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Speaker 2: We picked out a fun one for that, and then
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Speaker 2: where we have multiple Monster Fact episodes compiled into a
Speaker 2: single listening experience. These are all going to be vampire related.
Speaker 3: Ooh, very nice, but so yes, it'll be Vault episodes
Speaker 3: rest of this week and then next week we will
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Speaker 2: All right, let's go ahead and jump into it. We
Speaker 2: heard it back from several different people regarding our episodes
Speaker 2: on The Remarkable Beaver.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm going to read this first message from Jacob,
Speaker 3: and then there's a very short one after that, so
Speaker 3: I might do that one too. But so this is
Speaker 3: Jacob writing in about castorium. This is something we talked
Speaker 3: about in the context of Beaver's. Castorium is an oily
Speaker 3: substance harvested from the glands of beavers that has been
Speaker 3: used by humans for thousands of years, actually for all
Speaker 3: kinds of purposes, ranging from cosmetics to medicine, to treating
Speaker 3: tools and weapons to food, and Jacob got in touch
Speaker 3: with one of the food related uses. So Jacob says, Hi,
Speaker 3: longtime listener, first time emailer, just finished listening to parts
Speaker 3: one and two of The Remarkable Beaver series and thought
Speaker 3: I knew exactly what you were going to talk about
Speaker 3: when you mentioned castorium and food, but I was wrong.
Speaker 3: Have you ever had blue Moon ice cream? Jacob provides
Speaker 3: a link. Maybe you've had Superman ice cream. The blue
Speaker 3: part of Superman ice cream is traditionally blue moon. It's
Speaker 3: popular in the upper midwest of the US and has
Speaker 3: a flavor profile that is difficult for most to discern.
Speaker 3: Some speculate that this blue moon ice cream's flavor was
Speaker 3: originally derived using castorium. I'd encourage you to give it
Speaker 3: a try if you ever come across it. I quite
Speaker 3: enjoy it. Thanks for entertaining and educating me all these years. Jacob, Okay,
Speaker 3: I don't think I have had blue Moon ice cream
Speaker 3: or Superman ice cream. Superman appears to be like a
Speaker 3: three flavor ice cream, and it's like Superman's suit colors,
Speaker 3: so it's got like blue and yellow and red. I
Speaker 3: don't know what the yellow and red flavors are. Maybe
Speaker 3: they're also derived from mammal glands, but blue moon. I
Speaker 3: have never had it all, but I like the idea.
Speaker 3: I assume from what you're saying that castorium is probably
Speaker 3: not used anymore to flavor it, but that maybe whatever flavors.
Speaker 3: It now is attempting to recreate an original flavor which
Speaker 3: did come from beavers.
Speaker 2: This would track with what we were discussing in that episode,
Speaker 2: with castorium being used more frequently, like early twentieth century
Speaker 2: and so forth, and then it's just not as much
Speaker 2: call for it, I'm noticing. So I've never had this
Speaker 2: BlueMoon ice cream. I've never had Superman ice cream. I
Speaker 2: just haven't spent I don't know that I visited any
Speaker 2: of the states where it is popular, But just looking
Speaker 2: at the wiki on Superman ice cream, I see that
Speaker 2: the different colors in some of the commons of Superman
Speaker 2: ice cream, the flavors just vanilla across the board, oh
Speaker 2: for all the colors. And of course that tracks with
Speaker 2: what is sometimes described as the flavor profile of castorium
Speaker 2: and the way castorium was used as a as an
Speaker 2: artificial flavor. Ruse, it's a natural flavor, but it's just
Speaker 2: maybe not what you might expect. Now.
Speaker 3: Is blue Moon ice cream one of those things where
Speaker 3: there are like seven different places that claim to have
Speaker 3: the original Blue Moon and all the others are copycats.
Speaker 2: Hmmm, I don't know, good question. Maybe our blue Moon
Speaker 2: ice cream specialists out there can chime in.
