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Speaker 3: your Mind dot com. Let's see Rob, I think I'm
Speaker 3: going to kick things off here with this message from
Speaker 3: Chris in response to our series on cave biology.
Speaker 2: All right, let's have it.
Speaker 3: Chris says, Hi, Robert, Joe and JJ really enjoyed the
Speaker 3: first episode of the Hypogean World and the discussion about
Speaker 3: the potential for the adaptations that selected for sightlessness and
Speaker 3: the fact that the one fish you had described does
Speaker 3: technically still have eyes during development, but then they lose them.
Speaker 3: Did not realize this? Well, The first thing I see
Speaker 3: when I open my browser this morning is a suggested
Speaker 3: story on none other than blind cave salamanders coming to
Speaker 3: the surface. So the article that Chris links here is
Speaker 3: from Gizmoto from March thirteenth, twenty twenty four by Isaac Schultz,
Speaker 3: and it is called Scientists caught blind cave Salamanders sneaking
Speaker 3: to Earth's surface. So here's the gist of the story.
Speaker 3: This concerns recently published research about the om, the cave
Speaker 3: adapted salamander from the dynaric karst of Europe, which we
Speaker 3: talked about in one of the later parts of the
Speaker 3: Cave series. So it's possible that when Chris sent this email,
Speaker 3: we hadn't actually published our stuff about olms yet. So
Speaker 3: nice coincidence. The olms are very cool animals because they
Speaker 3: sort of live life in slow motion. They're thought to
Speaker 3: sometimes live for a century or more. They can apparently
Speaker 3: go years at a time without eating. Their cycle of
Speaker 3: mating and reproduction is very slow. I seem to recall
Speaker 3: it maybe like a decade or more in between their
Speaker 3: breeding cycles. And we also discussed a study that found
Speaker 3: that they can go for years at a time barely moving,
Speaker 3: maybe moving no more than a few meters from their
Speaker 3: starting location. And we also talked about how these animals
Speaker 3: were first observed in village springs hundreds of years ago,
Speaker 3: leading to these Carniolean peasants believing that they were baby
Speaker 3: dragons that had been spit up by a big adult
Speaker 3: dragon underground. And then of course came the developing biological
Speaker 3: understanding that these were subterrean cave adapted amphibians. And the
Speaker 3: idea was that, well, when there are heavy rains and
Speaker 3: there's suddenly a lot of water flowing through these underground waterways,
Speaker 3: these animals get washed up to the surface in these springs,
Speaker 3: they are washed out of their underground homes. But the
Speaker 3: researchers who conducted this new study were handling olms found
Speaker 3: in springs in surface springs in eastern Italy, and they
Speaker 3: found that in some cases when these olms were handled,
Speaker 3: they would like vomit up earthworms that they had previously eaten.
Speaker 3: And these earthworms are not prey that you would find
Speaker 3: in the subterranean waterways where the olms are thought to
Speaker 3: spend most of their lives. You would find them in
Speaker 3: the soil on the surface, like up in the Epigean
Speaker 3: world up above. And they said that many of these
Speaker 3: surface olmes were in fact plump with earthworms they had
Speaker 3: been eating very well on the surface. Here the researchers
Speaker 3: also found evidence of olme activity in the surface springs
Speaker 3: at a time when there was no preceding weather or
Speaker 3: water activity that would have been likely to flush them
Speaker 3: up to the surface against their will. So instead, the
Speaker 3: researchers say, you know, these olmes are probably adapted to
Speaker 3: live the vast majority of their lives in these subterranean
Speaker 3: caverns and the underground waterways, but it seems they sometimes
Speaker 3: probably make deliberate journeys to the surface, come up to
Speaker 3: these surface springs to eat and maybe sometimes to breed.
Speaker 3: So there are like so you can be mostly adapted
Speaker 3: to a totally underground, lightless way of living, but for
Speaker 3: certain types of activities come all the way up to
Speaker 3: the surface where you know, it was previously thought that
Speaker 3: the vulnerabilities of the cave adapted animal on the surface
Speaker 3: would make that kind of journey very unlikely. Because you know,
Speaker 3: suddenly you're up here and you're vulnerable to predators. You
Speaker 3: don't normally have to worry about predators and your underground habitat.
