WEBVTT - Listener Mail: Blush Response 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.600 Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.680 Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. Listener mail. 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:18.160 My name is Robert Lamb and I am Joe McCormick. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:20.639 And today is Monday, the day of each week that 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:22.920 we read back messages from the Stuff to Blow Your 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:26.720 Mind email address. If you have never gotten in touch before, 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:28.920 why not give it a try. You can email us 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:33.000 at contact at stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.640 Any kind of message is fair game, but we especially 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.959 appreciate responses to recent episodes. If you have something interesting 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.560 you would like to add to a topic we've talked about, 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.240 but also if you have feedback you just want to 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.519 let us know you know where you listen from, what 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.879 you like about the show, anything like that, Send it 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:54.960 on in contact at stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.720 Let's see, oh Rob, maybe to start off today? We 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.160 got several responses to I can tell you you threw 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.520 out a request there for listeners to get in touch 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.480 with their favorite Star Trek monsters, and listener Jeff did indeed, 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.120 do you want to do this one? 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:18.040 Sure? Sure, Jeff says, Hi, guys, just a quick response 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.840 to requests for Star Trek creatures. There was a species 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:24.520 called something like the Medusins in the original series. The 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.240 gag was that they were not a non hostile race, 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.240 but humans couldn't look directly at them without going mad. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.640 The ambassador they sent to deal with them was physically blind, 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.479 but wore a dress that was a web of censors 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.720 that allowed her to quote unquote look at them without 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.640 going nuts. I think maybe Spock somehow got a taste 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:44.959 of the space madness at some point. I don't remember 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.600 how much they got into the biology of the creatures. Otherwise, 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.400 hope there's enough meat on the bone there for an episode. 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:55.120 Jeff ah Well, it, as is often the case with 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:59.160 creatures and situations from the original series, I feel like 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:03.560 this raises interesting philosophical questions, like about what it actually 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.320 means to look and what it means to see something, 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.200 because if I don't know, I was thinking about this, 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.680 if you've got like sensors that allow you to gain 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.040 all the same information you would get from looking at 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.880 something with eyes, and so you can know what it 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.680 looks like, yet that's still not the same as seeing. 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.000 That implies that like seeing is somehow different than just 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.800 having visual topographical information. 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:33.880 Yeah, yeah, so the Meduicans. This is a great suggestion. 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.560 I ended up not covering the Meduicins in this first 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:40.080 and the first four Star Trek Monster Fact episodes that 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.320 I did, but I may come back and do another 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.160 batch of them in the future because there's plenty of 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.760 cool stuff the Meduicins are. Yeah, they're definitely one of 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.239 those classic track creatures, and for me, that kind of 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:55.360 makes them a little more exotic because I wasn't an 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:59.320 original Star Trek series viewer. I came in at Next Generation, 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.679 and they intentionally did not revisit a lot of those aliens, 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:07.440 like apparently I was reading Gene Roddenberry especially early on 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.120 in Next Generation, was like new aliens, new species, you know, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.160 where we don't need the old ones, and you know, 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.120 they bent on some of that. But then there are 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.440 other creatures that just didn't really turn up in at 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:20.280 least a meaningful way in the Next Generation, and like 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.840 the Meducins were one of them. But I can say 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.000 that a Medusin character does pop up on the really 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:31.480 quite excellent recent animated series Star Trek Prodigy that I 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.519 watched with my family and everybody got a big kick 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:33.920 out off. 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.680 Okay, well, I have no familiarity with this. 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.960 Yeah, yeah, but it is an interesting concept of this 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:43.600 kind of like energy creature that can't be viewed because 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:45.800 to look upon them would you know, be to invite 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:46.960 madness and so forth. 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.560 You know, this is commonly said about like the face 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.960 of the gorgon. You know, looking upon the gorgon turns 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.240 you to stone in Greek mythology. But I think there's 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.040 also a concept at least like in you know, like 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.839 in the Hebrew Bible, that not that that you would 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.200 necessarily be turned to stone, but that like you cannot 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:08.000 really look directly at God. Yeah, yeah, it's like dangerous 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:09.080 to do so. Yeah. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.440 And then, as we've discussed in past episodes of stuff 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:17.200 blow your mind, that can spill over into various beliefs 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:21.400 that we should not depict the divine and and so forth. 