WEBVTT - Listener Mail: Dracula on the Moon 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.080 Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:13.680 Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind listener mail. 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:15.120 My name is Robert Lamb. 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.120 And I am Joe McCormick, and it's Monday, the day 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:20.319 of each week that we read back messages from the 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:24.079 Stuff to Blow Your Mind mail bag. A little note 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.440 at the top of today's episode Tomorrow. This week we 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.120 are going to be running a vault episode because it 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:33.680 is a holiday here in the United States. But we 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:37.000 will be back with all new episodes later this week. 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.720 But for today, we are going to feature some new messages. Rober, 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.559 you okay if I kick this thing off with the 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.879 message from Nathan about the Lesser of Two Crab Claws. 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:49.599 Oh yeah, crab content, Let's do it right. 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:57.320 At the top, Nathan says, Hey, Robert and Joe, I'm 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.320 a bit behind on Stuff to Blow Your Mind at 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.920 the moment, but just finished the Lesser of Two Crab 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:05.560 Claws from about a year ago, which dealt with body asymmetry. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:07.960 It was great as usual. At the end of the 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.600 last episode in the series, you talked a bit about 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:15.120 differences between left and right handedness, which sparked an old memory. 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.400 I'm a big hockey fan and remembered a couple of 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:22.479 older articles mentioning that Canadian hockey players are more likely 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.760 to shoot left compared to the rest of the world. 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:30.000 About sixty to seventy percent of Canadian hockey players shoot 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.640 left compared to the rest of the world, which is 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:37.600 about sixty percent righty. The difference also carries over to golf, 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:41.000 and there are smaller oddities as well, like Quebec born 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.640 players being even more likely to shoot left, but British 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.920 Columbia skewing more to the right. There are a lot 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.440 of theories as to why, but no one's ever really 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:52.640 figured it out. Here as a couple of articles if 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.480 you're interested. Thanks for all your great work. My wife 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.280 Olivia and I have been big fans for years. All 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:02.200 the best, Nathan, Oh, thank you, Nathan. Yeah, this is 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.800 kind of interesting. I'd never heard of this before, so 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.520 there are Yeah, I was reading a bit about this. 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.799 It seems like there are various hypotheses, but none of 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.720 them really seems to make sense. One of them is 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.840 I was reading about this in the NPR article that 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.760 Nathan linked. I'll just read from it. They say, quote 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.320 one theory says it's because Canadians play hockey like a 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.480 bunch of three year olds when they're three years old 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.440 in a country devoted to the sport. That's about the 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.520 age Canadians first take up the stick, a much younger 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.840 start than Americans. Tats that young are more likely to 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.560 use their stronger hand to control the shot, which puts 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.080 the right hand at the top of the stick and 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:48.320 makes right handed kids into lefty shooters. Does that make sense, Like, 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:52.840 when you're small, you might use the opposite handedness for 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.360 shooting than you would if you're learning to shoot when 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.760 you're a bit larger compared to the stick itself. 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:01.160 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean sports are different when your 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:02.000 body's smaller. 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.639 Yeah, But I think there are reasons people question that explanation, 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:07.920 So ultimately, I think I think it is not known. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.160 I was thinking there was going to be some cheeky 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.400 explanation like, I don't know, you know, Canadian players while 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.800 they're learning that they've got a hold of beer in 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.000 the right hand, so they're using the left. But I 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:18.360 don't know. 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.160 No, But that's interesting. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:27.880 great stuff about left hand right handedness in humans out there. 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.440 I know we've covered in the show long ago, but 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.120 it would be interesting to dive back into some of 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.760 the There's a lot of theories regarding like hand to hand 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.080 combat and so forth, and you see that reflected and 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.640 various combat sports as well, like the idea that you know, 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.160 if you're a boxer and you're you're a righty, you're 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.600 mostly training to fight righty's right, and then here comes 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.880 a lefty. Meanwhile, you're a lefty. You're mostly training to 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.320 fight rightys, but you've got the advantage of being the lefty, etc. 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.000 That right, It gets a little more complicated than that, though. 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.480 That raises a question that I recall coming up for 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.560 about evolutionary theories having to do with throwing punches, and 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:10.400 that question was is throwing punches really very common in nature? 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.760 Is that like a natural fighting form that humans use 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.000 outside of the context of like an organized sport. I'm 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:17.680 not sure it is. 