WEBVTT - Listener Mail: Special Order 937

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind Listener Mail.

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<v Speaker 2>My name is Robert Lamb.

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<v Speaker 3>And I am Joe McCormick. And it's Monday, the day

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<v Speaker 3>of each week that we read back messages from the

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<v Speaker 3>Stuff to Blow Your Mind email address. If you've never

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<v Speaker 3>to give it a try, this is the week try

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<v Speaker 3>it out. You can email us at contact at stuff

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<v Speaker 3>of messages. Of course, we always like feedback to recent episodes,

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<v Speaker 3>especially if you have something interesting to add to a

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<v Speaker 3>topic we've talked about. Let's see Rob If you don't mind,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm going to kick things off with this message from Jeff.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's do it, Jeff.

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<v Speaker 3>This is a response to last week's listener mail, in

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<v Speaker 3>which we also featured a message by Jeff. Last time,

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<v Speaker 3>Jeff wrote in with a second hand story or maybe

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<v Speaker 3>a third hand story about a scuba diver suffering a

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<v Speaker 3>gro tesk fish bite after harassing some wildlife. And he

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<v Speaker 3>included a note in that message about scuba divers laughing.

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<v Speaker 3>And I was wondering how can you tell if people

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<v Speaker 3>are laughing and they're like in the scuba gear and

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<v Speaker 3>all that. But Jeff has an answer. He says, I

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<v Speaker 3>wanted to answer Joe's question about how you can tell

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<v Speaker 3>someone is laughing when they're scuba diving. A group of

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<v Speaker 3>us went on a night dive, and as we got

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<v Speaker 3>settled on the sandy bottom, waiting for the entire group

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<v Speaker 3>to make their way down the buoy line, we noticed

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<v Speaker 3>a loggerhead turtle sleeping on the ocean floor. Of course,

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<v Speaker 3>everyone did exactly what you are not supposed to do

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<v Speaker 3>and surrounded it, shining our dive lights directly at it.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh no, This quite predictably freaked out the turtle, who

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<v Speaker 3>charged straight ahead and didn't quite clear my father as

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<v Speaker 3>it ascended, bonking him in the forehead with its beak.

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<v Speaker 3>This caused my father's dive buddy to laugh quite audibly

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<v Speaker 3>for some time. Dad was fine. He had a red

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<v Speaker 3>mark on his forehead when he came up, but no

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<v Speaker 3>permanent damage. He later remarked that he was thinking, Wow,

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<v Speaker 3>this is just like one of those three D movies.

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<v Speaker 2>That's great.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know if we've ever had a turtle coming

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<v Speaker 3>at the screen. In one of those, we've had ping

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<v Speaker 3>pong balls or not ping pong balls? What's the wax

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<v Speaker 3>Museum movie? What is Oh, it's the paddleballs the three D.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, people holding out coffee cups at the at

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<v Speaker 3>the screen. But I don't know if I've seen a

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<v Speaker 3>turtle anyway, Jeff says his buddy retold the story for years,

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<v Speaker 3>always making sure to mimic the look on my father's face.

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<v Speaker 3>Sometimes i'd hear other divers ask, is that the guy

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<v Speaker 3>who got attacked by the turtle? Night dives, by the way,

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<v Speaker 3>are much cooler than you might expect. Many creatures who

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<v Speaker 3>were hiding during the day are on the move at night.

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<v Speaker 3>And while it's true that your world becomes limited to

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<v Speaker 3>the dive light beam without significant visibility, you really focus

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<v Speaker 3>on the details of what's in front of you. Since

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<v Speaker 3>you're bringing your own light source, you can actually see

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<v Speaker 3>the true colors of the organisms on the reef when

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<v Speaker 3>you're relying on sunlight during the day. As you go deeper,

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<v Speaker 3>all of the warm colors on the spectrum are filtered

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<v Speaker 3>out by the water above, leaving everything blue and gray.

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<v Speaker 3>If any of your gear has a rainbow design, on it.

