WEBVTT - Listener Mail: Princes of the Universe 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.280 Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:10.960 My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:15.040 Listener Mail. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick, 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.919 and it's Monday time for the listener mail. We just 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:20.880 want to say, the listener mail you have sent us 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:22.959 a sort of redundant, isn't it? The mail you have 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.120 sent us. We're gonna read it to you. Are you ready? 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.640 Let's get right into it. Yes, I mean listener mail 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:31.040 is sent. It does not emerge spontaneously. I mean I 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.199 guess it could, but that would we would get so 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:37.040 much just completely nonsensical listener mail. It would only be 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.199 on rare occasions that that coherent sentences would form if 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.280 we were just pulling them out of the abyss. Rob, 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:50.960 do you want to do this? First one from David? Sure? 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.600 This one comes to us from David, and this is 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.120 what David has to say. Hello there, Robert, Joe, and Seth. 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:59.120 I am a sixth grade English teacher in North Texas 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.840 and wanted to thank you guys for providing such great content. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.040 Our curriculum in my school district includes a section about 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.600 science fiction, and we read the terrific short story Key 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.640 Item by Isaac Asimov. Not to give anything away, but 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.119 the story is about an all powerful computer the humans 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.680 are dependent on, refusing to complete any work until a 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.360 very humanlike key item is added to its programming. Prior 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.440 to reading the story allowed to my students, I listened 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.640 to your episode Punished the Machine, and I found that 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.360 to be a terrific segue to have a discussion with 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.679 my students about the future and legality of robots. I 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.640 spoke about the interesting and thought provoking questions you guys 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.640 discussed in these episodes and managed to tie it in 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.400 with the unfortunate incident that involved a tesla and two 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.160 people who sadly passed away after it drove into a tree. 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.440 My students were really engaged in the conversation, and they 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.240 themselves brought up some interesting questions and ideas about how 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:50.960 the future involving robots may seem. Anyways, I just once 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.000 again wanted to thank you all for the great content 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.120 you have put out and hopefully I've turned some of 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.000 my students onto your podcast. Keep up the great work, Sincerely, 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.440 David Oh. Thanks David, Well, I'm curious now what questions 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.440 your students brought up. I want to know, like where 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.680 where the mind of a younger person goes with this? Yeah, 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:08.960 and you know, I don't remember key item. I don't 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.799 know if I've read that one. I did recently pick 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.560 up I Robot, and I was just gonna read some 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.000 of it to my son. And we started just on 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.160 the first one in there, and it starts with like 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.360 a little girl playing with a robot, and uh, we 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.160 read that part, but then it switched to like a 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:28.960 like a stereotypical like nineteen fifties um dad reading the newspaper. 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:30.920 It got kind of boring, quick saying. And then also 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.880 I realized, oh, I don't know the story. Maybe I 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:34.959 skipped read skipped this story when I read or I 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.799 Robot back when I was a kid. So maybe I'll 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:39.920 just come back and make sure I pick out a 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.720 really good one to introduce him to as him off with. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:44.920 I think if that's the first one, I think that 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.399 the little girl is the young Susan Calvin who grows 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.720 up to become the Robot psychologist. That's right, That's right, yes, 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:52.880 And yeah, I guess I'm just more familiar with the 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:57.040 later Susan Calvin stories. Um uh so yeah, I I 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:58.760 want to make sure that I read a really good 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.240 one to him. Um, so I may skip around a bit, 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.520 and I know super dark things don't usually happen in 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:07.960 Isaac guys in that short stories. But I also I 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.120 wasn't sure. It's like I'm just flying into this story 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.000 with blinders on. I don't remember. H Yeah. I mean 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.320 I read those the I Robots stories when I was 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.880 pretty young, and I remember getting into them, even though 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:20.919 thinking back on them now, I mean they are all 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:26.160 very interesting. Uh they're very I recall, uh, free of 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:30.440 extraneous sort of literary detail. They're more they're sort of 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.480 tight thought experiments, and they're kind of dry in that sense, 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.560 like you're not going to get lots of descriptions of 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.240 the feast and and things like that. But he he 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.520 like the idea of the little girl playing with the robots. 