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Speaker 3: Let's see, Rob, I'm going to start things off by
Speaker 3: reading this message from Lurch in response to our series
Speaker 3: on mud. Specifically, I think the second episode in that
Speaker 3: series where we looked at wallowing behaviors and animals, especially pigs.
Speaker 3: All right, Lurch says, good morning, gentlemen. I just finished
Speaker 3: listening to your episodes on mud. Took me by surprise
Speaker 3: you did. I'd never have thought such a mud day
Speaker 3: in the subject could be so interesting. Lerch, I don't
Speaker 3: know about that one. Did that work?
Speaker 2: I don't know? It generated a chuckle or a smile
Speaker 2: on my hand, so yeah, oh yeah, I'm smiling as well. Okay, well,
Speaker 2: good job, then, Lurch. Bringing pigs into it reminded me
Speaker 2: of the summers I used to spend on my uncle's farm.
Speaker 2: Along with the cattle, chickens, crops, and rabbits, he raised, pigs.
Speaker 2: Tending them was an experience I wish I could forget.
Speaker 2: It's not that some event or practice. This was the
Speaker 2: nineteen sixties. Husbandry has changed traumatized me. No, it was
Speaker 2: the smell. It's been nearly sixty years since then, and
Speaker 2: my nostril hairs still haven't uncurled. Regarding wallowing, I'd always
Speaker 2: been told the reasons for it were twofold cooling and
Speaker 2: protection from pests, both of which you mentioned. Since I
Speaker 2: wasn't there in the winter, it never occurred to me
Speaker 2: that they might wallow in the freezing cold too. I
Speaker 2: think it's possible this might also be related to temperature regulation.
Speaker 2: While in the summer months, as you point out, mud
Speaker 2: can be used as a cooling jacket, in the winter,
Speaker 2: it can actually be used to maintain heat. Interesting Blert
Speaker 2: says this wouldn't work near the freezing point of water,
Speaker 2: but drop a few more degrees in the surface of
Speaker 2: the mud would freeze, forming a thermal barrier, trapping the
Speaker 2: pig's body heat. I have personal experience with the effect
Speaker 2: though a tadbit cleaner. In high school, I was on
Speaker 2: the swim team and would walk home after practice. Being
Speaker 2: the dead of winter and in Illinois, it was usually
Speaker 2: a bit nippy outside. After the first block or so
Speaker 2: of my journey, my wet hair would freeze into a
Speaker 2: pretty solid head cap of ice. But since the ice
Speaker 2: trapped warm air next to my scalp. I was comfortable
Speaker 2: and never had to worry about where the heck had
Speaker 2: put my hat. As always, thanks for keeping me thinking.
Speaker 2: Keep the gravy warm, Lurch. That's interesting. I'd never heard
Speaker 2: of that kind of effect. Interesting that that might be
Speaker 2: worth some follow up. All right, Our next one comes
Speaker 2: to us from Raj Raj Rights and in response to
Speaker 2: mud Volcanoes and Puddles plus more Pokemon dream Lore, Roj says, Hello, gentlemen,
Speaker 2: I may be too late in writing in terms of
Speaker 2: suggesting topics ideas foods for thought for your mud episodes,
Speaker 2: but once Robert mentioned discussing mud volcanoes at the end
Speaker 2: of part three, it stirred a memory in me. I
Speaker 2: remember coming across a couple of videos from a YouTuber
Speaker 2: named physics Girl aka Diana Cowarn. One discusses a mud
Speaker 2: volcano aka mudpot she found in California link for reference,
Speaker 2: and another discusses a moving mud puddle link for reference.
Speaker 3: So Raj, I actually watched both of these and they're
Speaker 3: great videos. Again, so for you who can look it
Speaker 3: up right now, the channel is called physics Girl and
Speaker 3: you can probably just use search terms like moving mud puddle,
Speaker 3: especially because that's the one to really see. But to
Speaker 3: summarize the story for you, the one who is listening now,
Speaker 3: I'm going to refer here to a local news article
Speaker 3: I dug up from CBSA San Diego. This is by
Speaker 3: a writer named Shannon Handy from March twe about the story.