Speaker 3: You might be just generally not well adapted to a
Speaker 3: place where there's a bunch of light. But it seems
Speaker 3: like maybe the rewards in some cases make it worth
Speaker 3: it for the olm to to come up and eat
Speaker 3: a bunch of earthworms or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe heed that call to adventure perhaps, But that's
Speaker 2: fascinating because it does turn some of what we thought
Speaker 2: we knew about the olm on its head, you know,
Speaker 2: considered concerning their their obligate subterranean life, their their tendency
Speaker 2: to stay in just one very small area for the
Speaker 2: duration of their very long life. So, yeah, fascinating information.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of the equivalent. It would be
Speaker 3: like if us surface adapted organisms. You know, we live
Speaker 3: almost our entire lives on the surface, but we know
Speaker 3: that maybe five hundred meters down in the in the
Speaker 3: total darkness of a deep cave, there's like a really
Speaker 3: good buffet. So if we get really hungry, we go
Speaker 3: down there sometimes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, or you know, it's not completely out of
Speaker 2: keeping with what we know about, you know, some ancient
Speaker 2: peoples that would have maybe gone to do certain caves
Speaker 2: for sacred purposes, you know, be it some sort of
Speaker 2: like funeral ride or so forth. So yeah, fascinating to
Speaker 2: think about.
Speaker 3: Anyway, if you want to check out the underlying paper
Speaker 3: that this Gismoto article was about, it was published in
Speaker 3: the journal Ecology twenty twenty four by Minetti at All
Speaker 3: and it is called Wandering Outside of the Sticks, a
Speaker 3: surface activity of an iconic subterranean vertebrate, the OLM. All right,
Speaker 3: ohen to come back to Chris's message, that was the
Speaker 3: first half. Chris says, thanks again for all the fascinating
Speaker 3: content on the subject of caves. I took a family
Speaker 3: trip last fall to Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky.
Speaker 3: What a great experience. We were lucky enough to be
Speaker 3: able to take the Dome and drip Stones tour, and
Speaker 3: during one part of that tour, they killed the lights
Speaker 3: and had us in utter darkness, only to be broken
Speaker 3: thirty seconds later by a single small lighter. It was
Speaker 3: quite dramatic and a really fun experience. Highly recommend regards
Speaker 3: Chris Awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think we alluded to this sort of
Speaker 2: experience in the cave where you can you can experience this,
Speaker 2: you know, deep true darkness like this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the one time I've done this, it was it
Speaker 3: was in caves in Oregon. It was an incredibly memorable experience.
Speaker 2: All right. This next one comes to us from pav
Speaker 2: Have rites in and says Hello, Joe and Rob wanted
Speaker 2: to drop you a quick note to say how much
Speaker 2: I enjoyed the recent four episodes about the caves. The
Speaker 2: exploration and mysterious atmosphere really captivated me. I'm hoping that
Speaker 2: the next Weird House Cinema movie will continue this trend
Speaker 2: with a cave themed horror flick. There are so many
Speaker 2: possibilities to explore in that genre. Looking forward to what's next.
Speaker 2: Thanks pav Rob.
Speaker 3: Do you have cave movies in mind?
Speaker 2: I mean we have a few on the list for
Speaker 2: the potential future that involved caves. I think the one
Speaker 2: that we did right after the Cave Special had no caves,
Speaker 2: and the next one coming up also has no true caves.
Speaker 2: But I mean, on one hand, I was looking into it.
Speaker 2: You know a number of films that we've covered already
Speaker 2: feature Bronson Canyon in the Bronzon Caves in Griffith Park,
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. These were featured in such films that we've
Speaker 2: watched as Let's see the Return from nineteen eighty Let's see.
Speaker 2: Also there was let's see, we haven't done it conquered
Speaker 2: the world yet, but that's that's certainly one that's potentially
Speaker 2: on the list.
Speaker 3: Choke.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, The Magic Sword apparently shot some scenes there
Speaker 2: as well. I don't know if they did the full
Speaker 2: cave or just sort of that neat canyon environment that
Speaker 2: often feels like another world. And oh, robot monster of course.
Speaker 2: So it's it's been a favorite spot to either create
Speaker 2: another planet or to just have a haunting cave in
Speaker 2: which may lurk a monster or a robot, or some
Speaker 2: sort of combination of robot and monster.
Speaker 3: It's a great place to learn, too late that man
Speaker 3: is a feeling creature.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, we have a number of films. I mean,
Speaker 2: caves pop up in all sorts of fiction and all
Speaker 2: sorts of genre pictures, those genre pictures that we may choose.
Speaker 2: But offhand, I know that we've talked about potentially covering
Speaker 2: the Gargoyles movie from the nineteen seventies. Yeah, seventy two.
