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, This is Robert Lamb and this is Joe McCormick,
Speaker 1: and I think maybe we should jump right in with
Speaker 1: a response to an older episode of ours about the
Speaker 1: Bone Palace Vault episode or are you ready, Rob? I'm ready? Okay,
Speaker 1: This comes to us from Megan. Megan says, Hey, Joe
Speaker 1: and Robert had a couple of natural history notes to
Speaker 1: add to your Bone Palace episodes. I remember, I think
Speaker 1: there was a string of things we talked about in
Speaker 1: those episodes about creatures other than humans making dwellings out
Speaker 1: of the remains of other animals. Megan writes, Another cool
Speaker 1: creature that make camouflage itself with the body parts of
Speaker 1: other invertebrates is the green lacewing larva. You can see
Speaker 1: them trundling about on tree trunks under tiny lichen festooned huts.
Speaker 1: They voraciously consume other insects, and they may incorporate the
Speaker 1: body parts of their prey, such as a fids, within
Speaker 1: their camouflage. This is especially useful as a disguise to
Speaker 1: fool ants which tend and defend sap sucking afids for
Speaker 1: their honeydew. Also carrier snails from the family's xenophority, meaning
Speaker 1: foreigner carrying, attach bits of coral rocks, sponges, and other
Speaker 1: smaller shells into the delicate white whirls of their own
Speaker 1: growing shells. They can be very elegant, with the long
Speaker 1: spires of other shells protruding at regular intervals like a sunburst,
Speaker 1: or look like crazy marine garbage heaps, depending on the
Speaker 1: species and it's preferred masonry. The added bits provide some
Speaker 1: camouflage and protection from predators, stability on the seafloor, and
Speaker 1: also save them on the energy and material cost of
Speaker 1: having to grow their entire shells. Thanks guys, you supply
Speaker 1: me with moments in critical thinking in time when I'm
Speaker 1: otherwise short on it, driving, kid tending, etcetera. Best Megan, excellent, Well,
Speaker 1: these are both great specimens. Thanks for sharing these with us, Megan.
Speaker 1: At least one of these seems kind of familiar, So
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if we maybe researched it but didn't mention
Speaker 1: it in the episode or mentioned it. It's possible. Sometimes
Speaker 1: stuff falls through the cracks like that. Yeah, uh now,
Speaker 1: We've got a number of responses to our pair of
Speaker 1: episodes about furry fish, and these were great fun. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The first one comes to us from Kelly. She says, Hi, both.
Speaker 1: I was delighted to hear you mentioned in your second
Speaker 1: episode on furry fish the gloriously fluffy hoax fish at
Speaker 1: the National Museum of Scotland. As a child, I remember
Speaker 1: for the first time seeing this fish on show. Since then,
Speaker 1: I've always made a point of trying to find it
Speaker 1: whenever I go in. It is Scotland's own abominable snow trout.
Speaker 1: Your discussion of fish people and otters uh got to
Speaker 1: me thinking about the Celtic Norse myths of the silky
Speaker 1: a mer person that takes on the form of a seal,
Speaker 1: which was a widespread folk tale in the North and
Speaker 1: in the Islands. The story I remember reading when was
Speaker 1: when I was very young was that of the Silky Wife.
Speaker 1: I think there are plenty of variations on the theme,
Speaker 1: but the basic premise is that a fisherman falls in
Speaker 1: love with a silky woman in human form, but he
Speaker 1: steals her silky slash seal skin, preventing her from taking
Speaker 1: seal form, and locks the skin in a kiss or chest,
Speaker 1: keeping her imprisoned on the land. Eventually she manages to
Speaker 1: take back the skin, escapes to the sea, transforms back
Speaker 1: into a seal and escapes. A more recent sculptural interpretation
Speaker 1: at the Helix Park in Falkirk, called the Selkies presents
Speaker 1: them in the form of the giant rearing heads of
Speaker 1: Shire horses. I think this is part of a reference
Speaker 1: to the foam tipped breaking waves of the sea being
Speaker 1: referred to as white horses, as well as a link
Speaker 1: to the horses which would have pulled barges along the
Speaker 1: canals along which the park was built. They are quite
Speaker 1: spectacular and worth a quick image search if you have
Speaker 1: a few minutes. Thanks for the many hours of fun
Speaker 1: and a lightning discussion. I come away from every episode
Speaker 1: with some new interesting facts or ideas to think about.
