1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 3 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: Listener Mail. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick, 4 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: and it's Monday time for the listener mail. We just 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: want to say, the listener mail you have sent us 6 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:22,959 Speaker 1: a sort of redundant, isn't it? The mail you have 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: sent us. We're gonna read it to you. Are you ready? 8 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: Let's get right into it. Yes, I mean listener mail 9 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: is sent. It does not emerge spontaneously. I mean I 10 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 1: guess it could, but that would we would get so 11 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: much just completely nonsensical listener mail. It would only be 12 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 1: on rare occasions that that coherent sentences would form if 13 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: we were just pulling them out of the abyss. Rob, 14 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: do you want to do this? First one from David? Sure? 15 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: This one comes to us from David, and this is 16 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: what David has to say. Hello there, Robert, Joe, and Seth. 17 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: I am a sixth grade English teacher in North Texas 18 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: and wanted to thank you guys for providing such great content. 19 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 1: Our curriculum in my school district includes a section about 20 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: science fiction, and we read the terrific short story Key 21 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: Item by Isaac Asimov. Not to give anything away, but 22 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:13,119 Speaker 1: the story is about an all powerful computer the humans 23 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 1: are dependent on, refusing to complete any work until a 24 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: very humanlike key item is added to its programming. Prior 25 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: to reading the story allowed to my students, I listened 26 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: to your episode Punished the Machine, and I found that 27 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: to be a terrific segue to have a discussion with 28 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: my students about the future and legality of robots. I 29 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: spoke about the interesting and thought provoking questions you guys 30 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: discussed in these episodes and managed to tie it in 31 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 1: with the unfortunate incident that involved a tesla and two 32 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: people who sadly passed away after it drove into a tree. 33 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: My students were really engaged in the conversation, and they 34 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: themselves brought up some interesting questions and ideas about how 35 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: the future involving robots may seem. Anyways, I just once 36 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: again wanted to thank you all for the great content 37 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: you have put out and hopefully I've turned some of 38 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: my students onto your podcast. Keep up the great work, Sincerely, 39 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: David Oh. Thanks David, Well, I'm curious now what questions 40 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: your students brought up. I want to know, like where 41 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: where the mind of a younger person goes with this? Yeah, 42 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: and you know, I don't remember key item. I don't 43 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 1: know if I've read that one. I did recently pick 44 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: up I Robot, and I was just gonna read some 45 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: of it to my son. And we started just on 46 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: the first one in there, and it starts with like 47 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 1: a little girl playing with a robot, and uh, we 48 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: read that part, but then it switched to like a 49 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: like a stereotypical like nineteen fifties um dad reading the newspaper. 50 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 1: It got kind of boring, quick saying. And then also 51 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: I realized, oh, I don't know the story. Maybe I 52 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:34,959 Speaker 1: skipped read skipped this story when I read or I 53 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 1: Robot back when I was a kid. So maybe I'll 54 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 1: just come back and make sure I pick out a 55 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: really good one to introduce him to as him off with. 56 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 1: I think if that's the first one, I think that 57 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,399 Speaker 1: the little girl is the young Susan Calvin who grows 58 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: up to become the Robot psychologist. That's right, That's right, yes, 59 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: And yeah, I guess I'm just more familiar with the 60 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: later Susan Calvin stories. Um uh so yeah, I I 61 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: want to make sure that I read a really good 62 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: one to him. Um, so I may skip around a bit, 63 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 1: and I know super dark things don't usually happen in 64 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: Isaac guys in that short stories. But I also I 65 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: wasn't sure. It's like I'm just flying into this story 66 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: with blinders on. I don't remember. H Yeah. I mean 67 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: I read those the I Robots stories when I was 68 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: pretty young, and I remember getting into them, even though 69 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,919 Speaker 1: thinking back on them now, I mean they are all 70 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: very interesting. Uh they're very I recall, uh, free of 71 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: extraneous sort of literary detail. They're more they're sort of 72 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: tight thought experiments, and they're kind of dry in that sense, 73 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: like you're not going to get lots of descriptions of 74 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: the feast and and things like that. But he he 75 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: like the idea of the little girl playing with the robots. 