Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind production of My
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow Your
Speaker 1: Mind listener mail. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm
Speaker 1: Joe McCormick. And today it is Monday, the day of
Speaker 1: the week. We readback some messages you've sent into the
Speaker 1: show account. Which we often say at the end of
Speaker 1: the show, but we should say it up front. It
Speaker 1: is contact at stuff to Blow your Mind dot com
Speaker 1: if you ever want to get in touch. Let's see.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to start off with this message from Josh,
Speaker 1: which has to do with your interview on story Machines
Speaker 1: and UH and our episodes own document duplication. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: just a reminder when we get into these stories, if
Speaker 1: you want to create one yourself, you can go to
Speaker 1: story hyphen Machines dot net UH and you can try
Speaker 1: it out for yourself. Josh says, Hey, Robert and Joe. Oh,
Speaker 1: I've been having so much fun playing around the story
Speaker 1: generating AI you guys recently talked about. I used this
Speaker 1: as an opportunity to throw back to one of my
Speaker 1: favorite episodes that you guys have done, discussing the Library
Speaker 1: of Babel, the mind bending thought provoking nature of the
Speaker 1: whole concept of stuck with me. Since I heard the
Speaker 1: episode years ago. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to
Speaker 1: know what would happen if one could actually find the book,
Speaker 1: the one that holds the key to the mysteries of
Speaker 1: the library. I give you title the book, and then
Speaker 1: if I'm reading the punctuation here right, I think Josh
Speaker 1: begins with the with the the feed incidents. After wandering
Speaker 1: for countless years in the library of Babel, I had
Speaker 1: finally stumbled upon the book. From here, the Machine rights
Speaker 1: a tone of unimaginable knowledge and power. It contained the
Speaker 1: secrets to all things. I could control the elements, some
Speaker 1: in spirits, and even travel through time. With this book,
Speaker 1: I could become the most powerful being in the Uni Verse.
Speaker 1: But the book had a price. In order to read it,
Speaker 1: I had to sacrifice my own soul. I hesitated for
Speaker 1: a moment, but then decided that it was worth it.
Speaker 1: I opened the Tone and began to read. But as
Speaker 1: I did, something began to change within me. The power
Speaker 1: of the book was intoxicating, and I began to feel
Speaker 1: like I was in control. The longer I read, the
Speaker 1: more I became consumed by the magic of the tone.
Speaker 1: I didn't notice when the other library patrons began to
Speaker 1: disappear or when the police arrived to take the book away.
Speaker 1: All I could focus on was the knowledge contained within
Speaker 1: the pages. And then suddenly the book was gone. I
Speaker 1: was alone, naked and exposed to the elements. The price
Speaker 1: of the book had been my soul. Josh says he
Speaker 1: left the story as it was generated on the first attempt,
Speaker 1: but was very attempted to change the word police into
Speaker 1: the word inquisitors to fit more with the original story.
Speaker 1: But he says it, but oh well, I'm still satisfied.
Speaker 1: Thanks and keep up the good work. Josh. PS. If
Speaker 1: you want to throw in another thought of mine, as
Speaker 1: this is my first time writing in I briefly wanted
Speaker 1: to touch on the document bloat that you guys mentioned
Speaker 1: in your fact similar episodes. I work in healthcare and
Speaker 1: the documentation slash note writing burden is definitely one of
Speaker 1: the largest contributors to healthcare worker burnout. This is made
Speaker 1: worse by the fact that certain notes are required to
Speaker 1: have certain content for insurance and billing purposes, even if
Speaker 1: not exactly useful to the readers. Slash other healthcare providers.
Speaker 1: To be efficient in reviewing a patient's chart, one has
Speaker 1: to become very good at skimming and inordinate volume of
Speaker 1: text in order to identify and use some small piece
Speaker 1: of actually useful information. With the ease of electronic charts,
Speaker 1: digital copying, etcetera, it has certainly paved the way for
Speaker 1: medical documentation to explode in terms of the amount to
Speaker 1: write and a few. While there are definitely benefits to
Speaker 1: electronic charting, the note bloat that has overtaken the system
Speaker 1: is certainly a barrier and burden for much of day
Speaker 1: to day practice. That's all for now, Josh, Well, thanks
Speaker 1: for writing in, Josh. Uh. I enjoyed the note bloat
Speaker 1: note here, but as as I've been enjoying, I really
Speaker 1: enjoyed this UH, this bit of AI assisted text here.