Speaker 1: All the best, Kelly. Now, I tried to google the
Speaker 1: Selkies Helix Park and the only thing I think I
Speaker 1: came across what I think you're talking about. But this
Speaker 1: says they're called the Kelpies instead of the Selkies, which
Speaker 1: I know are both things, so you may have just
Speaker 1: had a typo in your email there. Either way, the
Speaker 1: selkies are certainly fascinating. Uh selkies and and kelpies. I've
Speaker 1: been reading about them for for ages, you know, because
Speaker 1: they pop up in dungeons and dragons and mythology textbooks,
Speaker 1: uh monster uh compendiums of all sorts. I I also
Speaker 1: have to point out there's a wonderful two thousand fourteen
Speaker 1: Irish animated film called Song of the Sea which deals
Speaker 1: with this territory. Highly recommend that a beautiful film. M
Speaker 1: all right. This next message about the furry fish comes
Speaker 1: from Alex. Alex says, Hello, I love your show, but
Speaker 1: I've never had a good reason to send you mail
Speaker 1: until today. In your The Fish had for episode, you
Speaker 1: mentioned the singing bass fish Billy bass, the singing bass fish.
Speaker 1: I had one of these growing up, so I started
Speaker 1: looking for it in my basement, hoping I still had it.
Speaker 1: I didn't, but I experienced a bit of serendipity while
Speaker 1: scrolling TikTok. After I gave up the hunt, I stumbled
Speaker 1: across an artist by the name of Kevin Heckert. They
Speaker 1: are an interactive artist that has created a billy bass
Speaker 1: that somehow interacts with Amazon Alexa. It is amazing. It
Speaker 1: sings any song you ask it to. Please look it up.
Speaker 1: It will make your day watching billy singing all of
Speaker 1: the hits. That's it. Thanks for making such an entertaining podcast.
Speaker 1: Uh ps, I really missed the constant flow of Invention.
Speaker 1: That's how I found you guys. Thanks for reading, Alex.
Speaker 1: Thank you Alex. Yeah, thanks. I hope we keep I
Speaker 1: don't know, we will still continue doing Invention episodes from
Speaker 1: time to time. Sorry, we can't do them every week now.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe at some point we'll just lose it
Speaker 1: and start doing Invention episodes like back to back for
Speaker 1: at least for a little bit. You never know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but anyway, so I looked this up. I'm not familiar
Speaker 1: with this uh this person, but I looked up the
Speaker 1: TikTok you were talking about, and yeah, it looks like
Speaker 1: someone has uh sort of hacked a billy bass to
Speaker 1: to be the interface for Amazon Alexa. So at least
Speaker 1: if what is being alleged by this video is correct
Speaker 1: and there's no trickery involved, you can say to the
Speaker 1: big mouth billy bass, hey, Alexa, play whatever, and you know, uh,
Speaker 1: play four Horsemen by Metallica, and then the bed the
Speaker 1: bass will turn and say okay and it will sing
Speaker 1: along with the song, It'll do the mouth. All right.
Speaker 1: Here's another one. This one comes to us from Calvin
Speaker 1: subject big mouth, Billy Bass, Hello, the one in the
Speaker 1: town I grew up in play Don't Worry Be Happy.