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:48.880 So yeah, all right, should do this next message about 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.280 Dissolver of Worlds. This is from Brett, who's written in 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:57.000 a bunch of times now, but chemistry related topics. Brett says, Hello, gentlemen, 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.760 I hope this note finds you are well and enjoying life. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.080 Wanted to comment that that that almost sounds like a threat. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.360 I know you didn't mean it that way. Anyway, I 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.560 wanted to comment briefly on your recent episode for Dissolver 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.360 of Worlds, which was great. By the way, As a chemist, 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.320 we use the phrase to dissolve as a way of 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.479 using a solvent to break up a solid into its 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.120 molecular entity. For instance, when you add sugar to coffee, 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.240 yes I'm writing this in the morning, the sugar dissolves 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.040 into the hot aqueous solution. So what does dissolving mean. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:33.039 It refers to the ability of the solvent to break 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.320 the bonds that form a crystal. So each sugar molecule 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.000 now is surrounded by the aqueous constituents. Now, when you 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.920 mentioned acids like HF for hydrofluoric acid, this is a 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.880 different form of dissolving because something like hydrofluoric acid actually 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.640 reacts with glass because of the strength of the silicon 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.839 fluorine bond, one of the strongest in chemistry. In essence, 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.480 one is performing a chemical reaction or a chemical transformation, 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.120 because comes out is different than what was put in. 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.400 I've mentioned in the past that we use deuterated solvents 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.280 in order to take an n m R that's nuclear 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.880 magnetic resonance of compounds that we make in order to 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.479 characterize them, and if the solvent reacted with our compound, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:19.280 then we have a problem. As for a metaphor, dissolver 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.080 of worlds would be more of how one substance is 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:26.680 transformed into another, be it by an idea or physical manipulation. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.160 But to simply dissolve would not change the substance at 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.960 all at the atomic level. As a side note, if 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.160 you take table salt and dissolve it in water and 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.159 then let the water evaporate, sometimes you end up with 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.640 these flat, square crystals that are really cool looking. Yes 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.920 I've seen this before, bread as sometimes it can make 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:49.080 um almost unsettling little pyramids that are you know, like 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.839 what the Tartar grades have built as a monument to 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.200 the soul of their dead king or something. But anyway, 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.680 Brett finishes saying thank you again for such great fodder 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.640 for the mind. Looking forward to hearing your voices again 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:07.560 next week. Cheers Brett. All right, here's another one. This 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.520 one comes to us from Amelia Hi, Robert Joan Seth. 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.159 I've always really enjoyed the diversity of topics you cover 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.200 in your show, and I really love, hitting play and 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.560 being surprised by the topics I hear throughout the day. 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.159 I've learned so much. This is a huge throwback, but 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.640 it was so surprised to find out that not everyone 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.719 feels pain in their dreams. I have vivid memories of 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.040 being sick, hurt, and even unbelievably tired in my dreams, 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.360 though I rarely feel that way when I wake up. 