1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 3 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: Listener mail. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick, 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: and it's Monday, the day of the week that we 5 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,080 Speaker 1: bring you some of the messages that you've sent in 6 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 1: over over the past few cycles of the show. Uh, 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 1: let's see, rob Should I start off with this one 8 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: about crabs? Oh? Please do? Okay? This is from Nick. 9 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 1: Nick says, I'm catching up on some of the Stuff 10 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: to Blow Your Mind backlogged episodes, and I just finished 11 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: your second episode about crabs and food. My brain connecting 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: crabs and food? Why not cookie dough crab? This a 13 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 1: little confusing, but but he makes sense of it. Nick says, 14 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: a few months ago, this picture of a sponge crab 15 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: came across my feet and it took me the better 16 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: part of the morning to determine if it was a 17 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:02,279 Speaker 1: crab that looked cookie dough or if someone made a 18 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: cookie that looked like a crab. Either way, delicious regards 19 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,960 Speaker 1: Nick uh Nick, I would be really impressed if this 20 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 1: was actually cookie dough. This does look like a real decapod. 21 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: Crustacean to me, But I see exactly what you're saying, 22 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: because you're dead on the text you're covering this animal 23 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: looks exactly like we're all cookie dough. And I can't 24 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: tell because I don't know what species this is. This 25 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: is just an image from the internet. It does look real, 26 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: not faked, but I can't tell if this is like 27 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: an animal with wet sand stuck to it, or if 28 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: this is just what the carapace of this crab species 29 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: looks like. Well then the end, they are also a 30 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,400 Speaker 1: number of different types of sponge crab. I'm kind of 31 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: stand but I do remember when this was making the 32 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: rounds Initially. I think one of the things that jumped 33 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: out to me the most is that the crab essentially 34 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: looks like the ginger dead Man from the two thousand 35 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: five Full Moon picture starring Gary Busey. That is a 36 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: very unfair comparison to make to this this beautiful Arthur pod. 37 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: But yeah, I want to know more. Is this sand 38 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: or is it not sand? Could it really be that 39 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:13,399 Speaker 1: the crabs shell looks like that has that kind of wet, granular, 40 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: cracked appearance seems too perfect? Yeah, Yeah, I mean I 41 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: think they have like a spongy looking shell, but we 42 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,239 Speaker 1: have don't think we've actually looked at them like covered 43 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: them on the show before. We've covered a number of 44 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: different types of crabs, so who knows, we'll have to 45 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: come back with with more crab content in the future. 46 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: All right, A speaking of other organisms that we have 47 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: covered on the show, here's a bit of listener male 48 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:47,239 Speaker 1: from Sarah the subject ditch which this areas of course, 49 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: responding to our episodes on the tumbleweed. Hi, guys, I 50 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 1: recently listened to your episode about the tumbleweed or ditch 51 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: which I found the information about the possible origin of 52 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: some of the plants commonly known as tumbleweeds very interesting. 53 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: I am ascended it from and live in an area 54 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: of Kansas settled by Volga Germans or Germans from Russia 55 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: who immigrated to the Great Plains in the late eighteen hundreds. 56 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 1: Due to its similarities to the Russian steps. There are 57 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 1: also communities of Volga Germans in South Dakota. I find 58 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 1: the theory about the Russian thistle seed being unintentionally introduced 59 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: by contaminated grain plausible. I know that many of these 60 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,239 Speaker 1: immigrants brought other plants seeds with them on purpose. For example, 61 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: a berry of the nightshade family called schwartz barren uh, 62 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: commonly called blackberries. This berry is not well known outside 63 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: of Volga German communities, but I have fond memories of 64 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: picking buckets of them in my grandparents backyard and eating 65 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: delicious pies and kutchins made by the family. In performing 66 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: genealogical research, I have found that this berry is also 67 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: found in Volga German communities. In South Dakota and elsewhere. 68 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: The Russian thistle and other tumbleweeds are very well known 69 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: here in my rural area, high winds and tumbleweeds are common. 