76 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, should do this next message about 77 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: Dissolver of Worlds. This is from Brett, who's written in 78 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: a bunch of times now, but chemistry related topics. Brett says, Hello, gentlemen, 79 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: I hope this note finds you are well and enjoying life. 80 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: Wanted to comment that that that almost sounds like a threat. 81 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: I know you didn't mean it that way. Anyway, I 82 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: wanted to comment briefly on your recent episode for Dissolver 83 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: of Worlds, which was great. By the way, As a chemist, 84 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: we use the phrase to dissolve as a way of 85 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 1: using a solvent to break up a solid into its 86 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: molecular entity. For instance, when you add sugar to coffee, 87 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: yes I'm writing this in the morning, the sugar dissolves 88 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 1: into the hot aqueous solution. So what does dissolving mean. 89 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 1: It refers to the ability of the solvent to break 90 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: the bonds that form a crystal. So each sugar molecule 91 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: now is surrounded by the aqueous constituents. Now, when you 92 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: mentioned acids like HF for hydrofluoric acid, this is a 93 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: different form of dissolving because something like hydrofluoric acid actually 94 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: reacts with glass because of the strength of the silicon 95 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 1: fluorine bond, one of the strongest in chemistry. In essence, 96 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 1: one is performing a chemical reaction or a chemical transformation, 97 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: because comes out is different than what was put in. 98 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: I've mentioned in the past that we use deuterated solvents 99 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,280 Speaker 1: in order to take an n m R that's nuclear 100 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: magnetic resonance of compounds that we make in order to 101 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 1: characterize them, and if the solvent reacted with our compound, 102 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 1: then we have a problem. As for a metaphor, dissolver 103 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: of worlds would be more of how one substance is 104 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: transformed into another, be it by an idea or physical manipulation. 105 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: But to simply dissolve would not change the substance at 106 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: all at the atomic level. As a side note, if 107 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 1: you take table salt and dissolve it in water and 108 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 1: then let the water evaporate, sometimes you end up with 109 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: these flat, square crystals that are really cool looking. Yes 110 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 1: I've seen this before, bread as sometimes it can make 111 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: um almost unsettling little pyramids that are you know, like 112 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 1: what the Tartar grades have built as a monument to 113 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: the soul of their dead king or something. But anyway, 114 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 1: Brett finishes saying thank you again for such great fodder 115 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: for the mind. Looking forward to hearing your voices again 116 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: next week. Cheers Brett. All right, here's another one. This 117 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: one comes to us from Amelia Hi, Robert Joan Seth. 118 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 1: I've always really enjoyed the diversity of topics you cover 119 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: in your show, and I really love, hitting play and 120 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: being surprised by the topics I hear throughout the day. 121 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 1: I've learned so much. This is a huge throwback, but 122 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: it was so surprised to find out that not everyone 123 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 1: feels pain in their dreams. I have vivid memories of 124 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:29,040 Speaker 1: being sick, hurt, and even unbelievably tired in my dreams, 125 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: though I rarely feel that way when I wake up. 126 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying weird how cinema. I love cheesy horror movies, 127 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: and these have all been right up my alley. I've 128 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: been a sporadic listener for about three years now. I 129 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: started listening when I took a job in an animal 130 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: research facility to keep my mind busy during the surprisingly 131 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: monotonous process of animal husbandry in a research setting. I've 132 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 1: been meaning to write, you know, to suggest you cover 133 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: laboratory animal science as a topic on the show. You 134 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 1: guys frequently reference papers which you use research animals. I'm 135 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: sure you would find it really interesting to delve into 136 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: the history of animal res church how much of our 137 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: daily lives has been improved due to their sacrifice. For example, 138 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: the primates and ferrets who sacrifice made the COVID vaccine 139 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: available as fast as it was, and the alternative methods 140 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: being research to replace animals in medical research. I also 141 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: think you guys would find a very elegant way to 