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<v Speaker 3>You can watch the roy of ROYGBIV lose his colors

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<v Speaker 3>one at a time as you descend. Oh that's interesting.

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<v Speaker 3>At night, if conditions are right and everyone turns off

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<v Speaker 3>their lights, you can wave your arm and agitate the

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<v Speaker 3>bioluminescent plankton. A trail of light will follow your arm

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<v Speaker 3>like a trippy acid rock video. Anyway, getting back to

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<v Speaker 3>your original point, yes, you very much can hear a

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<v Speaker 3>scuba diver laughing underwater. The sound travels a short distance,

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<v Speaker 3>and there's no issue with the dive apparatus if you

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<v Speaker 3>want to laugh or yell or cough or pretty much

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<v Speaker 3>anything else. In fact, the dive instructor explained to us

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<v Speaker 3>that regulators are so safe that you can vomit into

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<v Speaker 3>them without compromising their effectiveness or endangering your breathing. This

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<v Speaker 3>opened up a lot of questions and wasn't as reassuring

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<v Speaker 3>as it was meant to be. Oh, Jeff, yeah, that

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<v Speaker 3>I mean it sounds reassuring. I would not be tempted

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<v Speaker 3>to try it out. Jeff finishes by saying, thanks again

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<v Speaker 3>for triggering lateral thinking and shaking up our neurons on

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<v Speaker 3>a regular basis.

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<v Speaker 2>Jeff, Oh, yeah, yeah, thanks for writing in about all that,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I've done my share of snorkeling, but I've

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<v Speaker 2>never done any night snorkeling, despite being some places where

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<v Speaker 2>there was that opportunity, or been places where there was

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<v Speaker 2>some sort of like an excursion one could go on.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I like doing it in the sunlight.

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<v Speaker 2>I like a nice, strong, strong bit of sunlight coming through,

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<v Speaker 2>and I like doing it in the shallow waters. That's

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<v Speaker 2>just where I am as an ocean going human at

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<v Speaker 2>this point in my life.

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<v Speaker 3>Isn't there a specific phobia that's like not just water,

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<v Speaker 3>but dark water, like water you can't see through.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know what that's mean. So yeah, I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not a big fan of dark water, but I wouldn't.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm necessarily afraid of it a number of reasons. I

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<v Speaker 2>haven't gotten into the scuba thing, I guess, but anytime

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<v Speaker 2>I go snorkeling, there are almost always scuba people around,

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<v Speaker 2>and I hear fantastic accounts of what they're up to.

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<v Speaker 2>It sounds great. I don't know. There's a lot more,

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<v Speaker 2>obviously to scuba diving compared to snorkeling. Snorkeling is a

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<v Speaker 2>lot more casual in many respects, and I respect anybody

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<v Speaker 2>who can, you know, get in there and really master

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<v Speaker 2>the whole scuba diving system. It sounds like they get

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<v Speaker 2>to see some really cool sights, all right. This next

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<v Speaker 2>one comes to us from Jay. Jay writes Sin and says, Hello,

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<v Speaker 2>Robert and Joe. I want to start by saying I've

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<v Speaker 2>been a fan of the show for a long time.

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<v Speaker 2>I love to learn new things, and even if I

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<v Speaker 2>don't think I'll be a fan of a topic, you

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<v Speaker 2>always manage to make each episode enjoyable and interesting. And

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<v Speaker 2>while I very much enjoy the flagship episodes, I absolutely

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<v Speaker 2>love weird House cinema. My recommendation for the show is

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<v Speaker 2>the nineteen seventy three German sci fi film World on

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<v Speaker 2>a Wire, directed by Renier Werner Fassbender, currently available to

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<v Speaker 2>stream on the Criterion Channel. Ah. I am not a

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<v Speaker 2>current subscriber to Criterion Channel, but I have dipped in

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<v Speaker 2>and out of it before for particular pictures, and they

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<v Speaker 2>do have a great selection.