70 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: But about a month ago we had a windstorm that 71 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: was out of season and had win ends up to 72 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: almost a hundred miles per hour in some places. Many 73 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: areas lost power due to the winds, and anything not 74 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: held down disappeared from yards and lots. The day after 75 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: the storm, I had to travel for work, and it 76 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: was incredible how many tumbleweeds were caught in the miles 77 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: and miles of barbed wire fences. It sounds hyperbolic, but 78 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: they were so thickly pushed into the fences and piled 79 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 1: so high on top of one another that you could 80 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 1: not see through the fences. Being used to running over 81 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,039 Speaker 1: the occasional tumblewheed on the highway, I can't imagine what 82 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: it would have been like to drive through the windstorm. Anyway, 83 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: Thanks for always providing such a great show, and keep 84 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,799 Speaker 1: up the great work, sincerely, Sarah. Oh, thanks Sarah. Well, 85 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 1: but now I want to know or the schwartz speer, 86 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: and so you say they're not well known outside of 87 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: these communities, so that makes me think they're different than 88 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: other blackberries. They're just a different fruit also called blackberries. 89 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: I don't know if you know anything about schwartzpeer and 90 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:58,280 Speaker 1: I do not. This one is a new one on me. 91 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 1: But just quick sir on the subject seems to seems 92 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 1: to back up the claim here. Okay, I just looked 93 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: them up. Yeah, they look more like kind of more 94 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 1: like blueberries. Yeah, I if I saw them, I might 95 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: be afraid to eat them, because they don't look like 96 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: blue blueberries I'm used to eating, you know, But they 97 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: look they look edible in the dangerous way to me, 98 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: like like it looks like I could eat them, so 99 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 1: I probably should not. But unless, of course, someone said 100 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,160 Speaker 1: these are safe to eat, you may eat of them, 101 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: and then I would say, yes, okay, I will have some. Well, actually, 102 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that this is a fruit that appears 103 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 1: to have thoroughly confused Google image search, because if you 104 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: do a Google image search for it, you get results 105 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: that are clearly blueberries, and results that are clearly the 106 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: commonly known blackberries, and then also these other things that 107 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: look sort of like blueberries. Well, I just ran across 108 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: a whole page about them on recipes from a German 109 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 1: grandma on online, So that seems to check out. Well, 110 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: isn't that nice? Well, yeah, I'm not. Who are you 111 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: gonna doubt somebody's German grandma? No, I would never I 112 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 1: would never doubt your berries. All right, I'm gonna read 113 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,599 Speaker 1: this next message from Owen, also about Tumbleweeds and says, hey, guys, 114 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: I love the first episode on Tumbleweeds, and oddly enough, 115 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:21,599 Speaker 1: I'm super excited to hear more. I live in Utah, 116 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: and although tumbleweeds don't seem especially common here, I did 117 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,720 Speaker 1: have a sort of wonderful moment with one last year. 118 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:30,280 Speaker 1: I live in a valley and my house sits right 119 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: up against the mountain. Side atop a series of mild 120 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 1: hills overlooking the main part of a city. Anyways, I 121 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: was walking up the road to my house on a 122 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: blustery winter day when I saw a tumbleweed ambling toward me. 123 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: I don't know why, but I couldn't take my eyes 124 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: off it. Maybe it was that unpredictable bouncing, but it was, 125 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: as you mentioned, almost like an animal. I watched it 126 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: as if it were a fox, moving toward me, then 127 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: slowly away. I watched it until it turned to bend 128 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 1: and was out of sight. I been the rest of 129 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 1: the walk home in awe. They may be a problem, 130 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,119 Speaker 1: but they are certainly a natural beauty in my eyes. 131 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: On a more comedic note, there's a scene in the 132 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: movie The Ridiculous Six where Adam Sandler sort of transforms 133 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 1: into a tumbleweed in order to sneak past a group 134 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: of men. Certainly bizarre, but I loved it. Here's a 135 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: link to the clip. I went and to watch this clip. 136 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: I all the best with whatever movies you like, but 137 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: I I have to note that he's making the you know, 138 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: the infamous Adam Sandler noises while he rolls in tumbleweed form, 139 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: so he's you know, Abby Dubie, and all the way 140 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: past the guards, he does look like he just trying. 