Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of
Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.
Speaker 1: Listener Mail. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick.
Speaker 1: And normally listener Mail is just robbing me here, but
Speaker 1: today we are joined on Mike by our longtime producer,
Speaker 1: Seth Nicholas Johnson because it is a it's a bittersweet
Speaker 1: time for us, Seth. Seth is moving on to other things,
Speaker 1: and uh, we're very excited for him. And that Seth,
Speaker 1: You're you're moving on to something in the comics industry, right,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I still have my other things going on,
Speaker 1: but um, yes, specifically that's where I'll be headed next. Um.
Speaker 1: But if you know, if you miss my voice listener,
Speaker 1: which I can't imagine, but I'll still be doing my
Speaker 1: podcast Rusty Needles Record Club, and I hope that I'll
Speaker 1: still have Robin Joe over there ever once in a while,
Speaker 1: so you know, I'm not really going away, I just
Speaker 1: won't be here. That makes And behind the scenes today
Speaker 1: we're being joined by Max Williams, who is our audio
Speaker 1: producer for this episode. So thank you for stepping in. Max.
Speaker 1: So many changes am I all right, so many changes.
Speaker 1: Joe has a as a baby, Seth is leaving, Max
Speaker 1: is coming on board. It's an exciting time. It is
Speaker 1: as I said, it's it's gonna be bittersweet, Seth. We
Speaker 1: have we have loved working with you over these years.
Speaker 1: Uh and and we're definitely we're gonna miss you, buddy.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad you get to join us on Mike
Speaker 1: for for your last hurrah here on stuff to blow
Speaker 1: your mind. Yeah, I mean, especially since the last couple
Speaker 1: of episodes were co hosted by Seth and Concerned Records,
Speaker 1: and so I even put out a call to listeners
Speaker 1: on on Facebook's The Discussion module. Uh And in discord,
Speaker 1: I said, look, I didn't say he was going away,
Speaker 1: but I was like, if you have questions about these
Speaker 1: record episodes, please right in. And uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It might just have been too soon because the second
Speaker 1: episode only came out really hours ago before recording this.
Speaker 1: That's true, that's true. So yeah, if you have maybe
Speaker 1: you should, if you have questions or or responses to
Speaker 1: those episodes, maybe c c um Seth over at Rusty
Speaker 1: Needle as well, because that way you can be sure
Speaker 1: that he'll see them. Yeah, I mean I have an
Speaker 1: email addressed over there which is Rusty Needles record Club
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. So if for some chance there's
Speaker 1: something you need to tell me that that would be
Speaker 1: the place you can go listen to that show. And
Speaker 1: that's my email for that show. But but guys, we
Speaker 1: did get at least one message about your episodes on
Speaker 1: Records and back Masking. It's this message from Mike Rob.
Speaker 1: Do you want to start off reading this one? Sure?
Speaker 1: Mike Rides loved the first episode on Easter Eggs and
Speaker 1: back masking. Weird Al has done some funny backmasking Easter
Speaker 1: eggs over the years. Uh they include a link. Weird
Speaker 1: Al Yankovic has included backwards messages in two of his songs.
Speaker 1: One on the album in three D. A little over
Speaker 1: halfway through the song Nature Trail to Hell, there is
Speaker 1: a short non vocal musical score. If you listen very carefully,
Speaker 1: you can hear Al say in a very evil voice,
Speaker 1: Satan eats cheese. Whiz backwards there you go. Cheese products
Speaker 1: being especially funny. ChIL cheese is always funny. Number two
Speaker 1: on Bad Hair Day, near the end of I Remember Larry,
Speaker 1: where our repeatedly sings yes, I remember, remember, remember. If
Speaker 1: you listen closely, you can catch another backwards message that says, wow,
Speaker 1: you must really have a lot of time on your hands.
Speaker 1: And he also did the song Bob, which is entirely
Speaker 1: composed of palindrome. I wonder palindrome in the text, or
Speaker 1: like a full audio palindrome like the song is backwards
Speaker 1: halfway through or both. M M yeah, I'm unfamiliar with
Speaker 1: this particular track. However, I did just watch Weird, the
Speaker 1: new fake biopic about rid Al Yankovic starring Daniel Ratcliffe.
