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Speaker 1: right in with this message from Ahmed. Uh no business
Speaker 1: that I can think of, No good love a day
Speaker 1: without business. All right. Uh, let's see here. Uh Ahmed
Speaker 1: writes on a monster fact that you did about parasitic control.
Speaker 1: I'm it, says hi Robert and Joe. I'm ed again
Speaker 1: happy your recent monster fact about behavior controlling parasites and
Speaker 1: taxo plasma Gandhi made me think of this recent paper.
Speaker 1: And then he links to a paper from uh. Well,
Speaker 1: it's it's on the nature domains communications biology. The exact
Speaker 1: methodologies of the paper are way out of my wheelhouse,
Speaker 1: but it seems like the authors looked at wolves over
Speaker 1: many years, living in areas that overlap with mountain lions
Speaker 1: where a wolf could be exposed to taxo, then looking
Speaker 1: at those that did get infected at some point versus
Speaker 1: those that didn't. They found that taxo infection was associated
Speaker 1: with forty six times increased chance of becoming a pack leader.
Speaker 1: That looks to me like a whopping effects size and
Speaker 1: maybe shows a way in which taxo infection can actually
Speaker 1: benefit the host, though I guess the full benef it
Speaker 1: versus cost analysis would have to talk to the wolves
Speaker 1: who shouldn't have gone for pack leader but did, but
Speaker 1: did it anyways under parasitic overconfidence. Keep up the good work, Ahmed. Um, well,
Speaker 1: I'm at this. Thank you for sending this. This was
Speaker 1: really interesting. So I looked up the reference. Uh, it
Speaker 1: is indeed a paper published in Communications Biology in two
Speaker 1: by Meyer at All called Parasitic infection increases risk taking
Speaker 1: in a social intermediate host carnivore. Uh so yeah, I
Speaker 1: think the I think the wolf is you know, not
Speaker 1: meant to be the primary carrier of this, this parasitic
Speaker 1: organism the toxoplasmosis parasite, but it has this effect on
Speaker 1: wolves that it seems to have on other organisms of
Speaker 1: making them essentially more brazen take more risks, which has
Speaker 1: uh an interesting downstream series of consequences where it might
Speaker 1: make that animal more likely to do something danger risks
Speaker 1: and get killed, but it also might make that animal
Speaker 1: more likely to achieve some kind of big positive outcome,
Speaker 1: the kind of thing that you get if you win
Speaker 1: playing with high risk, high reward gambles. Yeah, Ta Gandhi
Speaker 1: is is a fascinating subject, one that I haven't looked
Speaker 1: at in earnest in many years, but maybe it's something
Speaker 1: we should come back around, because there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of research, and I think there continues
Speaker 1: to be a lot of research into it. But I
Speaker 1: think if I remember correctly at the basic level, the
Speaker 1: parasite wants to return to the body of a cat
Speaker 1: and therefore tries to get the host eaten by a
Speaker 1: big cat um and uh and sometimes it's been perhaps
Speaker 1: the wrong host to actually carry out that life cycle.
Speaker 1: But again, it's been a while since I've looked at
Speaker 1: the t gandhi in detail, but maybe that's something we
Speaker 1: should we should come back around to see what the
Speaker 1: latest is on TI gandhi. Well, actually, maybe let's look
Speaker 1: at just a little more detail from this one study,
Speaker 1: because I did think this was really interesting. So, uh,
Speaker 1: they talked about how they were looking at animals within
Speaker 1: Yellowstone National Park in the United States, that's up in Wyoming,
Speaker 1: and uh, they have wild populations of large land predators there,
Speaker 1: including wild wolves or Canis lupus and wild cougars or
Speaker 1: puma concolor um. I don't know how you say that
Speaker 1: species named concolor concolor c O N c O l
Speaker 1: O R. And in this case they say that the
Speaker 1: cougar is the definitive host of of T. Gandhi and
Speaker 1: the gray wolf is an intermediate host and uh, to
Speaker 1: to read from their abstract here they write quote, here,
Speaker 1: we use twenty six years of wolf behavioral, spatial and
Speaker 1: sero logical data to show that wolf territory overlap with
Speaker 1: areas of high cougar density was an important predictor of infection.
