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Speaker 2: My name is Robert.
Speaker 3: Lamb and I am Joe McCormick. And it's Monday, the
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Speaker 3: especially if you have something interesting to add to a
Speaker 3: topic we've recently talked about on the show. Let's see
Speaker 3: a little note at the beginning of today's episode. This
Speaker 3: is going to be running on the Monday of a
Speaker 3: week that will begin some vault episodes that we're running
Speaker 3: for a little summer break. Rob and I are doing
Speaker 3: for a couple of weeks here, and then we will
Speaker 3: be back with all new stuff for you the weeks
Speaker 3: following our out.
Speaker 2: That's right, and so keep the listener mails rolling in
Speaker 2: and yet respond to some of the cool stuff you
Speaker 2: hear about in the Vault episodes and the Weird House
Speaker 2: Cinema rewinds. We're going to include a few extra of
Speaker 2: those in there. They're also going to be some Monster
Speaker 2: Fact omnibus episodes for those of you who want to
Speaker 2: experience the short form episodes in like a longer format.
Speaker 3: All Right, I think I'm gonna kick things off with
Speaker 3: this message from Lauren about our episodes on the Parrotfish.
Speaker 3: Lauren says, Hi, Robin Joe. She begins by saying some
Speaker 3: very nice things about the podcast, says she's been listening
Speaker 3: in hopes that we keep it up for several more decades.
Speaker 3: We'll see if that's possible. We will try, Lauren says. Anyways,
Speaker 3: the following is a tale that is perhaps only interesting
Speaker 3: to me. I purchased this tropical fish shower curtain liner
Speaker 3: a few months ago. I always face the patterns inwards
Speaker 3: in order to enjoy them from the inside. At first,
Speaker 3: I was pleased, until very quickly I noticed this one
Speaker 3: outstanding fish that gave me the he begbis, so much
Speaker 3: so that I considered taking it down and hanging up another. Ultimately,
Speaker 3: I was too lazy to swap it out and simply
Speaker 3: lived with the fish in the corner, trying not to
Speaker 3: think too much about what it may or may not
Speaker 3: get up to in its free time. After listening to
Speaker 3: your episodes on Parrotfish, I thought, hold the phone, no way,
Speaker 3: what do you want to bet and lo and behold.
Speaker 3: After a quick investigation, I was able to identify the
Speaker 3: creep that had been weirding me out for months. Now,
Speaker 3: now I can put a name to it and know
Speaker 3: its habits, I feel much better about its continuous presence
Speaker 3: in my life. Thank you for helping me to better
Speaker 3: understand the world. I am of the general philosophy that
Speaker 3: the more we know and seek to understand, the less
Speaker 3: we fear. Thank you for being amazing kind regards Lauren.
Speaker 3: And then Lauren attaches a picture of the shower curtain
Speaker 3: liner and how do you know, Yep, it's a coral reef.
Speaker 3: There's like a sea turtle swimming along their tropical fish
Speaker 3: all around, and then peeking right out from a little
Speaker 3: niche in the coral there is just the goofiest looking
Speaker 3: parrotfish with this big toothy grim like hey guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's accentuated by the fact that all the
Speaker 2: other sea creatures on this shower curtain are in pure
Speaker 2: side profile, but the parrotfish does appear to be like
Speaker 2: creeping in towards the bathe or gazing at the bathe
Speaker 2: and making this weird look. So it's understandable that this
Speaker 2: fish looks a little suss as they said, I.
Speaker 3: Would love to know the thinking of whoever designed this.
Speaker 3: Let's just put one creepy little parrot fish in there,
Speaker 3: just peeking out, saying, what's up?
Speaker 2: All right? This next one comes to us from Peter
Speaker 2: on the subject of dust Peter Wright, High, Robert and
Speaker 2: job and listen to your podcast for a number of years,
Speaker 2: but this, like it is for many who write, is
Speaker 2: my first time emailing you both. I was inspired by
Speaker 2: your listener Jenny, who wrote recently about the dust storm
Speaker 2: in Sydney in two thousand and nine. I too have
Speaker 2: a memory of another Australian dust storm. This one was
Speaker 2: in Melbourne in February nineteen eighty three. A quick search
Speaker 2: will bring up some videos pictures of news reports at
Speaker 2: the time. I was only three years and three months
Speaker 2: old at the time, but have a clear memory of this.