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.560 M We've discussed some of that in some of the 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.039 dealing with some of these hypotheses regarding the closed fist 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:26.680 and the evolution of the human hand. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.440 I think this came up in the Crabclaw episode because 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.360 we were talking about that other hypothesis where the guy 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:37.599 suggested that maybe handedness evolved because of the positioning of 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:41.240 holding infants while trying to do something with one's free hand, 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:45.120 and that it was advantageous to hold the infant on 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:49.320 the left side of the chest, so the right handedness 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.839 would evolt. But I don't know. I haven't heard a 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.240 single theory that has been super convincing to me. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.039 I'll say, all right, This next one comes to us 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:06.080 from Jeremy. Jeremy says, Hello, Robert and Joe. I know 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.719 you are fellow nerds and lovers of sci fi, but 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.520 I can't remember which of you is the bigger N. M. 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:16.240 Banks fan. You also regularly reference compendiums and encyclopedias of 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:17.440 sci fi lore, etc. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.839 Rob is the big en M. Banks fan. I'm not opposed. 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:22.320 I just haven't gotten into him. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.000 Banks' work is. It's harder to figure out a starting point, 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.440 necessarily because you have the culture books, which are you know, 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.600 this wonderful though at times humorous and absurd, but also 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.640 very hard sci fi at times. And the books don't 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.040 necessarily don't really need to be read in any order, 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.560 but they are all in a shared universe and occurring 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.320 at different times. Some books are better entries than others 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.479 some are better entries for certain readers than others. And 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.839 then he has a whole bunch of other fiction that 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.480 is either sci fi that is not connected to the culture. 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.039 And then he has a bunch of books that are 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.920 set in the real world, and at least one early 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.640 horror novel as well, The Loss Factory. 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.520 I think that is the one that proudly cites a 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:12.240 pull quote that says something like trash absolutely depraved. Yeah. 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.320 I mean it's a different beast than his later books, 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.120 for sure, But I remember enjoying that when at one point, 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.159 But I don't know if I would reread that. There 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.640 are still other Banks books I haven't read that I 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.159 need to get to anyway, Jeremy continues. He says, with 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.920 that in mind, are you aware that there will soon 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.760 be an inn M. Bank's book which celebrates his world building. 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.200 I am undecided as to whether to purchase this book, 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.919 as if you, or anything like me, you will have 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.440 formed your own ideas and concepts as to the appearance 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:41.920 of the habitats, aliens, spacecrafts, and planets that you don't 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:47.760 want disrupted your thoughts. Best regards, Jeremy, Well, thanks, Jeremy. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.039 I looked this up. I had no idea that this 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.920 book was coming out, and I had not really looked 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:56.320 into the matter and read anywhere that Banks had illustrations 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.000 in his notes concerning the Culture setting. For those of 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.800 you not aware, Banks passed away several years ago, so 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.320 he's no longer with this, and there are no new 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.279 proper Banks novels, no more Culture novels. The last Culture 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:12.120 novel published before his death, So I didn't know this 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.960 was coming out. I'll say, for my own part, while 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.120 there are some books out there, fiction books that I 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.120 have a very clear vision of things in my head 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:23.800 off and I may even resist artistic interpretations of those things, 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.080 I would say that the way I imagine things in 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.800 the culture book books tends to be a little less defined. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.880 It's hard to really put a finger on why, but 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.200 I guess for that reason, I'm all for it. Like 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:38.280 a bunch of cool illustrations or just insightful illustrations isn't 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.160 going to break anything for me, and it might make 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.240 me realize, oh, well, that's what he was getting at 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.160 with that, because there are a lot of There are 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.120 a lot of strange things in the Culture, things that 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.200 the Culture series, that things that are existing like on 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:53.080 a scale that you know, modern humans wouldn't be able 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.920 to fully comprehend that sort of thing. Advanced technology and 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:56.520 so forth. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:58.960 I have nothing to add to that other than I 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:03.000 do love and illustrate did Encyclopedia always a lot of fun. 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:07.080 Yeah, I'd say for the most part these days, the 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.520 images and things don't really mess me up. I don't know. 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.320 There was a time when I was very touchy about 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.760 like Lord of the Rings stuff and which visual interpretations 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.720 I cared for the trums I didn't. But the strange 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:19.680 thing is with Dune, I've never really been that way. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.440 I kind of like pick and choose. You know. It's 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:26.120 like when I reread Dune after the recent movie adaptation. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.560 There were things that, you know, from that film that 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.960 found their way into the mental imagery of reading the book, 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:33.720 but other things that I just kind of like carried 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.079 over from previous readings, the ways that I'd pictured characters 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:40.520 in the past, or lined up with other adaptations and 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.760 so forth. So anyway, Jeremy, thanks for putting that on 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:44.240 our radar. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:53.040 All right, This next message is from Spencer. Spencer says, Hi, 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.040 Robert and Joe, I was listening to your five point 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.280 twenty two edition of Listener Mail, and you put the 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:02.720 call out for anyone with not of a time traveling Dracula. 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:06.040 I don't even remember that. Okay, wait, were we talking 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.520 about Santo in the Treasure of Dracula? Was that it? 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.560 Yeah, Santa and the Treasure of Dracula came up because 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.240 somebody called us out for non including that in a 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.080 like an offhand list of time travel movies we've covered 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.120 on Weirdouse Cinema, and we were like, oh, yeah, our 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.720 bad Dracula, that is a time travel movie. And then 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:28.040 one of us uh asked the question, why don't we 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.920 see more time travel Dracula movies? And then I said, well, 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.760 I know Marvel Comics has their own Dracula. Marvel's Dracula. 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.240 I don't know for sure, but I bet he's time travel, 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.240 just because you have so many crazy things going on 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:40.280 in the Marvel universe. 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.400 All right, all right, Spencer says, I've been on a 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.560 multi year quest to read all the Marvel comics in 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.880 the order they were published, and I recently read Marvel's 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.920 Tomb of Dracula number five from nineteen seventy two, in 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:57.800 which Dracula has been revived in the then present day. 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.120 In issue number five, Dracula passes through the Demon Mirror 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.200 in nineteen seventy two and is transported to a nether 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.640 world filled with demons, only to re emerge back in 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:13.040 Transylvania a century or more earlier amid horse drawn carriages 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.240 and top hats. By the end of the issue, Dracula 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.520 and his pursuers passed back through the mirror and return 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.880 to the present day. Anyway, thank you for this delightful 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.920 opportunity to make use of this very obscure reference, and 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:30.760 thank you for churning fascinating content week after week. Best Spencer, Well, 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:31.439 that's awesome. 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:35.120 I knew that Marvel's Dracula would probably not fail us 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.040 on this count. I knew he had to have gotten 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.560 near some sort of a magical or sci fi time machine. 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:45.480 Do all comic book protagonists eventually time travel? 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:47.640 I think if they're around long enough, they've got If 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.559 they're around long enough, they're popular enough, they've got to 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.720 keep doing things, and the time machine is just there 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.200 waiting for them, you know, And you can never go 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.679 too far, say in like marvel comics, like everything crazy 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.680 has been done before, and if you do something too crazy. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.200 It's like, no big deal, You've just you know, you 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:10.000 can kind of start again, either like officially in a 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.480 parallel universe or you know, through just by saying, hey, 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:14.560 here's a new starting point. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.920 Didn't we already reach the point where they were like, okay, here, 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.880 I'm gonna blow your mind with my new idea for 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.880 for for the Green Lantern or whatever. He has no powers? 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:26.720 What if he has no superpowers? 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:27.800 Yeah? 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:28.080 Yeah? 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.559 What if he has superpowers all the time? What if 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.760 he's It's like any any variation has been explored. I 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.040 think at some point or another, there's very little we 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.520 could speculate on, even concerning Dracula that probably hasn't been done. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:41.720 And I'll get to an example of that in a minute. 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.560 There's something I didn't even think that I wanted to see, 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:46.920 but it's been done. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:47.840 Yeah. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.640 So this is a great response, Spencer. Thank you for 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.040 taking it up on you to to read all these 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.280 comic books. I'm sure there are some spectacular highs and 0:11:56.360 --> 0:12:01.880 some some really dismal lows in that. But yeah, I've 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.280 actually been poking around a little bit offhand for trying 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.640 to find an affordable omnibus of the Tomb of Dracula comics, 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.640 because you know, I'm just kind of interested in that 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:16.320 whole scene, like Dracula as a Marvel villain, and then 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.199 some of the various characters that kind of emerge from 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.720 those comics. Like I think that's where, if I'm not mistaken, 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:26.040 Blade emerges from that Moonnight emerges this from from that world, 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.640 and so yeah, I'm kind of interested in what all 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.120 he's been up to now Marvel's Dracula is still around. 