Speaker 1: In addition, zero positive wolves were more likely to make
Speaker 1: high risk decisions such as dispersing and becoming a pack leader,
Speaker 1: both factors critical to individual fitness and wolf vital rates. Okay,
Speaker 1: So when wolves are infected with toxoplasma, they are more
Speaker 1: likely to incur into cougar infested areas and more likely
Speaker 1: to come in contact with cougars. They're also, as Ahmed
Speaker 1: said in the original email, more likely to apparently take
Speaker 1: social risks or confrontational behaviors that could involve them becoming
Speaker 1: the leader of the pack, which actually does increase their
Speaker 1: mating fitness the author's right quote. Due to the social
Speaker 1: hierarchy within a wolf pack, we hypothesize that the behavioral
Speaker 1: effects of toxoplasmosis may create a feedback loop that increases
Speaker 1: spatial overlap and disease transmission between wolves and cougars. So
Speaker 1: I think the the proposed in here I'm referring to
Speaker 1: there there's sort of a helpful flow chart illustration within
Speaker 1: the article. I think the proposed or hypothesized chain reaction
Speaker 1: goes like this. You've got both the wolves and the
Speaker 1: cougars in the park. An infected cougar somehow infects wolves
Speaker 1: with t GANDHI, and this could happen through uh, like
Speaker 1: a wolf eating cougar scat, or through eating a dead
Speaker 1: cougar's body, or through some kind of other environmental contact,
Speaker 1: and then you end up with infected wolves that are
Speaker 1: carrying this parasite. These wolves take higher risks. The wolves
Speaker 1: that take higher risks become pack leaders or disperse, and
Speaker 1: the infected pack leaders lead uninfected pack males into risky situations,
Speaker 1: which include contact with cougars in cougar territory, which means
Speaker 1: more uninfected wolves, Uh, get infected by cougars and they
Speaker 1: learned to take risks like approaching cougars because that's what
Speaker 1: their pack leader does. M h. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: vicious cycle. Yeah, the side of things. The cycle continues
Speaker 1: here anyway, Very cool study. Thank you for sending it
Speaker 1: in on it. Yeah, and again they've been there's been
Speaker 1: so many in US and studies over the years with
Speaker 1: t Candy of some looking at it proposed changes to
Speaker 1: human behavior as well. Yeah, alright. This next one comes
Speaker 1: to us from Adam. Adam wrote in about music and
Speaker 1: weird health cinema subjectal line some musical Easter eggs and
Speaker 1: weird house cinema. So uh, this is in part a
Speaker 1: response to the episodes that I did with Seth about
Speaker 1: hidden material in records and musical recordings. Hello Robert Joe, Max,
Speaker 1: and Seth, whom I see seed because this email is
Speaker 1: heavily music focused. I recently listened to both episodes on
Speaker 1: the history of back masking and other musical Easter eggs,
Speaker 1: and I thought I could chime in with some of
Speaker 1: my favorite examples of these and one example of back
Speaker 1: masking allegation I find quite funny. The first of these
Speaker 1: isn't really a musical easter egg in the sense the
Speaker 1: you talked about in the episode, but I was reminded
Speaker 1: of it while listening to your episodes about whistling and
Speaker 1: thought now would be a good time to email about it.
Speaker 1: In one of them, Joe went off on a brief
Speaker 1: tangent about reconstructions of ancient music and how eerie many
Speaker 1: of them sound. Hearing this and knowing you were both
Speaker 1: hieronymous Bosh fans, I thought I could inform you if
Speaker 1: you aren't already aware of the hieronymous Bosh Butt music.
Speaker 1: In the right panel of Bosh's Too triptych The Garden
Speaker 1: of Earthly Delights, a demon can be seen inscribing a
Speaker 1: musical score on the posterior of a center which acquire
Speaker 1: sings from recreations of this score exist on YouTube and
Speaker 1: they're haunting accompaniment to the painting and also quite humorous
Speaker 1: because of the origin. I would love to hear that.