142 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: discuss the controversy and ethics behind animal research. While I'm 143 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: on the topic, I'm absolutely sure that you would be 144 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: able to make a great episode about compassion fatigue. While 145 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: I experience it as an animal technician, vets, nurses and 146 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: various other professionals who care for people and animals which 147 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: are sick and dying experience it as well. COVID has 148 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: brought a little more attention to it, and I think 149 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: you guys would really be able to make a good 150 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: episode on the topic. I'm still trying to convince my 151 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 1: fiance that he would absolutely love your show, and just 152 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: saw that you did a two parter on Star Wars 153 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: Alien Netcropsy. I think I may succeed tonight when I 154 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: show him that. Thanks for all the info and laughs, 155 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: Amelia sounds like a good bet, though, I think you've 156 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 1: got to do more than show it to him. Look 157 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: uh well, I mean, I as sump she needs play 158 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: it for but but you know, uh, that's that's why 159 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: we we try to do a variety of topics on 160 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: the show. Is like, we know that not not every 161 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: topic is gonna be for every listener, but you know 162 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: they're gonna be someth They're gonna call to to two 163 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: new listeners and and then know the listeners alike. All right, Well, 164 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: we got a few more dealing with the Star Wars episodes. 165 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: I wonder if you should read these, rob because these 166 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: referenced species from things that I have no idea about. Okay, okay, 167 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: all right, well here's the first one. List one comes 168 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: to us from Jeff Hi, guys love. The two part 169 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: are on Star Wars alien biology. I have a couple 170 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: of suggestions for alien species from the Star Trek universe 171 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 1: whose biology might make a good discussion topic. Horta original 172 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: series episode Devil in the Dark, a silicon based life 173 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: form that secretes acid to dissolve solid rock, which it 174 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: moves through every fifty thousand years, all here to die 175 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,959 Speaker 1: off except for a single mother Horta who watches over 176 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 1: the next generation of x. Uh. Some obvious biological parallels there. Yeah, 177 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: and I haven't seen a lot of Original truck I'm 178 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: not really an Original Truck Um fan, but I did 179 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: watch this episode when I was a kid. I think 180 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: I was staying with my aunt and I got to 181 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 1: I got to to like or maybe not, I don't know. 182 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: This is one of the rare there. There are only 183 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 1: a couple of episodes I've seen, and this is one 184 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: of them. Um, But I probably watched it when I 185 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: was too young. It was maybe a little too high 186 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 1: minded for like a little little kid, but I do 187 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: remember the creature being interesting. Luckily, the next specimen that 188 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: Jeff brings up is from Next Generation, which I am 189 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: very familiar with. Um, Jeff writes. Trill introduced on the 190 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: Next Generation. This species was further fleshed out through the 191 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: Deep Space nine character Jadzia Dacks. Trill are a joint 192 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,959 Speaker 1: species consisting of a long lived slug like symbian living 193 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: inside of a humanoid host body. A symbion is transferred 194 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: to a new host whenever the current one dies, preserving 195 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: the memories of previous lifetimes which the host can draw upon. 196 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: Hope you find this interesting. Keep up the great work, Jeff. Okay, 197 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 1: so yeah, you did watch Next Generation? What's the deal 198 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,079 Speaker 1: with Trill? You you into these? Yeah? Yeah, this is 199 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,559 Speaker 1: like I said this and like Jeff said that these 200 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 1: were there. There was certainly more of them on Deep 201 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: Space nine because because you had dacks um and so 202 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: it's like a humanoid um and this sluglike organism and 203 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 1: they form this symbiotic relationship and become one being and 204 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 1: uh and so there. I don't remember all the details, 205 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: but their whole episodes where they get into sort of 206 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: the nature of this in their culture. The idea that 207 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 1: that the you will eventually fuse with this slug like 208 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: creature and become one sounds fun. Yeah, alright. This one 209 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: deals with let's see Star Wars, Alien Netcropsy, and Weird 210 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: House Cinema. It's from Tontry. Tontry says, hey, guys, I've 211 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: been catching up on the Weird House Cinema episodes and 212 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: just watched Lash listen to the Silent Films double feature. 