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<v Speaker 3>I watched this movie on disc within the last year.

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<v Speaker 3>A friend of mine loaned it to me and I

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<v Speaker 3>thought it was incredibly interesting. So it's an adaptation of

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<v Speaker 3>a story I get. I don't know where the original

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<v Speaker 3>story is from, but the same idea was made into

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<v Speaker 3>a movie in the nineties called I Think The Thirteenth Floor,

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<v Speaker 3>but it's very supposedly that is a sillier adaptation. But

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<v Speaker 3>World and a Wire is very interesting. It's I don't know,

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<v Speaker 3>something that strikes me as like a very sort of

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<v Speaker 3>German filmmaking sensibility. There's kind of an architectualness about it,

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of featuring of rooms and buildings in a

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<v Speaker 3>prominent way. Like a lot of times the subject of

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<v Speaker 3>a shot, the character will be kind of mediated by

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<v Speaker 3>architectural features like walls and other things, sort of passing

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<v Speaker 3>in between the camera and the character as the character moves.

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<v Speaker 3>Stuff like that. But it's a really interesting film, and yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>maybe we will come back to it one day. I

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<v Speaker 3>guess it's an older movie so there's less concern about

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<v Speaker 3>spoiling it though. Warning this is a spoiler if you

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<v Speaker 3>know you don't know anything about it and you don't

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<v Speaker 3>want to know. But it does cover some similar themes

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<v Speaker 3>as kind of like the Matrix, but with a much

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<v Speaker 3>different tone.

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<v Speaker 2>Hmm. Interesting, Yeah, I mean a Fastpender is a well

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<v Speaker 2>known German director and looking around here. I let's got

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<v Speaker 2>some other people I'm familiar with from other things, like

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<v Speaker 2>Kurt rob Is in it. So yeah, I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>I should probably dive in. I don't think I've checked

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<v Speaker 2>out any of the Fastbender's films before anyway, Jay continues.

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<v Speaker 2>The main subject of my message today, though, is to

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<v Speaker 2>draw your attention to a table top role playing game

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<v Speaker 2>called Cloud Impress. It bills itself as an ecological science

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<v Speaker 2>fantasy RPG heavily inspired by the film NAUSICAA of the

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<v Speaker 2>Valley of the Wind. It is a post apocalyptic RPG

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<v Speaker 2>which takes place in a dangerous world and drops players

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<v Speaker 2>in an even more dangerous time. The emergence of a

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<v Speaker 2>century brewed a once in a hundred years cycle of

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<v Speaker 2>you Guessed It, giant psychics cicadas. One of the things

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<v Speaker 2>players can do in the game is harvest dead cicadas

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<v Speaker 2>for a substance called chalk, which can be used to

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<v Speaker 2>power weapons, and wizards can use it to power their magic.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a rules light system and is quick to pick

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<v Speaker 2>up in a blast to play, which I highly recommend.

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<v Speaker 2>You can get free rules and other resources at their

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<v Speaker 2>website and link is included here, but I think everyone

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<v Speaker 2>else can just look for it. Cloud Impress, ecological science, fantasy,

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<v Speaker 2>role playing. What's the uh, we're the publishers of this.

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<v Speaker 2>I should mentioned that.

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<v Speaker 3>I guess I think it was a kickstarter. Yeah, it

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<v Speaker 3>looks like it was. I don't know if that means

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<v Speaker 3>it's an independent publisher.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess it's independent, but it looks like it's. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it looks like cloud empress dot com. But you know,

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<v Speaker 2>do your own Google serties. It'll come up for you.

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<v Speaker 2>And anyway, Jay concludes by saying thank you for the

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<v Speaker 2>hours of entertainment and information. Jay, Well, this does look

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<v Speaker 2>very interesting, and even just in the cover art, I

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<v Speaker 2>can see the Nasca inspiration there. Very very interesting looking. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I've I've only waited a little bit into the you know,

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<v Speaker 2>so called rules light games, but I'm very intrigued by them.