Speaker 3: Well, Jacob, you definitely raised my curiosity. I would like
Speaker 3: to try this now. I don't know how do you
Speaker 3: get your hands on and if you're not in the Midwest,
Speaker 3: can you order ice cream by mail?
Speaker 2: I don't know if they do that, i'd be probably.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if that if it works out cost wise,
Speaker 2: but I bet you can do it all right.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna also do this short message from jam next,
Speaker 3: but quick context for this next email. We were talking
Speaker 3: in the Beavers episode about the well known fact in
Speaker 3: medieval bestiaries that when a male beaver is being pursued
Speaker 3: by hunters, it will bite off its own testicles because
Speaker 3: it knows that this is what the hunter wants, and
Speaker 3: it's just sort of like, okay, you can have them,
Speaker 3: don't kill me. This is not true in multiple ways.
Speaker 3: This is not true. Beavers don't actually do this. Plus,
Speaker 3: the glands that hunters were harvesting from beavers for the
Speaker 3: oily substance known as castorium were not actually testicles, So
Speaker 3: this is just medieval bro science. It's like quadruple wrong.
Speaker 3: But we discussed several real facts about beavers that might
Speaker 3: have led to this false belief, and we also discussed
Speaker 3: the general biological adaptation known as autotomy, which is not
Speaker 3: especially observed in beavers in the real world, but it's
Speaker 3: more often observed in animals like lizards, where for example,
Speaker 3: some lizards will just shed their whole tale if threatened
Speaker 3: or caught by a predator, so the tale stays behind,
Speaker 3: wiggling to or appease the predator. You know, here's a
Speaker 3: little snack or something to keep your attention, and then
Speaker 3: the lizard with the stump on its hindquarters runs off
Speaker 3: and gets away. But in all the cases we could
Speaker 3: think of in the moment in the episode, with the
Speaker 3: possible exception of crabs, autotomy is just kind of an
Speaker 3: automatic release of the sacrifice appendage. And we were wondering
Speaker 3: if there are any examples where the animal actually has
Speaker 3: to actively do some kind of cutting or biting or
Speaker 3: other work to sever its own body part, like in
Speaker 3: the Legend of the Beaver. The only example we could
Speaker 3: think of was I remembered how I'd seen in some
Speaker 3: documentary footage that a crab with an injured claw would
Speaker 3: actively like reach over with the other claw and cut
Speaker 3: or pull the damaged claw off and discard it now. Finally,
Speaker 3: Jan says, love your show. You ask for examples of
Speaker 3: when animals might remove an appendage to escape a predator.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about animals that are caught in traps
Speaker 3: removing a foot or other appendage to escape the trap.
Speaker 3: Not sure if this is the type of situation you
Speaker 3: were thinking about, but it is a case of knowing
Speaker 3: they need to escape and being willing to sacrifice the
Speaker 3: body part to save the overall animal's life. Just a thought, Jan, Yeah, Jan,
Speaker 3: that is really interesting. It didn't occur to me at
Speaker 3: all in the episode, but you're right that does happen.
Speaker 3: I could be wrong, but I don't think zoologists or
Speaker 3: people who specialize in animal behavior would usually consider this autotomy,
Speaker 3: maybe because it is not like an anatomically facilitated behavior,
Speaker 3: Like if a mammal choose its leg off to get
Speaker 3: out of a trap, there's no natural seam for the
Speaker 3: leg to sever along, and it won't necessarily heal easily,
Speaker 3: and it certainly won't grow back like a lot of
Speaker 3: the autonomized appendages of maybe a lizard or a crustacean
Speaker 3: or something will. So yeah, I wonder something tells me
Speaker 3: to kind of think about that differently, that maybe that's
Speaker 3: just like a desperate behavior showing the more versatile behavioral
Speaker 3: repertoire of mammals that they can just come up with
Speaker 3: all kinds of solutions, even very desperate and grizzly ones.
