I wanted to write in and say how much I'm
Speaker 1: enjoying the Weird House Cinema and suggest that the nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty four classic of the Ice Pirates should absolutely go
Speaker 1: on your list. My husband and I rewatched it recently
Speaker 1: and it is as wonderfully bad and hilarious as I
Speaker 1: remember from my youth. I also wanted to tell you
Speaker 1: how much I've enjoyed the episodes on ice that you've
Speaker 1: done in the last couple of months. I'm a little
Speaker 1: late to this party, I know. I wanted to suggest
Speaker 1: a follow up in this vein with an episode on
Speaker 1: cryogenic electron microscopy. This technique involves flash freezing samples in
Speaker 1: such a way that they form vitreous ice, meaning a
Speaker 1: lack of hexagonal structure is formed. This preserves the structure
Speaker 1: of biological molecules dissolved in the sample. In the past
Speaker 1: decade or so, this technique had a huge impact on
Speaker 1: structural biology, as it has allowed visualization of cellular, subcellular,
Speaker 1: or and even individual protein structures while avoiding the difficulties
Speaker 1: and limitations of more traditional X ray crystallography techniques. There
Speaker 1: there is a deep pool of interesting topics to be
Speaker 1: found here, including the details of vitreous ice and how
Speaker 1: it relates to people freezing, slash reanimation WOA, the AI
Speaker 1: of the analysis software that sorts through the higher number
Speaker 1: of images collected and determines the orientations that were captured
Speaker 1: in each. Why older X ray techniques are limited parentheses,
Speaker 1: A lot of proteins can't be crystallized and or only
Speaker 1: certain conformers form into crystals, and the new insights that
Speaker 1: have been made with the technique. Hope this email inspires
Speaker 1: you to consider this topic and keep up with the
Speaker 1: exploration of ice generally, because it is a fascinating topic
Speaker 1: and water is so central to our understanding of life
Speaker 1: as we know it. Thanks for all you do, Cheers Kate,
Speaker 1: And then she's got a PS says you guys should
Speaker 1: also revisit the electric micro bland topic you did a
Speaker 1: few years ago. I dug it up for a re
Speaker 1: listen because I reviewed several grants on this topic recently,
Speaker 1: and there is a ton of new and exciting work
Speaker 1: in this area, including some of our Lab. If you're interested,
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to send you references. Okay, so yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for getting in touch, Kate. I think that's a
Speaker 1: that's a really great idea. Plus, the Ice Pirates um
Speaker 1: maybe worth considering. I don't know, I don't have a
Speaker 1: strong memory of Ice Pirates, but it has a great cast.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of fun connections with it. Is
Speaker 1: Dick Miller in it? Um not? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't think Dick Millers in it. But you got pretty
Speaker 1: much everybody else Robert Rick, John Carradine, Ron Pearlman, Angelica Houston,
Speaker 1: Bruce v Launch, Ian Ambercrombie. It's it's pretty yea, it's stacked. Okay.
Speaker 1: Do you want to wrap up with a few listener
Speaker 1: responses to Weird House Cinema? Yeah, yeah, we're already talking
Speaker 1: about it a little bit. Let's let's go all the
Speaker 1: way in. Okay, here's one from Forest Forest says you
Speaker 1: guys briefly mentioned mar Joe Gortoner in a recent episod, so,
Speaker 1: emphasizing what a befuddling figure he is, was wondering if
Speaker 1: you're aware of the documentary mar Jo, It's actually incredible,
Speaker 1: made in nineteen seventy two before he started acting, kind
Speaker 1: of an expose slash heist film about how he was
Speaker 1: manipulated as a child, etcetera. Yeah, thanks for this note
Speaker 1: for us. So Marjo came up when we were talking
Speaker 1: about Star Wars rip off movies. I guess this must
Speaker 1: have been in the Weird House Cinema about Message from Space,
Speaker 1: because Marjo is in Star Crash, the one with with David, uh,
Speaker 1: what's his name? David Hasselhoff, and mar Joe is like
Speaker 1: he's a sidekick character in that movie. There's this amazing
Speaker 1: scene where somebody says, like, no one can withstand these
Speaker 1: deadly rays, and then Marjoe responds, these deadly rays will
Speaker 1: be your death. And but mar Jo, before he was
Speaker 1: trying to do a sci fi you know, be sci
Speaker 1: fi acting career, he had been a child tent revival preachers.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what what age exactly, he like
Speaker 1: seven or something and doing these revival sermons. It's it's
Speaker 1: really astonishing to imagine. But he later did a documentary
Speaker 1: about all of the techniques that he would use in
Speaker 1: his preaching to get people to hand over money and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. It's a I've actually never seen the
Speaker 1: full documentary, but I've seen some big clips from it,
Speaker 1: so someday I gotta sit down and just watch the
Speaker 1: whole thing. All right, here's another one. This one comes
Speaker 1: to us from Chris. Chris says, Hi, Rob and Joe
Speaker 1: writing in today to let you know I'm really enjoying
Speaker 1: the new Weird House Cinema episodes. I'm not a classic
Speaker 1: movie buff. We're big into old movies, B movies, but
Speaker 1: I do very much enjoy a good bad movie. After
Speaker 1: listening to your first two episodes of Weird House Cinema,
Speaker 1: I had to write in and give you a recommendation
Speaker 1: based on my own weird movie watching experience. The year
Speaker 1: is two thousand and six. I'm living in an apartment
Speaker 1: with two other guys. During college. We splurge and get
Speaker 1: HBO for the summer. Between working odd shifts and making
Speaker 1: just enough money to make rent, we spent much of
Speaker 1: the summer on the couch watching every movie that HBO
Speaker 1: had to offer. In particular, one movie caught our eye,
Speaker 1: uh and after one watch, we knew we couldn't turn away.