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<v Speaker 2>You know. It's like it seems like there was a

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<v Speaker 2>trend for a while with a lot of role playing

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<v Speaker 2>systems just getting more and more advanced and becoming maybe

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<v Speaker 2>just a little bit too much work. And I like

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<v Speaker 2>the idea that some of them are stripping things down

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<v Speaker 2>a bit and maybe leaning a little bit more into imagination,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, letting the imagine not only just role playing,

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<v Speaker 2>but also letting imagination fill in the gaps that are

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<v Speaker 2>left by the game mechanics and so forth, less erro

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<v Speaker 2>counting perhaps.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, though the only tabletop RPG I ever have extensively

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<v Speaker 3>played is Dungeons and Dragons. I like that there's all

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<v Speaker 3>this other stuff out there these days. I'm tempted by it.

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<v Speaker 3>I would like to get into some of the more

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know, sci fi focused ones, or any of

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<v Speaker 3>the ones that are not just kind of classic wizards

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<v Speaker 3>and elves and fantasy.

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<v Speaker 2>Looking at the website a little bit closer, I think

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<v Speaker 2>World's by Watt. Watt is the is the publisher's name,

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<v Speaker 2>though it is. I believe you're in an independent operation here,

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<v Speaker 2>so yeah, I have to check it out. All right?

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<v Speaker 2>What else do we have in the bag here, Joe?

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<v Speaker 3>All right? This next message is a recommendation for Weird

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<v Speaker 3>House Cinema, and it comes from Dean. Dean says, hey, guys,

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<v Speaker 3>just watched Horror Express again. We never knew you watched

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<v Speaker 3>it the first time. Dean just watched it again and

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<v Speaker 3>it was great. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas, Zombies, Aliens,

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<v Speaker 3>Mind control, skull removal and what more could you want?

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<v Speaker 3>Also forgot to mention another movie from Weird House for

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<v Speaker 3>Weird House, Latitude Zero with Joseph Cotton, Caesar Romero, brains

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<v Speaker 3>into animals, Batmanions, Submarine Warfare, Shangri La. All courtesy of

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<v Speaker 3>Ishiro Honda, Keep Them Coming, Dean, Well, Dean, I looked

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<v Speaker 3>up some stuff about both of these movies. I've never

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<v Speaker 3>seen either one. So Latitude Zero is a sci fi

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<v Speaker 3>movie about a group of Bathisphere explorers who by chance

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<v Speaker 3>get transported to a secret underwater utopia called Latitude Zero,

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<v Speaker 3>which I understand is located right at the intersection of

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<v Speaker 3>the Equator and the International date Line. And in this

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<v Speaker 3>underwater kingdom, all the people who have ever been lost

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<v Speaker 3>at sea around the world are gathered to live in

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<v Speaker 3>peace and harmony and explore scientific frontiers hidden from the

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<v Speaker 3>world above. But there is also an evil guy who

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<v Speaker 3>wants to destroy them for some reason, and he creates

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<v Speaker 3>giant mutant rats, and he loves cross species cross species

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<v Speaker 3>brain transplants like Doctor Doom type stuff. So it's a

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<v Speaker 3>plot that sounds in some ways similar to Atragon, but

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<v Speaker 3>with these Doctor Doom elements. So I'm or Doctor of

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<v Speaker 3>Doom maybe was that what it was?

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<v Speaker 2>The Doctor Doom?

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<v Speaker 3>Doctor of Doom? Yeah, sorry, Doctor of Doom, the wrestling

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<v Speaker 3>movie that involves brain transplants, and so yeah, we covered

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<v Speaker 3>Atragon in the past. We did Doctor of Doom in

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<v Speaker 3>the past. This seems like a nice, nice mashup.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I haven't seen this one either, but yeah, another

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<v Speaker 2>Japanese directed super submarine movie.