Speaker 1: As kids, we were absolutely obsessed with this thing. The
Speaker 1: poor shop owner must have heard that fish hundreds of times.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the show, Calvin. I gotta be honest. When
Speaker 1: I first read this email, I laughed out loud thinking
Speaker 1: about the town, billy bass town. Well, it reminded me
Speaker 1: of New York movies, older New York movies, where they'll
Speaker 1: be TVs and shop windows, and they'll be people gathered
Speaker 1: around to watch the TVs. Except in this case, it's
Speaker 1: the billy bass singing don't Worry Be Happy. Bobby McPherrin, Yeah,
Speaker 1: great too, all right. We also heard back from our
Speaker 1: listener Shay in regards to the tomay O Vault episodes.
Speaker 1: He writes, Dear Robin Joe, I'm lovingly teased by my
Speaker 1: friends and my wife for my podcast problem as I
Speaker 1: spend every available moment driving housework, walking the beast listening, uh,
Speaker 1: and your work is my favorite. I was listening to
Speaker 1: the second Vault episode about tomatoes this morning, as I
Speaker 1: made my wife send my favorite vegan beverage, an oat
Speaker 1: milk latte. If you haven't tried toatally yet, Rob, you've
Speaker 1: got to give it a go. I I do. I
Speaker 1: do love oat milk. It's it's quite good. When Joe
Speaker 1: suggested that the fruit from the Garden of Eden may
Speaker 1: have been a tomato, quickly you both accept the improbability
Speaker 1: of this, since tomatoes are native to the America's and
Speaker 1: the authors of the Bible would not have been familiar
Speaker 1: with them. However, considering the importance of the ld S
Speaker 1: Church and in this U shase referring, of of course,
Speaker 1: to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints,
Speaker 1: um Uh. Considering the importance of the ld S Church
Speaker 1: to the later acceptance of tomatoes in the US, I
Speaker 1: want to offer a sliver of hope to your theory. Uh,
Speaker 1: they can, he continues. In ELDS lore, it is said
Speaker 1: that the Garden of Eden was in fact in the Americas,
Speaker 1: specifically in Jackson County, Missouri. Now that's more than a
Speaker 1: hot skip and jump away from South and Central America.
Speaker 1: But Mormon beliefs are central to stories of ancient American
Speaker 1: people's traveling across these continents. While there is of course
Speaker 1: no scientific evidence that I'm aware of supporting any of this,
Speaker 1: it is interesting to look at the pattern of tomato
Speaker 1: development and apply it to a story. Here. Imagine a
Speaker 1: cultivated tomato of knowledge being taken and or naturally adapting
Speaker 1: and spreading to be the current like tomatoes of South America,
Speaker 1: where they are again selected, cultivated, and spread north, then
Speaker 1: grow wild and small again before finally being rediscovered and
Speaker 1: becoming the tomatoes of today. I'm certain plot holes abound,
Speaker 1: but what fun shay from the Rocky Mountains? And they
Speaker 1: add a p s. In a recent listener mail, you
Speaker 1: mentioned and how delicious a tomato mayo sandwich can be,
Speaker 1: and I can't resist suggesting you try a pickle and
Speaker 1: mayo sandwich one of my guilty pleasures. Hmm. Interesting, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm up to try. I wonder what kind of
Speaker 1: pickle would be best? Do you want to go? Do
Speaker 1: you go bread and better pickle on that? Do you
Speaker 1: go with a more sour variety, you go with a
Speaker 1: spicy pickle? So many possibilities. I'm very partial to half
Speaker 1: sour pickles myself. That fresh cucumber reef flavor. Yea. Now,
Speaker 1: I wanted to look this up to make sure that
Speaker 1: this is actually a belief among the Latter day Saints,
Speaker 1: and I think what I discovered. I didn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of time to look into this, but what it
Speaker 1: looked like to me, um is that the belief that
Speaker 1: the Garden of Eden was in Jackson County, Missouri, or
Speaker 1: it was definitely in Missouri. Uh, is not something that
Speaker 1: is written in the Book of Mormon, but I believe
Speaker 1: it is something that is alleged to have been said
Speaker 1: by Brigham Young, and and that Brigham Young said Joseph
Speaker 1: Smith told him this, so i'd know how exactly that
Speaker 1: relates to to its doctrinal status among the beliefs of