213 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:09,119 Speaker 1: I loved Cinderella, particularly. My dad is a Balinese shadow puppeteer, 214 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: so I've definitely seen Prince Ahmed, but I was unaware 215 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: of Cinderella. One note. I think the magic tree she 216 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 1: keeps talking to is supposed to be a willow tree 217 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 1: growing on the grave of her dead mother in the 218 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: Grimm's version, which is why it's growing in a graveyard, 219 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: and the birds are kind of extensions of the tree 220 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 1: and the soul of the dead mother. There are other 221 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: grim stories with trees serving as vehicles of communication for 222 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: the murdered people buried beneath, like the Juniper Tree. For 223 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,439 Speaker 1: more a lot of Reineger style animation, check out some 224 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:47,559 Speaker 1: of the Decembrists videos, like their video for The Tane 225 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 1: and the Bachelor and the Bride. I've actually seen the 226 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 1: December of syn concerts, so sometimes they do very theatrical stuff, 227 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:55,679 Speaker 1: and I have not watched these videos yet, but I 228 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: think I've seen bits of them before, and I think 229 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 1: they used this similar style like silhouette animation like she did. Anyway, 230 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: Tontry goes on to say, as for Star Wars, you 231 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: may already have this book, but if not, Rob you 232 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: and the Boy will love it particularly. It is called 233 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 1: The Wildlife of Star Wars, a Field Guide, and it 234 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: is purely illustrations and creature factoids by Terry Whitlock, a 235 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: creature designer for Star Wars slash Lucasfilm. I think the 236 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: book is out of print, but you can still find 237 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: often expensive copies online. It's worth it to get the 238 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:31,959 Speaker 1: hardcover purely because it's embossed like lizard skin, and I'm 239 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: not sure if they did that with the paperback. And 240 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:38,079 Speaker 1: then she attaches a link. Yeah, so I immediately went 241 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:39,840 Speaker 1: out in order to copy of this I I got. 242 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 1: I didn't get the hard back. I went a little 243 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: cheap and went got a used copy of the soft back. 244 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:47,839 Speaker 1: But I'm excited to get it in. I'm like, as 245 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 1: I always game for a good Monster manual type book, 246 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: Monster biology, and certainly anymore Star Wars Alien content. So 247 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 1: may and maybe it'll aid us in a future return 248 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: to this topic. All right, here is another Weird House 249 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: Cinema response that that largely deals with something that we've 250 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: been I don't even know if we started talking about 251 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 1: this on Weird House Cinema or it is a just 252 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: a conversation that keeps uh, we keep going on listener mail. 253 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: But Jamie Ritson and says, Dear Robert and Joe, a 254 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: quick piece of listener meta mail from Edinburgh here weighing 255 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: in on the question of why Sean Connery's Egyptian comes 256 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: Spanish character in Highlander speaks English with a Scottish accent. 257 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 1: I think the answer is neither he Nor Connor McLeod 258 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: are speaking English. As a sixteenth century inhabitant of the 259 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: Scottish Highlands, McLeod would almost certainly have been a speaker 260 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 1: of Gaelic and probably a monoglot one at that clan 261 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: chiefs might have sent their sons south to learn English. 262 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: But Connor, although a warrior, doesn't seem to be that 263 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: far up the McLeod hierarchy, and in any case would 264 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: not have spoke in English and normal conversation. I think 265 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 1: this is just one of those actually in another language, 266 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: but everyone speaks English moments in films. Perhaps Ramirez has 267 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 1: been around so long that he has become proficient in 268 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: many languages, including Scottish Gaelic. It is odd that the 269 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: Scottish actor is not playing a Scottish character and the 270 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: French actor with undisguised accent is, but there you go. 271 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 1: In any case, the accent of Scottish Gaelic native speakers 272 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: speaking English is quite distinctive and probably wouldn't be recognized 273 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 1: as a Scottish accent by people outside of Scotland. Just 274 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: a wee note on something that pricked my interest. Keep 275 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: up the good work. It's a great podcast. Jamie and yes, 276 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 1: Jamie brings up a fabulous point and one that I 277 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: should have thought of. Why on earth did I watch 278 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: all those seasons of Outlander if I wasn't gonna, you know, 279 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: realize that that