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<v Speaker 3>I guess that is a genre, isn't it. I guess

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<v Speaker 3>they sort of trace back to twenty thousand Leagues under

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<v Speaker 3>the Sea.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. And then the other one Dean mentions in this

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<v Speaker 3>email is Horror Express. I've also never seen this one,

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<v Speaker 3>though I would like to. From a distance. It seems

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<v Speaker 3>like if if Hammer Horror did a movie that was

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<v Speaker 3>a cross between The Thing from Another World and Murder

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<v Speaker 3>on the Orient Express. Though I think it's not actually Hammer.

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<v Speaker 3>It just looks like a Hammer movie and has a

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<v Speaker 3>very Hammer cast.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this one is if Memory serves either a Spanish

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<v Speaker 2>production or a Spanish co production. Number of Spanish filmmakers

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<v Speaker 2>are involved in it. I have seen this one before

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<v Speaker 2>and it is a lot of fun. I mean, it's

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<v Speaker 2>got a great cast. You got Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing,

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<v Speaker 2>and Telly Savala is playing I Believe a Cossack. And

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<v Speaker 2>you also have some familiar faces from Spanish genre cinema

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<v Speaker 2>of the day. Helgaalini is in it, or Helga Line,

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<v Speaker 2>who we've talked about in various films such as Horror,

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<v Speaker 2>Rises from the Tomb and so forth. Some places you'll

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<v Speaker 2>see it erroneously stated that Paul Nashy is in this,

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<v Speaker 2>but he is not. There's just there's a character in

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<v Speaker 2>it with a big beard in some shots kind of

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<v Speaker 2>looks like Paul Nashy. But anyway, this one is okay.

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<v Speaker 2>This has been on a list for a while and

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<v Speaker 2>we actually talked about this film a little bit with

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<v Speaker 2>Christian Back in the day. We did an episode dealing

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<v Speaker 2>with this pseudoscientific concept of the late eighteen hundreds called

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<v Speaker 2>retinal optography, which was this idea that you could see

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<v Speaker 2>the last image that a dead man saw by looking

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<v Speaker 2>at their retina, and it is utilized to fantastic sci

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<v Speaker 2>fi degree in this picture. There are a number of

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<v Speaker 2>just wonky sci fi concepts that they run wild with

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<v Speaker 2>in this film, so it's a whole lot of fun.

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<v Speaker 3>What is the last image a dead man saw well.

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<v Speaker 2>The idea was you could potentially use it to see

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<v Speaker 2>like a murder victim's killer like that that image would

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<v Speaker 2>somehow be retrievable from the retina, that you could get

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<v Speaker 2>in there with the magnifying glass and you could see

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<v Speaker 2>the image and then capture the image and even use

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<v Speaker 2>that image in a court of law. In the context

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<v Speaker 2>of this film, if memory serves, it has to do

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<v Speaker 2>with a like a frozen prehistoric man and then being

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<v Speaker 2>able to look in his eyes and see like a

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<v Speaker 2>dinosaur or something. So it's got like I said, it's

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<v Speaker 2>it's wacky and fun and definitely has that gothic horror feel.

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<v Speaker 2>It's also a train movie, so it's actually been on

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<v Speaker 2>my list of potential weird House selections for a while.

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<v Speaker 2>But I think one of the things that's always helped

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<v Speaker 2>me back is we've also talked about doing a train

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<v Speaker 2>related stuff to Blow your Mind episode in October, and

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<v Speaker 2>I've always kind of thought, well, these two would pair

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<v Speaker 2>up nicely, but that just means they're like two levers

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<v Speaker 2>to pull to see it come to fruition.

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<v Speaker 3>Horror movies on trains, that seems like it's a very

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<v Speaker 3>narrow genre, but it goes deep.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, the plot's a bit on the rails,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, but it's it's a lot of fun. Who

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't love a good good train mystery. And this one

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<v Speaker 2>has a very cool monster and again great cast, so

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<v Speaker 2>that alone is worth checking in on. All right, looks

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<v Speaker 2>like we have one left, and this one is from Joe,

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<v Speaker 2>a different Joe. Joe says fellas huge fan. It's always

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<v Speaker 2>a kick to see a seemingly boring show subject only

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<v Speaker 2>for y'all to find a way to make it amazingly interesting.