Speaker 1: the church. But but yeah, interesting nonetheless. Okay, anyway, are
Speaker 1: you ready to move on to some emails about Weird
Speaker 1: House Cinema? Let's do it. Okay, This first one comes
Speaker 1: from Eric uh and I want to include this email
Speaker 1: because it has some great stuff in it. But Eric,
Speaker 1: I think you made a few typos that I couldn't
Speaker 1: quite figure out. I don't know if there was like
Speaker 1: some accidental formatting changes or something. So I'm gonna sort
Speaker 1: of skip or summarize a few paragraphs here. But Eric says,
Speaker 1: good morning, gentlemen, I just listened to this week's listener mail,
Speaker 1: in which you spend a few moments pondering who should
Speaker 1: potentially portray Tom Bomba Dill in the future Lord of
Speaker 1: the Rings movie. And then uh, Eric says his first
Speaker 1: thought was Charles Darning. Interesting idea. Okay, so he says
Speaker 1: it's it's difficult to imagine Mr Darning is embodying a threat.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think about the sting at least. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he can be quite threatening and a brother where art
Speaker 1: thou at least when he wants to be. But he
Speaker 1: can also turn on the chime. That's true. Um, And
Speaker 1: Eric says he can sing, and he gives his evidence
Speaker 1: the movie The Best Little Horhouse in Texas, which that's
Speaker 1: a Dolly Pardon movie, isn't it? Yeah? I believe. So
Speaker 1: he also sings in Brother where art Thou oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and dances is that it is a talented dancer. A
Speaker 1: lot of people don't realize that. And then after this,
Speaker 1: Eric says, I think he's suggesting that his dog recommended
Speaker 1: someone to him. Jokingly. I assume and anyway, that person
Speaker 1: is Vin Diesel. Vin Diesel is Tom Bomba Dill. What
Speaker 1: do you think? Okay, so so, Eric says, you know,
Speaker 1: Tom Bomba Dill, some people might think of him as
Speaker 1: kind of a a nature loving, quintessential hippie. But Eric writes,
Speaker 1: quote Bomba Dill is clearly at least a demigod, and
Speaker 1: he's a very powerful being. Well, he's by preference good natured.
Speaker 1: He could be quite capable of violence. Even that some
Speaker 1: remove and one would assume anger or at least implacability,
Speaker 1: if that's a word. And Eric says, might have to
Speaker 1: dub in the singing. Though to the contrary, Eric, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you're aware of this. Vin Diesel has albums.
Speaker 1: He he is in a professional singer in addition to
Speaker 1: being an actor. So uh so, you know he he
Speaker 1: may be living life a quarter mile at a time,
Speaker 1: but at least one of those quarter miles has involved
Speaker 1: going into the studio and laying down some sensitive emotional
Speaker 1: pop tracks. Yeah. You sent me a link to this
Speaker 1: and I listened to it, and I have to say
Speaker 1: it's it's not terrible, it's not necessarily my thing, but
Speaker 1: it's it's it's nothing that would offend me if I
Speaker 1: heard it in a commercial or in a waiting room somewhere. Um,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that it just screams Tom Bomba deal
Speaker 1: to me. But um, I I accepted its proof of
Speaker 1: Vin Diesel's musical chops. I would say it's not my
Speaker 1: style of music. But I'm impressed by Vin Diesel's potential
Speaker 1: as a singer. I almost I was immediately thinking, like, oh,
Speaker 1: does he do cameo? Could we? How much would it
Speaker 1: cost to send him like the robb inglist songs and
Speaker 1: see if he can just you know, perform them. See
Speaker 1: what it sounds like. Yeah, it's not gonna happen, sadly,
Speaker 1: at least not now. Maybe later, maybe later in his career,
Speaker 1: but for now, Vin doesn't need the cameo bucks. But
Speaker 1: also Eric floats the idea of of Wayne the Stone
Speaker 1: John's man as as the rock. Um. Yeah, the rock
Speaker 1: certainly is charismatic, and I think he can sort of
Speaker 1: sing at least um. But again, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know if this is a direction from my vision
Speaker 1: of Tom Bomba till I don't know. It's such a
Speaker 1: difficult part to potentially cast, so There was some fun
Speaker 1: discussions about this in the Facebook group for Stuff to
Speaker 1: Boil Your Mind, the Stuff to Boil your Mind discussion module.