Speaker 3: Oh, the made for TV one with Bernie Casey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that one prominently features some caves sets. And there
Speaker 2: are a few other in this genre as well that
Speaker 2: are on the list. A lot of bat people movies,
Speaker 2: troglodyte movies, and so forth. I mean, you can get
Speaker 2: a good cave in there. There's some Paul Nashy films
Speaker 2: that have some caves that I've batten around in my head.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll definitely get back to some cave flicks
Speaker 2: on Weird House Cinema.
Speaker 3: I can't wait. Okay. Another short message, This one comes
Speaker 3: from Emma in response to previous listener mail that brought
Speaker 3: up the Encyclopedia Brown book series. I think somebody mentioned
Speaker 3: it because they found out what Ambergris was from reading
Speaker 3: Encyclopedia Brown books as a kid. Emma says, live from Victoria,
Speaker 3: British Columbia, Canada, Grade three classroom. My son doesn't read them,
Speaker 3: but I instantly thought of you all. And then they
Speaker 3: attach a picture of a like a collection of classroom
Speaker 3: reading material. The very first book in the stack is
Speaker 3: Encyclopedia Brown's Book of Strange but True Crimes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there it is in the bin I wonder what
Speaker 2: those strange crimes were. I assume mostly serial murders.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what is what is true crime that's appropriate for children?
Speaker 2: I know you're kind of limited to diamond heist and
Speaker 2: so forth.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, true nonviolent crime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean, now, this is this is this
Speaker 2: is fine. I have no again, I have no experience
Speaker 2: with Encyclopedia Brown myself except it just vaguely remember the title.
Speaker 2: But that's about it. So I think it's great that
Speaker 2: people can still connect with this stuff.
Speaker 3: Okay, here, I think we're gonna have to switch over
Speaker 3: and do some weird house cinema messages because we've got
Speaker 3: a lot of them in the bin. Many people have
Speaker 3: been writing in, especially about Dune, but about other episodes
Speaker 3: as well. Maybe we should do all of the Dune
Speaker 3: messages in a block. And before that, maybe I will
Speaker 3: read this response from Bruce on the episode that I
Speaker 3: did with Seth Nicholas Johnson while you were out about
Speaker 3: the Monkey's movie head.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I listened to this episode. I wasn't able
Speaker 2: to get a hold of the movie at the time
Speaker 2: because I believe I was traveling, but yeah, I did
Speaker 2: listen to the episode.
Speaker 3: Oh you should watch it sometime, Rob, I think you'd
Speaker 3: appreciate it. Bruce says, stuff to blow your mind, folks.
Speaker 3: I wanted to thank you so much for the latest
Speaker 3: episode of Weird House on Head. I am also a
Speaker 3: huge Monkeys fan, and this movie has always been a
Speaker 3: favorite of mine. To demonstrate how much they were in
Speaker 3: the middle of the whole sixties experience. For example, something
Speaker 3: that isn't connected with the movie, but shows how much
Speaker 3: influence the group had on the culture. The character of
Speaker 3: Chekhov on the original Star Trek. I guess the original
Speaker 3: TV series was added in season two as a direct
Speaker 3: result of Davy Jones' popularity.
Speaker 2: I had no idea we got to get a Russian
Speaker 2: monkey in there, Okay.
Speaker 3: So Bruce says, the thinking was, quote, we need our
Speaker 3: own younger international character. Oh that's right, because the other
Speaker 3: three monkeys were American. They're from the United States. But
Speaker 3: Davy Jones was British and was the cute one and
Speaker 3: had shaggy hair. But Bruce says, yeah, they were thinking,
Speaker 3: we've got to get our own international character to capture
Speaker 3: our fair share of the teeny bopper audience. And Bruce
Speaker 3: says that's why Chekhov's hair was shaggier than anyone else's.
Speaker 3: Bruce goes on to say, the real reason writing is
Speaker 3: to pass along some quotes from the twenty seventeen autobiography
Speaker 3: of Michael Nesmith called Infinite Tuesday, where he shares first
Speaker 3: hand riffs on head. I was somewhat surprised that the
Speaker 3: book didn't make it into your narrative, as it has
Speaker 3: some pretty interesting views. According to Mike. Quote and there
Speaker 3: are a few substitutions in here for clarity. With the
Speaker 3: Monkey movie, Bert Schneider and Bob Rafelson had decided to
Speaker 3: kill the monster they thought they had created, and they
Speaker 3: asked Jack Nicholson to help. They also asked the four
Speaker 3: principal cast players Davy, Mickey, Peter, and Me to participate.
