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Speaker 3: rob I'm going to start with a message about the

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Speaker 3: recent total solar eclipse that pass through the middle of

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Speaker 3: the United States. We didn't do an episode about eclipses

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Speaker 3: because we've done that in the past, especially tied to

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Speaker 3: eclipses in the past. But we did do a weird

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Speaker 3: house cinema episode on the movie Dragon Slayer because it

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Speaker 3: features an eclipse that'll come up again later in the episode.

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Speaker 3: But we also just got a response seemingly about the

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Speaker 3: eclipse itself, and this is from Hannah. Hannah says subject

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Speaker 3: line moon exploration via swan power. Hannah says, Hi, Robin Joe,

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Speaker 3: I'm helping my husband prepare a lecture that covers the

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Speaker 3: eclipse for his physics students. I ran across this book

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Speaker 3: and I had to share love the podcast. Keep up

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Speaker 3: the good work, my best, Hannah. And what Hannah shares

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Speaker 3: is a link to a seventeenth century book called The

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Speaker 3: Man in the Moon. And this is Moon spelled n E.

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Speaker 3: I like the extra e in there makes it fancier.

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Speaker 3: It's almost like a more costly version of the Moon.

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Speaker 3: The Man in the Moon or a discourse of a

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Speaker 3: voyage thither. So this is a book that was published

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Speaker 3: under the pseudonymous name Domingo Gonsales. The real author was

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Speaker 3: an English bishop named Francis Godwin. And this is a

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Speaker 3: novel that was published in sixteen thirty eight, several years

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Speaker 3: after the author's death, said by some to be the

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Speaker 3: first science fiction novel written in English. So it's a

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Speaker 3: first person narrative telling the story of a Spaniard named

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Speaker 3: Domingo Gonzalez who travels to the Moon on an aircraft

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Speaker 3: powered by swans and discovers that the moon is filled

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Speaker 3: with people who have an advanced civilization of their own,

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Speaker 3: and I think also are significantly involved in like kidnapping

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Speaker 3: children from Earth.

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Speaker 2: On Kaladan, we ruled with air and land power, but

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Speaker 2: on Earth we will rule with swanpower.

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Speaker 3: How did you describe this Swan machine? Like, there's an

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Speaker 3: illustration on the inner fold of the title page I

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Speaker 3: found so we can look at this. Rob It's like

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Speaker 3: a it looks sort of like the Swan copter. Well,

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Speaker 3: it's got a mounted seat really just kind of a

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Speaker 3: crossbar on the bottom and the rest is just bars.

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Speaker 3: It's like an electrical transmission tower. And they taped a

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Speaker 3: also in this this illustration, they're they're like flying him

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Speaker 3: over the moon or to the moon and passing over

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Speaker 3: the mountain of purgatory.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, it raises a lot of questions. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: it's kind of like a kite scenario. It looks like

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Speaker 2: like the bare minimum harvesting of the power of the

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Speaker 2: Swan and uh it yeah, right, And then the amount

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Speaker 2: of purgatory being there also raised his questions, like how

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Speaker 2: does that factor into it? Are you using some sort

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Speaker 2: of using that as some sort of like a slingshot technique,

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Speaker 3: Purgatory O gravity assist, Yeah, yeah, But anyway, so I started.

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Speaker 3: I found a full text of this book, and I

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Speaker 3: I'll quote a passage here with some edits, just describing

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Speaker 3: how the character attains spaceflight on the swan copter. He says,

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Speaker 3: do in Spain towards the autumn. They as after I perceived,

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Speaker 3: hint of how interestingly this novel is not just an

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Speaker 3: of the day of the seventeenth century, engaging with the

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Speaker 2: Nice nice kind of fitting them that we see the

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Speaker 2: amount of purgatory in the background here, because as we've

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Speaker 2: at least discussed in Passing before you know you have

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Speaker 2: you have a number of scientific ideas wrapped up in

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Speaker 2: Dante's divine comedy as well, something that we might come

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Speaker 3: Totally agree, though I should be clear, I was just

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Speaker 3: saying it's the amount of purgatory because it looks like

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Speaker 3: it to me. I couldn't find that it says that text. Okay,

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Speaker 3: that's just my editor.