Speaker 1: I think we even did a little pole. Uh. There
Speaker 1: was some some fun and some absurd suggestions on there.
Speaker 1: I also, I think at the same time that was
Speaker 1: going on, I was watching Hamilton's for the first time,
Speaker 1: so I was also thinking of the areous actors in Hamilton.
Speaker 1: I was thinking, Oh, they could be a Tom bombadel
Speaker 1: Oh he could be up Tom Bombadil as well. A
Speaker 1: lot of Tom Bomba is strange. Yeah, okay, especially if
Speaker 1: you know. No, you have to remember in in in
Speaker 1: the book The Lord of the Rings and Fellowship of
Speaker 1: the Rings. Um, it's not said that these are necessary.
Speaker 1: I mean that we don't have music, we just have
Speaker 1: the lyrics. They could be wrapped. Oh that's true. Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe they even need to be rapped. I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: I just don't know if any of those actors are
Speaker 1: like old and rotund enough. I I picture somebody who's
Speaker 1: got to be like over fifty and kind of round. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: we're playing the long game here, so give it time.
Speaker 1: We just have some potential, uh, Tom Bomba dial so
Speaker 1: we just have to keep an eye on and see
Speaker 1: how they develop, how they mature. Of course, I realized
Speaker 1: this would also exclude Vin Diesel and and Uh and
Speaker 1: Rock the Dwayne obviously. Yeah, in their current forms. You
Speaker 1: never know, You never know, all right. We also heard
Speaker 1: from listeners regarding our Weird House Cinema episodes on psychomania.
Speaker 1: This one comes to us from Dawn. Guys, so glad
Speaker 1: you picked this film. I saw this as a young
Speaker 1: kid in the seventies, and the image of the undead
Speaker 1: biker's turning to stone at the end was both frightening
Speaker 1: and super sad. I don't remember much else about the
Speaker 1: rest of the film, but that final scene has stuck
Speaker 1: with me for decades. Thanks for bringing the rest of
Speaker 1: the movie back to me. We'll try to track it down.
Speaker 1: All the best, Dawn, I'm curious why it's sad. It
Speaker 1: seems like these horrible people, these horrible trolls, are finally
Speaker 1: turned to stone. Well, I mean they especially if you
Speaker 1: watched it as a young person. It's you know, these
Speaker 1: young people are you know, they're gonna live forever, They're
Speaker 1: gonna do things their way, and then they're shut down
Speaker 1: by old people. Magic at the end, it's kind of sad,
Speaker 1: it's I can I can definitely dig that interpretation. The
Speaker 1: end of the movie, once again to reiterate, is Mom
Speaker 1: comes in and stops the rough house using yes basically
Speaker 1: via occult paperwork. Yes. Yeah uh. This next message is
Speaker 1: from Maggie, also about psychomania or the subject actually uses.
Speaker 1: The alternate title is just death Wheelers, Maggie says, great
Speaker 1: weird house cinema episode. Guys, I remember seeing this movie
Speaker 1: about ten years ago at an all night secret horror
Speaker 1: movie marathon in Philadelphia, and this movie was a huge
Speaker 1: hit for that audience. I'm talking popcorn in the air,
Speaker 1: cheering and hollering, particularly every time one of the bikers
Speaker 1: rocketed from the grave upright on their motorcycle. A perfect
Speaker 1: trash movie. Indeed, my friend and I thought the lead
Speaker 1: biker Tom had more than a passing resemblance to Noel
Speaker 1: Fielding from the Mighty Bush, and that lent the movie
Speaker 1: a whole other absurd dimension in which to enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Love the pod, and appreciate all the work you guys
Speaker 1: put into it. Maggie, that's a good point. I think
Speaker 1: when I was watching it too, I was getting some
Speaker 1: some mild hints of no fielding character. Yeah, the hair,
Speaker 1: kind of the you know, the long face. Uh yeah.