Speaker 1: Either of you two seen this? I have not seen this.
Speaker 1: Now we've actually been We've got a friend who we
Speaker 1: saw Weird Alan concert with when he was here in town,
Speaker 1: and we've been waiting to watch it with her. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen soon. It's on the Roku channel. This
Speaker 1: isn't an ad, but it's wonderful. Everyone should watch this.
Speaker 1: It's a really wonderful movie. You got Evan rachel Wood
Speaker 1: playing Madonna, all kinds of other cameos, Rain Wilson playing
Speaker 1: Dr Demento. Just it's a real treats. People should watch it.
Speaker 1: Go track down the Roku channel. It's free, it's great,
Speaker 1: go watch it. Seth. Do you have any weird Al
Speaker 1: Yankovic on vinyl? Not on vinyl, No, although he has
Speaker 1: released a beautiful vinyl box set Shapes like an Accordion
Speaker 1: that had his entire discography in it, like in between
Speaker 1: the little like folds of the accordion. But no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I um. All of my weird Al existed back in
Speaker 1: the days of cassette and c D I've I've never
Speaker 1: gone beyond that. I really remember people having CDs of
Speaker 1: Running with Sissors when I was a kid. That was
Speaker 1: I think that was the one. I believe. Actually, the
Speaker 1: first audio cassette I ever purchased was weird Al. It
Speaker 1: was Allapalooza, the one with the Jurassic Park song on it. Oh,
Speaker 1: I had that on cassette for sure. Yes. Nice. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: if you guys are ready to move on, I can
Speaker 1: do this message from Jeremy about multiple subjects, including goats.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of goat thoughts this week, Jeremy
Speaker 1: says Robert and Joe. I have been a fan of
Speaker 1: the show for years and a pastime between new episode releases,
Speaker 1: I've been spending the last few months coming through the
Speaker 1: Stuff to Blow your Mind back catalog, starting all the
Speaker 1: way back in two thousand ten. I just finished listening
Speaker 1: to an episode about the science of coincidences back from May,
Speaker 1: and an amazing coincidence just occurred. First of all, this
Speaker 1: was an episode from before Joe was even on the show,
Speaker 1: but he had just happened to be featured on this
Speaker 1: episode as a guest feeling in for Julie rob Yeah,
Speaker 1: this was This was my first guest on on the show.
Speaker 1: I remember having a lot of fun. But anyway, Jeremy
Speaker 1: goes on. In this episode, you both mentioned a novel
Speaker 1: by Edgar Allan Poe about a group of sailors who
Speaker 1: were stranded at sea, eventually resorting to sacrificing and eating
Speaker 1: a crew member named Richard Parker. You then went on
Speaker 1: to explain that coincidentally, this same event happened in real
Speaker 1: life forty six years later, when a crew of stranded
Speaker 1: sailors actually resorted to eating a They're Dead crew member
Speaker 1: who was also named Richard Parker. The reason I'm writing
Speaker 1: in is that as soon as I got done listening
Speaker 1: to this episode, I scrolled across a post on a
Speaker 1: social media platform by Weird History that was talking all
Speaker 1: about this story concerning the eating of Richard Parker. What
Speaker 1: a coincidence. Additionally, and perhaps only loosely related, the episode
Speaker 1: following this one was all about spider Silk, where you
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time talking about genetically modified goats
Speaker 1: that were created in hopes producing more silk through their milk.