141 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: I'm watching the clip now on mute and um so 142 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: I'm not getting to hear this wonderful soundary describing. But 143 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: he does appear to transform magically into a tumbleweed. Yes, 144 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: and then Owen Wilson's brother is there to watch him. 145 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: So how would you how would you describe the Adam 146 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: Sandler vocalization. It's like it's like angry baby. Yeah, there 147 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: is kind of an intentionally uh like you know, in 148 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: juvenile kind of silliness, uh, you know to the voice. Um, 149 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: I guess it's one of those those things that that 150 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: kind of took on a life of its own. Like 151 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: I don't know if he could stop doing it if 152 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: he wanted to write right, Yeah, now he just is 153 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: the Adam Sandler noise and and his body belongs to it. Yeah. Though, 154 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: I mean credit to Adam Sandler. He was really good 155 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: in that movie Uncut Jim's a couple of years back. 156 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: Oh man, that was a good one. Yeah, depressing, not 157 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: not not a feel good movie, but that he was. 158 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: He was quite good in it. Not a comedy. It 159 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: had some funny parts. Though, Yeah, but I agree, very 160 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 1: good in that. Oh but I gotta say also, Owen 161 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: includes another movie reference. I haven't seen either of these movies. 162 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: Uh so the first one is that Adam Sandler movie. 163 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: The second is the latest SpongeBob movie. He says it 164 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 1: was oddly funny, but he says there's a scene that's 165 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: oddly funny where Keanu Reeves is a tumble weed that 166 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: gives advice. Uh, though it seems to be implied that 167 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: he's made out of sage brush. Uh. And I found 168 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: one link of this scene that's one of those looped 169 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: for ten hours videos. I don't know somebody did that, 170 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: but they did well. This is this is actually very 171 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: well executed. I'm not current on my SpongeBob, so I 172 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 1: was just expecting the standard animated format. But this is 173 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: computer generated and with a real life Kanu Reeves inside 174 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 1: of this kind of beautiful tumbleweed looking structure. Very well executed. So, 175 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, I don't know if this is 176 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: a good thing to loop for ten hours. Something that's 177 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: a ten hour loop has to have a certain inherent 178 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 1: loop nous to it, like the ten hour Hipno Toad. 179 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: I think is my ideal. It's the platonic form of 180 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: the ten hour loop video. I mean, I guess at 181 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: this point you just you just probably create a lot 182 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: of ten hour videos of just about everything and just 183 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: throw them. Throw him on the wall and see what sticks, 184 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: see what takes off. Oh, I just thought of one. 185 00:09:57,760 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: I don't know. If it exists, you would be good. 186 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,839 Speaker 1: It would be a ten the hour loop of uh 187 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: ned rein Jurassic Park going. Ah, you didn't say the 188 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: magic word. Uhh. I mean I'd be surprised if it 189 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 1: doesn't exist already. Anyway, thanks for getting a touch owen Rob. 190 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: You want to do the next one? All right? What 191 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: do we have? Uh, it's a duck episode. It's a 192 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: duck email. Now it's a tumbleweed one. It's titled Duck 193 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:30,079 Speaker 1: a tumblewheed Um. This is from Meg. Meg writes as 194 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: asked a New Mexico voice, but maybe not with answers 195 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 1: to your questions as a transplant from Cleveland. I loved 196 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 1: your opening discussion about driving and the tumbleweed onslaught bilemma 197 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: do I hit the big one or the bigger one? 198 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: I still recall moving here and seeing my first real 199 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: tumbleweed roll in front of me and having the holy crap, 200 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 1: it's real moment, and it has never left. I regularly 201 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: pause class to point out one rolling by the window, 202 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 1: and recall odd moments in lacrosse coaching when I had 203 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 1: to pause practice until the tumbleweeds rolled across the field. 204 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: Spring is crazy windy in Avluquerque. If you're ever passing 205 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 1: through again at Christmas time, right near the Big Eye 206 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: where I fort cross, there is a huge tumbleweeds snowman. Okay, 207 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,719 Speaker 1: I think I'd seen stuff online about tumbleweed snowman. I 208 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: don't think I saw one when I was there, but 209 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: I was in this area anyway. Meg continues another thought. 