Speaker 2: It could well be my earliest memory, which ties in
Speaker 2: with one of your other episodes on early childhood memories.
Speaker 2: Thanks for all the entertainment you provide cheers, Peter, and
Speaker 2: there is the photo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is another one where if you look up
Speaker 3: the photos, it does look suitably apocalyptic because you can
Speaker 3: see in some of them like that. Because sometimes when
Speaker 3: you see photos of the front of an advancing dust storm,
Speaker 3: it's just against like you know, a plane, or like
Speaker 3: a or a desert kind of environment, so there's no
Speaker 3: real sense of scale. But this is over a crowded city,
Speaker 3: so you can see all these buildings and that gives
Speaker 3: you a real scale. It's just like a mountain is
Speaker 3: advanced sing on the range of mountains actually is advancing
Speaker 3: over the land. It's gigantic. And again, as we talked
Speaker 3: about with the dust storms in those episodes, I can't
Speaker 3: imagine what this would be like if you didn't know
Speaker 3: what it was like, if it surprised you and you
Speaker 3: didn't have the context of like, oh, yeah, this is
Speaker 3: a dust storm, I'm familiar with it.
Speaker 2: Well, Peter, thanks for writing in with your experience and
Speaker 2: this inspiring photo.
Speaker 3: All right, we got some responses to our Vault episodes
Speaker 3: on the Beaver. This is from someone who called themselves Lovecat. Hello,
Speaker 3: I really enjoyed this episode. You guys do so much
Speaker 3: quality research. I hope you know it's appreciated. Thanks for
Speaker 3: doing the hard work. I particularly liked the discussion about
Speaker 3: orange teeth and stick displays. I had no idea. I
Speaker 3: spent a few years in Houston, Texas at the end
Speaker 3: of the nineties and swore I saw a beaver hanging
Speaker 3: out under an overpass on brays by you. I mentioned
Speaker 3: it to a coworker who told me that the critter
Speaker 3: was actually a neutria or cooipu. Say what, I looked
Speaker 3: up this beast and what Indeed, if you haven't yet
Speaker 3: veered off course and discovered that myocastor kipus has grooved poop,
Speaker 3: well maybe you should. Thanks again for all you do.
Speaker 3: Love kat Rob. I found a picture of a nutria
Speaker 3: to attach to the outline here, and I could see
Speaker 3: how you could mix them up with the beaver because
Speaker 3: they're similarly large, large hairy rodents that can sometimes be
Speaker 3: quite wet. You know, they're both semi aquatic rodents, and
Speaker 3: I believe both have orange teeth. I think the nutria
Speaker 3: has orange teeth, or at least in some cases has
Speaker 3: orange teeth as well. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the time was you had to go to
Speaker 2: South America to see these, but they've been introduced to
Speaker 2: various other parts of the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, They're invasive throughout many places. And I remember when
Speaker 3: I was in Louisiana people talking about the the plague
Speaker 3: of the nutria really because they would tear up landscapes. Essentially,
Speaker 3: they would cause erosion that messed with how water flowed.
Speaker 3: Like I think they eat up the roots of plants
Speaker 3: at the edges of water, and so they'll just cut
Speaker 3: through marshland, killing all the plants and just turn it
Speaker 3: into essentially open water.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and we may have to come back and
Speaker 2: do a follow up to the beaver episode and cover
Speaker 2: some other rodents of unusual size.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I read something somewhere about people trying to create
Speaker 3: recipes for cooking with nutria meat.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that I mean Louisyannens could could figure it out, right.