Speaker 1: What what would have been like had the Mighty Boush
Speaker 1: done some sort of like a proper psychomania inspired tail.
Speaker 1: I think there there would have been room for them
Speaker 1: to explore some absurd ideas there. Oh my god, yes,
Speaker 1: they could have done a really good undead biker along
Speaker 1: along the hitchhiker lines. I guess. Yeah. All right. This
Speaker 1: last pair of messages comes from Lorenzo, and then this
Speaker 1: is in response to us talking about the weird thing
Speaker 1: that's in a lot of Italian horror movies from the
Speaker 1: seventies and eighties, where there are scenes of heightened suspense
Speaker 1: and then the soundtrack gets it starts playing music that
Speaker 1: feels incongruous with the mounting suspense. It's playing like funky,
Speaker 1: you know, funky jazzy, like cool music, not scary music. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So we were talking about that, and Lorenzo says, Hi, Joe, Rob,
Speaker 1: big fan of your show. Keep them coming, Joe. Twice
Speaker 1: you commented on Weird House Cinema asking why the upbeat
Speaker 1: synths and violence sequences, and Rob you rationalize that it's
Speaker 1: a culturally based counterpoint to the tension, right, So you
Speaker 1: were talking about maybe it's just some kind of difference
Speaker 1: between how like Italian audiences versus American audiences would regard
Speaker 1: the connotations of disco music. Maybe Yeah, And so Lorenzo says,
Speaker 1: while the synth work of Goblin and Co Is awesome
Speaker 1: for the action sequences, those guys just stepped aside. Similar
Speaker 1: samples were pasted over all sorts of genre films in
Speaker 1: Italy when I was a kid, including overdubs of westerns
Speaker 1: and manga. So generally it's a shortfall on soundtracking in
Speaker 1: those sequences. I'd rather have John Carpenter do my truculent ambient.
Speaker 1: To be honest, it's a fail for our movies anyway
Speaker 1: you look at it. Okay, So Lorenzo is just dissing
Speaker 1: some of the soundtrack choices of of of these Italian
Speaker 1: horror films. Uh, if I'm understanding, I hope I'm not misunderstanding.
Speaker 1: But I think Lorenzo is saying, like you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: they just didn't know what to put in there, didn't
Speaker 1: have much of a budget, and just subbed in some
Speaker 1: kind of track they had in a library or had
Speaker 1: the rights to or something. Well, yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: could imagine that potentially be in the case. But on
Speaker 1: the other hand, a lot of wonderful things come out
Speaker 1: of accidents and shortcuts in filmmaking, and so you know,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't discount it just because maybe the
Speaker 1: process was questionable. If it was questionable, well here, let's see,
Speaker 1: let's hear Lorenzo. Second email. Lorenzo also says, as you know,
Speaker 1: Italian film is all about dubbing. Italians to this day
Speaker 1: see all cinema dubbed with a handful of voice actors
Speaker 1: playing the parts. They do a good job. We have
Speaker 1: a better Homer than Dan Castelneda, I promise you, but
Speaker 1: you will never know this. That's great. Um. Why do
Speaker 1: I bring up dubbing in the context of those action
Speaker 1: sequences with the upbeats? Sense? Do you ask? Because in
Speaker 1: many films they were working on whatever budget they had,
Speaker 1: and they sacrifice these production elements to an aesthetic, so
Speaker 1: funky jazz in a slasher sequence or bad overdubs. I
Speaker 1: guess we're secondary to the aesthetic. But I agree with you, Joe,
Speaker 1: it's probably not an excuse. Lorenzo. Oh, Lorenzo I don't.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to to impugne movies that have soundtrack
Speaker 1: choices that seem strange to me. I love a strange
Speaker 1: soundtrack choice. Oh yeah, the stranger the better, the better,
Speaker 1: the the it's the soundtracks that are not strange, those
Speaker 1: are the ones that that can sometimes just piss me off,