Speaker 3: At first, I thought the suggestion was simply for the
Speaker 3: four monkeys to join in on a trip to Ohi
Speaker 3: and smoke dope, hang out with Bert and Bob and
Speaker 3: Jack and race golf carts around the hotel. But no,
Speaker 3: they were serious about the four of us actually contributing
Speaker 3: to the screenplay. But then Bruce says He goes on
Speaker 3: to say that it didn't work out because quote, we
Speaker 3: were not drawn together. And then Bruce says, there is
Speaker 3: a great quote about what Bert Schneider thought about the
Speaker 3: screenplay quote. He Bert described it to me, Mike as
Speaker 3: a wild gamble. He said he thought it would either
Speaker 3: be recognized and revered or reviled and unsung. There would
Speaker 3: be no in between and no ambivalence. Millions would attend
Speaker 3: or no one would attend. He was right.
Speaker 2: Then.
Speaker 3: Bruce shares that Mike Nesmith's take on Head is this
Speaker 3: quote drug addled, bizarre, obtuse and ignored as it was,
Speaker 3: the movie still became an actual driving force. Instead of
Speaker 3: destroying all things monkeys, it emblazoned them on pop culture permanently.
Speaker 3: Also an interesting take on the title. One of the
Speaker 3: parody elements of the film, according to Mike, was that
Speaker 3: Bob Rafelson wanted to include quote all his favorite genres
Speaker 3: from Westerns to David Lean type epics two quote the
Speaker 3: darkest thing on the planet. When Jack asked what that
Speaker 3: would be, Bob said, Victor Mature's hair. Victor Mature is
Speaker 3: the old Hollywood actor, like a you know, the sort
Speaker 3: of dashing leading man with always very very well quaffed hair.
Speaker 3: And yes, parts of the movie do take place within
Speaker 3: his hair. And so Bruce explains how, yes, they seized
Speaker 3: on that moment and they said, yes, that's it, that
Speaker 3: the movie must take place in Victor Mature's hair. Bruce says,
Speaker 3: as drug riffs go, it is one of the greats,
Speaker 3: and it would serve the serve as the magic carpet
Speaker 3: for the film. The serene fantasy behind the panicked psychedelia
Speaker 3: Victor Mature's hair would be heads quote Dia Jesus, and
Speaker 3: he says. Mike follows that with a cool story about
Speaker 3: how he unwittingly provided the solution to getting Victor Mature
Speaker 3: to participate in true Mike Nesmith's storytelling brilliance. The incident
Speaker 3: is hilarious. I would share it here, but it goes
Speaker 3: on for a number of pages and I couldn't do
Speaker 3: Mike justice by condensing it. Find a copy of the
Speaker 3: book can read it for yourself. Infinite Tuesday is about
Speaker 3: so much more than the monkeys, though. Mike was such
Speaker 3: an unrecognized talent, and he doesn't shrink away from as
Speaker 3: many faults as he tells the story. But that's a
Speaker 3: subject for another time. Thanks for shedding a spotlight on
Speaker 3: the seminal film and reminding me why I'm such a
Speaker 3: fan of these four guys. They truly do transcend pop
Speaker 3: culture of the sixties and music. Bruce Well, thank you,
Speaker 3: Bruce Well.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Actually, after Seth's recommendation to me in this episode, I
Speaker 3: did spend the following weekend. I was actually on a
Speaker 3: road trip and I listened to a bunch of Mike
Speaker 3: Nesmith's solo albums. At the first one, I think it's
Speaker 3: called Magnetic South maybe, but then also Nevada Fighter. There's
Speaker 3: one called pretty much your Standard ranch Stash, and I
Speaker 3: really enjoyed these. They're great sort of country rock, much
Speaker 3: like Graham Parsons or the Flying Burrito Brothers, similar kind
Speaker 3: of stuff, and it was really good.
Speaker 2: Very cool. Go ahead, let's go ahead and dive into
Speaker 2: some Dune feedback here.
Speaker 3: Oh boy.
Speaker 2: The first one comes to us from Lorenzo. Lorenzo says, Hi, Robin, Joe,
Speaker 2: I'm very pleased you're covering Dune two episodes. No less,
Speaker 2: I wanted to write to you regarding the sound design
Speaker 2: of the films of David Lynch, which I've been watching
Speaker 2: since I was a kid. Joe, you were looking to
Speaker 2: link Dune to subsequent Lynch films. Those soundscapes that persist
Speaker 2: in hum that made the air heavy. I would have
Speaker 2: propose that you could hear those films without seeing them. Thanks, Lorenzo.