Speaker 1: As far as more direct cases of backmasking, time stretching,
Speaker 1: locked grooves and other musical mayhem, there are quite a
Speaker 1: few examples. I really enjoy the song Empty Spaces off
Speaker 1: of the Pink Floyd album. The Wall actually contains a
Speaker 1: backmask message, which played forward adds a fitting ambiance of
Speaker 1: foreboding to the song. Played backwards, however, Roger Waters can
Speaker 1: be heard saying, hello, looker, congratulations, you have just discovered
Speaker 1: the secret message. Please send your answer to Old Pink
Speaker 1: care of the Funny Farm chial front before producer James
Speaker 1: Guthrie can be heard saying Roger Waters. Then wife Carolines
Speaker 1: on the phone saying so the voice is saying Roger
Speaker 1: Carolines on the phone. Uh. Similarly, Waters had wanted the
Speaker 1: song Perfect Sense Part One on his solo album Amused
Speaker 1: to Death to start the song with a sample of
Speaker 1: Howe's death monologue from two thousand and one, a sample
Speaker 1: present on the two fifteen rerelease of the album, but
Speaker 1: was initially denied the ability to use the sample by
Speaker 1: Kubrick in lieu of example, Kubrick, Uh, you wouldn't expect
Speaker 1: him to give your permission, would you? Now you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta wait, wait a little bit before you can
Speaker 1: actually go back and say, hey, can I have it now?
Speaker 1: And the answers yes. In lieu of the sample, Waters
Speaker 1: included a very similar sounding snippet of audio with the
Speaker 1: same heavy breathing and a reversed vocal when played backwards,
Speaker 1: a tongue in cheek message to kuber It can be
Speaker 1: heard with Waters saying, Julia, However, in the light and
Speaker 1: visions of the issues of Stanley, we changed our minds.
Speaker 1: We have decided to include a backwards message Stanley for
Speaker 1: you and for all of the other book burners, before
Speaker 1: unintelligibly screaming in a Scottish accent. Waters seemed fond of
Speaker 1: including secret jokes and tracks, as there's also one on
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixty nine music cong Crete Pink Floyd's song
Speaker 1: several species of small furry animals gathered together in a
Speaker 1: cave and grooving with a picked When played at half
Speaker 1: speed around four thirty two, Waters can be heard saying
Speaker 1: that was pretty avant garde, wasn't it? It's funny when
Speaker 1: you say these Roger Waters phrases without his accent. They
Speaker 1: a sound kind of goofy um. Anyway, they continue. Another
Speaker 1: funny experimental use all the techniques you discussed in the
Speaker 1: second part is the locked groove on the final disc
Speaker 1: of Lou Reid's Metal Machine Music. I find this use
Speaker 1: of the lock grow funny because the original Vinyl released
Speaker 1: the album listed the runtime of side four as sixteen
Speaker 1: o one or infinite because of it, meaning that Wikipedia
Speaker 1: list the album's run time as sixty eleven slash infinite
Speaker 1: infinity sign. In addition, I like that the inclusion of
Speaker 1: this lock groove feels like a final middle finger to
Speaker 1: listeners off an album filled with middle fingers, like the
Speaker 1: allusions to classical music read included as an attempt to
Speaker 1: get our c A to release it on their classical label. Now, wait,
Speaker 1: did y'all actually talk about Metal Machine Music in the episode?
Speaker 1: I don't remember us talking about it. If we did,
Speaker 1: it may have just been a quick listing of it.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, But I don't think we really got around
Speaker 1: albumtil all day. Or is this an album familiar with Joe?
Speaker 1: I've never listened to the whole thing all the way through,
Speaker 1: but I've heard parts of it, so it's you know,
Speaker 1: Lou Reed's album that is famous for being just sort
Speaker 1: of like squealing painful noise. Ah, that sounds like a riot. Well,
Speaker 1: let's see um. In addition, there's an example of a
Speaker 1: musical easter egg hiding visual information in a spectrogram, like
Speaker 1: you mentioned in the game Minecraft. In game, there are
Speaker 1: several different vinyl discs that can be collected and played.
Speaker 1: One of these, simply titled eleven, has an in game
Speaker 1: graphic resembling a broken record, and when played, consists of
Speaker 1: a vinyl hiss, a series of mildly creepy sound effects
Speaker 1: that seemed to portray someone running from a monster, and static.