Speaker 2: There are a number of culinary traditions there and in
Speaker 2: imported culinary traditions that I think you could make make
Speaker 2: some meat out of the nutrio for sure. Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: All right. This next one is a topic suggestion from Martin. Hey, guys,
Speaker 2: just recently I found myself in an interesting spot. I
Speaker 2: was thinking about the concept of improvisation, and at first
Speaker 2: I thought, oh, yeah, I know what that is. Of
Speaker 2: course everybody does, until I rhetorically asked myself to explain
Speaker 2: what it is and quickly realize that I can't and
Speaker 2: I mean not can't thoroughly explain more as in failed
Speaker 2: completely after mumbling three or four half big thoughts. And
Speaker 2: that's when I wanted to ask you, would you be
Speaker 2: interested in doing that as a topic. I mean, what
Speaker 2: actually is improvisation? Is it really spontaneous or just always
Speaker 2: rooted in past experiences and therefore also a learned and
Speaker 2: prepared response. Just quicker? Do animals do that? Do we
Speaker 2: always improvise or never or something in between. Maybe this
Speaker 2: prompted you to question yourself as much as it threw
Speaker 2: me into a pit of uncertainty. I'd love to someday
Speaker 2: listen to you to tackle this thing. All the best
Speaker 2: in greetings from Germany, Martin. Well, Martin, I have to
Speaker 2: say yes and to that suggestion, we could easily do
Speaker 2: an episode of an improvisation.
Speaker 3: I think this is such a great suggestion. In fact,
Speaker 3: I've considered doing exactly the subject before. I guess we
Speaker 3: never quite got there yet, But it's been on my
Speaker 3: list for a while. I think about it a lot.
Speaker 3: When you know, when I play music, sometimes you improvise
Speaker 3: and it's hard to really understand what you're doing. Even
Speaker 3: when you're doing it. You're like, how is this coming
Speaker 3: out of me? What am I am? I? You know,
Speaker 3: there's some kind of sense I have that It does
Speaker 3: rely a lot on sort of subconsciously chaining together little
Speaker 3: bits of memorized phrases and stuff, things that already exist
Speaker 3: in little groupings in your mind and you sort of
Speaker 3: just chain them together and vacillate between them. But I
Speaker 3: don't know, really, I would love to look into the
Speaker 3: research on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, sounds good. We'll put it on the list.
Speaker 2: Thanks for writing in.
Speaker 3: Okay. This next message is from Chris and it's a
Speaker 3: suggestion for the Monster Fact Chris says, Hello, Robert, writing
Speaker 3: in with a suggestion for the short form Monster Fact series.
Speaker 3: I think there would be at least a few short
Speaker 3: form options when covering the Inder saga from Orson Scott
Speaker 3: Card from the for Mix the ant like hive mind
Speaker 3: that's already a threat in the original novel, and the
Speaker 3: history of them and Earth is explored in some of
Speaker 3: the prequel novels written later to the Peccininos. I think
Speaker 3: on Lusitania, whose life cycle involves an execution that ends
Speaker 3: in them becoming sentient trees, to the descolatavirus, which is
Speaker 3: ultimately found to be in every life form on a
Speaker 3: distant planet and is beneficial to their life cycle but
Speaker 3: lethal to humans. There's certainly more to be looked into
Speaker 3: in this series as well. This is one of my
Speaker 3: favorite series of books, having read all of roughly nineteen
Speaker 3: of them so far and starting to reshare them with
Speaker 3: my kids. Regards Chris, Thank you, Chris. I only ever
Speaker 3: read the first book of that series, but I do remember,
Speaker 3: and it's been a long time, but I remember being
Speaker 3: very interested in the aliens in it who there's kind
Speaker 3: of a twist that makes them more sympathetic in the end,
Speaker 3: even though most of the novel is about fighting a
Speaker 3: war with them. But if I recall correctly, yeah, the
Speaker 3: hive Mind conceit was that they were really difficult to
Speaker 3: fight in battle because they don't have the sort of
Speaker 3: informational coordination constraints that humans do that they can all
Speaker 3: sort of be on the same page about how tactics
Speaker 3: and strategy are shifting at the same time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm kind of in the same boat with you.