Speaker 1: I think the the impulse to go back and change
Speaker 1: just a few things to perfect it, I think that
Speaker 1: that probably speaks volumes regarding where we're going to be
Speaker 1: going with AI human creative endeavors in the future. Well, yeah, Robert,
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly how this UH meshes with your thinking,
Speaker 1: but it seems to me unlikely that at any point
Speaker 1: and even the middle distant future that AI is going
Speaker 1: to be able to write stories that are truly compelling
Speaker 1: from beginning to end in a way that you know,
Speaker 1: would be like the stories humans could tell. But I
Speaker 1: can certainly see how they could be a tool for
Speaker 1: human writers. There's sort of a way of generating interesting
Speaker 1: ideas that can fuel the real creativity that takes place
Speaker 1: in the human brain. Yeah, yeah, it's it'll probably what's
Speaker 1: the name of the little paper clip that used to
Speaker 1: pop up on computers clippy clippy like clip, you will
Speaker 1: pop up and instead of saying, oh, I see your
Speaker 1: writing a letter, and be like, oh, I see your
Speaker 1: writing a sci fi thriller involving robots and pets. I
Speaker 1: have a few few ideas for how we might devolve
Speaker 1: the plot. Yeah, I see that your story has an
Speaker 1: infinite book. Would you like to have your protagonists lose
Speaker 1: their soul? Absolutely? All right? Well, you know next we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna get into some leftovers, and you know
Speaker 1: what's better when it comes to leftovers than beans uh.
Speaker 1: This is a response to our Vault episode on beans uh.
Speaker 1: This is a fun exploration in which we we got
Speaker 1: to really get into some of like the supernatural ideas
Speaker 1: around beans uh continues to fascinate me. But this is
Speaker 1: what ghost Rock had to say. Hello Robert and Joe.
Speaker 1: Longtime listener, first time emailer. Thank you to you and
Speaker 1: your whole team for the excellent podcast. I love thinking
Speaker 1: about the topics you've talked about in ways I had
Speaker 1: never considered, as well as just the sheer fun of
Speaker 1: your lighthearted approach. On listening to the rebroadcast or re
Speaker 1: podcast of reconsider the Being Part two, a funny memory
Speaker 1: resurfaced in my brain. Many years ago. David Letterman had
Speaker 1: a daytime talk show predating the late night TV show.
Speaker 1: Wow that Yeah, that would have been many years ago
Speaker 1: for sure. For some reason, yeah, yeah, for some reason.
Speaker 1: The only memory I have of it was an ad
Speaker 1: for the show featuring a fake cooking segment, and it
Speaker 1: went something like this, Today I'm cooking with David Letterman.
Speaker 1: I'll show you how to make three bean salad with
Speaker 1: only one kind of being and magic markers. Thanks again
Speaker 1: for all you do and keep up the good work.
Speaker 1: Ghost Rock. I've never seen this show, but that sounds
Speaker 1: funny because who doesn't want to taste a magic marker?
Speaker 1: You know your kids all have that experience. You're sitting there,
Speaker 1: You're looking at the colors. You're like, these markers have
Speaker 1: different colors, just like skittles have different colors, and the
Speaker 1: different colors on the skittles are flavors, So the markers
Speaker 1: must have flavors too, right, It's it's logic. Well, this
Speaker 1: implies to there's really no taste difference in the beans
Speaker 1: that say business like Rancho Gordo is just one guy
Speaker 1: with a magic mark with a few different magic markers
Speaker 1: and one type of bean, and and he's just coloring
Speaker 1: them with different markers and sending them out as different varieties.
Speaker 1: This actually got me thinking about something, the three beans
Speaker 1: salad joke. I was talking to Rachel about this before
Speaker 1: we recorded. Uh. I must admit that as much as
Speaker 1: I respect beans and I love beans, I enjoy eating them,
Speaker 1: I find the phrase three beans salad immensely unappealing. And
Speaker 1: perhaps this is related to the fact that I also
Speaker 1: love pasta, but generally experienced revulsion that the idea of
Speaker 1: pasta salad and just personal preference. If you like these things,
Speaker 1: that's great, but for me, like there are some things
Speaker 1: that work great tossed in a vitigrette, and served cold.
Speaker 1: And those things do not include feusily noodles and kidney beans. Well,
Speaker 1: I have to agree to disagree. I do love a
Speaker 1: good bean salad. I love a good pasta salad. I
Speaker 1: guess three beans salad. It also kind of implies there
Speaker 1: just three beans in there, which which is also not accurate.