Speaker 3: So the news story goes Imperial County, California. It's not
Speaker 3: something you normally see along a freeway, but local Cowtrans
Speaker 3: crews have been keeping a close watch on a geyser
Speaker 3: that's impacting both the Union Pacific Railroad and State Route
Speaker 3: one to eleven near Nyland in Imperial County. Some describe
Speaker 3: it as a bubbling pool of mud, often referring to
Speaker 3: it as a mud pot. Sean Rizzuto with Caltrans said
Speaker 3: the geyser is releasing CO two. It's been around since
Speaker 3: nineteen fifty three, but it didn't start moving until twenty
Speaker 3: sixteen following some seismic activity in the area. So it's
Speaker 3: been moving about ten feet per month on average, said Rizzuto.
Speaker 3: He said the challenge is determining where it will go next.
Speaker 3: Quote right now, it's been static for the past two
Speaker 3: and a half three months, so it hasn't really moved
Speaker 3: very much, but that could change in an instant. Caltrans
Speaker 3: officials considered several options, including a detour, which was an
Speaker 3: ideal because it would have taken drivers eighty miles out
Speaker 3: of the way, and the one to eleven is crucial
Speaker 3: for the agriculture business there. So they describe how this
Speaker 3: may be the only known moving geyser in the world,
Speaker 3: and there were some efforts by the California Transportation authorities
Speaker 3: to try to figure out what to do because it's
Speaker 3: like the giant bubbling mud puddle caused by seismic activity
Speaker 3: from below CO two is being released from it, and
Speaker 3: it's like chasing the roads. It's approaching the road and
Speaker 3: it's going to knock that out, and it's approaching rail
Speaker 3: lines it's going to knock those out. So they're like
Speaker 3: trying to find ways to either stop it from moving
Speaker 3: or building around it, and all these plans just keep failing.
Speaker 3: In fact, this is where it's definitely worth looking up
Speaker 3: the Physics Girl videos, which are very excellent and get
Speaker 3: into a lot more detail, and it's a very scary
Speaker 3: and dramatic story, Like there's one part where they try
Speaker 3: to the authorities try to bury like deep bury a
Speaker 3: metal retaining wall to stop the puddle from spreading. But
Speaker 3: there's one point where it just suddenly spreads beyond the
Speaker 3: metal retaining wall, just like cracks the giant metal wall
Speaker 3: in half, and it's going under it and emerging on
Speaker 3: the other side. And there are these sudden moments of
Speaker 3: dramatic collapses of the walls of the puddle as it spreads,
Speaker 3: like you know, I don't remember exactly how far, maybe
Speaker 3: even somewhere like twenty to sixty feet suddenly. So it's scary.
Speaker 3: And it's not just scary because you'd think about like
Speaker 3: I don't want to fall into that puddle and sink
Speaker 3: down into the mud and whatever's going on beneath it.
Speaker 3: But the bubbling, even though I think the puddle is
Speaker 3: not thought to be hot, the bubbling is from the
Speaker 3: release of CO two, And of course we know like
Speaker 3: CO two is heavier than air, it tends to kind
Speaker 3: of pool in low lying areas, so if you were
Speaker 3: to fall into this pit, it is of course a
Speaker 3: suffocation risk as well. So it's this moving, lethal puddle
Speaker 3: of bubbling mud that almost seems to be like chasing
Speaker 3: our transportation infrastructure.
Speaker 2: I don't like that at all. I think our bubbling
Speaker 2: death puddles need to stay in one spot where we
Speaker 2: can keep an eye on them, not just move around
Speaker 2: on their own.
Speaker 3: So if you want to look up the video, the
Speaker 3: main one by the Physics Girl channel is called the
Speaker 3: World's Only Moving Mud Puddle, and yeah, it's definitely worth
Speaker 3: a look.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was glad to send it this as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah the footage is pretty incredible.