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:38.080 I'm sorry you included a cover of the Marvel Tomb 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:41.720 of Dracula. And is this Blade saying I Am going 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.080 to stab you with this wooden knife? 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.199 Yeah, you know, I think the older comics, you know, 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.839 they're often a little more overt with the action, and 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.720 this is this is a very early Blade. This may 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.319 be I'm not I'm not certain. This may the one 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:59.400 I copy and pasted here. Might have been blades origin addition, 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:00.920 But yeah, he was as we've talked about on the 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.240 show before, he was different back in the seventies. He 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.480 was more in line with sort of some of the 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.000 action cinema of the day. M h. I believe he 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.400 also has teak wooden weapons in his origin, so hmmm, 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.240 which is kind of neat. I mean, you need wood 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.840 to stab a vampire in some versions of the tale. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:22.559 Or you could be like the Blade in the movie 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.360 and just have silver everything. I guess that gets expensive. 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.600 Yeah, but it works, it really, it really worked for him. 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:29.920 But I don't know it. Be interested to see if 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.520 they ever actually make this, this New Blade movie. I 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.199 wonder if they're going to lean into the teak a 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.360 little bit in addition to the silver, Like if they're 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.079 gonna they seem to be, you know, going going into 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.679 some of the older stuff, some of the stuff that 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.880 got kind of changed when the original movies came out. 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:49.280 So we'll see, Okay, new idea. New Blade has a 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.600 side business where he makes money by selling colloidal silver 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.160 to to like suckers on the internet and conspiracy theorists 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:57.240 who think it's a panacea. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.280 Well, you know, it is a it is a cure 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.200 all from Blade perspective, because it's slaves vampires, and that's 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:03.440 like that's the problem. 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:03.800 You know. 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.760 He's very laser focused on this one issue that would. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.680 Be a great scam going so like he can say 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.400 he like Facebook targets vampires with ads about how it 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.760 will cure them of I don't know their sunlight allergy 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.240 or something, and then they just take the colloidal silver 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:18.920 and die. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.000 Yeah, it's effortless. Now, obviously Blade's still around, and yep, 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.680 Marvel's Dracula is still around as well, though I've seen 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.160 different looks for him. I included two of these for 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.360 you to look at here, Joe. In some variations, he 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.880 definitely seems to have more in common with sort of 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:38.280 a like a dark fantasy idea of a vampire. It 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:42.680 looks a little bit more like the historic setting the 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.520 origin story is setting in Bromstoker's Dracula, or rather Francis 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.800 Ford Coppolo's Bromstoker's Dracula, and then in other depictions he 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.560 still has kind of that classic hammer horror look. And 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.360 the thing I love about both of these images I 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.920 pulled up is that in both of them, drac You 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.520 is like towering over a pile of superhero bodies. So 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:09.280 it really drives home that Dracula in the Marvel Comics universe, 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.960 he's not a bit player. He is a powerful entity, 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:12.560 which I like. 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.240 Yeah, in one of these, do I see like Storm, 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.400 Wolverine and Cyclops, Like he's got all the dead X 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:20.280 Men under him. 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.240 Yeah. Yeah again. You know, you can do whatever. There's 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.280 nothing too crazy in comic books because you can always say, well, 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.040 this was you know, this was a dream, this is 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.360 an alternate universe. I don't know. There's so many different 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:31.000 ways to spin it. 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:33.440 Yeah, okay, but in one of them he looks like 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.480 the Witcher, and then the other one he looks like 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.360 Christopher Lee in Horror of Dracula. 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.280 Yeah, yeah, I think it push comes to shove. I 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.800 like the Christopher Lee look better here? Now, one more, 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:48.000 one more thing, I guess. On Marvel's Dracula, I was again, 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.240 I haven't read any of these Tomb of Dracula comic books, 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:55.200 but I went to the Marvel wiki on Dracula, and 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.600 just one sentence just completely amazed me and set me 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:02.640 off in new directions. Quote Dracula remained low for several 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.520 years following that, he turned up later and met with 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:07.880 Victor von Doom on Earth's moon. 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:14.440 That that's really good. What does remained low mean? Like 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.080 he likes he was in hiding, or like he was 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.480 low like I don't know, in a bad place. 