these characters would have been speaking Gailic. Now, 280 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:56,479 Speaker 1: what if Highlander went in a more Outlander direction? Um, 281 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 1: it could, It could easily. I'm surprised, honestly, I'm surprised 282 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: they had given the success of Outlander. Uh, they haven't 283 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: done that. That's probably one of the the energy is 284 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: fueling these efforts to bring it back. And you know, 285 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: to some degree it's like romance it up a bit, 286 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: you know, make it a little more you know, Scottish centric. Uh, yeah, 287 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 1: it could work. I'm for it. All right, let's see, 288 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: maybe we should do together these next couple of messages 289 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: about um, about the humanoid, the Star Wars rop off 290 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: film that we covered. I guess it'll be a couple 291 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 1: of weeks ago. Now, um. So the first one is 292 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: from a listener calling themselves Trebec. I doubt that's the 293 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: real name, but Trebec says, hello guys. Oh, and this 294 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: is in response to us saying that that Richard Keel 295 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: and the Humanoid never did the like heads bonking together move. 296 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: This is where you're generally a giant character or a 297 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 1: largest character, a strong man character will come up behind 298 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 1: two stormtroopers or red shirt guards, grabbed them by their 299 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: heads and call them together like coconuts and knock them 300 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: out right. Uh, And we said, uh. It says disappointing 301 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 1: that that never happened in the movie. Well, Trebec says, 302 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 1: we're wrong. Trebec says there is a blanc the heads 303 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: together moment in the Humanoid. It is quick. It happens 304 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: during the second attack of the Humanoid while the troopers 305 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 1: are climbing out of the speeder. I'm sorry that that 306 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: doesn't narrow down for me. So I don't know where 307 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: in the movie this is um But there is a 308 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 1: line you can queue up if you can find it. 309 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: Trebek says. It's immediately after the He's rather irritated, isn't 310 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 1: he line? Thank you for being awesome? Trebec? Oh, no, 311 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: thank thank you for being awesome and pointing pointing this out. Yeah, 312 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: I I must have missed it. I must have been 313 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: looking down or making a note or you know, checking 314 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: something on IMDb related to the film. But I'm glad 315 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: it's in there. I feel like the universe makes sense again. 316 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 1: What is wrong with our brains that we you and 317 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: I are both watched the humanoid making notes. Yeah, it's 318 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,679 Speaker 1: it's a select a select few people have done that. 319 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 1: I imagine, at least making notes on the humanoid studying 320 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 1: this work. Yes, we're we're operating in a very niche field. 321 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: I would say, Okay, But from there, I'm gonna jump 322 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 1: straight down to this message from Kenneth, which is also 323 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:27,640 Speaker 1: about the humanoid. So Kenneth says, Hi, Rob and Joe. 324 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 1: As always, I'm a sucker for a Star Wars clone, 325 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: and I always loved Jaws as a Bond character. So 326 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,679 Speaker 1: on your recommendation, I thought I would give the humanoid 327 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 1: to go. You commented that the opening text crawl made 328 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,399 Speaker 1: the universe feel small, and I would say that was 329 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: pretty accurate. I found it interesting that this followed through 330 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 1: into all aspects of the movie, and then we get examples. 331 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 1: When the budget Star Destroyer passes slowly over the camera, 332 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: they were trying to convey the same epic scale as Lucas. 333 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: But later when Grawls ship is landing on Planet Nixon, 334 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: you can see that it's only meant to be about 335 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 1: fifty meters long. Uh. The name of the movie made 336 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: me pause for thought, as well as obviously Lady Agatha's 337 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 1: incredible hair, and I remember that's uh, that's Barbara Box 338 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: strange helmet slash hood slash hair do in the movie. Um, 339 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to tell which of the three 340 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: it was. Now, regarding the name the humanoid, Kenneth says, 341 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: it occurred to me that the term humanoid normally describes 342 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 1: a creature that shares our general body form. It's normally 343 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 1: used to find what's most familiar about an alien. However, 344 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 1: if Golab was originally human, then his transformation left him 345 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: as human inform only to become the humanoid, was actually 346 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 1: to diminish him. I think that's right. My second thought 347 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 1: was about that hair do. I think Barbara Box character 348 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: was meant to look like a snake. If you imagine 349 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:58,440 Speaker 1: a hooded viper or cobra with its head down ready 350 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 1: to strike, it looks very much like her coiffure. This 351 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:06,159 Speaker 1: perhaps tracks with the quote fangs in the life good 352 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: draining plastic Maiden device. Remember she was like a space bathory. 