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:35.080 I'm really enjoying weird how cinema. I love cheesy horror movies, 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.440 and these have all been right up my alley. I've 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.000 been a sporadic listener for about three years now. I 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:41.839 started listening when I took a job in an animal 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.880 research facility to keep my mind busy during the surprisingly 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.800 monotonous process of animal husbandry in a research setting. I've 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:50.680 been meaning to write, you know, to suggest you cover 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.520 laboratory animal science as a topic on the show. You 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.600 guys frequently reference papers which you use research animals. I'm 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.960 sure you would find it really interesting to delve into 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.000 the history of animal res church how much of our 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.520 daily lives has been improved due to their sacrifice. For example, 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.320 the primates and ferrets who sacrifice made the COVID vaccine 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.480 available as fast as it was, and the alternative methods 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.800 being research to replace animals in medical research. I also 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.040 think you guys would find a very elegant way to 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.880 discuss the controversy and ethics behind animal research. While I'm 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.320 on the topic, I'm absolutely sure that you would be 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.520 able to make a great episode about compassion fatigue. While 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.440 I experience it as an animal technician, vets, nurses and 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.360 various other professionals who care for people and animals which 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.280 are sick and dying experience it as well. COVID has 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:35.960 brought a little more attention to it, and I think 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.800 you guys would really be able to make a good 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.280 episode on the topic. I'm still trying to convince my 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.880 fiance that he would absolutely love your show, and just 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.040 saw that you did a two parter on Star Wars 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.480 Alien Netcropsy. I think I may succeed tonight when I 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.040 show him that. Thanks for all the info and laughs, 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.360 Amelia sounds like a good bet, though, I think you've 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.960 got to do more than show it to him. Look 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.720 uh well, I mean, I as sump she needs play 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.280 it for but but you know, uh, that's that's why 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.160 we we try to do a variety of topics on 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.120 the show. Is like, we know that not not every 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.840 topic is gonna be for every listener, but you know 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.640 they're gonna be someth They're gonna call to to two 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:20.720 new listeners and and then know the listeners alike. All right, Well, 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.920 we got a few more dealing with the Star Wars episodes. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.560 I wonder if you should read these, rob because these 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:31.080 referenced species from things that I have no idea about. Okay, okay, 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.040 all right, well here's the first one. List one comes 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.440 to us from Jeff Hi, guys love. The two part 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.800 are on Star Wars alien biology. I have a couple 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.600 of suggestions for alien species from the Star Trek universe 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.960 whose biology might make a good discussion topic. Horta original 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.880 series episode Devil in the Dark, a silicon based life 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.000 form that secretes acid to dissolve solid rock, which it 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.920 moves through every fifty thousand years, all here to die 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.959 off except for a single mother Horta who watches over 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:02.679 the next generation of x. Uh. Some obvious biological parallels there. Yeah, 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:04.760 and I haven't seen a lot of Original truck I'm 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.680 not really an Original Truck Um fan, but I did 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:10.640 watch this episode when I was a kid. I think 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:12.760 I was staying with my aunt and I got to 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.560 I got to to like or maybe not, I don't know. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.280 This is one of the rare there. There are only 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.640 a couple of episodes I've seen, and this is one 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.240 of them. Um, But I probably watched it when I 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.440 was too young. It was maybe a little too high 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.080 minded for like a little little kid, but I do 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:33.760 remember the creature being interesting. Luckily, the next specimen that 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.920 Jeff brings up is from Next Generation, which I am 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:41.920 very familiar with. Um, Jeff writes. Trill introduced on the 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.520 Next Generation. This species was further fleshed out through the 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:50.560 Deep Space nine character Jadzia Dacks. Trill are a joint 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.959 species consisting of a long lived slug like symbian living 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:57.040 inside of a humanoid host body. A symbion is transferred 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.640 to a new host whenever the current one dies, preserving 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:03.720 the memories of previous lifetimes which the host can draw upon. 