Speaker 2: I've only ever read the first book, and I really
Speaker 2: enjoyed it, but for some reason I didn't press on
Speaker 2: and read the next few. I've heard especially great things
Speaker 2: about I think what two and three, And I think
Speaker 2: then there are also some things in like Ender Shadow
Speaker 2: and so forth that are maybe a little more for
Speaker 2: the devoted fan. But yeah, I've also been thinking about
Speaker 2: these recently because my son hasn't read them, so it
Speaker 2: might be something that we could re explore. And if
Speaker 2: I do re explore them, yeah, that could be something
Speaker 2: that could spill over into the Monster fact. I think
Speaker 2: the only other thing by Orson Scott Card that I
Speaker 2: read was the Worthing saga, which is a really I
Speaker 2: remember it as being a really entertaining far future space
Speaker 2: colonization saga involving hot sleep, where the the the the
Speaker 2: the form of cryogenic sleep that you undergo while traveling
Speaker 2: interstellar distances works, but it is like unpleasant. It is
Speaker 2: like it is a sleep, but it's like a hot sleep.
Speaker 2: And that's where the title came from, because I think
Speaker 2: at one point this or one of the stories in
Speaker 2: there was called a hot sleep. Anyway, hot sleep is
Speaker 2: always stuck with me every now and then. You know,
Speaker 2: all of us experience a little hot sleep. So anyway, Chris,
Speaker 2: thanks for writing you in the suggestions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, Chris.
Speaker 2: All right, this next one comes to us from Jeff writes.
Speaker 2: I recently enjoyed the Before You Could Remember of Vault
Speaker 2: episodes and they made me think of the twenty fifteen
Speaker 2: sci fi series Dark Matter, not to be confused with
Speaker 2: the new series of the same name currently on Apple.
Speaker 2: I just watched the first episode of that as Jennifer
Speaker 2: Connelly in it always terrific. Oh anyway, Jeff goes on
Speaker 2: the premise of this twenty fifteen Dark Matter is that
Speaker 2: six humans wait from cryos sleep on a spaceship with
Speaker 2: no experiential memories and no idea why they are there.
Speaker 2: Through the course of the series, the blank slates unlock
Speaker 2: the mysteries of their previous lives and have to decide
Speaker 2: what to do with that information in who they want
Speaker 2: to be in the present. The characters do retain language
Speaker 2: and skills, but are otherwise stripped of their operating systems.
Speaker 2: Who are you really? Without any knowledge of your habits, successes, regrets, relationships, drama, etc.
Speaker 2: What would it be like to be completely free of guilt,
Speaker 2: hard lessons learned and strategies for coping with the world
Speaker 2: and yourself would what have you forgot your religion or
Speaker 2: lack thereof, or that you're a vegetarian or what political
Speaker 2: team you're on. When the Hugh Lauri series House Not
Speaker 2: House was on, I became obsessed with determining if deep
Speaker 2: down House was a good person, not whether through his
Speaker 2: actions he was responsible for manufacturing a net goodness in
Speaker 2: the world, but whether he was a man in pain
Speaker 2: trying to do good in the only way he found palatable,
Speaker 2: or really was the mean spirited jerk he appeared to
Speaker 2: be on the surface and just found problem solving to
Speaker 2: be the most effective way to entertain himself. I had
Speaker 2: to unsatisfyingly conclude that it depended on who wrote a
Speaker 2: given episode as a fictional character that was the only
Speaker 2: true source of his motivations, and I don't believe all
Speaker 2: the writers agreed on the issue.
Speaker 3: That's kind of interesting in itself. I never really watched House,
Speaker 3: but I'm familiar with the premise. But yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: think I realized that there was this kind of tension
Speaker 3: in the different ways he was portrayed. But I guess
Speaker 3: that's often the case in a show that has one
Speaker 3: character being written by multiple writers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I could see that being an issue.
Speaker 2: I know, I've seen it come up with shows like
Speaker 2: Weirdly Enough, like The Simpsons, Like would Lisa Simpson really
Speaker 2: say this or do this? You know, even in a
Speaker 2: comedy series like that, it's so long running, we grow
Speaker 2: so attached to the characters, even if they are ultimately
Speaker 2: there as joke delivery systems, that when they do step
Speaker 2: out of line with what we expect from them due
Speaker 2: to multiple writers, you know, ultimately like generations of writers
Speaker 2: using them, you know, we can have a strong emotional
Speaker 2: reaction to that.
