Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, production of My
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.
Speaker 1: A listener mail. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm
Speaker 1: Joe McCormick. Agin. It's Monday, the day of the week
Speaker 1: that we generally bring back some of the messages you
Speaker 1: have sent us, So Rob, if you don't mind, I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna get started with this message from long
Speaker 1: time correspondent Jim in New Jersey about our episode on
Speaker 1: the Stargazer in the Well. Jim rights, Robert, Joe, and
Speaker 1: Seth when you mentioned well astronomy and refresher for those
Speaker 1: who it may have been a bit with the episode.
Speaker 1: We we talked in that episode about the long standing
Speaker 1: belief that a person could stand at the bottom of
Speaker 1: a well or at the bottom of a toll hollowed
Speaker 1: out tower, and for some reason this would allow them
Speaker 1: to see the stars in the daytime. We decided that
Speaker 1: there doesn't seem to be any dents. That's actually true,
Speaker 1: but for some reason a lot of people thought that. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Jim says, when you mentioned well astronomy, I was sure
Speaker 1: you'd tell my favorite well astronomy story. How Aratasthanes measured
Speaker 1: the size of the Earth using a well. The well
Speaker 1: at Saini in Egypt, and Saini is the place Uh
Speaker 1: also at other times known as as one Uh. Saini
Speaker 1: in Egypt is on the tropic of Cancer. At noon
Speaker 1: on the summer solstice, if one looks into a well
Speaker 1: at sain E, one sees a reflection of the Sun
Speaker 1: at the bottom, since it's directly overhead. Eratasthanes measured the
Speaker 1: angle of a shadow cast by a vertical rod in Alexandria.
Speaker 1: Assuming parallel rays of light from the sun, he could
Speaker 1: easily determine the arc on a circle from Saini to Alexandria. Then,
Speaker 1: with knowledge of the distance between the two places, he
Speaker 1: could calculate the size of the Earth. His results were
Speaker 1: within about one percent of the actual size. I wonder
Speaker 1: how he felt when he realized that the Earth was
Speaker 1: so much larger than their known parts. Students in different
Speaker 1: schools could replicate this with the flagpoles at their schools.
Speaker 1: All that would be needed are two schools several hundred
Speaker 1: miles north or south of each other, that is, mostly
Speaker 1: on the same longitude. They would measure the angle of
Speaker 1: the shadow cast by their flagpoles when the sun is
Speaker 1: at its highest in the sky. By comparing the angles
Speaker 1: and with knowledge of the distance between the two schools,
Speaker 1: they should be able to reproduce similar results. Jim in
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Uh, yeah, Jim, this is a great story.
Speaker 1: And this is one of my favorite stories of somebody
Speaker 1: figuring out figuring out something way before you might imagine
Speaker 1: they had the tools to do so. So this is
Speaker 1: an ancient Greek figure correctly calculating the size of the
Speaker 1: Earth just by looking at shadows cast by objects under
Speaker 1: the sun. Yeah, very interesting. Speaking of that Star Gazer
Speaker 1: and Well episode, we had at least one person to
Speaker 1: reach out and say, say, oh, did you guys cover
Speaker 1: that because it was mentioned on the Josh Brolin Amazon
Speaker 1: sci fi Western series Outer Range. And this apparently like
Speaker 1: the episode of Outer Range that came out that week
Speaker 1: that there's a character who has a bit where they're um,
Speaker 1: they're referencing the story of you know, astronomer falling down
Speaker 1: a well because they're looking up at the at the sky. Um.
Speaker 1: But the funny thing is that my wife and I
Speaker 1: are watching this series, but we were not current on it,
Speaker 1: so we had not actually gotten to that episode yet
Speaker 1: it just happened to be I guess a weird one
Speaker 1: of those weird accidents where we happened to be covering
Speaker 1: this topic just as it is referenced on a major
Speaker 1: television show. I didn't even know what that show was,
Speaker 1: so I had no idea. Yeah, it's a it's it's interesting,
Speaker 1: it's got some weird music, and Will Patton plays a
Speaker 1: like a crazy rancher guy, and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: fun in it. So I would recommend it on on
Speaker 1: the two counts nice. All right, Here is one that
Speaker 1: comes to us from who is from Steve. Steve is
Speaker 1: talking about the world Turtle. Just a shout out and
Speaker 1: thank you for the delightful Monster Fact episode called Tortara
Speaker 1: a Pokemon. I have long been enamored with turtles, turtle myths,
Speaker 1: and turtle hybrid monsters. My son is the same age
Speaker 1: as yours, and I enjoyed listening to your Pokemon expert speak.