353 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 1: She was like sucking the life force out of the 354 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: local space peasants. Yeah, and she needs to fix every 355 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 1: day otherwise she'll age minutes or or you know, centuries 356 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: at a time. Right. But Kenneth also points out that 357 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 1: the lower half of her costume has a scale like 358 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:28,919 Speaker 1: pattern on the fabric. So I think you're onto something here, Kenneth. 359 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: I think that went right over my head. Yeah, yeah, 360 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: it totally makes sense. Now. Now after this, Kenneth attaches 361 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,120 Speaker 1: a recommendation that has already been suggested for Weird House 362 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:39,919 Speaker 1: Cinema and we've already talked about, so I'm not going 363 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 1: to go into too much detail, but Kenneth is like, hey, 364 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: do Layer of the White Worm. And I'm and I'm saying, Kenneth, 365 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 1: we've already talked about We're going to do Layer of 366 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:50,640 Speaker 1: the White Worm. We love Layer of the White Worm. Yes, yeah, 367 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: it's it's on the list. A lot of films on 368 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: the list. And hey, we here heard from another listener 369 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: who has a film to put on the list, and 370 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 1: I don't think this one was currently on said from 371 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:05,119 Speaker 1: com Hey guys, greetings from Dublin, Ireland. First time contacting 372 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: you after many years of listening to your excellent podcast. 373 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: Just came across a film while browsing the web that 374 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: you might consider for weird house cinema. It's called Slugs 375 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: and was released in night according to IMDb. I've not 376 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: seen it myself, but if you take one look at 377 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: the poster attached, and I hope you will agree, it 378 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,359 Speaker 1: looks like a great candidate. On a separate note, I 379 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 1: would love if you did an episode on lighthouses. I've 380 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: always loved them, and I know it is a topic 381 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: you both could easily do a few episodes on, as 382 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,880 Speaker 1: there would be so much to talk about. Anyway, keep 383 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 1: up the great work. All the best from comb a 384 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 1: k A. Synthetic Flesh. Synthetic flesh. Wait, we've had a 385 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 1: listener adopted the moniker Synthetic flesh. Is Colm masking his 386 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: friends and family to call him synthetic flesh. Now, I 387 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: don't know. I would go for it, and go for 388 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:55,160 Speaker 1: it anything that that that injects it into popular usage. 389 00:20:55,800 --> 00:21:00,679 Speaker 1: Um So, Slugs. This is a film that I have 390 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:03,880 Speaker 1: seen parts of and you have perhaps seen the whole thing. 391 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 1: I think so so. First major note, this is actually 392 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: directed by Juan Picquer Simone or Simon with an accent 393 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 1: over the second Oh, I guess the b Simone Um, 394 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 1: the director of none other than Pod People, the immortal classic, 395 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: the film that gave us here the Engines roll Now 396 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:27,919 Speaker 1: or flying over Idiot Control Now. All I want to 397 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 1: feel is the wind in my eyes. Yeah, yeah, that's great, 398 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: great movie. Yeah, but class I think I actually watched 399 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,919 Speaker 1: this movie way back when we used to do a 400 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,880 Speaker 1: thing where we would do we would we did some 401 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: live video streaming when the company was trying to experiment 402 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,640 Speaker 1: with that that that didn't really go much of anywhere, 403 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: but we tried to have fun with it by talking 404 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 1: about trailers for It was sort of a precursor of 405 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 1: weird House cinema, but not as fully formed, because we 406 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,880 Speaker 1: were trying to just sort of like live stream talk 407 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: about trailers for movies that were related to episodes we 408 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 1: had recently done. And so I think you and Christian 409 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: had done an episode about gastropods. So we ended up 410 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:13,360 Speaker 1: talking about like slug and snail movies. And I watched Slugs, 411 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: or at least watch part of Slugs. It's uh, it 412 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 1: doesn't take much to imagine what it's about. It is 413 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 1: about people getting attacked by slugs. One of the weirdest 414 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: things about this is okay, that sounds like a standard 415 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: creature B horror movie. This is actually based on the 416 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 1: novel that's uh, I don't know. You wouldn't imagine a 417 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 1: novel uh needed as a foundation for this kind of film. 418 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 1: I used to be somewhat grossed out by slugs, and 419 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,399 Speaker 1: I think this was the reason that I definitely didn't 420 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,920 Speaker 1: watch it in full for For that also, we weren't 421 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: in the habit of everyone watching every film because we 422 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: were trying to like shoehorn three or four movie discussions 423 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,680 Speaker 1: into a single like twenty minute a video or something. 