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.240 Hope you find this interesting. Keep up the great work, Jeff. Okay, 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.520 so yeah, you did watch Next Generation? What's the deal 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.079 with Trill? You you into these? Yeah? Yeah, this is 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.559 like I said this and like Jeff said that these 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.480 were there. There was certainly more of them on Deep 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.160 Space nine because because you had dacks um and so 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:24.880 it's like a humanoid um and this sluglike organism and 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.440 they form this symbiotic relationship and become one being and 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.200 uh and so there. I don't remember all the details, 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.400 but their whole episodes where they get into sort of 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.160 the nature of this in their culture. The idea that 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.360 that the you will eventually fuse with this slug like 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:48.840 creature and become one sounds fun. Yeah, alright. This one 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.160 deals with let's see Star Wars, Alien Netcropsy, and Weird 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:56.360 House Cinema. It's from Tontry. Tontry says, hey, guys, I've 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.640 been catching up on the Weird House Cinema episodes and 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.920 just watched Lash listen to the Silent Films double feature. 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:09.119 I loved Cinderella, particularly. My dad is a Balinese shadow puppeteer, 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.640 so I've definitely seen Prince Ahmed, but I was unaware 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:16.600 of Cinderella. One note. I think the magic tree she 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.400 keeps talking to is supposed to be a willow tree 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.200 growing on the grave of her dead mother in the 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.520 Grimm's version, which is why it's growing in a graveyard, 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.880 and the birds are kind of extensions of the tree 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.320 and the soul of the dead mother. There are other 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:36.160 grim stories with trees serving as vehicles of communication for 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:40.320 the murdered people buried beneath, like the Juniper Tree. For 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.439 more a lot of Reineger style animation, check out some 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:47.559 of the Decembrists videos, like their video for The Tane 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.440 and the Bachelor and the Bride. I've actually seen the 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.640 December of syn concerts, so sometimes they do very theatrical stuff, 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.679 and I have not watched these videos yet, but I 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.400 think I've seen bits of them before, and I think 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:03.360 they used this similar style like silhouette animation like she did. Anyway, 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.720 Tontry goes on to say, as for Star Wars, you 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.600 may already have this book, but if not, Rob you 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.520 and the Boy will love it particularly. It is called 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.720 The Wildlife of Star Wars, a Field Guide, and it 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:19.000 is purely illustrations and creature factoids by Terry Whitlock, a 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.760 creature designer for Star Wars slash Lucasfilm. I think the 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:24.720 book is out of print, but you can still find 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.000 often expensive copies online. It's worth it to get the 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.959 hardcover purely because it's embossed like lizard skin, and I'm 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.400 not sure if they did that with the paperback. And 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:38.079 then she attaches a link. Yeah, so I immediately went 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:39.840 out in order to copy of this I I got. 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.400 I didn't get the hard back. I went a little 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.840 cheap and went got a used copy of the soft back. 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:47.839 But I'm excited to get it in. I'm like, as 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:51.000 I always game for a good Monster manual type book, 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:56.000 Monster biology, and certainly anymore Star Wars Alien content. So 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.720 may and maybe it'll aid us in a future return 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:08.400 to this topic. All right, here is another Weird House 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.480 Cinema response that that largely deals with something that we've 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.360 been I don't even know if we started talking about 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.200 this on Weird House Cinema or it is a just 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.880 a conversation that keeps uh, we keep going on listener mail. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.920 But Jamie Ritson and says, Dear Robert and Joe, a 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:29.120 quick piece of listener meta mail from Edinburgh here weighing 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.800 in on the question of why Sean Connery's Egyptian comes 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.760 Spanish character in Highlander speaks English with a Scottish accent. 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.240 I think the answer is neither he Nor Connor McLeod 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.880 are speaking English. As a sixteenth century inhabitant of the 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:46.240 Scottish Highlands, McLeod would almost certainly have been a speaker 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:50.360 of Gaelic and probably a monoglot one at that clan 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.400 chiefs might have sent their sons south to learn English. 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.120 But Connor, although a warrior, doesn't seem to be that 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.400 far up the McLeod hierarchy, and in any case would 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.920 not have spoke in English and normal conversation. I think 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.600 this is just one of those actually in another language, 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:09.360 but everyone speaks English moments in films. Perhaps Ramirez has 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.680 been around so long that he has become proficient in 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.760 many languages, including Scottish Gaelic. It is odd that the 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.440 Scottish actor is not playing a Scottish character and the 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:22.320 French actor with undisguised accent is, but there you go. 