Speaker 3: Oh but Raj has more to say, I think, especially
Speaker 3: about Pokemon.
Speaker 2: Right. Yes, Raj continues switching gears. In the most recent
Speaker 2: listener mail episode, Gotta Dream Them All, a couple of
Speaker 2: astute listeners mentioned a few Pokemon related to dreaming. I'd
Speaker 2: like to add a tiny bit more by mentioning a
Speaker 2: couple of moves or attacks that relate to dreams. One
Speaker 2: move is called dream eater, for the description from sarahb
Speaker 2: dot Net quote, the user your Pokemon eats the dreams
Speaker 2: of a sleeping target your opponent's Pokemon. The user's HP
Speaker 2: is restored by up to half the damage taken by
Speaker 2: the target. Another move is nightmare quote a sleeping target
Speaker 2: sees a nightmare that inflicts some one fourth damage every turn.
Speaker 2: Again from SARAHB. Dot Net. Related to Pokemon moves are
Speaker 2: something called abilities, which are special powers that Pokemon can have.
Speaker 2: Dark Ray's ability is called bad dreams, which reduces the
Speaker 2: HP of sleeping opposing Pokemon. Finally, I'd like to add
Speaker 2: another Pokemon to the dreaming pool. While not related to
Speaker 2: dreaming directly, there is another Pokemon in addition to Snorlax
Speaker 2: that is known for sleeping. It's called Comala from the
Speaker 2: Aloa region. Here is one descriptor of this Pokemon quote.
Speaker 2: It is born asleep and it dies asleep. All its
Speaker 2: movements are apparently no more than the results of it
Speaker 2: tossing and turning in its dreams. Thanks for the phenomenal
Speaker 2: work you produce, and don't forget to be awesome. Cheers
Speaker 2: raj Ah.
Speaker 3: Well, that is a haunting Pokemon description. It's born asleep
Speaker 3: and dies asleep. All it does is dream, That's its
Speaker 3: whole life.
Speaker 2: I had to look this one up. I don't remember
Speaker 2: seeing this one on a card or anything, but it
Speaker 2: looks like a koala clutching like a It looks like
Speaker 2: it's clutching a log pillow, and as far as I
Speaker 2: can tell, it doesn't have any evolutions, which makes sense.
Speaker 2: Because this is all it does.
Speaker 3: Is it normal for Pokemon to get that strange and
Speaker 3: dark or is this kind of a fluke?
Speaker 2: No, there are a lot of strange and dark Pokemon.
Speaker 2: I've come to learn quite a few that have just
Speaker 2: weird qualities to them, Like some of the episodes of
Speaker 2: Pokemon that I've been exposed to are just weird. So yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of a lot of interesting stuff out there.
Speaker 3: Well, thanks raj Okay. This next message is from Tyler.
Speaker 3: It starts off being about Mud but then ends with
Speaker 3: weird house cinema. Tyler says, Hey, pals, I was listening
Speaker 3: to The Mud Part four episode today and Rob made
Speaker 3: a reference to Solo and mud Troopers. It took me
Speaker 3: way too long to realize you were referencing Solo, a
Speaker 3: Star Wars story, and nineteen ninety six is Solo, starring
Speaker 3: Mario van Peebles as a military android that grows a
Speaker 3: conscience and protects the village he was meant to destroy
Speaker 3: from his creators. Oh man, I remember when this one
Speaker 3: came out. Tyler says. This is a movie that I
Speaker 3: saw when I was probably about eight, and it just
Speaker 3: kind of stuck in my mind for twenty five years.
Speaker 3: I don't think I know anyone else that has seen it.
Speaker 3: It would be a great movie for weird house cinema.