210 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 1: Road runners, another Southwest thing that still makes me stop 211 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: and pause. Watching them hunt in my front yard is 212 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 1: so cool. You really cannot but see micro raptors stalking 213 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: their prey. They have I have had many a clever 214 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 1: girl moments. As one slowly approaches me cox its head, 215 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: looks at me, clicks and runs away. I know it's 216 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: thinking if only it was bigger, it could attack. If 217 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: you haven't done a podcast on the continuation of Avian 218 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 1: dinos into birds, that would be cool. Oh thanks, meg 219 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 1: uh I don't know if that's ever been the subject 220 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: by itself of a podcast, but it comes up all 221 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 1: the time. But road runners, j oh, they are dinosaurs 222 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: that like, they are the dinosaurs that did not die 223 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 1: out at the at the KPg extinction. I sadly only 224 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 1: have one verified road runner siding to my credit. And 225 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:13,679 Speaker 1: it was one of these situations where I saw it 226 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: and then I described it to someone and I was like, 227 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: was that a roadrunner? And they're like, oh, yeah, yeah, 228 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,319 Speaker 1: that was probably a roadrunner. So I didn't really get 229 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 1: to appreciate it in the moment so much. The real 230 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 1: clue is when it paints a tunnel opening on a 231 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 1: on a cliff face and then you run into it. Yeah. 232 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: I mean that's that's probably what was the confusing thing 233 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: about it is they don't really look like the cartoon 234 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,479 Speaker 1: road runner. Uh they do? They look more like dinosaurs, 235 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:40,839 Speaker 1: um and uh. And I guess that the one I 236 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: saw it, it seems it looks like scraggier than the 237 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,199 Speaker 1: ones I see in pictures. I don't know, maybe they 238 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: just had a run in with a dynamite laden coyote 239 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: or something. I know what you And I guess Meg 240 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: was saying the same thing. I know what Meg and 241 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,439 Speaker 1: you are saying about them looking like dinosaurs, though, folks, 242 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: have you never seen a road Runner? Look one up? 243 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 1: They they look like an illustration from one of the 244 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: more current dinosaur books. Yeah, speaking of avian dinosaurs, um 245 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 1: my mind. That turns back to our previous discussions on 246 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: on the basilisk, which in some incarnations, you know, are 247 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,719 Speaker 1: artistic representations they look like avian dinosaurs, you know, or 248 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: they look more they end up looking more like chickens, 249 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 1: I guess. But I have to say the second season 250 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: of The Witcher, which which we finished, uh, it has 251 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:33,839 Speaker 1: some some basilists show up in the final episode, and 252 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: they really brought them to life in an interesting way. 253 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,719 Speaker 1: They essentially look like big dinosaurs without looking too much 254 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 1: like dinosaurs. Very cool feathered monsters. I know. For some reason, 255 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: I see my future. I'm breaking down on this. At 256 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:49,560 Speaker 1: some point Rachel and I are going to end up 257 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: watching this Witcher show or we you know, like I said, 258 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 1: like actually watching it instead of just like briefly glazing 259 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: at the first episode. Yeah, I've I've enjoyed it. It's 260 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: um you know, it's uh, it's The Witcher. Um, so 261 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: you know, you gotta go into a certain expectations, but 262 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:11,319 Speaker 1: I don't know. I've I've I've got into it. It's 263 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 1: got some good magic, some good monsters, and uh and 264 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 1: ultimately I think it does some good character stuff. You know. 265 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: I hate to be the person who has a weird 266 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: plausibility nitpick with the show that's full of fantasy and magic. Anyway, 267 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: the one thing that always gets me about the Witcher, 268 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: this is there in the video games too, is dude 269 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: he has he carries his long sword in a thing 270 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: on his back. You know, you your arm isn't long 271 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 1: enough to pull it out of a scabbard on your back. 272 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: That's why people keep the scabbard on their side. I mean, like, 273 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: just imagine trying to do that yourself. Like the blade 274 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: is too long, it's longer than your arm is, so 275 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: you can't actually get it out of the holster if 276 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: it's on your back. True. Yeah, yeah, I mean I 277 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: I do find myself pausing at times and thinking about that. 278 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: That's sort of kind of like a guitar case on 279 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: his back swords in it, which seems to imply not 280 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: not like a quick draw Situa should have been more 281 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: of like I'm a professional. I ever now arrived at 282 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: the scene. I will now prepare my weapons and kind 283 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: of go in. I don't know, Oh, well, that makes 284 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: sense I'm thinking about. I guess maybe it's different in 285 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: the show and the games. He just wears them like 286 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 1: a person would wear, you know, like he can draw 287 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: them quickly from the scabbard, but they're on the back. 288 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 1: I don't know why that drives me crazy. I don't know. 289 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: I I'd have to have to rewatch some of the 290 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: episodes to really weigh in on that. I don't I 291 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: don't remember exactly exactly how he pulls out his swords, 292 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: but once he does, he just really slings them around. 