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.680 In any case, the accent of Scottish Gaelic native speakers 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:29.160 speaking English is quite distinctive and probably wouldn't be recognized 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.280 as a Scottish accent by people outside of Scotland. Just 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.080 a wee note on something that pricked my interest. Keep 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.040 up the good work. It's a great podcast. Jamie and yes, 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.760 Jamie brings up a fabulous point and one that I 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.400 should have thought of. Why on earth did I watch 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.760 all those seasons of Outlander if I wasn't gonna, you know, 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.520 realize that that these characters would have been speaking Gailic. Now, 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:56.479 what if Highlander went in a more Outlander direction? Um, 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.880 it could, It could easily. I'm surprised, honestly, I'm surprised 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.920 they had given the success of Outlander. Uh, they haven't 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.640 done that. That's probably one of the the energy is 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.600 fueling these efforts to bring it back. And you know, 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.520 to some degree it's like romance it up a bit, 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:15.400 you know, make it a little more you know, Scottish centric. Uh, yeah, 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:26.800 it could work. I'm for it. All right, let's see, 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.600 maybe we should do together these next couple of messages 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:33.520 about um, about the humanoid, the Star Wars rop off 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.480 film that we covered. I guess it'll be a couple 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:39.400 of weeks ago. Now, um. So the first one is 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:44.600 from a listener calling themselves Trebec. I doubt that's the 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.840 real name, but Trebec says, hello guys. Oh, and this 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.040 is in response to us saying that that Richard Keel 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.240 and the Humanoid never did the like heads bonking together move. 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.760 This is where you're generally a giant character or a 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.800 largest character, a strong man character will come up behind 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.760 two stormtroopers or red shirt guards, grabbed them by their 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.200 heads and call them together like coconuts and knock them 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.720 out right. Uh, And we said, uh. It says disappointing 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:12.800 that that never happened in the movie. Well, Trebec says, 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.840 we're wrong. Trebec says there is a blanc the heads 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.920 together moment in the Humanoid. It is quick. It happens 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.760 during the second attack of the Humanoid while the troopers 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.240 are climbing out of the speeder. I'm sorry that that 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.680 doesn't narrow down for me. So I don't know where 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:31.160 in the movie this is um But there is a 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.200 line you can queue up if you can find it. 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.960 Trebek says. It's immediately after the He's rather irritated, isn't 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.640 he line? Thank you for being awesome? Trebec? Oh, no, 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.120 thank thank you for being awesome and pointing pointing this out. Yeah, 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.200 I I must have missed it. I must have been 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.040 looking down or making a note or you know, checking 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.560 something on IMDb related to the film. But I'm glad 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.320 it's in there. I feel like the universe makes sense again. 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.040 What is wrong with our brains that we you and 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:01.840 I are both watched the humanoid making notes. Yeah, it's 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.679 it's a select a select few people have done that. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:09.639 I imagine, at least making notes on the humanoid studying 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:13.359 this work. Yes, we're we're operating in a very niche field. 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:22.080 I would say, Okay, But from there, I'm gonna jump 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.640 straight down to this message from Kenneth, which is also 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.640 about the humanoid. So Kenneth says, Hi, Rob and Joe. 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.120 As always, I'm a sucker for a Star Wars clone, 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.560 and I always loved Jaws as a Bond character. So 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.679 on your recommendation, I thought I would give the humanoid 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.960 to go. You commented that the opening text crawl made 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.399 the universe feel small, and I would say that was 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.960 pretty accurate. I found it interesting that this followed through 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.280 into all aspects of the movie, and then we get examples. 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:54.280 When the budget Star Destroyer passes slowly over the camera, 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.680 they were trying to convey the same epic scale as Lucas. 