Speaker 1: I think it's often like, I don't know, it's like
Speaker 1: green beans. That's a little misleading, even though it is
Speaker 1: the same species. That's still your old fazziolist. That's just
Speaker 1: you know, without being shocked from the contato. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: fresh green beans. And then I think usually kidney beans
Speaker 1: and one other thing I don't know, candellini beans or something,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. Again, I love beans, but I
Speaker 1: think when they're cold that they have a kind of
Speaker 1: more um merely kind of crystallized starch texture that I
Speaker 1: do not enjoy as much as I enjoy the creamy
Speaker 1: texture of a hot bean. That's my take. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's move along. Looks like we have a little bit
Speaker 1: of weird house cinema correspondents to get into here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's see. Oh well, so before we get the weird
Speaker 1: house cinema, there's one that's about previous listener mail, but
Speaker 1: then sort of trending in the weird house direction. So
Speaker 1: this concerns the previous listener mail about local horror hosts.
Speaker 1: Remember the talk was about, you know, they used to
Speaker 1: show like old horror movies on TV and it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be just the movie. You'd have Al Lewis or Al
Speaker 1: Elvira or somebody there like introducing the parts of the movie,
Speaker 1: making jokes about it, doing the commercial breaks and so forth.
Speaker 1: And and we were talking about the you know, distinct
Speaker 1: pleasures of watching a movie that way, especially wanting to
Speaker 1: find out about all the local media market horror hosts
Speaker 1: that were less familiar with uh So here we heard
Speaker 1: from Pat. Pat says enjoyed the listener mail today. I
Speaker 1: got the impression you were unaware of the quote shock
Speaker 1: package sold to local television stations by screen Jim's in
Speaker 1: the late fifties. The horror hosts you mentioned were in
Speaker 1: many cities. Mine was Zacherle, So I looked up Zacharly.
Speaker 1: I was not previously familiar. I think this is somebody
Speaker 1: named John Zacherley who did work as a horror host
Speaker 1: but also had like a horror comedy novelty rock and
Speaker 1: roll songs from the fifties, including one called a Dinner
Speaker 1: with Drack in ninety eight. Rob, I think we should
Speaker 1: listen to that for a moment and then comment on
Speaker 1: it or dessert there was batwing confetti and the veins
Speaker 1: of a mommy named Betty. I first frowned upon it,
Speaker 1: but catch up on it. It tasted very much like spaghetti.
Speaker 1: I just want to point out that Dinner with Drack
Speaker 1: does predate the Monster Ash, so if one is a
Speaker 1: rip off of the other, it's it's Monster Mash that
Speaker 1: came later. Yeah. It definitely lands in the expected zone
Speaker 1: for what novelty hard track should be. But it's pretty
Speaker 1: fun too. It has like a little bit of um
Speaker 1: what a screening Jay Hawkins kind of vibe to it
Speaker 1: without being that outlandish and bad in your face. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's got a real ripping saxophone lead. Uh, and the
Speaker 1: lyrics are like we I was dining with Drack at
Speaker 1: his house by the sea, and but I choked on
Speaker 1: my wine when I discovered the main course was me classic, classic, good, good,
Speaker 1: but not quite as good as lay Law as monster rapping.
Speaker 1: Is that the first time we've mentioned Monster rapping on
Speaker 1: the show Monster Rapping. Uh, No, we definitely talked we've
Speaker 1: I think we've talked about it a little bit, um
Speaker 1: Monsters wrapping, the crypt Keeper rap and so forth group
Speaker 1: Keeper jam. Was it? No? No, no, the song Monster Rapping?
Speaker 1: Remember the law a Monster rapping? Oh, the one that
Speaker 1: is a very early dr dre worked on. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't think we've talked about it on the show, have we?
Speaker 1: But Oh, that's a that's an obscure but wonderful track
Speaker 1: that everyone should, well not everyone, some people should look
Speaker 1: up if you want, you know, everyone should. It's awesome
Speaker 1: lay law l A y l a W Monster Wrapping.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful, it is, it's it's one of the best
Speaker 1: novelty Halloween tracks you could possibly find. Oh anyway, But
Speaker 1: to finish Pat's message about the shock package sold by
Speaker 1: screen Gems in the late fifties, um Pat says the
Speaker 1: package included many of the Universal Studios classic monsters. My
Speaker 1: family made a Saturday night for many years with these movies. Hey,
Speaker 1: that's good family time. Often the print was very bad,
Speaker 1: poor sound, crazy edits scratches. When these films were remastered,
Speaker 1: many seemed like a new film. Thanks again, Pat. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for pointing this out. Yeah, the Shock Theater or
Speaker 1: Shock package a bunch of what pre nineteen horror films
Speaker 1: and you can pull up a list of these online.