Speaker 3: Whether a beaver would ever do this, I have no idea.
Speaker 2: Now, speaking of Besty Harris, I do have to mention
Speaker 2: this briefly. Listener Matt sent this to me via discord. Well,
Speaker 2: you know, we're a big fan of the the illuminated
Speaker 2: manuscripts and the various strange illustrations. That was one of
Speaker 2: the talking points in the Beaver episodes. Well, somebody out
Speaker 2: there in the like the wild world of fandom has
Speaker 2: created a Codex pokemonas a Pokemon illuminated manuscript. I don't
Speaker 2: think this is like a licensed Pokemon product or anything.
Speaker 2: I think it's like a fan creation that's, you know,
Speaker 2: mostly just for fun. But I included a link for
Speaker 2: it in our our our slack here Joe for you
Speaker 2: to glance at. Here. I was, I don't know if
Speaker 2: I'm actually going to buy this thing, because I don't
Speaker 2: know that anyone else in my family besides me would
Speaker 2: find it amusing. But I love these illustrations that it's
Speaker 2: apparently in Latin, and you have these suitably strange medieval
Speaker 2: illustrations of things like Pikachu and Mew two and so forth.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I see here. I think we have a
Speaker 3: big bulba sore.
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 3: It's yeah, I think so, kind of a big green
Speaker 3: gopher with a plant on its back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a nice illustration of the angels bestowing a
Speaker 2: human with a Pikachu. All right, But anyway, that's it's
Speaker 2: just too amusing to not share. But I want to
Speaker 2: come back to some more beaver Listener mail here. This
Speaker 2: one is in response to the subject of beaver shout. Okay,
Speaker 2: so the background on this is there's a Swedish spirit
Speaker 2: called beaverhaut. I'm sure I'm mispronouncing that, but it's made
Speaker 2: with castorium, translated as beaver shout. Now, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: if it's something that is actually commercially available anywhere or
Speaker 2: if it's just reached only traditionally prepared. I suspect the
Speaker 2: latter based on the sorts of images that were had
Speaker 2: come up for me when I start looking around for it.
Speaker 2: For instance, there'll be a picture of somebody clearly in
Speaker 2: the state of preparing beaver shalt with a bottle of
Speaker 2: vodka and some other bottle with what's clearly supposed to
Speaker 2: be castor glands in the bottom of a like a
Speaker 2: jar of vodka or something. So we heard back from
Speaker 2: Emil on this. Emil writes, and it says, Hi, my
Speaker 2: name is Emil. I'm a Finish expat residing in Norway.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your varying and often surprisingly interesting deep
Speaker 2: dives into topics concerning the natural world. I have greatly
Speaker 2: enjoyed your series on the humble beaver. You're mentioning of
Speaker 2: the dreaded beaver shout brought a compartmentalized core memory back
Speaker 2: to life. Eight or nine years ago, a friend of
Speaker 2: mine took a sabbatical year as a teacher in the
Speaker 2: northern Swedish municipality of Jacquesmanc. In this area, beaver hunting
Speaker 2: is still practiced to some extent. An avid hunter and
Speaker 2: imbiber of strong spirits himself, my friend took it upon
Speaker 2: himself to concoct baverhoot by infusing a bottle of cheap
Speaker 2: vodka with the glands from a beaver he unfortunately killed
Speaker 2: while hunting there he brought this bottle, with the glands
Speaker 2: still present, back home, where we, of course couldn't resist
Speaker 2: the dare to try some for ourselves during a night
Speaker 2: of drinks, barbecuing and pretend machismo, as meetings with childhood
Speaker 2: friends seemed to always go. The sight of the glands
Speaker 2: in that very bottle is still etched into my retness,
Speaker 2: resembling shriveled up testicles in an otherwise clear, slightly amber
Speaker 2: colored liquid. The smell is difficult to describe, somewhat reminiscent
Speaker 2: of old leather and fir tree. The drink was served
Speaker 2: in a shot glass, and I was advised not to
Speaker 2: think too hard about my task, and I more or
Speaker 2: less went for it in one go. The first impression
Speaker 2: was that of any shot of cheap distilled liquor. A
Speaker 2: few seconds later the taste hit me again. This is
Speaker 2: hard to described. The closest analogy would be chewing on
Speaker 2: fur tree sap in worn leather, and following this up
Speaker 2: with smelling a rug of rubbing alcohol. Although much more
Speaker 2: pungent than either, the oily nature of the drink seemed
Speaker 2: to cover the whole esophagus, and the taste lingered for
Speaker 2: close to an hour. Even though I tried to wash
Speaker 2: away the taste with every liquid available. After the taste
Speaker 2: eventually subsided in, the smell still seemed to be present
Speaker 2: on my breath for the remainder of the night, bringing
Speaker 2: me close to gagging with every exhalation. In all my
Speaker 2: days of eating and drinking exotic food and drinks, nothing
Speaker 2: comes close to the pungent nature of this unholy concoction.