Speaker 1: to be honest, but I think I see exactly what
Speaker 1: you're talking about, Lorenzo with um certain with there being
Speaker 1: a sort of strain of creative preference in Italian cinema
Speaker 1: for maybe sometimes visual aesthetics over everything else. That like
Speaker 1: the the the director might have a certain kind of
Speaker 1: image in their mind, almost kind of a painting of
Speaker 1: the way they want the film to look, and that's
Speaker 1: really top priority. Maybe a lot of other creative choices
Speaker 1: might kind of just take a back seat to that,
Speaker 1: and I think that's true about a lot of Italian
Speaker 1: horror movies especially. Well, this will be this will be
Speaker 1: a conversation to keep in mind and to keep having
Speaker 1: as we inevitably come back to the cinema of Italy
Speaker 1: on our Weirdout Cinema episodes. Oh yeah, I do like
Speaker 1: him taunting us with the fact that his Simpsons is
Speaker 1: better than ours. This This is fun because I had
Speaker 1: recently um, I recently played a video game titled Blasphemous,
Speaker 1: which is which is excellent and it is um It's
Speaker 1: a Spanish production and it had you can choose to
Speaker 1: have the audio in English or in Spanish. And I
Speaker 1: was reading about it online with some people talking about
Speaker 1: there being an apparent at times kind of a good
Speaker 1: natured rivalry between uh Mexican dubblers and Spanish dubbers, like
Speaker 1: who's doing who does the best job of providing voiceovers
Speaker 1: for for projects? And uh so, so that was interesting. Well,
Speaker 1: I never really thought about that, how you might have
Speaker 1: some sort of like good natured competition between the dubblers
Speaker 1: in Spain and the dubbers in Mexico for for different projects.
Speaker 1: Blasphemous Is this the the two D side scroller game
Speaker 1: that looks inspired by the paintings of Goya? It is? Yes,
Speaker 1: Oh I've been. I saw a preview of that, I
Speaker 1: think a few years back, and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I want to play that. That looks like some some
Speaker 1: real classic witchcraft. Yeah. I put it off for a
Speaker 1: long time and then I finally bet. I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna give this game a shot. And
Speaker 1: I'm not really huge into the sort of Castlevania Metroid
Speaker 1: type type games. A lot of times they kind of
Speaker 1: frustrate me. So I expected it to be a game
Speaker 1: that would visually amuse me for a little bit and
Speaker 1: then I would get sick of it because it would
Speaker 1: be too hard for me as a gamer. But I
Speaker 1: ended up I stuck with it it. It was just enthralling,
Speaker 1: just some wonderful world building and uh, and I think
Speaker 1: it's challenging, but it never feels cheap. So I highly
Speaker 1: recommend that one and the voice talent. I listen to
Speaker 1: parts of it in Spanish and parts of it in English,
Speaker 1: and in both cases excellent. There's some wonderful dialogue in there,
Speaker 1: and uh and in some very creepy voices. Nice. I
Speaker 1: just love the idea that somebody essentially made a Goya game.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's what they were doing on purpose,
Speaker 1: but as soon as I looked at it, that's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. I believe the creators have pointed
Speaker 1: that out. They pointed specific Goya paintings that were key,
Speaker 1: uh to this vision, to this world they've created. And
Speaker 1: and but it also goes beyond that. There's all this
Speaker 1: just rich stuff that's very you know, based in inquisition
Speaker 1: and and Catholic guilt, and it just has a very
Speaker 1: rich and mysterious world that they've built up around this game.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play that, and then I'm gonna hang on
Speaker 1: for whoever makes the El Greco game. Yeah, yeah, that
Speaker 1: could be good too. All right, we're gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and close the mail bag here, but we'd love to
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