Speaker 1: This is yet another coincidence, as you have just recently
Speaker 1: released four different episodes talking all about goats over the
Speaker 1: past few weeks. Sorry for the long message, just wanted
Speaker 1: to share. Keep up the awesome work, Jeremy. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say proof of the Supernatural confirmed. Well, no,
Speaker 1: this is actually this is all a coordinated effort across
Speaker 1: multiple podcasts and multiple errors of podcasts to to produce
Speaker 1: an image. So so keep keep following the threads. Here
Speaker 1: go goat synchronicity. Al Right, here's another one. This one
Speaker 1: is a vault up from as to do the vault
Speaker 1: episode on Tumbleweeds. This would have been an episode that
Speaker 1: came out roughly a year ago, originally from Miguel. Miguel
Speaker 1: writes in and says hello, Robert and Joe, I'm writing
Speaker 1: in as a follow up to an email I sent
Speaker 1: several months ago about how this podcast inspires so much
Speaker 1: of my D and D camp pains, and how many
Speaker 1: of the monsters you cover are statted out and ready
Speaker 1: to play in fifth edition Dungeons and Dragons through books
Speaker 1: by a third party publisher, Cobalt Press. They recently held
Speaker 1: a contest for a new book they were working on,
Speaker 1: and we're taking submissions for monsters. Well. I designed a
Speaker 1: creature inspired by your episodes on Tumbleweeds and submitted it
Speaker 1: and ended up actually winning. Tome of Beasts three released
Speaker 1: about a week ago, and I was very excited to
Speaker 1: show you to the final product product in all of
Speaker 1: its glory see image attached, and thank you guys again
Speaker 1: for the many, many hours of entertaining, thought provoking and
Speaker 1: inspiring content. Oh and to make clear from the image,
Speaker 1: the creature is called the Wind, which which was again
Speaker 1: one of the nicknames for Tumbleweeds, and it appears to
Speaker 1: be a tumble a giant sentient tumbleweed monster that will
Speaker 1: hunt you down in the desolate wastes. Yeah, challenge rating
Speaker 1: three anyway, Miguel continues here, I had a lot of
Speaker 1: fun designing this creature and coming up with interest and
Speaker 1: game mechanics for it, like its ability to regenerate after
Speaker 1: being defeated, only to come back and arrass the party
Speaker 1: over and over again until its body is finally destroyed,
Speaker 1: or its flammability, which will ensure the wind which is
Speaker 1: defeated for good, but at the risk of taking some
Speaker 1: extra fire damage from it. I think it would be
Speaker 1: really cool to create a small bestie area of creatures
Speaker 1: inspired by your podcast, and was wondering if you had
Speaker 1: any thoughts on what episodes you would like to see
Speaker 1: brought to life for D and D. I would love
Speaker 1: to try to create it and maybe eventually release it
Speaker 1: somewhere for free. The working title is stuff to Blow
Speaker 1: your players, but I think that needs a bit of
Speaker 1: work shopping anyway. Wishing you both the best and a
Speaker 1: happy holiday season. Michael, Well, Miguel, this is just magical.
Speaker 1: This fills my heart with joy, and I love that
Speaker 1: this creature is determined as chaotic evil, because of course
Speaker 1: it would be. It would be unpredictable, It would just
Speaker 1: kind of thrash about as the wind sends it, and
Speaker 1: like they mentioned, fire can defeat it, but oh at
Speaker 1: what cost? Gonna be spreading that fire? Perhaps you know,
Speaker 1: very smart. I like it. Yeah, yeah. It reminds me
Speaker 1: of those stories of people trying to burn burn tumbleweeds
Speaker 1: to get rid of them, but then them rolling away,
Speaker 1: and not only rolling away, but like jumping over ditches
Speaker 1: to get um. The other thing I think about a
Speaker 1: tumbleweed that you could really capture as a dangerous creature
Speaker 1: mechanic is their stickiness, right, so that you you know,
Speaker 1: if you try to whack one in order to to
Speaker 1: cause damage to it. Technically, I think what should happen
Speaker 1: is when you like pull your sword or weapon back,
Speaker 1: it will have pieces of tumbleweeds stuck all over it,
Speaker 1: which will lessen the effectiveness of the weapon going forward,
Speaker 1: at least for a time, maybe for like two turns
Speaker 1: while all the little like bristles fall off or something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's fun. Yeah yeah. As for other creatures we've
Speaker 1: discussed that should be started out for D n D,
Speaker 1: I don't know. We mentioned a lot of cool creatures,
Speaker 1: many of which evidently have been uh featured in Dungeons
Speaker 1: and Dragons, either a fish really or through a third
Speaker 1: party publications like those referenced here. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: like zombies to go to church has been properly explored.