Speaker 3: Well, it also gives you an even deeper appreciation for
Speaker 3: cases where there are stories created by multiple different writers
Speaker 3: who do manage to have what feels like a continuity
Speaker 3: of character in the end, like they all get the
Speaker 3: character well enough that it always feels like the same
Speaker 3: person despite different people writing. That's kind of makes that
Speaker 3: seem like a miracle.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, And of course people are going to have
Speaker 2: different outlooks, like you hear this all the time with
Speaker 2: like actors and original character creators, you know, who disagree
Speaker 2: on would this character have done that? The most recent
Speaker 2: what I was reading about was when Kirk kills the
Speaker 2: SETI worm in Wrath of Khan Like apparently, like Gene
Speaker 2: Roddenberry didn't like that that one moment. He was kind
Speaker 2: of picky about that. He's like, Kirk wouldn't have done this,
Speaker 2: you know. And I think I've read some of the
Speaker 2: things where where there were disagreements with the actor on
Speaker 2: whether this is something Kirk would do. So is always
Speaker 2: fascinating to think about, all right, But the email continues,
Speaker 2: there's a lot to unpack in this since we had
Speaker 2: to pause and go through it a little bit. Okay,
Speaker 2: it continues. I don't think I'm built to be a
Speaker 2: particularly good person. My first instinct is rarely to do
Speaker 2: the brave or most compassionate thing, like forcing myself to
Speaker 2: jump into cold water, even though I know I will
Speaker 2: ultimately enjoy the swim. I have to fight my programming
Speaker 2: to do good, and not because it's intrinsic to my character,
Speaker 2: but because I intellectually believe that kindness is the most
Speaker 2: advantageous plan for all of us as a species, and frankly,
Speaker 2: I enjoyed the selfish blast of positive brain chemicals I
Speaker 2: get when I actually managed to present as a decent
Speaker 2: human being. Over the years, I've applied various patches and
Speaker 2: worked rounds to my operating system, which I hope have
Speaker 2: made me a somewhat less bad human. In context of
Speaker 2: the show, would I lose all my progress in the
Speaker 2: game save of my life? It seems implausible that simply
Speaker 2: wishing I were a better person has fundamentally altered my
Speaker 2: core systems. The series touches on some of the above,
Speaker 2: but it is mostly just an enjoyable sci fi action show.
Speaker 2: It has a distinctly unsettling, sorry rob Canadian feel to it.
Speaker 2: No I love I don't know what that means. I
Speaker 2: love an unsettling Canadian field of things. That's why I
Speaker 2: watched all those Outer Limits episodes.
Speaker 3: Maybe Jeff is apologizing for inadvertently impugning Canadian things as unsettling.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, well, fair enough, Key connities alien planets seem
Speaker 2: to be overrun with snow and suspiciously familiar conifers, and
Speaker 2: maybe the production value is not of the highest order.
Speaker 2: Not all of the characters are equally interesting but it
Speaker 2: is fascinating to watch which ones choose to seize the
Speaker 2: opportunity to actually think about who they were want to be,
Speaker 2: and which are happy to defer to their most primitive
Speaker 2: cranial machine language. My favorite character turned out to be
Speaker 2: one of those I initially found to be quite off putting.
Speaker 2: Watch it for the characters, occasional nuggets of philosophy, and
Speaker 2: the real page turner of a plot, and try to
Speaker 2: overlook the dodgy effects in some of the sets. A
Speaker 2: word of warning, the show wasiles mercilessly canceled after a
Speaker 2: season ending cliffhanger, so there is no resolution, although by
Speaker 2: that point I think the show had mostly run its course.
Speaker 2: Thanks again for your time and the free therapy session. Also,
Speaker 2: I second the suggestion of Cherry two thousand for weird
Speaker 2: House treatment. That's a fun one, Jeff.