Speaker 2: I have since come to wonder if my friend, with
Speaker 2: his at best questionable knowledge of beaver and natoby, had
Speaker 2: harvested the anal glands by mistake, although I choose to
Speaker 2: believe it really was the intended glands present in the bottle.
Speaker 2: So in other words, one out of five stars as
Speaker 2: a gastronomical experience, but certainly memorable. Once again, thank you
Speaker 2: for all that you do. Best regards emil PS. We
Speaker 2: also willed some beaver meat the same night. This was
Speaker 2: surprisingly mellow, reminiscent of rabbit, and really quite pleasant.
Speaker 3: Well okay then, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, I guess part of this too is the I
Speaker 2: know there are recipes online for the preparation of beaver shout,
Speaker 2: but I don't know it's like it. Maybe there's a
Speaker 2: fine art to getting it just right. And also maybe
Speaker 2: this is just what it kind of what it's its
Speaker 2: reputation suggest it is a rugged, woodsy like kind of
Speaker 2: survivalist spirit. And you know it's not for for for
Speaker 2: us city folks to really attempt this is not for us.
Speaker 2: We are not meant to know of it.
Speaker 3: Maybe it is not meant to be pleasant, but meant
Speaker 3: to be painful, because it is pain that forges the
Speaker 3: fastest friendships.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, setting aside the Mighty Beaver, should we
Speaker 2: dip into a little weird house cinema listener mail here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, maybe I will do. This message from Richard
Speaker 3: in response to our episode on The Incredible Shrinking Man,
Speaker 3: Richard says, I love your podcast and have been particularly
Speaker 3: impressed by both your intricate research and interesting discussions. On
Speaker 3: the episode about the movie The Incredible Shrinking Man, there
Speaker 3: was a discussion about how water tension is not a
Speaker 3: major factor for human life, where gravity overrides the forces
Speaker 3: on us. It is only when you consider the size
Speaker 3: of insects that water tension is a key concern. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is from that essay I've referred to numerous times
Speaker 3: on the show before, called on being the Right size
Speaker 3: by jbs hal Daane. The point is that big animals
Speaker 3: have to worry about gravity because when you fall, it
Speaker 3: can be really rough when you hit the ground, But
Speaker 3: a tiny insect falling to the ground is usually not
Speaker 3: seriously harmed, even from a great But meanwhile, if you're
Speaker 3: a very small animal like an insect, water tension can
Speaker 3: really grab you. It can be dangerous. You know, you
Speaker 3: get wet and that's kind of like it's multiples of
Speaker 3: your own body weight clinging to you on the outside.