Speaker 1: That movie was two thousand fives A Sound of Thunder.
Speaker 1: I've seen this one. We got to finish the email first,
Speaker 1: then I'll talk about it. It was so hilariously bad
Speaker 1: and weird that one watch was never going to be enough.
Speaker 1: We subsequently watched it about once or twice a week
Speaker 1: while it was available on HBO that summer, But once
Speaker 1: we realized its run had come to an end, we
Speaker 1: knew what needed to be done. After some searching, three
Speaker 1: copies of the movie were procured, one for each member
Speaker 1: of are now a Sound of Thunder movie cult. To
Speaker 1: this day, we will text each other every so often
Speaker 1: and remind one another that it's time for a rewatch.
Speaker 1: It's a fun way to bring back some good memories
Speaker 1: and get lost in some bizarre mid two thousand sci fi.
Speaker 1: It might be too recent to make the cut for weird,
Speaker 1: how sent not, but I hope you enjoy a watch
Speaker 1: of it. Either way, All the best and thanks for
Speaker 1: continuing to blow the mind. Get out of here with
Speaker 1: that talk about two recent I have seen this movie.
Speaker 1: It is it? Yeah? I think it's totally worthy. It
Speaker 1: is so strange now, of course it's it's based on
Speaker 1: the Ray Bradberry short story that we've talked about on
Speaker 1: the show before. I think that came up in a
Speaker 1: previous episode. We did one one of our Halloween episodes
Speaker 1: about the Simpsons Time and Punishment episode. I think that
Speaker 1: was because that's based on Ray Bradberry a little bit.
Speaker 1: And so the premise of the story is that there
Speaker 1: are these people who go back in time and hunt
Speaker 1: a dinosaur, and then that leads to these horrible changes
Speaker 1: in the future because of the butterfly effects rolling through time.
Speaker 1: But in this two thousand five version, it's just hard
Speaker 1: to describe how how bizarre and awful this movie is.
Speaker 1: It's got these c g I velociraptors with baboon faces.
Speaker 1: It's it's really special. Has been Kingsley in it though.
Speaker 1: This is a time when Ben Kingsley was getting paid
Speaker 1: for work. He was collecting some checks and this was
Speaker 1: one of those checks. Wow, well it I mean maybe
Speaker 1: worth checking out then, Yeah, because I love the short
Speaker 1: story and I have fond memories of the Ray Bradberry
Speaker 1: theater adaptation of it, which you know, I guess it
Speaker 1: was a little cheesy because you know, it has dinosaurs
Speaker 1: in it. But um, but yeah, I'm I'm I'm kind
Speaker 1: of curious now to exactly exactly what direction they go
Speaker 1: in with this. Yeah, It's been a long time, but
Speaker 1: I would be happy to revisit that one so that
Speaker 1: that may go on the list. Thanks Chris. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: wrap up with one more Weird House email, this one
Speaker 1: from Lindsay. Lindsay says, Hey, Rob and Joe, hope you
Speaker 1: all are doing well. Longtime stuff to blow your mind.