Speaker 1: There's a wicky about them. Uh yeah, some great stuff
Speaker 1: on that list. I don't know the whole story that.
Speaker 1: It makes me wonder, like, did they send out a
Speaker 1: like a a daytime horror host kit. Uh, They're like,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to develop your own host. We can't
Speaker 1: supply that. Here are some useful props to consider. Here
Speaker 1: is some Google makeup to put on. Somebody. Find someone
Speaker 1: in your organization that can do this. All right, here's
Speaker 1: another one that someone comes to us from Jason. Jason says, Hi,
Speaker 1: guys love the podcast, particularly the Weird House Cinema episodes.
Speaker 1: I thought your review of Robot Jocks was great and
Speaker 1: wanted to let you know I saw this film in
Speaker 1: the theater at least half a dozen times in my
Speaker 1: early teens. Yes, I was a total nerd, and I
Speaker 1: don't regret it for a minute. I was surprised, though,
Speaker 1: that you didn't mention Gary Graham appearing in Star Trek
Speaker 1: Enterprise alongside one of the greatest ever wait for it,
Speaker 1: the one and only Jeffrey Combs playing an and Dorian
Speaker 1: commander with one broken antenna, which was never explained. Of course,
Speaker 1: Mr Combs is absolutely one of the most underrated actors ever,
Speaker 1: and if you were a fan, you should buy all
Speaker 1: means check out the Justice League Unlimited animated series where
Speaker 1: he does the voice of the question a hardcore conspiracy
Speaker 1: theorist who holds nothing back. Hearing him explain that the
Speaker 1: plastic tips of shoelaces are called aglets and that they
Speaker 1: serve quote a far more sinister purpose is pure gold.
Speaker 1: Thanks again for all the great content you put out there,
Speaker 1: and keep up the good work, Jason ps. Including this
Speaker 1: pick that I thought Robert would enjoy, and it is
Speaker 1: uh a trio of images. We have the Enterprise here,
Speaker 1: the U. S. S Enterprise, and it's as faster than
Speaker 1: light travel in fiction. Uh, Star Trek we use warp engines,
Speaker 1: and then we see a star Destroyer to the Star
Speaker 1: Wars we use hyper drives, and then we see a
Speaker 1: ship from Warhammer forty thousand and it says, uh, we
Speaker 1: traveled through Hell, which is true. That's that's how they
Speaker 1: got to get around. Basically that I think that's come
Speaker 1: up on the show before because we commented that must
Speaker 1: have been the inspiration for Event Horizon. Yeah. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of people have have connected those two, and again
Speaker 1: Event Horizon was not shy about taking, uh, borrowing ideas
Speaker 1: from other properties and sort of stitching together into into
Speaker 1: into the movie. Um, so yeah, they might have. They
Speaker 1: might very well have been inspired by by Warhammer to
Speaker 1: create their what turned out to be a hell Drive
Speaker 1: in that movie. So I've never heard of this DC
Speaker 1: character the question before this is the one that was
Speaker 1: voiced by Jeffrey Combs in the cartoon. But that sounds
Speaker 1: like a great idea. I've always thought we should have
Speaker 1: a superhero version of Dale Gribble. Yeah. I wasn't failiar
Speaker 1: with this guy either, but I even I mean, DC
Speaker 1: has been around for so long. Yeah, they a rich
Speaker 1: rogues gallery. Uh and then they're always getting retooled and
Speaker 1: rediscovered and recreated to uh to to to to re
Speaker 1: debut in comics and in comic book related properties. But
Speaker 1: I agree Jeffrey Combs, there's nothing like a Jeffrey Combs performance.
Speaker 1: I guess um he was in The Giver. Remember he
Speaker 1: shows at the very end as the scientist who's doing
Speaker 1: some kind of unethical experiment. Then he suddenly turns into
Speaker 1: one of the big jiggling monsters, and then I think
Speaker 1: it's uh disemboweled because the mcguffin gets thrown down his mouth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we haven't watched a pure Jeffrey Combs movie yet, like
Speaker 1: something in which he stars, So I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know if there there's one out there that would
Speaker 1: be the right fit. Well, I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: good movie at all, but I just do want to
Speaker 1: remind you that the third Reanimator movie is the one
Speaker 1: with that techno that euro disco song in it where
Speaker 1: the chorus is reanimate your feet. Oh yes, yes, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: on that note, we're gonna go ahead and close out.
Speaker 1: But if we'd love to hear from everyone out there,
Speaker 1: if you have responses to any of the listener mails
Speaker 1: in this episode, right in, if you have responses to oh, current, past,
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