424 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: It was, uh, you know, it was a bit much, 425 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,919 Speaker 1: but uh yeah. I remember seeing a trailer for this 426 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: went on VHS when I was a kid, and yet 427 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 1: frightened me because there's a scene where they're climbing on 428 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: the toilet, and so I think, for for years, even 429 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: even today, there's like a part of me that that 430 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 1: insists that I checked for slugs on the toilet um 431 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 1: before I make use of the toilet, because I feel 432 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 1: like that movie taught me that there was always going 433 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 1: to be a chance what would happen if the slugs 434 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 1: got you? I mean, the slugs wouldn't get you the 435 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 1: thing they I don't think they're really interested in you. Um. 436 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: But and that's why it's so ludicrous, right, Like it's 437 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:35,880 Speaker 1: something that some of us are repulsed by. We can 438 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,920 Speaker 1: find slugs repulsive, which isn't completely fair. Slugs do good work, 439 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: their decomposers, you know, they we need them. Um, But 440 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: we take this idea of their kind of yucky and 441 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: then we we we put that through the horror machine 442 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,160 Speaker 1: and comes out with they want to eat our flesh 443 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 1: now in this poster for slugs by one PC Simone. Uh, 444 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 1: I gotta point out one little problem, which is it 445 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 1: looks like the slugs are coming out of the screaming 446 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: man instead of going into him. And I don't recall 447 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: the movie involving internal implantation of slugs that burst forth 448 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,119 Speaker 1: from the body. Though I could be I could be 449 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 1: forgetting Yeah, well you know they you often see see 450 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 1: that right either either they even if they didn't have 451 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:20,960 Speaker 1: it in the film, Like you gotta juice it up 452 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 1: for the poster. But hey, you know it's uh, it's one. 453 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: I have so many real things to be afraid of. 454 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: Now I'm totally game to to return to slugs if 455 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: we want to maybe I'll become afraid of slugs again. 456 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: I actually I kind of like that sometimes. I I 457 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: fantasize about becoming about about my anxieties. Uh, moving back 458 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 1: to things that don't exist, like slugs and alien abductions 459 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,239 Speaker 1: and whatnot, I'm like, oh, man, what a time that 460 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:49,919 Speaker 1: way way that don't exist. Oh you mean they're not 461 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 1: actually threatening, like right, I mean, yeah, well, slugs trying 462 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: to eat your fleshly exists. Now. Granted, alien abduction phenomena. 463 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 1: Alien abduction experiences hand be real, as I want to 464 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 1: stress before they can be really they can be experiences 465 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: that people have. I don't do not believe in the 466 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,200 Speaker 1: reality of of of alien abduction, So I don't think 467 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 1: it's something that I should fear as part of my 468 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,639 Speaker 1: daily life. But I did go through a period of 469 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 1: time when I was much younger, I guess when I 470 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 1: was a kid where I've seen too many episodes of 471 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: Unsolved Mysteries and became rather afraid of that happening to 472 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: me because they really played up. They make it scary 473 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,919 Speaker 1: on Unsolved Mysteries. Yeah, they really play it up. And 474 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 1: you know, I think back to the the Unsolved Mysteries 475 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: era where they were really hitting you with I think 476 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,439 Speaker 1: they had some Sasquatch style stuff, but they also had 477 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 1: the alien abduction. Between that and reruns of In Search 478 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,920 Speaker 1: of That. It it really, I feel like, kind of 479 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: put out a harmful vibe because there wasn't I wasn't 480 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: watching like skeptical counterpoints to any of this, you know, um, 481 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,439 Speaker 1: I didn't see and they played it alongside true crime 482 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: stories yea, so it was like, this has really happened, 483 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,440 Speaker 1: this is something you should really be afraid of. And 484 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,399 Speaker 1: and I'm I mean, I guess there were programs like 485 