Speaker 3: It checks a lot of boxes, a gumbo of Terminator, Commando, Rambo,
Speaker 3: seven Samurai, pretty much any eighties action movie with glistening,
Speaker 3: rippling pecks or man shaped robots, and it's not too
Speaker 3: hard to find. Thanks for all you do. Really appreciate you, Tyler.
Speaker 2: Ah fascinating. Now. I have not seen the nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: six solo film, but I was looking it up a
Speaker 2: little bit and looking at the cast, and it has
Speaker 2: a pretty great supporting cast that includes the always terrific
Speaker 2: William Sadler. It has Adrian Brody in it, and it's
Speaker 2: based on the nineteen eighty nine sci fi novel Web
Speaker 2: by Robert Mason of Vietnam Veto. I think is I
Speaker 2: don't know if he's primarily known for this, but he's
Speaker 2: also known for having penned a memoir or multiple memoirs
Speaker 2: about his service in Vietnam. But Mario van Peebles, you know,
Speaker 2: always fun. He was in what the third Jaws movie,
Speaker 2: he was in the fourth, the fourth, Okay, he was
Speaker 2: in the third Highlander movie. Which is actually a prequel
Speaker 2: to Highlander two. So you know, sort that out in
Speaker 2: your head as you as you wish.
Speaker 3: Was Christolph Lambert still in the third Highlander movie?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, So the gimmick in Highlander the Final Dimension
Speaker 2: from nineteen ninety four is it's post Highlander one, pre
Speaker 2: Highlander two. He thinks he's won the prize and defeated
Speaker 2: the last Immortal, but you know, it just something doesn't
Speaker 2: feel right. Turns out there's one more immortal or maybe
Speaker 2: like a handful of immortals that were part of like
Speaker 2: this evil like nomadic band of immortals, and they fell
Speaker 2: into a glacier something that got frozen. They've been out
Speaker 2: of commission, and then they wake up and he's like, oh,
Speaker 2: I've got one last guy to take out, and so
Speaker 2: they have to battle and so forth. Mario van Peeples
Speaker 2: is the villain. All right, I guess I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to see that sometime, all right. We also heard from
Speaker 2: Ted ted Is responding to our episode of The Machine Speaks.
Speaker 2: Ted says, Hi, Robert and Joe, longtime listener, first time writer,
Speaker 2: just finished listening to your episode The Machine Speaks, and
Speaker 2: feel embarrassingly enough compelled to ride in with the title
Speaker 2: and your episode preface of Heads That Talk. I thought
Speaker 2: for sure I knew about one talking head that you
Speaker 2: would reference. Boy was I wrong. However, the examples explained
Speaker 2: were fascinating, and yes, my mind was blown. I suppose
Speaker 2: my mind was drifting towards a mix of weird house
Speaker 2: cinema in a core episode where I thought fictional characters
Speaker 2: would be in play. I was hoping to hear your
Speaker 2: take on Max Headroom. As a child of the eighties,
Speaker 2: he was our futuristic talking head. I don't really remember
Speaker 2: much of the original series, but I did love his
Speaker 2: cameo in Back to the Future too, when Martin McFly
Speaker 2: stumbles into the Cafe Eighties to order a pepsi from
Speaker 2: Max the waiter. Love the show, look forward to more
Speaker 2: of your great work. Thanks Ted.
Speaker 3: This is a funny coincidence because I happened to have
Speaker 3: just watched the first episode of Max Headroom just a
Speaker 3: few nights ago. This week, I was hanging out with
Speaker 3: a friend of mine. He had listened to our episode
Speaker 3: on the Super Mario Brothers movie, which of course was
Speaker 3: made by the same pair of directors as the original
Speaker 3: Max Headroom series. I guess Max Headroom probably kind of
Speaker 3: got them the job on Mario and he was like, well,
Speaker 3: you should see the show. So we watched the first
Speaker 3: episode and it was a hoot. So it is, Oh,
Speaker 3: I don't have the right words yet in mind to
Speaker 3: describe the vibe of it. I will say in the
Speaker 3: opening credits, I saw somebody and I was like, is
Speaker 3: that Michael Ironside? But it was Jeffrey tamboor not a
Speaker 3: common mistake people make.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they generally have different energies those two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but somehow, I you know, it was close enough.