Speaker 1: I had no idea Minecraft had spooky stuff like that,
Speaker 1: And I thought it was a game where you, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, hit blocks with a pick and then
Speaker 1: get diamonds out. Well, you know, the monsters come for
Speaker 1: you at night. I know I've played enough to know
Speaker 1: that happens, but yeah, I neither I nor my son
Speaker 1: have gotten any deeper into it. But anyway, the spectrogram.
Speaker 1: If the file for this song is displayed as a spectagram,
Speaker 1: the static at the end displays what looks like the
Speaker 1: face of the default player character Steve, and the numbers
Speaker 1: one to one eight. This number has been interpreted to
Speaker 1: be a visual signature from the composer of the majority
Speaker 1: of the game's music, C four one eight, where C
Speaker 1: is hexadecimal for twelve. This song and the discovery of
Speaker 1: the secret in the spectrogram has led to a lot
Speaker 1: of elaborate fan theories, but like the Boch motif, this
Speaker 1: just seems to be another musician finding an overly elaborate
Speaker 1: way to sign their work. As well as actual uses
Speaker 1: of back masking and other ways of hiding information, you
Speaker 1: talked about various allegations of backmasking during the Satanic Panic.
Speaker 1: One allegation of backmasking from this period that I find
Speaker 1: especially egregious case of people finding Satanic messages just because
Speaker 1: they're looking for them, is a claim that the theme
Speaker 1: song to the popular television show Mr. Ed a Horse
Speaker 1: is a Horse. Okay, I wasn't familiar with this one.
Speaker 1: Uh more details here. In twenty years after the show
Speaker 1: went off the air, a preacher from South Ohio claimed
Speaker 1: that when reversed, the message reads quote the source is
Speaker 1: Satan and quote. Someone heard this song from Satan could
Speaker 1: be heard. According to a Chicago Tribune article from the time,
Speaker 1: the preacher stated that quote Satan can be an influence
Speaker 1: whether you know it or not. We don't think they
Speaker 1: did it on purpose, and we're not getting down on Mr. Ed.
Speaker 1: That would be like kicking baseball out of America. So
Speaker 1: so that the idea was that they unconsciously encoded satanic
Speaker 1: messages into the theme song and Mr. Ed, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess that's the charge. But then you can't fault Mr. Ed.
Speaker 1: So it's like we're gonna we're gonna give you a
Speaker 1: pass on this about I mean, what what are any
Speaker 1: of them talking about? I mean that, as we went
Speaker 1: into in in that episode and has been discussed many times,
Speaker 1: it's you have people of this caliber who just kind
Speaker 1: of go on this unending quest to find proof of
Speaker 1: the satanic in music played backwards, and if you play
Speaker 1: music backwards, you'll find something, and if you lean into
Speaker 1: it enough you can interpret some of it is satanic.
Speaker 1: And I guess it just eventually just becomes this thing
Speaker 1: you do all the time. But to your point, it
Speaker 1: doesn't really reveal anything at that point, does it. It's
Speaker 1: just kind of like, well, I mean, are you even
Speaker 1: able to really hold that up as proof that the
Speaker 1: Satanic realm and therefore the heavenly realm exists. I don't know,
Speaker 1: It just seems kind of pointless at that point. Yeah. Anyway, Uh.
Speaker 1: The email continues the idea that people somehow have a
Speaker 1: subconscious pro Satan bias, but not a subconscious bias to
Speaker 1: hear messages they deliberately want to hear despite them not
Speaker 1: being there. Is demonstrative of how absurd this whole phenomenon
Speaker 1: was agreed. Furthermore, this disclaimer didn't stop the preacher's accusation
Speaker 1: from angering the founder of the International Mr. Ed Fan Club,
Speaker 1: who said that quote, I am completely astounded. We have
Speaker 1: Kadafi bomb people in airports, we have starving homeless people
Speaker 1: right here in America, and this so called Christian chooses
Speaker 1: to lambass Mr Ed wake Up and smell the road.
Speaker 1: Apple's Reverend Brown a truly devastating reply that makes me
Speaker 1: worry about the consequences of ever upsetting a Mr. Ed fan.