Speaker 1: He did an excellent job. Thank you. I'll pass it
Speaker 1: on to him. I was so glad you mentioned that
Speaker 1: the turtle hybrid from the original Avatar the Last Airbender anime.
Speaker 1: You guys covered all the main turtle bases and even
Speaker 1: referenced a few that are new to me. These legends
Speaker 1: reminded me of my favorite passage from Stephen Hawkings classic
Speaker 1: A Brief History of Time. A well known scientists, some
Speaker 1: say it was Bertrand Russell once gave a public lecture
Speaker 1: on astronomy. He described how the Earth the orbits around
Speaker 1: the Sun, and how the Sun in turn orbits around
Speaker 1: the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.
Speaker 1: At the end of the lecture, a little old lady
Speaker 1: at the back of the room got up and said,
Speaker 1: what you have told us is rubbish. The world is
Speaker 1: really a flat plate supported on the back of a
Speaker 1: giant tortoise. The scientists gave a superior smile before applying,
Speaker 1: what is the tortoise standing on? You're very clever, young man,
Speaker 1: very clever, said the old lady. But it's it's turtles
Speaker 1: all the way down. Amusing as this story is, I
Speaker 1: feel it bears repeating that many of these stories and
Speaker 1: legends might have been intended to function metaphorically rather than
Speaker 1: be accepted as literal truths. The examples you shared involved
Speaker 1: a broad spectrum of visualizations, ranging from poetic conceptualization to
Speaker 1: the kind of good, clean imaginative fun one can experience
Speaker 1: reading a science fiction novel or a translation of an
Speaker 1: ancient mythological story. All of these forms have the potential
Speaker 1: to take one momentarily out of the mundane into the
Speaker 1: realm of possibility. Even in the natural world. It takes
Speaker 1: inspiration in an magination to develop theories which can be
Speaker 1: tested as useful or misleading explanations of existential phenomenon. Your
Speaker 1: inclusion and celebration of both kinds of thought is what
Speaker 1: really set stuffed about your mind apart. May you live
Speaker 1: long and podcast ever more. Steve Turtles all the way down,
Speaker 1: you know, going back to the story about Bertrand Russell
Speaker 1: or whoever it was, I years ago started making jokes
Speaker 1: saying X all the way down on the podcast, and
Speaker 1: then I noticed other people too. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's just a coincidence or if I picked up
Speaker 1: on other people just using that as a meme without
Speaker 1: realizing it. But yeah, now probably people have heard a
Speaker 1: joke of that format or that phrase turned into a
Speaker 1: meme without understanding what the origin is. You know, they've
Speaker 1: heard somebody say, oh, it's uh, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: TikTok all the way down or something crabs all the
Speaker 1: way down, something like that. But that is that is
Speaker 1: the origin of that phrase. There's also a subtle angle
Speaker 1: to that story that I really like, which is that
Speaker 1: it illustrates the way that uh, having a ready made
Speaker 1: phrase in your language for something can easily uh cause
Speaker 1: you to to sort of skip over assessing the logical
Speaker 1: consistency of what you're talking about, because to say the
Speaker 1: phrase all the way down means going all the way
Speaker 1: to the bottom. But this is used in the sentence
Speaker 1: to cause you to, uh, just don't worry about the bottom,
Speaker 1: you know, alright. This next message is in response to
Speaker 1: our series called Fire from the Rocks. These were episodes
Speaker 1: about naturally fueled flames, things like coal seam fires and
Speaker 1: natural gas field fires and auto igniting minerals and and
Speaker 1: things like that. So this is from Daniel. Daniel says, Hi,
Speaker 1: my name is Daniel. I'm a forty seven year old
Speaker 1: radio broadcast or of twenty years in Australia. I listened
Speaker 1: to all your shows and loved the stuff on Burning Mountain.