Speaker 1: Like that's a good one from last year. The pious
Speaker 1: stead Yeah, yeah, like maybe they're mostly peaceful until you
Speaker 1: disturb their worship service and then they burn you on
Speaker 1: the altar. Yeah, a lot of religion checks involved to
Speaker 1: get that right. What about Rob you might know this
Speaker 1: is there's something like the leshy already in D and D,
Speaker 1: kind of a spirit of the forest that calls out,
Speaker 1: lures you off the path, that sort of thing. I
Speaker 1: feel like there probably is, um I'm just blanking on
Speaker 1: it at the moment. I haven't done as much uh
Speaker 1: d N D D m NG inside of a woodland setting,
Speaker 1: so I'm just not as familiar with those creatures. But
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's something one more for you guys. Uh.
Speaker 1: This was quite a while ago. It was a kind
Speaker 1: of fungus that um it rolled up into these big
Speaker 1: tubes and got really really tall. Remember you guys are
Speaker 1: for this. Yes, Uh. This was something about really tall
Speaker 1: fungus from a prehistoric era, like exactly Devonian period or something.
Speaker 1: I don't remember all the details, but I remember picturing
Speaker 1: these giant trees of like petrified fung gui and and
Speaker 1: being really fascinated by that, and also just think the
Speaker 1: concept of giant fun guy like like there were in
Speaker 1: that episode a long time ago. We were also discussing
Speaker 1: the world's largest mushroom, which I believe like existed beneath
Speaker 1: the soil in Oregon. It was like larger than an
Speaker 1: entire town or something. I'd have to look at the details,
Speaker 1: but fascinating fungus stuff could definitely be in the D
Speaker 1: D and D for stuff to blow your mind. I
Speaker 1: think I was d m NG a game set in
Speaker 1: the under dark at that point, and I think I
Speaker 1: did do something. I did do something with it with
Speaker 1: that in it. Nothing that like needed statting out, but
Speaker 1: I probably got carried away describing fungal trees to the
Speaker 1: players and they're you know, that's what it's It's ultimately,
Speaker 1: that's what it's like. If you're thinking, if you may think, oh,
Speaker 1: I bet it would be exciting if if Robert Lamb
Speaker 1: was was my dungeon master, because he follows all these
Speaker 1: weird tangents. Now, it just it just means there would
Speaker 1: be weird tangents in that game itself where you're wondering,
Speaker 1: why is he going on and on about what these
Speaker 1: trees look like. Now the other I remember, now, the
Speaker 1: other cool thing about these trees was that the so
Speaker 1: called trees, like the giant tall pieces of fungus was
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they existed before there were forests plant
Speaker 1: forests like really plant trees. But it's been a while,
Speaker 1: so I could be wrong about that, but I think
Speaker 1: that's right. But good luck with this D and D book.
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, yeah, there there's a lot of content
Speaker 1: that could become something, perhaps something from Weird House Cinema
Speaker 1: as well. There could definitely be some Weird Cinema elements
Speaker 1: that are are prominently featured that that could make an
Speaker 1: appearance as well. Oh god, well, yeah, you're just standing
Speaker 1: out tobo alone that I can't even imagine what a
Speaker 1: task that would be. Okay, This next message comes from Will,
Speaker 1: subject line goat Eyes generative technologies associating audio with places
Speaker 1: a whole grab bag. Here, Will says high Team on
Speaker 1: goat eyes too. Observations One. I got an illuminated bathroom
Speaker 1: mirror that had an LED strip all the way around
Speaker 1: the outside. This had the unsettling effect of reflecting the
Speaker 1: rectangular strip of light into the observer's eyes, giving one's
Speaker 1: reflection rectangular goat pupils, which was somewhat unsettling in the morning.
Speaker 1: This was not mentioned in the features of the mirror
Speaker 1: of the Mirror, although it did have built in bluetooth speaker.