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.680 I mean, any Stracos there's always in a bad place, 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:27.160 I guess, but I guess maybe he was regaining his powers, 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.320 you know, laying low, getting off the radar of the 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:34.360 various superheroes and vampire slayers for a bit. And then yeah, 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.240 I look this up, and I don't know which comic 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.480 this was in or what the over arching story happens 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.560 to be. But here's the moon. Here's a part of 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:45.479 a lunar lander in the foreground. There's Earth in the background. 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.280 And here on the surface of the Moon we have 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.880 Dracula and we have Doctor Doom and they're in just 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.239 engaging in a casual villain conversation. 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:58.120 Behind them, you can see the US flag from the 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.400 moon landing. Just yeah. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.440 So again, it's like I didn't even think to ask 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.800 that question. I wonder if Dracula has been to the 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.200 Moon in the Marvel cinematic I mean the Marvel comic universe, 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:11.720 And sure enough, he has. 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.200 But Doctor Doom's just mortal in me. 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.800 Oh, I can't you know, I can't remember. I know. 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.040 He's a mix of it's like a mix of science 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.919 and magic, so there's no telling what he's accomplished. Oh okay, 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.199 and then he has all those doom bots, so you know, 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.200 sometimes you think you've killed him but you haven't because 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:27.560 it's a doom bot. 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:29.719 Oh okay, I didn't realize that. 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.159 But there's a lot about doctor Doom I don't know, 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.520 so uh. You know, Spencer will have to straighten us 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:44.040 out on that as well. All right, This next one 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.560 here comes to us from Heather. Heather says Robert Joe. 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.280 I have listened to the podcasts core episodes for a 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:51.760 long long time, and I really appreciate all that you do. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.119 You have helped me stay connected to that lifelong learner 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:57.960 that I dreamed of being in my college years. In 0:17:58.000 --> 0:17:59.919 your recent listener mail, you mentioned the idea of doing 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.359 some weird house cinema episodes based on commercial films, theme 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:07.280 part films, or maybe others. This excites me. I'm usually 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.280 not into movies that are too weird because they get 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.760 nightmares easily. Also a bit of a callback to recent 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:15.439 episode topics. When you mentioned that special topic episode, I 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.840 was instantly reminded of the old science lab safety training 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.560 videos we watched in school. Kids in the video would 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.879 make comically bad mistakes, akin to the woman hit with 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.240 avalanche of tupperware container's bit that as seen on TV 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.840 ads use. I remember there being an infamously funny but 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:37.879 valid catat safety video that was played in Shop Class two, 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:43.639 which even made reference to egos and hangovers being safety concerns. 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:46.919 What makes these training videos notable to me is not 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:50.119 how corny they were, though that was the highlight in school. 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:53.320 It's notable because they worked. I can't tell you the 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.160 number of times I've been in my garage or yard 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:00.280 and thought to myself, waft to whif because of that 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:04.239 dumb video. Safety glasses, fire extinguishers, and even gloves are 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.600 readily available in my maker spaces because of the hold 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.800 those corny films half in my mind, they were pretty weird, 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:12.960 but that could have been what made them good. Thanks 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:14.879 again for everything you do, Heather. 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.840 Oh Thanks Heather oh Man. So this got me thinking 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:20.679 about a number of things. But when it comes to 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.520 like lab safety videos, I guess this is somewhat different. 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:30.320 But my mind immediately went to the ultimate lab educational 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:35.520 video parody, which is the British comedy series look Around You, which, 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:37.879 by the way, if you have never seen you should 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.880 immediately go and watch because it's one of my favorite 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:42.160 pieces of television. Ever. 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.639 Oh Yes, look Around You both seasons season one and 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:47.640 season two or each have a different feel to them, 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:54.359 different eras of educational films for the British populace in particular. 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:56.640 But you know, you don't have to have a background 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.240 in British television to enjoy them. They're they're excellent. I 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:01.440 I highly recommend all of them. 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.880 If you just watched the first episode on Calcium, you'll 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:08.240 finally understand why people are so dedicated to avoiding the 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:09.359 helvetica scenario. 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:14.880 Yeah, the helvetica scenario. Yeah, so much good stuff. Now, 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:16.840 another thing that comes to mind on all of this, 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:20.520 I don't remember a lot of watching a lot or 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:23.000 any of these as part of my education or part 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:28.159 of school or workplace safety so much. But through I 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:31.760 think rift tracks, I remember, of course watching shake Hands 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:35.600 with Danger, which is the kind of the industrial safety 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:39.280 video part excellence. You know, it's it's cheesy, it's got 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:43.480 a great guitar riff in it that don't know, it's 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:46.800