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.720 So there's a there are a lot of avenues one 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:24.560 can explore there. 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:28.240 Okay, This next message is in response to our episodes 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:37.600 on Dust and it comes from Chris. Chris says, Hi, Robert, Joe, 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:41.159 and JJ, responding a few weeks later to your multi 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.919 part episode on Dust, and I wanted to bring up 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:48.000 a topic I do not believe was touched on explosive dust. 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.919 This is a topic I know about from my time 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:55.160 in the craft beer brewing industry. The history of explosive 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:58.599 grain dust goes back to the first recorded grain dust 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:03.120 explosion inter in Italy in seventeen eighty five, noted in 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:07.560 this article, and Chris attaches a link. Chris says brewery 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.599 milling rooms where the whole malted grains get milled to 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.600 the appropriate size prior to starting the brewing process, are 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:20.359 generally designed as almost quote blast rooms to decrease the 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.720 chances that if a grain dust explosion would happen, it 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.600 is contained appropriately. Unless I'm reading this wrong, I think 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.200 Chris means the opposite, to increase the chance of if 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:33.800 there is a grain dust it would be contained appropriately. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.920 Chris goes on good care must be taken to clean 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:42.760 frequently to help decrease the chances of grain explosion. There 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.960 are many examples of fine particulate matter that can cause 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.720 these explosions, and the risk is not only in the 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:53.520 brewing industry, but anywhere fine dust can be created grain elevators, 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:57.320 feed mills, and grain processors, just to name a few. 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.400 And then Chris attaches a link to another article an 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:05.640 article from the Purdue University Engineering Department that looks like 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.919 about I think about the physics of dust explosions. Chris says, 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.480 thanks again for the great episodes and always appreciate your 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:17.160 deep dives into topics so seemingly mundane as dust that 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:22.160 then turn into a multi part series. Chris, Oh, thank you, Chris. Yeah, 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:23.919 I didn't bring it up in the series, but I 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:28.480 actually have read about dust explosions before. I wrote a 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.320 dust explosion in as a plot point to one of 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.600 the scripts that I wrote for the Thirteen Days of 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:38.880 Halloween series that our network produces. One of the scripts 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:44.320 I wrote involved a powdered milk explosion at a dairy factory. 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.360 It's the thing you wouldn't think could happen, but Cannon does. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:48.800 All right. 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:53.000 I have one quick, quick additional Star Trek message to read. 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.400 This one came to us from Jim, and Jim also 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:04.839 shared a few suggestions. Jim said, I'm loving the Star 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.200 Trek monster fact. I have two suggestions. One silicon based 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.120 life forms example the Horta, the crystalline entity from the 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.560 next generation. Two creatures that live their lives in the 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.360 vacuum of space examples the Crystalline Entity again, the Creature 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.480 that Comes to Earth, and the fourth Star Trek movie, 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.720 The Voyage Home, the Creatures from the TNG episodes The 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:28.080 Loss and Galaxies, Child ten Man from TNG. Thanks Jim. 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.000 Now that's a list of references. I don't know a 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:32.960 lot of them, but I do remember the fourth Star 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:33.920 Trek movie. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.640 Yes, and I do remember the Horta, and in fact, 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.920 based on Jim's suggestion, I did the Horta for the 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.600 fourth monster fact in the Star Trek series, so that 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.560 one should be live. If anyone wants to. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:45.040 Go look that up. 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.280 And if you would prefer to have those as an 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.920 omnibus episode where all four are combined together, well that's 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.240 going to come out in the next few weeks. 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.360 Excellent. What's the short rundown on the Horta. 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.760 The Horta is silicone based, it lives underground. It bores 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:05.560 tunnels with via acid. And I did watch this original 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.120 Star Trek episode as a kid. I do distinctly remember 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.520 it because it's ultimately I think one of the one 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.080 of like the best of the classic track. I see 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.120 it make a lot of those lists, you know, And 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.080 it's about this peaceful creature that you know, is very 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:23.520 different from us, that lives underground and is peaceful, it 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.200 doesn't really have anything to do with humans. But then 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.120 it starts running a foul of a federation mining colony. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.600 There are some deaths, and ultimately it's one of these 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.840 episodes where Spock has to play a central role in 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.439 sort of helping us figure them out and helping them 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.760 understand us. So, you know, in the Grand Star Trek tradition, 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:48.240 it's a it's about understanding other civilizations, other peoples, or 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.480 in the sci fi context, other aliens, and what they 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.720 want and what they need. But then it also does 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.440 have some excellent kind of like space suspense space horror 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.240 elements to it as well, you know, some sort of 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.760 mysterious entity killing people with acid and tunnels underneath this 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:05.640 planet's surface. 