Speaker 1: I guess this was before the age of of social
Speaker 1: media and like BEF related clickbait news websites, but you
Speaker 1: can you just imagine the headlines like Mr ed Fan
Speaker 1: roasts Reverend Brown, it's a different time, alright. Finally, Adam
Speaker 1: gets around to a Weird House and says, I've also
Speaker 1: enjoyed Weird House cinema and have a few suggestions listed below,
Speaker 1: So yeah, we get take we can take uh, take
Speaker 1: these one by one. Here Joe Eyes without a Face
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty. I think this one briefly came out from
Speaker 1: the show. In regards to films in the Criterion collection,
Speaker 1: it may be a little too poetic for Weird House
Speaker 1: that you've covered other art films, but it's one of
Speaker 1: my favorite films and I'd be interested hearing your thoughts. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's such a thing as too
Speaker 1: poetic for Weird House. I mean, I think we lean
Speaker 1: more on kind of lower brow or B movies. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we we're we're open to anything good or bad on
Speaker 1: Weird House as long as it's you know, as long
Speaker 1: as it's weird and interesting and fun. Yeah, we have
Speaker 1: we we we try to keep a very diet and
Speaker 1: then try and spread it out as long as it's
Speaker 1: presentable for others at the table. Then within then we'll
Speaker 1: we'll potentially look at it. I was in fact, just
Speaker 1: looking at eyes without a face the other day, considering
Speaker 1: watching it or rewatching. I think I saw it many
Speaker 1: many years ago, um and reading a little bit more
Speaker 1: about it, and yeah, it's it's a groundbreaking one, um
Speaker 1: and one that uh that that still holds up and
Speaker 1: its creepiness alright. The next one the Phantom of the
Speaker 1: Paradise four. This is a rock opera retelling of Phantom
Speaker 1: of the Opera Faust and Portrait of Dorian Gray, directed
Speaker 1: by Brian to Palmer. It maybe too mainstream for Weird House. Also,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if you've both seen it already,
Speaker 1: but I'd also be interested in hearing your thoughts. We
Speaker 1: love Phantom of the Paradise. Uh, I've watched that one
Speaker 1: a number of times. It's it's a it's a house
Speaker 1: favorite here I I have not yet watched it. So
Speaker 1: this one, this one would be a fun selection at
Speaker 1: some point. It's come up on the show before due
Speaker 1: to some of the connections in it. I think Garrett Graham,
Speaker 1: isn't it Garrett Graham plays a glam rock Frankenstein named Beef. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's really good alright. The next one, House from seven.
Speaker 1: This is an absolutely insane Japanese horror comedy with special
Speaker 1: effects glore that has been seen. It has to be
Speaker 1: seen to be believed. The film was partially inspired by
Speaker 1: ideas from the director's daughter, which makes sense as it
Speaker 1: feels like a child's fever dream. Yeah, that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: House Is Uh is of course horrifying. It is a
Speaker 1: horror movie, but it also very much it sounds like
Speaker 1: it comes from the mind of a child. It has
Speaker 1: a very end then and then quality. Yeah, amazing poster too.
Speaker 1: All right, now, this next one, Hyperspace slash Rim Illinois.
Speaker 1: It's four. This is the very first feature laying Star
Speaker 1: Wars spoof and the origin of Lord Buckethead, a character
Speaker 1: who would later become a satirical political candidate in the UK.
Speaker 1: In addition to Star Wars, it features scenes spoofing many
Speaker 1: other sci fi films, ranging from War of the Worlds
Speaker 1: to Phantasm. It also has some wild connections for being
Speaker 1: a low budget spoof film from the mid eighties. Overall,
Speaker 1: it's a wonderful, funny and thoroughly underrated film. Never seen it.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it either, but I have I have
Speaker 1: met and uh and and worked with the actor who
Speaker 1: played the original Lord Buckethead some kind of the yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, and then finally they suggest Labyrinth from six.