Speaker 3: That does sound interesting. Jeff, I don't know this show,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I mean that and your subsequent thinking about it,
Speaker 3: Like what you know if you're stripped, basically, if your
Speaker 3: memories and experiences, what kind of person does that leave you?
Speaker 3: Operating as a There's sort of an implication that, like,
Speaker 3: maybe that's the real you underneath the part of you
Speaker 3: that is without all of your memories and experiences. But
Speaker 3: I don't know if that is actually any more a
Speaker 3: real version of you than the version that has all
Speaker 3: the memories and experiences.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but it's it's food for thought. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have to I'm gonna have to look this one up.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think I remember seeing the thumbnail art before,
Speaker 2: but just look glancing at the cast. Yeah, a number
Speaker 2: of familiar contemporary Canadian actors that I like her in it,
Speaker 2: so worth checking out. In fact, I'm noticing just right
Speaker 2: off the bat Amanda Brugel is in it, who I
Speaker 2: quite like. And she is also in the new series
Speaker 2: called Dark Matter. So a lot of you probably remember
Speaker 2: her as Pastor Nina on Kim's Convenience, but she's been
Speaker 2: in a lot of things like The Handmaid's Tale, Infinity
Speaker 2: Pool and so forth.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, again, thank you Jeff for letting us know
Speaker 3: sounds worth a look. Okay, this last message is from
Speaker 3: David da It says, Dear Robin Joe, longtime listener, first
Speaker 3: time writing in. I think I've been listening since the
Speaker 3: P versus n P episode whenever that was, uh, that
Speaker 3: was many years ago. In the recent Weird House Cinema.
Speaker 3: I was amazed that you dedicated two full episodes to
Speaker 3: a movie allegedly titled Highlander two. Part of my bafflement
Speaker 3: is that, while I've heard many rumors, I'm quite sure
Speaker 3: that no such movie was ever made. I saw Highlander
Speaker 3: when released in nineteen eighty six in the theaters with
Speaker 3: my friends in college. In the overall dismal quality of
Speaker 3: fantasy genre movies of the eighties, it was a relative gem.
Speaker 3: The supposed plot of Highlander two is that instead of
Speaker 3: being a mysterious immortal, the hero is an alien from
Speaker 3: the planet Zeist, and his friend whose head was cut
Speaker 3: off simply returns to life, only to be crushed pointlessly
Speaker 3: by a giant spinning fan blade. Of course, even a
Speaker 3: moment of introspection reveals this is completely ludicrous. No, the
Speaker 3: far simpler explanation is that you're experiencing a mass hallucination
Speaker 3: or subject to some kind of Mendel effect, as the
Speaker 3: movie itself said, there can be only one in any event.
Speaker 3: To the actual point of my email, which was my
Speaker 3: additional surprise that when discussing Sean Connery, you didn't mention
Speaker 3: his role in a movie that certainly qualifies for weird House. Zardawes,
Speaker 3: Sean Connery in a bikini, flying stoneheads, bored immortals, what's
Speaker 3: not to like. I don't think you've covered Zardas yet
Speaker 3: as part of weird House, so I'm proposing it to
Speaker 3: be added to your list. Thank you for the many
Speaker 3: hours of informative and entertaining podcasts, David, Oh, thank you, David. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know whether we'll get to Zardas on the
Speaker 3: show or not, but Zardas I have seen it and
Speaker 3: it is indeed super super weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I don't think we even discussed it on
Speaker 2: that Highlander two episode. In part because Sean Connery's filmography
Speaker 2: is so extensive, we realize a lot I can cover
Speaker 2: it all, so we only covered like a slice of it.
Speaker 2: The more the sort of I think we did, we
Speaker 2: didn't leave the eighties like we did eighties plus, and
Speaker 2: then realize we're definitely gonna cover some sort of Sean
Speaker 2: Conry movie at some point in the future, and we'll
Speaker 2: cover the rest of it perhaps.
Speaker 3: Then Okay, does that wrap things up for today?
Speaker 2: I believe it does. I think we'll go ahead and
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