293 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe that's magic too, it is a magic scabbard. Anyway, cool, 294 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: basilis I recommend the bast Okay, Well, I look forward 295 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: to seeing them all right, Well, I think maybe we 296 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 1: should jump ahead to a response. We got to our 297 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: Weird House Cinema episode on Jack frost Ak a Moro's 298 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: co the the Russian fairy Tale Christmas Time Movie, and 299 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: this was a message we got from Natalia. It was 300 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: a really excellent letter that was very long, so I 301 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: had to edit it down A good bit are you ready, Rob, 302 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: I'm ready, let's do it. This is a this is 303 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: a great emo. I really enjoyed this one. Yeah, so 304 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: I'll say I'll summarize a bit at the beginning on 305 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: Natalia starts off by saying some very nice things about 306 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: the show, and she introduces herself as Natalia from a 307 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: city in Russia called Kazan, Kazan or Kazan. I think 308 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 1: I've seen it pronounced both ways, um, but anyway. She 309 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: gives some personal background, saying that she has the Russian 310 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: equivalent of a PhD in biology and once worked in BioResearch, 311 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: but then later in life got interested in English, which 312 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: she now teaches professionally. And she says she's been listening 313 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: to the show for a while but finally had to 314 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: write in after our episode on this very familiar movie, 315 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: because she says she's fifty years old now and grew 316 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 1: up watching Morosco at least once every year. Apparently our 317 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 1: episode gave her the idea to use Russian movies dubbed 318 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: into English in her English classes. And if I understand right, 319 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 1: it sounds like she she's saying that she developed a 320 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: multimedia lesson in her classes involving a dubbed version of 321 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:14,679 Speaker 1: moros Co and our Weird House Cinema episode which she says, 322 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 1: as she says, was a hit with her students ages 323 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 1: sixteen to thirty two. And if that is true, that 324 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 1: that is so nice to hear. But from here, I'll 325 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: just go into the text to the email where she 326 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:29,400 Speaker 1: shares some Russian cultural insights on questions that we had 327 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: about the movie. There's there were some things where we 328 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,159 Speaker 1: were like, I don't know if this is like a 329 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: historical Russian thing or if this is just a weird 330 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: thing about this movie on its own. Yeah, Like is 331 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 1: this something isolated to a folk tale or is this 332 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:47,399 Speaker 1: something that is indicative of of a larger reality and 333 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 1: Russian culture? Yeah? Uh so? And I tell your rites. 334 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: As a gesture of appreciation, I'd like to make some comments. 335 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: Not sure you'll find them useful, but you wondered in 336 00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: the episode, and this is the least I can do. 337 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 1: First of all, regarding hair now as a as a 338 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: bit of explanation, Remember there is a lot of attention 339 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:10,920 Speaker 1: paid to hair and braids in Morosko. For example, the 340 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:14,399 Speaker 1: wicked stepmother is often threatening some kind of violence to 341 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: Nastia's braid, so like, she's she'll threaten to cut off 342 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 1: her braid as some kind of dire warning. Yeah, or 343 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: especially the step sister really wants Mama to cut off 344 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: that braid. Cut off her braid, Mama, that you And 345 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:30,880 Speaker 1: she's like, well, what will I pull her by? Then? 346 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,479 Speaker 1: Right to cut off the step sister's braid. Yes, steps 347 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 1: cut off the stepsister's braid. Yeah, it's it's too beautiful, 348 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: so to tell your rights. The tradition of particular respect 349 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 1: to hair goes back to pagan times. Our ancestors believed 350 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 1: that one who held your hair held your destiny in 351 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,399 Speaker 1: their hands. That's why cut or combed out hair was 352 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,919 Speaker 1: never ever thrown away. Hair was thought to be a 353 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: source of wisdom and strength, and hair style was very 354 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: informative than men and women. I read that Russian warriors 355 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 1: used to shave their heads, leaving a single strand on 356 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: the