Speaker 3: But so the premise is there's a cyberpunk dystopia TV
Speaker 3: rules over everything, so the world, you know, like the
Speaker 3: real authorities are basically the boards of directors of television
Speaker 3: media corporations. And there is this boardroom full of evil
Speaker 3: corporate directors who are designing a new form of TV
Speaker 3: advertisement called blip verts, which implants subliminal messages and viewers
Speaker 3: forcing them to buy and consume, but also it occasionally
Speaker 3: causes people's heads to explode. And there is a fearless
Speaker 3: journalist named Edison Carter played by Matt Frewer, who's always
Speaker 3: running around in a baggy leather jacket carrying a full
Speaker 3: sized television camera in his own hand. So he's the journalist,
Speaker 3: but he's also the cameraman. Oh and then he's also
Speaker 3: got sort of a control roller who is like his
Speaker 3: live producer, except the role of a producer in this
Speaker 3: world is mostly like hacking security systems to get you
Speaker 3: through doors and stuff.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I'm just looking at the cast list for this episode
Speaker 2: and I noticed that Amanda Pays is in it. She
Speaker 2: of course was the female lead.
Speaker 3: And Leviathan, Oh yes, in fact, she is his hacker producer.
Speaker 3: She's always like, you know, we're in But anyway, he's
Speaker 3: investigating a case where somebody's head blew up, and I
Speaker 3: think he's trying to get to the bottom of it,
Speaker 3: and he's fleeing corporate security agents and then is injured
Speaker 3: in the process in a motorcycle accident crashing against a
Speaker 3: gate arm in a parking garage that says max headroom,
Speaker 3: meaning like max height of the clearance for the gate arm.
Speaker 3: And then the villain from Dumb and Dumber and a
Speaker 3: hacker who is a child, scan his brain and create
Speaker 3: a CGI version of him. It's like a simulation of
Speaker 3: his brain and of his appearance, which is not actually CG.
Speaker 3: Max Headroom is achieved with like prosthetics and makeup and
Speaker 3: camera effects.
Speaker 2: The villain would be that's what Charles Rocket, That's right?
Speaker 3: Yeah now, yeah, yeah, he's the villain from Dumb and
Speaker 3: Dummer and in this he's like a you know, corporate skis.
Speaker 3: But anyway, so they create this version of him. They meanwhile,
Speaker 3: they like send him off to like a morgue, but
Speaker 3: it turns out he survives. I think Amanda Pays revives him,
Speaker 3: uh and so, so like he's still alive, but there's
Speaker 3: this simulated version of his brain that is now a
Speaker 3: TV character, and the you know, the bosses that the
Speaker 3: media corporation love him. The villains like him because he's
Speaker 3: like really entertaining TV content, So they, you know, they
Speaker 3: like him broadcasting because people watch. But Max Headroom is
Speaker 3: very sly, and he seems to make a lot of
Speaker 3: glitchy satirical comments about his owners that fly under the radar.
Speaker 3: I don't know how exactly it develops as the show
Speaker 3: goes on, but yeah, he seems to be both a
Speaker 3: product of an evil media corporation and constantly making little
Speaker 3: jokes at their expense.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna keep going with the series? Did you
Speaker 2: get a taste for it and you need both? What
Speaker 2: two seasons and etc.
Speaker 3: Oh man, I can't stop with the late eighties dystopian
Speaker 3: sci fi. I will say either a good thing about
Speaker 3: it or a bad thing about it, depending on your
Speaker 3: appetite for ironically appealing aesthetics. Is that it's very MTV.