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: May I don't remember if contact went into this at all, 486 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: and you had Sakean bringing his um, you know, sensible 487 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: approach to the topic. But I do not remember anything 488 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,879 Speaker 1: on TV uh coming out and saying, actually, there's no 489 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: evidence for this, there's some other explanations that can uh 490 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: that that can explain it. There was none of that. 491 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,239 Speaker 1: It was just unsolved mysteries and creepy music making you 492 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 1: fear the sky at night. I think I've said this 493 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,680 Speaker 1: on the show before, but whoever composed that unsolved mysteries 494 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: theme should like get a get a Lifetime Achievement award 495 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: for making ice water run through people's veins. Uh, let's 496 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: get a little sting of that. Yeah, that's creepy too, creepy? Okay, 497 00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 1: you mind if I do this? One last message from 498 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 1: Jane h oh. This is a result of we've had 499 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 1: several back and forth with James. Now after having read 500 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 1: his messages on previous episodes, James was the one with 501 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 1: stuff about the turbographics, sixteen games and about geckos. Uh So, 502 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 1: James says, good afternoon, gentlemen. You just made my day again. 503 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: Thank you. That's a great eye and equally great knowledge 504 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,359 Speaker 1: of the video games of yester year. That is indeed 505 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: a poster of the very Pucci Gex adorning the back 506 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: of my real geckos habitat. Oh so, you're right, Rob, 507 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 1: that was not a fake gecko. That was a real gecko. 508 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: But Gex is absolutely the Pucci of the reptile world. 509 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: Uh so, James continues. The game featured the voice of 510 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 1: comedian Dana Gould, who delivered pop culture one liners roughly 511 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: on par with the one you add lib during the 512 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 1: podcast about the funds jumping the shark. Uh. The quips 513 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: did not become any more amusing after hearing them repeated 514 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 1: hundreds of times over the course of the game, but 515 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 1: I somehow still have rather fond memories of playing it. Man. 516 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: That's the thing I think a lot of game designers 517 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 1: did not get early on that. Like games that have 518 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:11,120 Speaker 1: dialogue that that occurs like once are you know, those 519 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: can be fun, that adds a lot of texture to 520 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: the game. But where I don't know, the bub Z 521 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,400 Speaker 1: style thing where the character just sort of like repeats 522 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 1: a a cycle of of one liners over and over 523 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,360 Speaker 1: and it sounds like Gext did the same thing. God, 524 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 1: that's got to really get under your skin after a 525 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 1: certain period of time. Yeah, even on even on really 526 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,040 Speaker 1: well crafted games with fun quips, like the video game 527 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,879 Speaker 1: Control had some fun quips from the character you control, 528 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: but if you hear it enough, it's you kind of 529 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 1: get over it. It's It's one of the reasons I 530 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: often find myself playing video games um on you with 531 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,479 Speaker 1: music playing over them. It's just after a while, I just, uh, 532 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,959 Speaker 1: I just do need my own sonic realm Oh. Finally, 533 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 1: James asks if we have any podcast merch available. He says, 534 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: I'd love to kick you guys a few bucks for 535 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 1: a sticker or something to show my appreciation for all 536 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 1: the content you've provided, uh and to be lovely addition 537 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: to my Geckos terrarium. Thanks again and take care James. 538 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: We we do have some merch. Yeah, I guess we 539 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,760 Speaker 1: haven't talked about it much recently. Yeah, if you go 540 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 1: to stuff to Blow your Mind dot com, that will 541 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 1: send you to the I heart listing for this page 542 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 1: and there's a store button there. We have a t 543 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: public store. 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Uh, there's uh. 552 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: We we also have some that I think are legitimately 553 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 1: nifty T shirts and hopefully in the very near future 554 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 1: we're gonna be able to add some weird house cinema 555 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: merch in there as well. Oh cool. Yeah, I actually 556 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 1: wear our Sphere Catastrophe shirt a good bit. Oh cool. 557 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 1: My my son has the skug King of the Rat 558 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,920 Speaker 1: shirt as well as the squirrels are not what they 559 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 1: seem shirt, so he wears those a lot. Um. Uh, 560 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: those are a lot of fun. Oh. The scug the 561 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: Skull shirt is a good one too. 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