Speaker 3: Oh, Lorenzo, So you're saying that you could almost like
Speaker 3: you could watch the movie without looking at the screen,
Speaker 3: just like by the sounds creating the atmosphere and all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe that's what he's saying here. And yeah,
Speaker 2: that seems like a strong case to be made there.
Speaker 3: I agree. Yeah, I love those David Lynch sounds. Wait,
Speaker 3: but you've been watching the sound the movies of David
Speaker 3: Lynch since you were a kid.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you'd start with Dune as a kid, right, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: and then branch out of the other things. I think
Speaker 2: that would that would be the best way to go.
Speaker 2: Like if I were to start my son on David
Speaker 2: Lynch and I was like really obsessed with getting him
Speaker 2: literate in David Lynch, Like that's that's where we would
Speaker 2: start at his age. Yeah, and even then I would
Speaker 2: be like, this is gonna be a lot.
Speaker 3: I'm just imagining like eight year old's watching Eraserhead.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, not not appropriate? Not appropriate?
Speaker 3: All right, Next one, I'm gonna do is this message
Speaker 3: from Steph. Steph says, Hi, Joe and Rob. I was
Speaker 3: playing Listener Mail today and it unlocked a core memory
Speaker 3: for me. My dad would rent a VCR when HBO
Speaker 3: had their free preview weekends to record whatever movies he
Speaker 3: could for free. One of our VHS tapes had the
Speaker 3: combo of National Lampoon's Vacation, which segued into the first
Speaker 3: part of Dune. In order to finish Dune, you had
Speaker 3: to put in another VHS tape, which then segued from
Speaker 3: the second part of Dune to Muppets Take Manhattan. Amazing.
Speaker 3: I don't think you could plan a more jarring transition
Speaker 3: from one style of movie to another. We had about
Speaker 3: a dozen tapes like that that would abruptly change from
Speaker 3: one genre to another with almost no warning. It was
Speaker 3: a wild time in home entertainment, but I remember but
Speaker 3: one I remember with such fondness. We eventually bought our
Speaker 3: very own VCRs, so then we always had something cool
Speaker 3: to watch if we were homesick from school. Because a
Speaker 3: kid could only take so much. Price is right when
Speaker 3: you weren't feeling well. Always enjoy your shows, but especially
Speaker 3: love weird house cinema. You have introduced me to so
Speaker 3: many great weird movies and reminded me of others that
Speaker 3: I had forgotten. When I saw that you were doing
Speaker 3: a two parter on the nineteen eighty four version of Dune,
Speaker 3: I let out an audible yes while making dinner that
Speaker 3: caused my husband to wonder what was going on. Thanks
Speaker 3: for all you do, staff.
Speaker 2: That's great. I'm glad I'm not the only one who
Speaker 2: had those tapes with like the three movies taped off
Speaker 2: of HBO on them. I was I was thinking a
Speaker 2: little bit more on this, and I could be wrong
Speaker 2: about like what each individual tape, you know, contained, but
Speaker 2: I vaguely remember there being a tape that maybe had Poltergeist,
Speaker 2: which I was terrified to watch, terrifying film, and I
Speaker 2: think it's still the effects hold up, Yeah, not get
Speaker 2: appropriate in my opinion. And then it had Raiders of
Speaker 2: the Lost Arc, which was one of my favorites. And
Speaker 2: then I think it also had the nineteen eighty four
Speaker 2: Robin Williams drama Moscow on the Hudson, which was not
Speaker 2: appropriate for children or even like interesting to children, but
Speaker 2: it was there.
Speaker 3: I had tapes like this as well, not from HBO.
Speaker 3: I don't recall us ever getting free free trials of
Speaker 3: HBO or anything. I guess I don't know. That must
Speaker 3: have been the thing somewhere else or something, but we
Speaker 3: didn't have that. We had stuff that was taped off
Speaker 3: of TV, sometimes with like jarring transitions where I got
Speaker 3: really good at doing this thing when I was a kid,
Speaker 3: where I would try to hit stop recording during the
Speaker 3: commercial breaks on the TV things and then started back up.
Speaker 3: But sometimes you'd miss your queue and then so like
Speaker 3: part of the movie would be gone, and then sometimes
Speaker 3: you'd accidentally tape over something. So yeah, my tapes were
Speaker 3: a mess, but I cherished them. Nonetheless.