Speaker 1: The singing mirror that does sound like a D and
Speaker 1: D artifact. Two. You recently mentioned generative neural networks for
Speaker 1: the purpose of writing fiction. Oh yeah, this is what
Speaker 1: we keep coming back to U. Funny things created by
Speaker 1: the story machines generator. I don't know if we ever
Speaker 1: shared it on the on the podcast itself, but one
Speaker 1: of the ones I can't stop thinking about that we
Speaker 1: were just chatting back and forth about one day was
Speaker 1: a story I created, I think based on the title
Speaker 1: Garfield Beyond Thunderdome, and it had Garfield and then another
Speaker 1: warrior trading some some trash talk before they were about
Speaker 1: to fight in the Thunderdome, and the line it came
Speaker 1: up with was the opponent says, so you're the famous cat,
Speaker 1: And then it said and Garfield replied, I'm not the cat. Anyway,
Speaker 1: will goes on. Generative technologies are fascinating and we'll continue
Speaker 1: to develop quickly. One of the first prompts I gave
Speaker 1: to Dolly Mini. This is a one that you've probably
Speaker 1: seen on on the Internet by this point. But it's
Speaker 1: one that generates images based on text input and it's
Speaker 1: pretty good. But the one that will sites it was
Speaker 1: the text input goats I on a cabbage result attached
Speaker 1: to guys, we can scroll down and take a look
Speaker 1: at this right now. It's uh, it's rather unpleasant. But
Speaker 1: yeah that the the eyeball is the center of the cabbage,
Speaker 1: and like the the outer leaves are the lids. I guess, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty creepy. I don't know, I've been I've
Speaker 1: been playing around with mid Journey recently, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm just really astounded by how far things have come,
Speaker 1: even beyond what we're looking at here. So I'm I
Speaker 1: almost don't want to put goat eye cabbage is in
Speaker 1: there for fear of what what I'll see. I don't
Speaker 1: even want to put but Garfield beyond Thunderdome in their
Speaker 1: fear of how spot on and maybe okay, next thing
Speaker 1: Will says on associating audio maybe music with places. I
Speaker 1: think you recently mentioned the idea that certain audio is
Speaker 1: strongly associated with certain activities. Or places for you, or
Speaker 1: maybe it was on another podcast. Guys, do we have
Speaker 1: a verdict on this? Was this something you talked about
Speaker 1: while I was out? I think so we talked about
Speaker 1: a lot of music stuff while you were gone. I
Speaker 1: I'm positively touched on something along those lines. Will says,
Speaker 1: I have this in the extreme. Although it's not every
Speaker 1: episode of every podcast. Usually it's particularly memorable ones. Your
Speaker 1: weird House episode on the film Frogs I heard while
Speaker 1: feverishly attempting to clean a rented apartment before leaving Norway.
Speaker 1: Moving house is always stressful, and moving country is perhaps
Speaker 1: even more so. So thank you for keeping me company.
Speaker 1: The Stuff You Should Know episode about liquefaction I heard
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. Likewise, the Magic Mushrooms episode I heard at
Speaker 1: Davao Airport Devout Airport in the Philippines. The nine Volte
Speaker 1: Nirvana episode of Radio Lab I heard on my way
Speaker 1: to the gym in the UK. The long distance episode
Speaker 1: of Reply All was heard while driving down Regent Street
Speaker 1: in Nottingham, etcetera, etcetera. It's possible that either strong episodes
Speaker 1: encode the place that I heard them in, or novel
Speaker 1: situations allow me to associate a particular podcast with that situation.
Speaker 1: If I listen on pocket casts at three X speed
Speaker 1: with the delete blank space feature turned on, okay, well, um,
Speaker 1: I can get through a twenty two hours of podcasts
Speaker 1: in one day, so obviously I won't remember where I
Speaker 1: was with all of them, especially as a lot of
Speaker 1: the time I'll be in a familiar place. This one,
Speaker 1: this message took a turn. Um Will says not all
Speaker 1: podcasts can be listened to at three X, but yours
Speaker 1: can because of your clear addiction and good recording quality.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you. Will. One must slow down to two
Speaker 1: X for unfamiliar accents, languages, or lower quality recordings. I've
Speaker 1: gone on a bit, sorry, but I thought you might
Speaker 1: be interested to know that you're weird. House Cinema Episodes
Speaker 1: are one of my very favorite podcasts out of the
Speaker 1: hundred plus to which I subscribe. The only film you've
Speaker 1: covered that I've seen is Plan nine from Outer Space.