Speaker 1: Listener and fellow atlante in here, I've been really enjoying
Speaker 1: the Weird House Cinema series, even though I actually don't
Speaker 1: watch move bees at all. Very often. Often joked that
Speaker 1: I've never seen a movie from before the year two
Speaker 1: thousand because I basically happen't WHOA. That's okay, Well, most
Speaker 1: of the good movies were made before two thousands, so
Speaker 1: you're doing all right. A post two thousand weird movie
Speaker 1: that I'd love to hear you'll cover is Jennifer's Body
Speaker 1: two thousand nine, a supernatural horror slash black comedy where
Speaker 1: Megan Fox plays an unwilling succubus. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: cult movie among feminists and so bad. It's good movie
Speaker 1: enthusiasts alike, and I think it's right up the stuff
Speaker 1: to blow your mind. Cohorts Aali let me know what
Speaker 1: you think, lindsay, Well, I gotta say I watched this
Speaker 1: one a few years ago because it looked like it
Speaker 1: was going to be extremely bad and a good, you know,
Speaker 1: funny Friday night movie. But I actually ended up thinking
Speaker 1: that it was extremely good. Interesting. I remember seeing the
Speaker 1: box art and I think I was afraid to watch
Speaker 1: it because I thought it might be I don't know,
Speaker 1: I was afraid it might be something kind of sleazy
Speaker 1: or something. You know. Um, I think I never really
Speaker 1: looked into it. My memory is that it's it's very clever. Um,
Speaker 1: so it's good to hear. I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe I would feel differently if I watched it again,
Speaker 1: but I think it's good. Cool. Well, we'll we'll put
Speaker 1: these on the list because, yeah, I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of the movies we gravitate to our from before,
Speaker 1: you know, the turn of the millennium. But there are
Speaker 1: plenty of weird films that have come out these last
Speaker 1: twenty years. Uh, you know, so some I think that
Speaker 1: we even have on the list already, So we should
Speaker 1: make sure that we cover, like all the decades of
Speaker 1: cinematic history. I'm not sure where we are and that
Speaker 1: that that yet. I need to. I need to have
Speaker 1: like a punch card for decades. Um Oh. I should
Speaker 1: also point out I think we had had a listener
Speaker 1: right in about the Battle for Indoor episode pointing out
Speaker 1: a couple of mispronunciations, one of which, um, I believe
Speaker 1: I said, uh, Cyan Phillips, It is Sean Phillips. Uh So,
Speaker 1: my apologies to the people of Scotland for doing messing
Speaker 1: up on that one. The other one is Warwick Davis,
Speaker 1: not Warwick Davis, um for you know, the beloved actor
Speaker 1: who plays Wicked. Though on that one, this is not
Speaker 1: much of an excuse, but I have to say, even
Speaker 1: when I hear people say Warwick Davis without stressing that
Speaker 1: that that W in the middle of it. I some
Speaker 1: for some reason, I hear the W in the middle
Speaker 1: of the name. I don't know if it's just by
Speaker 1: virtue of having read it, I still hear the W.
Speaker 1: I have no, like I said, not a good excuse,
Speaker 1: but uh but that's what's going through my mind. Just
Speaker 1: wait till they get to how we've all the different
Speaker 1: ways we've said Edinburgh. I think they may have mentioned
Speaker 1: that as well. Um So, again, our apologies to the
Speaker 1: Scottish people, um will come back and do another Highlander movie?
Speaker 1: Um in penance for that? Yeah, maybe one said in
Speaker 1: glass Go, how do you like that it doesn't? Does
Speaker 1: people really angry? I wonder what the best truly Scottish
Speaker 1: weird film is, like, not like Outsider Scotland, but like
Speaker 1: true Scottish weird cinema, Like what is the what is
Speaker 1: the pick? I wonder? I don't know. Well, we'll just
Speaker 1: have to have people clue us in. I thought I
Speaker 1: had one for a second, but then I realized it
Speaker 1: was not Scottish. It's Australian and I was thinking of
Speaker 1: a different Russell mukahe movie. Oh yeah, yeah, not even close. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh and I don't want to imply that Warwick Davis
Speaker 1: is from Scotland. He's from what Surrey, England? So anyway, um,
Speaker 1: I guess that's it. That's all the listener, man, We
Speaker 1: have time for today? Huh, that's this week, but hey,
Speaker 1: keep in touch, that's right. Yeah, we already have some
Speaker 1: good stuff lined up for next week as well. And
Speaker 1: so yeah, the idea is, since we're gonna be doing
Speaker 1: these weekly now what every Monday, they we're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to have more of a correspondence with listeners. That's
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