Speaker 1: This one needs no introduction. It has come up several
Speaker 1: times on both Weird House and Stuff to Play your
Speaker 1: Mind episodes, but I'd love to see an episode dedicated
Speaker 1: to it. It could even get the Dark Crystal treatment
Speaker 1: and have a stuff to Blow your Mind episode dedicated
Speaker 1: to the biology or folklore of the many fantastic and
Speaker 1: wonderful creatures we see throughout the film. Yeah, Labyrinth is
Speaker 1: a goal. Yeah, yeah, I was thinking about Labyrinth recently. Actually,
Speaker 1: I put together one upcoming Monster Fact episode deals with
Speaker 1: something from Labyrinth because I ended up getting a copy
Speaker 1: of the new Labyrinth Bestierry Uh that came out that
Speaker 1: has all new illustrations and stuff about all the creatures
Speaker 1: in the film, and also I think some creatures from
Speaker 1: perhaps some follow up fiction related to Labyrinth um or
Speaker 1: perhaps prequel fiction related to Labyrinth. I don't I haven't
Speaker 1: gotten into that section as much, but yeah, there's there's
Speaker 1: a lot going on in Labyrinth. There's a lot to
Speaker 1: potentially discuss. So many great creative minds and talents went
Speaker 1: into it. I mean obviously you have Jim Hinson, Brian
Speaker 1: Fraul and David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly. But I mean
Speaker 1: you also have Terry Jones of Monty Python, uh there
Speaker 1: on on the screenplay, so they're all these absurd touches
Speaker 1: there as well. Yeah, and it's also just in terms
Speaker 1: of like compared you can't help but compared to Dark Crystal.
Speaker 1: Dark Crystal of course takes its world building very seriously
Speaker 1: and does a fabulous job with it. Labyrinth also does
Speaker 1: a fabulous job, but it is a it is a musical,
Speaker 1: and it has this absurd quality to it, so it
Speaker 1: goes in all these other different directions, and in a way,
Speaker 1: it might it might be a more fun film to
Speaker 1: discuss on on a Weird House episode because you do
Speaker 1: have a lot of questions like what how does the
Speaker 1: Goblin Army function? What exactly do do does Sarah want?
Speaker 1: What exactly does does Jareth want? I mean there's a
Speaker 1: lot to tie sack there. Yeah, I would say that
Speaker 1: The Dark Crystal is more like a myth where you
Speaker 1: get a view from a higher vantage point, whereas Labyrinth
Speaker 1: is more like a fairy tale or you know, you
Speaker 1: were just sort of injected into a world for a
Speaker 1: series of events. Yeah, so all all solid suggestions here.
Speaker 1: I mean, really, if we were if we were forced
Speaker 1: to do all of these that were suggested, I think
Speaker 1: we'd probably be doing pretty well. And then finally, Adam
Speaker 1: wraps things up, says congratulations to Joe and the rest
Speaker 1: of the McCormick family for the new arrival, farewell to Steth,
Speaker 1: a warm welcome to Max. That's kind of ironic, and
Speaker 1: it thanks to all of you for creating a wonderful,
Speaker 1: fascinating and entertaining show. Sincerely, Adam. Oh, thank you, Adam.
Speaker 1: I mentioned its ironic because Max is going to be
Speaker 1: stepping back from being one of two producers and j
Speaker 1: J is going to be stepping forward to be like
Speaker 1: the prime producer. So nothing, nothing tragic going on. Max
Speaker 1: is still very much around. Okay. One last message for today.
Speaker 1: This is about weird house cinema. Lawrence says, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: thanks for your entry on Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
Speaker 1: I first saw this film with my brother and sister
Speaker 1: back when it was in theaters. I have Wow, I
Speaker 1: have the DVD and we'll be viewing it later today
Speaker 1: as part of my Christmas ritual. I wanted to suggest
Speaker 1: that maybe the right word to describe drop Oh as
Speaker 1: a kind of lieutenant Santa on Mars is viceroy. Drop
Speaker 1: O is Santa's viceroy of Mars. Thanks again, Lawrence. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. I don't think I knew the exact definition
Speaker 1: of viceroy, so I looked it up. It is a
Speaker 1: ruler exercising authority in a colony on behalf of a sovereign.
Speaker 1: That can make sense. So Santa Claus is the king,
Speaker 1: but he's back on Earth. His representative on his I
Speaker 1: guess his colonial influence over Mars is his viceroy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely works. Yeah, drop O Viceroy of Mars. I'd like
Speaker 1: to see the treatment of this for like a nineties
Speaker 1: seventies sci fi paperback. It would would be amazing. Yes,
Speaker 1: can you imagine how how Michael Whelan would render drop Oh?
Speaker 1: I would have loved to have seen it. All Right,
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