Speaker 1: I'm almost entirely an audio consumer, so your descriptions of
Speaker 1: the films are more than enough for me. Regrettably, I
Speaker 1: have difficulty discerning one actor from another, and I'm amazed
Speaker 1: at your ability to rate different actors, performances and the
Speaker 1: things they've been in. Most people look pretty much the
Speaker 1: same to me, except for the really big stars. There
Speaker 1: is one sception to my apparent inability to recognize good performances.
Speaker 1: I once saw an episode of Criminal Minds where the
Speaker 1: bad guys acting was so incredible that I had to
Speaker 1: look look up who it was in the credits. Turned
Speaker 1: out to be Tim Curry. He stole the show. His
Speaker 1: talent eclipsed everyone on the screen to the extent that
Speaker 1: it seemed like everyone else were a local amateur dramatics
Speaker 1: troope kind regards Will well, Will, that was a journey,
Speaker 1: But yes, we we must always remember to praise Tim Curry.
Speaker 1: And will you get a gold medal for listening to podcasts?
Speaker 1: I've never heard of anyone consuming three x delete blank
Speaker 1: space and getting through twenty two hours of podcasts and
Speaker 1: one day. That's that's that's really a herculean feats. Congratulations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope you're doing this just for enjoyment like that.
Speaker 1: They don't, Yeah, they don't literally give you a medal
Speaker 1: for the number of podcasts you listen to. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say I don't think he's doing enough. I think he could.
Speaker 1: He could be listening to two podcasts at once. I
Speaker 1: think that's the next step. That's right, Yes, stereo one
Speaker 1: in each year. There you go. Well, you know, coming
Speaker 1: back to Weird House. We also heard from Pat and
Speaker 1: Pat has a response to a Weird House episode that
Speaker 1: Seth and I did together concerning the Flight of Dragons.
Speaker 1: Pat rides Robert Seth. Thanks for the episode on the
Speaker 1: Flight of Dragons. Wow. I rank in Bass movie. I
Speaker 1: hadn't heard about, though I was a big fan. Great
Speaker 1: cast and the art is as described. You mentioned Paul Freeze.
Speaker 1: May I add how wonderful he was, so many great voices,
Speaker 1: dubbing Bogart in his last film, The Harder They Fall.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing this film before hearing the story of
Speaker 1: how Freeze had to dub Bogy's lines because Bogie was
Speaker 1: so sick I couldn't hear hear the difference. Recommend welcome
Speaker 1: Foolish Immortals, The Life and Times of Paul Freeze. Thanks again,
Speaker 1: please go on with the great shows. Pat. That is
Speaker 1: a good biograph. Off the title, I have to really
Speaker 1: underline that I also love Paul Freeze. Um folks probably
Speaker 1: know who he is, even if they don't know him
Speaker 1: by name. If you look up his IMDb page. He's
Speaker 1: like the Fred Welker of like the fifties, sixties, and seventies.
Speaker 1: He was the guy that was in literally everything. Um personally,
Speaker 1: I love Jay Ward stuff. He's the guy that created
Speaker 1: Rocky and Bullwinkle and Um, George at the Jungle and
Speaker 1: Dudley Do Right and all that kind of stuff, And
Speaker 1: Paul Freeze was all throughout those. Most famously, he was
Speaker 1: the voice of Boris baden Off. That was Paul Freeze. Um.
Speaker 1: He was also Inspector Fenwick on Dudley Do Right. He
Speaker 1: was the narrator in Hoppity Hooper And that's just Jay
Speaker 1: Ward stuff. If you if you look in all of
Speaker 1: his other things Disney rankin bass, everywhere, Paul Freeze is. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He was the guy. He was the guy that you
Speaker 1: called in if you needed just the man of a
Speaker 1: million voices. That was him back in the day. Do
Speaker 1: you reckon nice? The phrase welcome foolish mortals? Is that
Speaker 1: from something in particular? Um, you know what that this
Speaker 1: I'm jumping to a conclusion here. I may be wrong.