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:07.240 It looks like a big heap. 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:10.440 Ah. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.240 Yeah, there's some good heaps in Star Trek. Wait, what's 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:15.400 the I know we've talked about this on the show before, 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.560 but then I forget what's it called. There's just like 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.280 a mud puddle that kills some characters early in the 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:21.000 next generation. 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.120 I remember that one. I don't remember what it's called 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.400 off the top of my head, but I distinctly remember 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:29.080 that one with like the shuttlecraft landing set, and they 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.079 had some sort of like a you know, pit underneath 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.080 this black boily or maybe it was like Hershey's chocolate 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.800 syrup stuff and it would just like swallow people down. 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:39.320 I remember being impressed by that. 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.960 All right, let's see, should we do some messages in 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:48.679 response to our series on artifacts made out of meteorite iron? Yeah? Okay, 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:56.960 which I'm gonna take this one from Chuck. Chuck says 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.280 Dear Rob, Joe and JJ. Hello, I hope you're all 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.720 doing well. I'm writing in response to your recent series 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.480 on meteoric metal and alien iron. The topic made me 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:10.800 think of the Murchison meteorite. I hope I'm saying right. 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:15.840 That's m U rchi Son Murchison meteorite. Here's the gist. 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.920 If you are unaware, this meteorite hit near Murchison, Victoria 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:24.080 in Australia on September twenty eighth, nineteen sixty nine. It 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.120 happened in the morning and was observed by witnesses, breaking 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.959 apart in the atmosphere and causing a minor trimmer when 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.959 the debris hit over two hundred and twenty pounds or 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.480 one hundred kilograms of the meteorite was collected, with the 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:41.440 largest pieces being over fifteen pounds or seven kilograms. It 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.760 has since become one of the most studied meteorites that 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.560 has ever hit the Earth. Okay, so what is so 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:51.480 amazing about this meteorite is that, according to scientists, most 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:55.360 of the meteorite grains are old, like before the Earth 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.880 and Sun were formed old. Here is some text from 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:03.240 an EarthSky dot com article discussing it. Quote, so, just 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.040 how old are these grains? Some of them turned out 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:09.040 to be the oldest found so far, and the oldest 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:13.480 known material on Earth, older than Earth itself. Most of 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.200 the grains are four point six to four point nine 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.880 billion years old, while some are as much as five 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.640 point five billion years old or more. Earth itself is 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.200 four point five billion years old and the Sun is 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.400 four point six billion years old. So these grains date 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:33.319 from back before the formation of our solar system. And 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.719 then Chuck provides a link to that source here, and 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.640 that's an EarthSky dot org article. Chuck's email goes on. 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.200 Other sources say that a small part of the media 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:47.160 rite may be seven billion years old. Truly alien iron 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.920 from the heavens. Of course, the Murchison meteorite was much 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:54.280 too late in human history to be made into exotic artifacts, 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.280 or simply too well observed, studied and collected in museums 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.040 and labs for the uber rich to do so since 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.840 nineteen sixty nine. But it made me think that surely, 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.400 somewhere and sometime in our past, someone may have had 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:13.000 an item made from something that well pre dates everything 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.800 else on earth, a gift from the gods. And here 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.400 I am trying to keep it simple and just add 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.439 an alien iron vorpal sword into my daughter's D and 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:26.640 D campaign. Thanks to you guys. Lastly, having written before 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.160 and being at the risk of repeating myself, thank you 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.400 for all the tremendous, thought provoking and sometimes hilarious information. 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.880 The combination of variety, depth and dry what you provide 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.800 is a rarity among podcasts. I salute you both. Thank 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.960 you so much. Chuck Oh and also Chuck says that 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.320 apparently one flaw remaining on our show is that we 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.280 have not done a weird house on Big Trouble in 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.320 Little China yet, and that would clinch it for him. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.680 He says, sincerely, with much gratitude, Chuck. 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.520 Oh, well, well, first of all, you know, thanks for 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.040 the great message, and I do love the idea of 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:03.200 an alien iron vorpal sword in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:08.680 But Big Trouble, Little China, that's It's definitely one that 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:13.680 is on our radar. I've really enjoyed this film so 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.959 many times over the years. I think it was ahead 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.960 of its time in many respects. Has such a great cast, 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:24.400 so many memorable moments. Certainly a cult film, and it 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.439 is kind of weird that we have yet to actually 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:33.239 watch a John Carpenter directed film on weird house cinema. 