Speaker 3: But Richard goes on, however, humans do have to deal
Speaker 3: with the significance of water tension when gravity is countered
Speaker 3: in orbit during weightlessness. There are many popular videos of
Speaker 3: astronauts showing how they have to deal with water when
Speaker 3: it contacts a person and objects. Very importantly, there was
Speaker 3: the case of an astronaut during a spacewalk having a
Speaker 3: water leak in his helmet. He had to carefully and
Speaker 3: quickly move to the airlock before water capillary action drove
Speaker 3: the water around his head where it could have covered
Speaker 3: his eyes, mouth, and nose. Even within gravity, this could
Speaker 3: have been a major issue, of course, so you don't
Speaker 3: have to wait for a sci fi movie to show
Speaker 3: water tension's possible effect on people. It's happening every day
Speaker 3: in the sky above us, I suppose, referring to like
Speaker 3: in the space station. Thank you for reading my email
Speaker 3: and the great podcast, Richard. That is a good point, Richard,
Speaker 3: I'd mainly thought about you know, when I think about
Speaker 3: water in the Space Station, I think of cute little
Speaker 3: videos where astronauts are like playing, you know, they've got
Speaker 3: a cup of water and then they just let it
Speaker 3: float out in front of them in a blob and
Speaker 3: then maybe gobble it up or something. It just sits
Speaker 3: there and it kind of clings to itself. But yes, if
Speaker 3: you were, say in an EVA suit, and some water
Speaker 3: leaks out and get stuck to the outside of your head,
Speaker 3: that can just really like kind of crawl around on
Speaker 3: your skin. You can't depend on it dripping downwards like
Speaker 3: it does when you're on Earth's surface.
Speaker 2: All right. Of course, we recently talked about nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: three's Super Mario Brothers, so we heard from some folks
Speaker 2: on this. First up, This one comes to us from Rusty.
Speaker 2: Rusty says, thank you so much for the recent Weird
Speaker 2: House Cinema on the Super Mario Brothers movie. I have
Speaker 2: been delighted to see the cultural re examination of it
Speaker 2: over the last couple of years, and it truly is
Speaker 2: a bizarre gem. It lingered in my memory from childhood,
Speaker 2: and I think helped shape my desire to seek out
Speaker 2: the strangest non horror movies I can find. There really
Speaker 2: is an entire second episode's worth of context to be
Speaker 2: discussed with it, But the part that seemed worth mentioning
Speaker 2: for listeners interested in cinema history is actually about Yoshi.
Speaker 2: During pre production for Jurassic Parks, Spielberg was testing an
Speaker 2: advanced stop motion technique called go motion, even producing a
Speaker 2: test scene you can watch on YouTube. They included a
Speaker 2: link here for us, and yeah, this is basically the
Speaker 2: scene where the t Rex attacks the vehicle in Jurassic Park,
Speaker 2: but it is a test footage with the with stop
Speaker 2: motion animation that's more in line with what you would
Speaker 2: expect from like Ray, Harryhausen and so forth.
Speaker 3: I think this was created by Phil Tippett, I believe so.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But one thing I'm to understand is that go motion here,
Speaker 3: the technique being used, is different from stop motion in
Speaker 3: that it attempts to introduce motion blur to stop motion,
Speaker 3: because we've talked about this before that I love stop
Speaker 3: motion effects, but they do have a kind of unnatural
Speaker 3: quality to them. There is a crispness and clearness to
Speaker 3: the action because there's no blurring between the frames. Each
Speaker 3: frame is a sharply focused still photograph, and then you're
Speaker 3: just showing a lot of those in quick succession, whereas
Speaker 3: when you film something that's actually in continuous motion, there's blurring.
Speaker 3: And apparently go Motion had something to do with trying
Speaker 3: to recreate this effect for heightened realism.
Speaker 2: The footage here, I mean, I love it, but I
Speaker 2: can see why they ended up not going with it.