Speaker 3: You know that feeling it has MTV cinematography.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know exactly exactly what you mean there,
Speaker 2: and you see that you see ripples of that continue
Speaker 2: to move through cinema for gosh decades, I think, And
Speaker 2: which makes sense too, because I mean, just in general,
Speaker 2: without thinking too hard about it, like MTV as a
Speaker 2: whole back in the day in compass not only like
Speaker 2: the sort of like local MTV flare, but also the
Speaker 2: various music videos that were featured, which often featured the
Speaker 2: work of filmmakers who would in many cases go on
Speaker 2: to make feature length films. Not always, but often you
Speaker 2: see that, and so it makes sense that some of
Speaker 2: the same stylistic trends would continue to carry over, but
Speaker 2: not everybody, like, for instance, you know Chris Cunningham, a
Speaker 2: great British video artist and music video director. I think
Speaker 2: for a while he was attached to direct. I think
Speaker 2: everybody at one point has been attached to do a
Speaker 2: film adaptation of Neuromancer William Gibson, and it's never come
Speaker 2: to pass. I think maybe it's just one of those books.
Speaker 2: It's like it's too big, its shadow is too great,
Speaker 2: and also it's been all the ideas of Neuromancer just
Speaker 2: about have been used, so like it seems like a
Speaker 2: very difficult adaptation task to take on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we already have the matrix that's like fifty percent
Speaker 3: of Neuromancer, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But speaking of Neuromancer, we also heard from listener
Speaker 2: Fletch on Discord related to Neuromancer, which comes up briefly
Speaker 2: in The Machine Speak. It's kind of an offense comment
Speaker 2: from me. Fletch says, Rob mentioned Neuromancer briefly in the
Speaker 2: Machine Speaks in relation to making Faustian deals with AI.
Speaker 2: But there's actually a mechanical talking head inspired by Favors
Speaker 2: Euphonia that is featured in the novel too. The head
Speaker 2: is stolen from the reclusive Tessier Ashpool family's orbital habitat
Speaker 2: and they send their cloned ninja to recover it. It's described
Speaker 2: like this quote. Jimmy was a burglar and other things
Speaker 2: as well, and just back from a year in high orbit,
Speaker 2: having carried certain things back down the gravity. Well. The
Speaker 2: most unusual thing Jimmy had managed to score on his
Speaker 2: swing through the archipelago was a head, an intrigantly worked
Speaker 2: bust cloison at over platinum, studded with seed pearls and lapis.
Speaker 2: Smith's sign had put down his pocket microscope and advised
Speaker 2: Jimmy to melt the thing down. It was contemporary, not
Speaker 2: an antique, and had no value to the collector. Jimmy laughed.
Speaker 2: The thing was a computer terminal, he said. It could talk,
Speaker 2: and not a synth voice, but with a beautiful arrangement
Speaker 2: of gears and miniature organ pipes. It was a baroque
Speaker 2: thing for anyone to have constructed, a perverse thing, because
Speaker 2: synth voice chips cost next to nothing. It was a curiosity.
Speaker 2: Smith jacked the head into his computer and listened as
Speaker 2: the melodious inhuman voice piped the figures of last year's
Speaker 2: tax return. Oh that's beautiful. I had forgotten all about this.
Speaker 2: It's been a long time since I read Neuromancer. But yeah,
Speaker 2: William Gibson is exactly the sort of author that would
Speaker 2: that would would fit this historical nugget in there.
Speaker 3: You think this is a direct reference to Joseph Fobber
Speaker 3: and the Euphonia, not just like a coincidence.
Speaker 2: I bet it's a direct reference. Yeah, I mean that,
Speaker 2: you know, having read plenty of other books by Gibson
Speaker 2: like this, this is the exact kind of like tech
Speaker 2: degree and history that he would fold into the making
Speaker 2: of the work.
Speaker 3: M all right, We're gonna wrap things up here with
Speaker 3: one short message about weird House cinema. This is from Paul.
Speaker 3: Paul says, in line with your shake hands with danger
Speaker 3: comment in a recent Listener mail and your affinity for Gore?