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Speaker 2: I love the idea of it amount of purgatory. I

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Speaker 3: However, there is another thing that I found really interesting

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Speaker 3: novel does mix in elements of horror. On the journey

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Speaker 3: to the Moon, while traveling through the space between, Gonzalez

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Speaker 3: is surrounded by spirits of a wicked nature. In his view,

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Speaker 3: space is full of devils. I'm gonna read from the

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Speaker 3: text here another thing there was exceeding and more than

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Speaker 3: exceeding troublesome unto me, and that was the illusions of

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Speaker 3: devils and wicked spirits who the first day of my

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Speaker 3: arrival came about me in great numbers, carrying the shapes

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Speaker 3: and likeness of men and women, wondering at me like

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Speaker 3: like the image, so anyway. The devils of the space

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Speaker 3: make him all kinds of promises. They tell him they

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Speaker 3: can take him safely back to Spain, they can give

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Speaker 3: him earthly comforts and pleasures. He turns all this down,

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Speaker 3: though he does accept some food they offer him, writing quote,

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Speaker 3: least in the mean, while I should starve, they did

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Speaker 3: Also I tasted there of diverse sorts, as good as

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Speaker 3: But when it comes time to eat, things go south,

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Speaker 3: he says he quote, in great haste fell to searching

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Speaker 3: But to my great amazement and discomfort, I found instead

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Speaker 3: a mingle mangle of dry leaves of goat's hair, sheep

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Speaker 3: or goat's dung moss and such like trash. As for

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Speaker 3: So space demons are always trying to feed you goat

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Speaker 3: hair and beast urine.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, that is all marvelous. I've so many thoughts

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Speaker 2: on that. On one hand, kind of shades of Warhammer

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Speaker 2: through space putting you in a demonic peril or potential

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Speaker 2: demonic peril, and then kind of shades of the Gate

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Speaker 2: duology Gate the Gate and the Gate Too or Gate Too,

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Speaker 2: a couple of wonderful kind of Gromlin movies that I

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Speaker 2: discussed in Weird House Cinema with guest co host David Streepy,

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Speaker 2: because in the second one, the demons will grant your wishes,

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Speaker 2: but your wishes turned to the literal poop the next day,

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Speaker 2: So you wished for you know, a sports car, Well,

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Speaker 2: guess what is now parked out in front of your house.

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Speaker 2: It's an elephant sized chunk of just just fecal matter.

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Speaker 3: But I like that here he specifies what animal it

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Speaker 3: comes from. Does the gate say what animal it comes from?

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Speaker 2: No, they don't really get into it. But it makes

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Speaker 2: sense that it would be goat. You don't give him

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Speaker 2: demonic connotations.

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Speaker 3: There have a label on it, like the you know

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is from goat. I don't know why. I

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Speaker 2: don't know how goat dung would be worse. I've certainly

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Speaker 2: been around goat dung before, and it's not the worst

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Speaker 2: dung at all. Give me goat dung over dog dung

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Speaker 2: or any kind of carnivore dung any day of the week.

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Speaker 3: It's funny. He does specify goats for the dung, but

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Speaker 3: he does not and for the hair, by the way,

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Speaker 2: via feces. Urine, however, is more complicated. Matter that may

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Speaker 2: require a bit of science or alchemy. And I guess, actually,

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Speaker 2: goat dung, you know, is round, So I guess he

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Speaker 2: could tell it's like, this is clearly goat dung. Look

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Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, thank you so much, Hannah. It was very

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Speaker 3: interesting looking into this book.

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Speaker 2: All right. Well, since we're talking about literature and demons,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna skip to this one from Jim, responding to

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Speaker 2: mention of the short story The Hounds of Tendlos. This

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Speaker 2: is a story, a weird story from the nineteen thirties,

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Speaker 2: published in Weird Tales. And anyway, we heard some feedback

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Speaker 2: here from Jim. Jim says, I'm thinking Robert may know this,

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Speaker 2: but this tale was the inspiration for Metallica's thrasher All

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Speaker 2: Nightmare Long, which was on there in my opinion underrated

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Speaker 2: of the story on horror Babbel, a podcast with a

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Speaker 2: great narrator who does a lot of the old thirties

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Speaker 2: sci fi and horror fiction, including Lovecraft Robert E. Howard Clark,

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Jim. I did not know the connection

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Speaker 3: song at all because so I grew up loving Metallica,

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Speaker 3: my Metallica preferences have shifted toward the earliest of their catalog.

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Speaker 3: is the most immature and anti social, with the driest production,

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Speaker 2: All Right, this one comes to us from Harry. It says, hey, Robin, Joe,

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Speaker 3: All right, we can finish up with a couple of

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Speaker 3: says Hi, Rob, Joe and jj E. Liza here, longtime listener,

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Speaker 3: first time writer. I just finished your Dead Mountaineers Hotel

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Speaker 3: very excited to recommend you another Soviet sci fi film

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Speaker 3: Yeah, change the characteristics of the protagonist. And in any case,

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