Speaker 2: I think Jurassic Park would have been a different experience
Speaker 2: had the dinosaur attacks been more in line with this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting that. I think one time when we
Speaker 3: were talking about different kinds of special effects regimes and
Speaker 3: how the at least in my view, the main point
Speaker 3: of special effects is not necessarily to be realistic. It
Speaker 3: is to be enjoyable, and realism is only one of
Speaker 3: the ways that special effects can be enjoyable. So, like
Speaker 3: stop motion effects don't usually look realistic, but I love them.
Speaker 3: They're beautiful and they're fun. But I think the example
Speaker 3: I used in that discussion for a movie where realism
Speaker 3: is the goal and it's achieved to great effect was
Speaker 3: Jurassic Park. I mean, in the t Rex escape scene,
Speaker 3: I don't know how you could tell that's not a
Speaker 3: real t Rex walking out of an enclosure. I mean,
Speaker 3: it looks absolutely real, and I wouldn't change anything about it.
Speaker 3: So in that particular case, in this movie, for some reason,
Speaker 3: realism is what's called for. That is the what's demanded
Speaker 3: of the special effects team in other movies. You know,
Speaker 3: in a Sinbad movie, I don't want realistic looking skeletons.
Speaker 3: I want stop motion skeletons, but they're weird, you know,
Speaker 3: overly crisp movements.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean that's the necromancy at work there, right Anyway,
Speaker 2: Rusty continues. The production team spent time on the set
Speaker 2: of Super Mario Brothers to learn from the advanced Yoshi
Speaker 2: puppet that had beat out Hintson Studios for the creature designs. Allegedly,
Speaker 2: the positive impression it left swayed the decision to use
Speaker 2: animatronics instead. I can't recommend enough that any fan of
Speaker 2: bad movies or general oddities. Check out the Super Mario
Speaker 2: Brothers Movie nineteen ninety three or the Morton Jankle Cut,
Speaker 2: a two hour version available for free on archive dot org.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the show's, Rusty. Yeah for anyone out there
Speaker 2: who watched the Super Mario Brothers ninety three movie and
Speaker 2: was like it was. It was a lot of fun,
Speaker 2: but I just wish it were two hours long.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not long enough, Rusty. You don't say what is different,
Speaker 3: what is added into the Morton Jankle cut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I didn't research it to see, but
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm of two minds on this, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: sometimes longer cuts of films can definitely add much needed
Speaker 2: connective tissue, you character development, and just basic information you'd
Speaker 2: need to make sense of the plot. On the other hand,
Speaker 2: like sometimes they're just real diminishing returns by adding more
Speaker 2: to a film. So I don't know, I'm doubtful. I'm
Speaker 2: not in a big hurry to go check out this
Speaker 2: extended cut, but I don't know. Maybe it makes all
Speaker 2: the difference in the world more Koopa character development.
Speaker 3: Oh oh hey, that reminds me. So we had a
Speaker 3: brief discussion in the Super Mario Brothers episode where we
Speaker 3: were like, what is going on with Dennis Hopper's hair?
Speaker 3: Why does he have these these like elevated sort of
Speaker 3: Dino fins of blonde hair. They dyed his hair blonde
Speaker 3: and they put it up in these ridges. I couldn't
Speaker 3: understand that until I was texting with a friend about
Speaker 3: he listened to our episode and then he was telling
Speaker 3: me about Max Headroom, the original creation of the directors
Speaker 3: of Super Mario Brothers. And I went back in the
Speaker 3: look at some Max Headroom videos and I was like, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Speaker 3: King Koopa just has Max Headroom hair. Max Headroom has
Speaker 3: ridges of blonde hair going from front to back, just
Speaker 3: like that. So that's obviously what they were doing. They
Speaker 3: were giving him Max Headroom hair. I don't know why,
Speaker 3: but that's what they did.
Speaker 2: Similar aesthetic choices made in this character design. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: we have one more here for you concerning Mario Brothers.