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:37.040 Almost feels two on the nose. Wun't that be possible? 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:38.440 I don't know. I mean, it would be a lot 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:39.480 of fun to talk about it. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:39.760 It might. 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.520 It might be one where we just go on and on, 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.360 but yeah, but it would be a good one. I 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.400 actually almost picked Dark Star for next week, but it 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.680 was one of two backups for what I think we're 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.760 going to be talking about. Oh okay, but I mean, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.400 we we've got to We've got to do a proper 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:57.960 John Carpenter film at some point. 0:13:58.240 --> 0:13:59.160 We will, we will. 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:03.440 We did have three, which he did not direct and 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.040 uh yeah, I think I think that's it so far. 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.200 That's the only like, that's the strongest John Garpenter connection 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:10.480 to a film we've we've looked at. 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.280 Now, wait a minute, didn't we just do John Carpenter 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.000 star Man Last Friday? Oh No, that was a different one. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:28.440 Yeah, different star different star Man. This one is also 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.960 in response to our Iron Meteorite episodes. This one comes 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.200 to us from Hugh. You, says Robert, JO and JJ. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.080 Greetings to you all. The episodes on meteoric metal have 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.119 been really interesting and I've learned a lot. The importance 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.360 the Inuit people place on tools that are made from 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.840 a special material and yet are in daily use really 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.880 resonates with me. I'm an artist and metal worker, and 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.480 in our community, old tools are highly prized. Old cast 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:57.600 iron machine tools, hammers, tongs, vices, and especially anvils are 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.520 sought out and lovingly restored with the full intension of 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.360 using them. The thought of the lives those tools have 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.480 lived before they come into our custody becomes significant and 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.480 helps us to feel that we are part of a 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:12.440 continue The objects created with these tools and the crafts 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.000 people who have used them in the past imbue them 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.440 with a sort of magic, a kind of magic that 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.160 we hope to add with our own work. Great topic 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:21.760 as always. 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:26.200 H oh wow that I found that strangely heartwarming. 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.600 Yeah, that's a great, great perspective. Yeah, because I mean 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:34.200 I have certain tools that I use in my miniature 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.160 painting hobby, and some of those are older and go 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:38.760 back to my dad, and so I have, you know, 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.800 nostalgia for them in that respect. But I like this 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:43.760 description because this, like this kind of takes it a 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:47.120 step further, and it goes beyond like mere attachment to 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:51.920 a specific individual, but also to like a lineage of 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.760 crafts people, some you know, some you don't know. 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.840 I like that. Yeah, all right, let's do at least 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:09.360 one weird house cinema message. This comes from Steph. Steph says, Hi, guys, first, 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.760 thank you for reviewing. Howse? You have to say it 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.960 that way? Howse, I'd recently finished all the show era 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.960 Godzilla movies and was a bit adrift wondering what else 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:24.520 to watch. House fit the bill very nicely, what a ride. 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.280 I was delighted at how weird, funny and imaginative it was. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.080 I wonder if you maybe got the sense like I 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:35.320 did in the watermelon eating scene that maybe Antie or 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.240 Blanche that's the lady who lives in the house and 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.760 the cat, the white cat, that maybe Anti or Blanche 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:45.600 was using magic to hide what they were really snacking on. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.480 So this is the scene where I remember Fantasy has 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.520 gone out to the well to find Mac, and Mac 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:54.800 was supposed to be getting a watermelon that was chilling 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.000 down in the well. Max snow where to be found. 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.480 Fantasy pulls up the watermelon, but the water is not 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.720 a watermelon. It's Max Head. And then max Head flies 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.840 and then bites Fantasy and then vomits blood and then 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.440 goes back down in the well, and then everybody comes 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.240 and pulls it up looking for the head. But it's 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.520 just a watermelon. Now, So this is Steph's theory about 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:19.000 what's going on in that scene while they're eating the watermelon. 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.600 It's maybe something else. So Steph says, when Anti opens 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.719 her mouth shows Fantasy the eyeball inside her mouth and 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.280 it appears to dart around. I took it to mean 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.159 that it was meant to be max eyeball, because they 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.960 were in fact eating max Head, which had been cloaked 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:39.600 by magic to appear as though it were the watermelon. 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.359 This is a solid theory. 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:48.040 This is just cannon to me. Now, I'm fully convinced, Steph. 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.040 Steph says, not sure if that's what Obayashi was implying, 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:54.719 but that interpretation adds another layer of horror to that scene. 