Speaker 2: It's crazy looking back on how we use VHS technology
Speaker 2: at times to try and capture some sort of pristine
Speaker 2: cut of a film off of a television broadcast, like
Speaker 2: it was never going to be, like the video quality
Speaker 2: wasn't going to be good. You probably weren't going to
Speaker 2: have like the actual theatrical cut to any extent, and
Speaker 2: it's not like your removal of the advertisements was going
Speaker 2: to be seamless. And then fast forward till today, those
Speaker 2: sorts of tapes they're mostly only interesting if you have
Speaker 2: the commercial still on there if you still have studio
Speaker 2: not studio, but you know, TV station material on there,
Speaker 2: things other than the movie, which is gonna be in
Speaker 2: dreadful quality to begin with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and also the way they used to edit things
Speaker 3: for TV, not just for content, but just for run time,
Speaker 3: so there'd just be stuff cut out randomly to you know,
Speaker 3: to get it down to fit. Nothing's in the original
Speaker 3: aspect ratio.
Speaker 2: It's hilarious, Yeah, except in rare exceptions where you have
Speaker 2: films that have never come out in better quality, and
Speaker 2: there are there are still those out there for sure.
Speaker 3: Let's see Rob. Do you mind if I do this
Speaker 3: last message from Constantinos here? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes do?
Speaker 3: Constantinos says so apropos of nothing in particular. Here is
Speaker 3: a twenty ten fat Boy Slim video of Christopher Walkin
Speaker 3: dancing to the song Weapon of Choice. Note the lyrics
Speaker 3: at about two minutes into the song. The lyrics are
Speaker 3: walking without rhythm, it won't attract the worm. Uh, And
Speaker 3: it just keeps repeating that until finally it says, if
Speaker 3: you walk without rhythm, you never learn.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Just a little note. I don't think I realized this
Speaker 3: until I looked the song up. But the vocals on
Speaker 3: this song are by Bootsy Collins.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, yeah, I think they're altered a little bit,
Speaker 2: but yeah, that's that's Bootsy in there.
Speaker 3: But this is a This is a classic fat Boy
Speaker 3: Slim video directed by Spike Jones, I believe with yeah,
Speaker 3: with Christopher Walkin dancing, and Christopher Walkin of course was
Speaker 3: a dancer, so you know he can he can handle it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, you also see him dancing and What Pennies
Speaker 2: from Heaven? I believe he dances in that film as well.
Speaker 3: I've seen it.
Speaker 2: Oh it's pretty good as racllp in a while, but yeah,
Speaker 2: he definitely cuts a rug in this in this Fat
Speaker 2: Boy Slim video. I I I do vividly remember it
Speaker 2: when it first debuted on MTV, and uh it's it's
Speaker 2: a great track as well. I mean, fat Boy Slim
Speaker 2: had some real some some really good hits. Album Better
Speaker 2: Living Through Chemistry from nineteen ninety six was pretty phenomenal.
Speaker 3: Anyway, coming back to Constantinos's message, I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 3: this is video evidence that Christopher Walkin manifested the newest
Speaker 3: Dune movie just by sheer force of will or can
Speaker 3: you just believe it is a happy coincidence that this
Speaker 3: man happened to be cast in Dune a decade after
Speaker 3: this wonderful jazz somba fusion dance ode to Shi hulud.
Speaker 3: Because there is no Illuminati and birds are real, just
Speaker 3: trying to keep doing weird Thank you for a fun
Speaker 3: edition of Weird House Cinema. Now do the series, and
Speaker 3: then Constantinos includes a link and says regards, well, thank
Speaker 3: you very much for the message, and thank you for
Speaker 3: giving me an excuse to watch this video again. I
Speaker 3: really enjoyed it, and I truly I don't think I
Speaker 3: had ever noticed the quote from Dune in it before.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, walk without rhythm so you don't attract
Speaker 2: the word yeah. Apparently someone asked him about this in
Speaker 2: a recent interview, and he said that he never realized
Speaker 2: there was a Dune connection in it until he was
Speaker 2: cast in the recent Dune Part two film, and then
Speaker 2: someone pointed it out to him.
Speaker 3: Must be magic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but absolutely great track, still holds up, great music video.
Speaker 3: Okay, should we wrap it up there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go ahead and wrap it up. But we'd
Speaker 2: love to hear from everyone out there if you have
Speaker 2: more thoughts about Dune, If you have thoughts about any past, current,
Speaker 2: and potential future episodes of Weird House Cinema Stuff to
Speaker 2: Blow Your Mind Core episodes, of course, also any of
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