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:01.440 But later when Grawls ship is landing on Planet Nixon, 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.080 you can see that it's only meant to be about 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:08.000 fifty meters long. Uh. The name of the movie made 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.800 me pause for thought, as well as obviously Lady Agatha's 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.800 incredible hair, and I remember that's uh, that's Barbara Box 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:19.440 strange helmet slash hood slash hair do in the movie. Um, 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:21.080 it's kind of hard to tell which of the three 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:24.320 it was. Now, regarding the name the humanoid, Kenneth says, 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.240 it occurred to me that the term humanoid normally describes 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:31.040 a creature that shares our general body form. It's normally 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:34.680 used to find what's most familiar about an alien. However, 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:39.119 if Golab was originally human, then his transformation left him 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:43.320 as human inform only to become the humanoid, was actually 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:47.240 to diminish him. I think that's right. My second thought 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:51.240 was about that hair do. I think Barbara Box character 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.600 was meant to look like a snake. If you imagine 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:58.440 a hooded viper or cobra with its head down ready 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:02.080 to strike, it looks very much like her coiffure. This 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:06.159 perhaps tracks with the quote fangs in the life good 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:10.960 draining plastic Maiden device. Remember she was like a space bathory. 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:13.119 She was like sucking the life force out of the 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.080 local space peasants. Yeah, and she needs to fix every 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.480 day otherwise she'll age minutes or or you know, centuries 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.280 at a time. Right. But Kenneth also points out that 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.040 the lower half of her costume has a scale like 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:28.919 pattern on the fabric. So I think you're onto something here, Kenneth. 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.760 I think that went right over my head. Yeah, yeah, 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:35.000 it totally makes sense. Now. Now after this, Kenneth attaches 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.120 a recommendation that has already been suggested for Weird House 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:39.919 Cinema and we've already talked about, so I'm not going 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.480 to go into too much detail, but Kenneth is like, hey, 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.280 do Layer of the White Worm. And I'm and I'm saying, Kenneth, 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.399 we've already talked about We're going to do Layer of 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:50.640 the White Worm. We love Layer of the White Worm. Yes, yeah, 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:52.560 it's it's on the list. A lot of films on 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:54.760 the list. And hey, we here heard from another listener 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.320 who has a film to put on the list, and 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:00.920 I don't think this one was currently on said from 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:05.119 com Hey guys, greetings from Dublin, Ireland. First time contacting 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.280 you after many years of listening to your excellent podcast. 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:09.480 Just came across a film while browsing the web that 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:13.000 you might consider for weird house cinema. It's called Slugs 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:17.080 and was released in night according to IMDb. I've not 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:19.000 seen it myself, but if you take one look at 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:21.800 the poster attached, and I hope you will agree, it 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:24.359 looks like a great candidate. On a separate note, I 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:27.320 would love if you did an episode on lighthouses. I've 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.240 always loved them, and I know it is a topic 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:31.720 you both could easily do a few episodes on, as 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:33.880 there would be so much to talk about. Anyway, keep 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.600 up the great work. All the best from comb a 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:42.080 k A. Synthetic Flesh. Synthetic flesh. Wait, we've had a 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:46.920 listener adopted the moniker Synthetic flesh. Is Colm masking his 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.560 friends and family to call him synthetic flesh. Now, I 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:51.320 don't know. I would go for it, and go for 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:55.160 it anything that that that injects it into popular usage. 0:20:55.800 --> 0:21:00.679 Um So, Slugs. This is a film that I have 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.880 seen parts of and you have perhaps seen the whole thing. 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:07.240 I think so so. First major note, this is actually 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:11.600 directed by Juan Picquer Simone or Simon with an accent 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.240 over the second Oh, I guess the b Simone Um, 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:19.200 the director of none other than Pod People, the immortal classic, 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:23.040 the film that gave us here the Engines roll Now 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:27.919 or flying over Idiot Control Now. All I want to 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:31.840 feel is the wind in my eyes. Yeah, yeah, that's great, 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:37.760 great movie. Yeah, but class I think I actually watched 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:39.919 this movie way back when we used to do a 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:42.880 thing where we would do we would we did some 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:46.520