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.080 Another small but very funny part I noticed was when 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.639 Melody was playing the piano, the camera swings around to 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.480 show her face and in the background you can see 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.119 the skeleton dancing along. This is like the skeleton that 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.920 was in the house. And I think they explained it like, oh, yes, 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.520 grandfather was a doctor, so there are skeletons in the house. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.600 Yeah, and it does occasionally dance, but often in ways 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.480 where it's not clear that anyone notices, and if they 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.520 do notice that it's a big deal. But of course 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:28.200 things get increasingly haunted as the movie progresses, So who knows, 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.359 Maybe it's like it's small potatoes at that point. 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.800 Yeah. So anyway, Steph says, Yeah, So the camera pans around, 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.040 you see Melody's face and then behind her the skeleton 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.840 is dancing, and Steph says, in the sound effects you 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:46.840 can hear an almost Scooby Doo like quote. Skeleton bones 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.760 rattling sound effect that is rattling in time to the 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:54.960 piano music. Such a subtle but hilarious cartoony detail. It 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:59.520 made me laugh out loud. Agree. Agree. Steph goes on 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.280 second and in the last Listener mail, someone wrote in 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:08.119 about taking a date to Highlander two and also about Tron. 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.719 About Tron, in the same email, Steph says it warmed 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.199 my heart because my dad, who has been gone for 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:18.320 seven years now, loved both of those movies. He would 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:22.119 play the game Tron at our local arcade, the Pirates Den. 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.919 And because I was young and had watched Tron with 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:28.320 my dad many times, I assumed there were really little 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:31.560 guys in there that he was manipulating. Because of his 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.879 affinity for movies like Highlander two and others of the sort. 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.600 As a kid, I assumed that he had terrible taste 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.840 in movies. Now, as an adult who enjoys watching a 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:44.160 good bad movie, I realized he wasn't bad at picking 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.520 out good movies. He was good at picking out bad movies. 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:50.840 Thanks for all you do. I enjoy your shows immensely 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.359 and always look forward to your deep dives on things, 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:57.359 no matter the subject. Cheers Steph Oh well, thank you, 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.040 Steph that this is a wonderful message. And yeah, I 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.600 love hearing about these these memories of your dad. 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:04.960 Yeah, yeah, I mean one of the great things about 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.160 bad movies, weird movies, Hey, good movies, great movies, however 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.080 you want to rank them. I mean, you know that 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:12.159 they're ones that mean a lot to you personally, but 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:14.800 then we get to share them with other people, and 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:15.720 and and that that. 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.040 Makes it even more magical. Co sign on that. 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.040 Yeah, all right, one more weird house cinema. This one 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:28.960 comes to us from Tauntry. Tauntrey, says Robin jeff I 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:33.200 humbly suggest the fine post apocalyptic nineteen eighty eight western 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:37.760 romp Cherry two thousand for weird House. It stars Melanie 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:43.080 Griffith and Tim Tim Thomerson. Of course, from the the 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:44.239 what is It Now? 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:45.760 Can't he was in several things. He was in the 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:49.520 Metal Storm, the what's the Deconstruction of Jared sin or what? 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:55.000 Yeah, what's the Big One? What's the the series? Transis Death? Yeah, 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:55.560 he's Jack Death. 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:57.480 I'm your husband Jack Death. 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:03.080 Yeah, he's also doll Man. A legend living legend includes 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:06.480 the Laurence Fishburn sighting has many suspiciously strong elements of 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:10.040 Blade Runner twenty twenty four and was shot in amazing 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:14.399 locations all over Nevada. It's also incredibly bonkers and feels 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:17.520 like a movie written specifically for the locations and is 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:20.359 about a man searching for his lost robot girlfriend. The 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:23.919 art direction is pure fur stroking madness. I found it 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:26.880 on too be as always loved the podcast Cheers Don't. 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:29.119 Try, Thank you Tantri. I'm gonna have to watch this 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:31.040 one at some point. It's been on my radar for 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:32.560 years and I've never gotten to it. 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:36.959 I haven't seen it in several years at this point, 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:40.479 but I remember it being a lot of fun. It 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:42.879 does have a great cast, because let's see, who else 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:47.480 do you have in there? Oh, Brian James is in there. 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:52.480 That's a direct Blade Runner reference right there. And Robert 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:54.760 Zadar has a small part in it as well. 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:55.840 So perfect. You know. 0:21:56.040 --> 0:22:00.280 It's got a lot of strong B movie energy going 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:03.720 on in it. And yeah, yeah, it's on the list. 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:06.040 It's on the list of potential films to cover. 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:10.879 How Can You Go Wrong? Melanie Griffith, Jack Death, Maniac 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:14.520 Cop and Nevada. That's just like unbeatable. 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:15.320 Harry Carey Junior is in it. 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:18.280 You know. Okay, does that do it for today? 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:20.600