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<v Speaker 2>Dust and it was great. Ha ha ha. I'm blind,

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<v Speaker 2>lost auction in to my optic nerves about six years ago,

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<v Speaker 2>and now I can't see squad. I loved weird and

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<v Speaker 2>quirky movies even when they were bad. You could find

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<v Speaker 2>the good in them. A lot of movies before say,

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<v Speaker 2>twenty tenish, and absolutely none of those types of films

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<v Speaker 2>include descriptive audio for the blind or visually impaired. More

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<v Speaker 2>films now come with them, but you'd have to get really,

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<v Speaker 2>really lucky to find something from the seventies or eighties

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<v Speaker 2>with a descriptive audio track. So y'all going through some

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<v Speaker 2>I was able to watch before the lights went out,

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<v Speaker 2>and others I won't get to physically see any longer.

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<v Speaker 2>It's nice to have the podcast as a companion piece.

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<v Speaker 2>If I can't watch or rewatch and really follow, then

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<v Speaker 2>your summaries, reviews and anecdotes about the movies are a

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<v Speaker 2>reasonable bronze or silver metal. I absolutely enjoy anyway you asked,

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<v Speaker 2>so email sent all the best. Thanks for the edutainment, Joe.

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<v Speaker 3>I deny the charge of edutainment, but I'm really glad

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<v Speaker 3>you get enjoyment out of the show.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and that's you know, I hadn't really you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I had thought this much about the descriptive audio tracks,

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<v Speaker 2>but yeah, you see on them more and more nowadays,

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<v Speaker 2>and it you know, it's a great addition to these

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<v Speaker 2>releases and you know, digital or otherwise. But yeah, I

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<v Speaker 2>guess you go back further and you're gonna find less

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<v Speaker 2>and less of that, unless I guess it's like a

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<v Speaker 2>pivotal piece of cinema that is getting like a really

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<v Speaker 2>nice re release and or is held to a large

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<v Speaker 2>degree to be culturally important or at least commercially important.

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<v Speaker 2>And obviously a lot of your weirder films are going

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<v Speaker 2>to fall through the cracks in that area. Yeah, all right,

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<v Speaker 2>we're going to go ahead and close the mail bag

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<v Speaker 2>right there, but we'll be back next week, hopefully with

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<v Speaker 2>more listener mail. But we have to admit the mail

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<v Speaker 2>bags starting to get a little bit thin at this point.

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<v Speaker 2>We need to hear from more folks. So if you

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<v Speaker 2>have thoughts about, say, our recent series on cicadas, you

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<v Speaker 2>have other summertime thoughts, summertime episode requests, write in. We

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<v Speaker 2>would love to hear from you. Summertime movies for Weird

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<v Speaker 2>House Cinema so forth. What kind of movies do you

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<v Speaker 2>get into watching when the weather gets hot? Are you

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<v Speaker 2>a blockbuster person? Or do your interest go in a

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<v Speaker 2>different direction. Anything of this nature is perfectly fair game,

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<v Speaker 2>so let us know the listener mails. Publish on Mondays

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<v Speaker 2>and the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast feed. We're

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<v Speaker 2>primarily a science podcast, science and culture podcast with core

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<v Speaker 2>episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On Wednesdays, we tend to

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<v Speaker 2>do a short form episode and throughout the month of

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<v Speaker 2>July we're going to be putting out a bunch of

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<v Speaker 2>alien themed monster facts. So I'm looking forward to putting

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<v Speaker 2>those together and let's see. Yeah, on Fridays, we set

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<v Speaker 2>aside most serious concerns to just talk about a weird

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<v Speaker 2>film on Weird House Cinema.

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