Speaker 1: He may have been one of the primary voices inside
Speaker 1: Disney's The Haunted Mansion, and that being the case, that
Speaker 1: might be one of the phrases that he used. I'm
Speaker 1: going just off top of my head right there. That
Speaker 1: may not be true. He also did the ending voice
Speaker 1: over in Beneath the Planet of the Apes, So another
Speaker 1: Beneath the Planet of the Apes connection there beneath is
Speaker 1: that the one? Is that the second one, the one
Speaker 1: where they worship the atomic bomb and then uh, Charlton
Speaker 1: Heston wrestles somebody and then they blow it all up.
Speaker 1: That's the one, and I've just looked it up. It
Speaker 1: is correct. He was the original ghost host for the
Speaker 1: Haunted Mansion, so that title is referencing him being the
Speaker 1: narrator while you walk through the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. Okay,
Speaker 1: so he's like the the elevator operator in the David S.
Speaker 1: Pumpkins sketch in some ways. Yeah, yeah, speaking of of
Speaker 1: of of Haunted Mansion. Uh, there's a there's a wonderful
Speaker 1: series you can get on Disney Plus called Behind the Attraction,
Speaker 1: and each one looks at a different like classic Disney
Speaker 1: ride in the history behind It. Have been slowly making
Speaker 1: my way through it and it's it's really fascinating. I
Speaker 1: don't remember if they mentioned Paul Freeze or not, but
Speaker 1: there's a whole episode on the Haunted Mansion that gets
Speaker 1: into the you know, where the idea came from, how
Speaker 1: it was developed, the imagineers involved, and the engineering constraints
Speaker 1: and so forth. It's a really good show. Co sign Well,
Speaker 1: I think we've reached the end of today's mail bag,
Speaker 1: but yeah, before we go, we should mention once again
Speaker 1: that that if you want to keep following Seth, you
Speaker 1: can check out Rusty Needles Record Club, which is sets
Speaker 1: music podcast. It's like a book club, but for albums.
Speaker 1: I was actually on an episode. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys mentioned this while I was out, but I
Speaker 1: was on an episode a while back that came out
Speaker 1: while I was on parental leave, and it was one
Speaker 1: we did on Black Sabbath's first album. That was a
Speaker 1: huge amount of fun. I hope you enjoyed it as well, Seth. Oh, absolutely,
Speaker 1: it was a great episode. And uh, Rob and I
Speaker 1: are already talking about that the episode Rob's going to
Speaker 1: do on there. We we've already got a nice list
Speaker 1: of potential albums to cover. It's gonna be good times.
Speaker 1: So yeah, come check that out if you like music.
Speaker 1: You're looking for some recommendations, or you know, you just
Speaker 1: like hearing people talk. That's that's the other part of it.
Speaker 1: And if if you're not sick to death of us
Speaker 1: at this point, we will and and if the invitation stands,
Speaker 1: we will show up on there again. So Stuff to
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Speaker 1: Come check that out too. That's that's where you might
Speaker 1: be able to find me. I might be there behind
Speaker 1: the counter, who knows. All right, Betty, well you're gonna
Speaker 1: be missed. Thanks again for all the work you've done
Speaker 1: over the years with us here and and a big
Speaker 1: thank you to both of you. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: been tons of fun. I've learned a lot. I can't
Speaker 1: begin to tell you how many of my friends and
Speaker 1: family are tired of me just throwing in little anecdotes
Speaker 1: about you know, why a wombat poops in a cube?
Speaker 1: It's very important and I can tell them that because
Speaker 1: of this show. Oh boy, we love to make people
Speaker 1: more annoying. That's our man goal. But yeah, seriously, huge
Speaker 1: heartfelt thanks, and and we're gonna miss you buddy, Vice
Speaker 1: of versa. I'll miss you both too, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: we'll we'll all still be in touch and we'll all
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