Speaker 2: This one came to us on Discord and if you
Speaker 2: want to join the Stuff to Blow your Mind Discord channel,
Speaker 2: send us an email and we'll send you the link
Speaker 2: so that you can join up there. User YMZ says
Speaker 2: the following boy that nineteen ninety three Super Mario episode
Speaker 2: brought me back. My childhood best friend had a pirated
Speaker 2: VHS that we watched every weekend for a few months.
Speaker 2: I remember thinking even back then that whoever made the
Speaker 2: movie was trying to replicate the gritty New York vibe
Speaker 2: of the live action nineteen ninety Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
Speaker 2: but with none of the charm. I have to disagree
Speaker 2: with Rob that Detective Pikachu was a good movie, though
Speaker 2: my kids loved it. That the two thousand and one
Speaker 2: Final Fantasy Movie and nineteen ninety three Super Mario turned
Speaker 2: me off permanently to any video game movies.
Speaker 3: Well, that's rough. I saw that Final Fantasy Movie in
Speaker 3: the theater, and you know, you go back and look
Speaker 3: at that. It's got a great voice cast, but I
Speaker 3: don't know, I'm not in a hurry to watch that again.
Speaker 2: Now I agree to disagree on Detective Pikachu, but this
Speaker 2: is a great point about teenage memeting Ninja Turtles. I
Speaker 2: remember I haven't seen it since maybe since I saw
Speaker 2: it in the theaters back in nineteen ninety, but I
Speaker 2: remember it being a lot of fun, and it also
Speaker 2: had this nice vibe where it's like, yeah, they really
Speaker 2: made an effective live action adaptation of this cartoon world,
Speaker 2: like the Turtles look great, Hintson Creations. You know, the
Speaker 2: ninjas are cool, shredders, terrifying all that. It really worked
Speaker 2: and I could. I think this is a solid view
Speaker 2: on some Mario Brothers is coming in the wake of
Speaker 2: teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and thinking well, if they can
Speaker 2: do that for the Turtles, then surely we can do
Speaker 2: something similar for Mario and Luigi.
Speaker 3: Now, Rob, how long until on Weird House Cinema we
Speaker 3: do the two nineteen nineties live action Mortal Kombat movies,
Speaker 3: the Original Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat Annihilation, two of
Speaker 3: the greatest films of all time.
Speaker 2: I've always seen the first one. I don't think I
Speaker 2: ever saw the second one, but I think we could.
Speaker 2: We could have a feast out of either.
Speaker 3: They are also both quite weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean especially the I mean they both
Speaker 2: have very interesting casts. Yeah, yeah, both of them. Both
Speaker 2: of them have some great casts work going on there.
Speaker 2: So yeah, let us know. If you want to hear
Speaker 2: us cover a Mortal Kombat film, chime in, contact us
Speaker 2: make your vote count.
Speaker 3: There is really almost nothing that tickles my soul as
Speaker 3: much as Christoph Lambert as Raiden with his little attitude.
Speaker 3: I don't think think.
Speaker 2: So inspired casting inspired casting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh hey, I have one more very important short
Speaker 3: message to include before we sign off today, and this
Speaker 3: one comes from Hugh. Hugh says, Hello, Robert and Joe.
Speaker 3: I hope all is well. I was wondering when JJ
Speaker 3: will become excellent? Is it hereditary? Is there an exam?
Speaker 3: Is it a point system? I'm dying to know. Best
Speaker 3: wishes Hugh. Well, Hugh, thank you for pointing out a
Speaker 3: major major oversight. This made me realize that I did. Indeed,
Speaker 3: I used to usually refer to our previous audio producer
Speaker 3: Seth as our excellent audio producer, which he was. But
Speaker 3: let it now and henceforth be known that our current
Speaker 3: audio producer JJ has been extremely, extremely excellent from day one,
Speaker 3: and I will make sure to mention that in our
Speaker 3: sign off going forward.
Speaker 2: Huzzah.
Speaker 3: Thanks for everything, man.
Speaker 2: All right, well, note we're going to go ahead and
Speaker 2: sign off here for this episode. But just a reminder.
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