top, which they braided, supposedly pulling that braid. A 357 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 1: Slavic god uh Svarog either took the luckiest sons of 358 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: his from the battlefield or transported the deceased heroes to 359 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,679 Speaker 1: the other side, although in most pictures warriors simply have 360 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: long hair. And then she goes on to explain some 361 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 1: of the traditions about what you were supposed to do 362 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,159 Speaker 1: with your hair in these older times. She says that 363 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 1: girls started growing hair approaching their teenage years. Girls should 364 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: always wear their hair in a single braid. If a 365 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:42,439 Speaker 1: young maid was engaged, she changed the way of weaving 366 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: a ribbon into her braid. Married women wore two braids 367 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 1: a symbol of tuneness and covered the hair completely. For 368 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: showing your hair in public was a dreadful shame and 369 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:56,159 Speaker 1: nearly a deadly sin. Spinsters were not allowed to have 370 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:59,360 Speaker 1: two braids, no matter the age. Widows cut their hair 371 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 1: and large the hair and braid was not only the 372 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:06,120 Speaker 1: sign of physical health, but the main asset of a bride, 373 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: and a groom had to pay for it a separate 374 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: charge to the family. Losing a braid was a real 375 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 1: disaster and shame, and the girl or woman had to 376 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: stay at home until it grew back. Cutting off the 377 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: braid was one of the severest punishments. M uh, and 378 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: this is interesting in a lot of this kind of 379 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: reminds me of traditions that we talked about, you remember, 380 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 1: Rob in our episode on on nail trimmings, We got 381 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: into that history of Religions paper by Bruce Lincoln, the 382 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 1: religion scholar, about about lots of different traditions from widely 383 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 1: disparate religions, about how you're like all this special care 384 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:49,919 Speaker 1: taken to properly dispose of cuttings from people's hair and 385 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: their fingernails or toenails, and that he there were a 386 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 1: number of different explanations for for these traditions, but Lincoln's 387 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 1: idea was that it went back to the creation myth 388 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:06,239 Speaker 1: of the Proto Indo European religion that had something to 389 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:10,159 Speaker 1: do with a person being killed and then their body 390 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 1: turning into the earth, so that the vegetation of the 391 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 1: earth was the growing of of this dead body's hair, 392 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,120 Speaker 1: and thus like, in order to sort of live your 393 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: life according to this sacred myth, you had to take 394 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,080 Speaker 1: special care about what happened to your hair because in 395 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,879 Speaker 1: a way it was a symbol of the fertility of 396 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 1: the earth itself and the crops. M hmmm, yeah, yeah, 397 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:34,399 Speaker 1: that was That was a fun episode. And you're getting 398 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,640 Speaker 1: into also the uh, like fingernail ships and all the myth. 399 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that's a good one. But of course 400 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,400 Speaker 1: she doesn't just share information about about braids. She also 401 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:48,359 Speaker 1: gets into the sleeping arrangements in the movie, which we 402 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: had some questions about. And uh and this this was 403 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: very insightful as well. Oh yeah, that's right. So to 404 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 1: tell you it goes on. She says, you were absolutely 405 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: right about Marfushka's bed. Remember, Marfushka is the mean step 406 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 1: sister who sleeps in this weird thing that looks like 407 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 1: a crib. And we were like, to people actually have 408 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: beds like that or is that saying like she's just 409 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: a spoiled baby or something. So Natalia says, you're absolutely 410 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: right about Marfushka's bed. It is a fictional feature, I 411 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 1: would say, put in the scene exactly to emphasize her 412 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: over indulged attitude. Teens did not sleep in cribs. In fact, 413 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 1: you probably noticed that Marfushka's mother also has some fancy 414 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 1: wooden bed with a carved headboard, whilst her husband sleeps 415 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: on the quote Russian stove. Those are also signs of 416 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: the family hierarchy and privileges. But in general, a long 417 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 1: time ago, kids and elderly people in Russian villages slept 418 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:42,439 Speaker 1: either on the back of the Russian stove or on 419 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: the huge shelves high up under the ceiling, usually adjacent 420 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 1: to the stove called. Um. I'm not sure I'm saying 421 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 1: this right, but I think polotty I guess in English 422 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: transliteration p O L A t I. But she says 423 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 1: those were the warmest places in a hut. And then 424 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: she attaches and an image that shows a more modern 425 