Speaker 3: Do we have an affinity for Gore? I guess in
Speaker 3: some context.
Speaker 2: It depends depends on exactly for me anyway, speaking for myself,
Speaker 2: it depends how the Gore is presented it what is
Speaker 2: the intent and what is the execution.
Speaker 3: Like I never had a subscription to Fangoria. I love horror,
Speaker 3: but I don't consider myself a gore hound. But with
Speaker 3: the right inflection of absurdity, I can get into it,
Speaker 3: like I do love Texas Chainsaw Masker too and things
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, it's kind of got to be the trifecta.
Speaker 2: Is it is it over the top? Is it not
Speaker 2: quite believable? And is it not done in a nasty way?
Speaker 2: Is it not meant to make me feel bad? But
Speaker 2: is like this kind of like splattery, you know, kind
Speaker 2: of fangoria level of like just enthusiasm for the fake blood. Like,
Speaker 2: for instance, I think I recently mentioned the Paul Nashy
Speaker 2: movie The Hunchback of the Morgue that has some wonderful
Speaker 2: gore in it, like it's a real gore fest, but
Speaker 2: like none of it feels you're never in suspense about
Speaker 2: oh did they really cut somebody's head off so easily?
Speaker 2: And that's actual blood? Like no, no, there's no question
Speaker 2: about it, and you're just able to enjoy it.
Speaker 3: I also like, like verhoven gore that, yeah.
Speaker 2: That's certainly over the top enough that yeah, there's a
Speaker 2: whole his gore has its own quality to it, and
Speaker 2: I guess kind of varies film to film as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh but anyway, sorry, we stopped in the middle
Speaker 3: of a sentence, so picking up from Paul Paul's to
Speaker 3: start over, Paul says, in line with your Shake Hands
Speaker 3: with Danger comment in a recent listener Mail and your
Speaker 3: Affinity for Gore, I thought you would appreciate forklift Driver Klaus.
Speaker 3: It may be a bit more campy, but seems like
Speaker 3: the type of thing you would enjoy. I remember seeing
Speaker 3: a sequel at some point, but wasn't able to find
Speaker 3: that with a quick search. Hope you enjoy, Paul, So,
Speaker 3: Forklift Driver Klaus appears to be a It is like
Speaker 3: a short comedy horror satirical film that is a parody
Speaker 3: of workplace safety training videos like Shake Hands with Danger,
Speaker 3: in which a German forklift driver it's his first day
Speaker 3: on the job. He's learning how to do everything, but
Speaker 3: he ends up maiming and mutilating everybody he works with,
Speaker 3: and it ends with like driving a forklift covered in
Speaker 3: mangled co workers off into the sunset being chased by
Speaker 3: a chainsaw.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a so, this is a film that's
Speaker 2: it's a parody of actual workplace industrial safety videos. But
Speaker 2: it yeah, it feels very much in line with Shake
Speaker 2: Hands with Danger and so forth, and it has that
Speaker 2: sort of energy. But yeah, then things begin to spiral
Speaker 2: out of control, and by the end it is just
Speaker 2: this ridiculous gore fest that is that. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2: I found rather delightful and hilarious to watch, just very
Speaker 2: unbelievable in the later stages, though earlier on like you
Speaker 2: do kind of get that cringiness that the actual workplace
Speaker 2: safety videos tend to have because they want to show you,
Speaker 2: they want to make you feel bad about what is happening.
Speaker 2: But then this movie keeps going. I mean, this short
Speaker 2: film keeps going and pushes that over the line and
Speaker 2: just goes whole hog into this kind of like early
Speaker 2: Peter Jackson esque blood splurting madness.
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is true, but at least
Speaker 3: the wiki says that some workplaces do use this film
Speaker 3: as a training video despite the fact it's a parody.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I could see somebody like you know, busting it
Speaker 2: out to sort of to end on a on a
Speaker 2: fun note for everyone. I don't know.
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