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,880 Speaker 1: house that's sort of a recreation of of the format 426 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: of an old Russian hut that would have this big 427 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,400 Speaker 1: I guess stone or earthenware stove that would probably get 428 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: warm and stay warm throughout the night. And then right 429 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: next to that there's like a bunk for sleeping that's 430 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: up near where the ceiling is. Yeah, now this is interesting. UM. 431 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 1: I remember when we did I guess this is the 432 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 1: invention episode we did on beds. At one point we 433 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: talked about some similar approaches to sleeping arrangements that you 434 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 1: encountered in UM, in Chinese culture certainly, and I think 435 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:42,360 Speaker 1: maybe more than northern climates. UM don't recall off hand, Uh, 436 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,640 Speaker 1: but yeah, that this idea of like a bed stove, 437 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 1: which which ultimately makes a lot of sense when you're 438 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: especially when you're imagining and a more traditional living environment 439 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,679 Speaker 1: where you have this this uh, this stove, this uh 440 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: this this engine, this place of heat that you've invested 441 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: resources into. Um. You know, of course you want to 442 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: sleep next to that or on top of that, if if, 443 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 1: if possible. Uh So that's interesting. And I love this 444 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 1: picture that she included of of of the the Russian hut, 445 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 1: the traditional Russian hut situation with the Russian stove. Yeah, yeah, 446 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,120 Speaker 1: this is really interesting. So I would say everything about 447 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 1: the sleeping arrangements in the movie then is realistic, except 448 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: for the fact that Marfushka is in a crib. I 449 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: think that's just because that's because like she's like weird 450 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: and messed up. Yeah. And then finally Nasalia says, it 451 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: can't be helped. I'm going to recommend you yet another 452 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,880 Speaker 1: couple of Russian movies. One of them stars in a Churakova, 453 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: whom you're familiar with already. Inaturakova was the act the 454 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 1: actress who plays Marfushka. Uh. Natalia says. Both movies were 455 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:50,719 Speaker 1: directed by the tremendously successful and very popular film director 456 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: Mark Zakharov. The movies are the very same Munchausen and 457 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 1: the House that swift built. I thought you might like them, 458 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,360 Speaker 1: although I'm not sure if her dubbed copies. And then 459 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: she provides a couple of links. In the end, she 460 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,080 Speaker 1: wraps up by saying, I wishing nothing but the best, 461 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 1: fondest regards, and I tell you so anyway, thank you 462 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: so much for this excellent letter. I am so happy 463 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,360 Speaker 1: to hear our episodes have been useful in teaching English. 464 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 1: So it's funny that's not the first time we've had 465 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: somebody say that. At least one other person has written 466 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,680 Speaker 1: in before saying they were using our episodes in UH 467 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 1: English as a foreign language classes, and and that always 468 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,639 Speaker 1: gives me a slight chill because I'm wondering what bad 469 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:34,399 Speaker 1: language habits of mine I'm accidentally passing on right right 470 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: right now, I feel the same way. I want to 471 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 1: say it was somebody teaching English as a as a 472 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,360 Speaker 1: foreign language in um in part of China. I could 473 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,679 Speaker 1: be mistaken on that. Yeah, we did hear that at 474 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: least once, and certainly thanks for the movie recommendations. We're 475 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: always always delighted to discover and explore new motion pictures 476 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 1: just in general, but also a fair weird house. I 477 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: know that we have at least a couple, probably more 478 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: than a couple of Russian films on the to watch list. 479 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: I know there's a there's a horror film in there, 480 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: and then various science fiction features. Yeah yeah, but I 481 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: guess the list of Russian films is getting larger because 482 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 1: we'll have to add these two to it. Yeah, I 483 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: mean anytime as a shot at a mooch house in film. 484 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,879 Speaker 1: That sounds fun. Yeah. All right, Well, we're gonna go 485 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: ahead and close the mail bag for today, but certainly 486 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 1: go ahead right into us. Let us know if you 487 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: have any thoughts, feedback um expertise to share regarding anything 488 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 1: we've covered on the show. Core episodes of Stuff to 489 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 1: Blow Your Mind there are listener mail episodes, are are 490 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 1: artifact episodes on Wednesdays, or of course our weird House cinemas. 491 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: All of it is fair game right in and we 492 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 1: will read what you have to say. 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