Speaker 1: I was there in n for a family holiday when
Speaker 1: I was thirteen. Image attached. I'm the kid with the
Speaker 1: striped shirt. It was a weird moonlike ominous atmosphere which
Speaker 1: stunk of sulfur. I would love to shoot part of
Speaker 1: a sci fi movie there, anyway, keep it up and
Speaker 1: I love the show. Cheers, Daniel, and so Robbie attached
Speaker 1: this photo for you to look at. But Daniel, in
Speaker 1: the photo, I see you're actually walking around on the
Speaker 1: ground on the bar patch, and I think, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're allowed to do that today. But there
Speaker 1: is an observation deck in the more recent photos I've seen,
Speaker 1: which leads me to believe that at least the park
Speaker 1: is trying to get people to stay up on the
Speaker 1: deck rather than walking on the scalded area. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I wonder if you were walking on the bear patch,
Speaker 1: the sculpted area, like, how hot was the ground or
Speaker 1: was it any hotter than than the the you know,
Speaker 1: the part that still had grass on it. All right,
Speaker 1: here's another one. This one comes to us from Nabil
Speaker 1: and it is titled The Gates of Hell. Hi, Robert
Speaker 1: and Joe, your recent episodes on long burning fires reminded
Speaker 1: me of an existing fire located in Turkmenistan in the
Speaker 1: Kharkom Desert. A fiery crater about sixty nine meters two
Speaker 1: six feet in diameter and thirty deep, has been burning
Speaker 1: since nineteen The Darvaza gas Crater, also known as the
Speaker 1: Gates of Hell, is a burning natural gas field collapsed
Speaker 1: into a cavern near dar Vasa, Turkmenistan. It is believed
Speaker 1: that Soviet geologists intentionally set it on fire in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy one to prevent the spread of methane gas, and
Speaker 1: it is thought to have been burning continuously ever since.
Speaker 1: It was estimated that the gas would burn out within
Speaker 1: a few weeks, but it has instead continued to burn
Speaker 1: for more than fifty years and is expected to keep
Speaker 1: on burning. Images of this fiery crater are worth looking up.
Speaker 1: I have attached some below, and then yes, slow and
Speaker 1: behold some wonderful images of this crater. I imagine that
Speaker 1: a lot of you out there have probably seen these before.
Speaker 1: They frequently pop up in like image galleries of of
Speaker 1: impressive sites around the world, um nabile and ins and
Speaker 1: out there by saying, big fan of the show, I
Speaker 1: really enjoy the wide array of topics covered, especially such
Speaker 1: topics that wouldn't usually get attention elsewhere. Keep up the
Speaker 1: great work. Yeah, thanks Nabile. Yeah, this is a really
Speaker 1: interesting site, and I'm sure it looks even cooler in
Speaker 1: the dark. I think, yeah, it seems too okay. I
Speaker 1: guess next Well, after this next message, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: getting into weird house cinema, but this one will form
Speaker 1: a nice bridge. So Drew writes in about the Fire
Speaker 1: from the Rocks episodes, subject line Centralia, pop Culture, missed connection,
Speaker 1: Drew says, Hi, Rob and Joe, longtime listener, first time writer.
Speaker 1: I love the mix of topic that you guys cover
Speaker 1: and how you incorporate research, history, mythology, and pop culture.
Speaker 1: I wanted to point out another film or video game
Speaker 1: reference related to the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania. Centralia is
Speaker 1: said to be a partial inspiration for the town in
Speaker 1: the video game series and later film Silent Hill. The
Speaker 1: games started as a horror suspense series, similar to the
Speaker 1: first couple of Resident Evil games. Not sure if it's
Speaker 1: too recent or mainstream a movie for a Weird House
Speaker 1: Cinema episode, but could be an interesting one to tackle
Speaker 1: in the future. Appreciate all you do with the pod.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Drew. Oh, I mean it is Christoph gonz
Speaker 1: I'd love to talk about the Gons at some point
Speaker 1: on the show this. This is funny because I have
Speaker 1: a very very specific memory, a lucid memory about someone thinking, uh,
Speaker 1: Silent Hill was weird, because I saw this in the
Speaker 1: theater with a friend of mine when it came out,
Speaker 1: and a girl in the theater near me answered her
Speaker 1: telephone while the movie was playing, and what I remember
Speaker 1: her saying was in a very East Tennessee accent. She
Speaker 1: was like, she was like, I'm in a movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's weird, it's weird. I remembered having some fun weird elements,
Speaker 1: and it had a great pyramid head in it, so yeah.
Speaker 1: I I have not thought about that film and a while.
Speaker 1: I haven't played one of those games that forever, but
Speaker 1: I remember really loving Silent Hill too, especially and being
Speaker 1: really drawn into the setting. I don't remember anything about
Speaker 1: mining in it, but I remember there being like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a weird wizard prison under the town and you're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how that loops into everything else
Speaker 1: and some locked doors. I actually never played any of
Speaker 1: these games, so I know a bit, but all my
Speaker 1: friends were into them at a time when I didn't
Speaker 1: have the PlayStation or whatever. I would have needed to
Speaker 1: play this, but all my friends loved it. And uh,
Speaker 1: I know, one of the things about at least the
Speaker 1: first game, maybe some of the later ones too, is
Speaker 1: that everything's covered in fog, Like you can't and see
Speaker 1: very far ahead of you in that right, rob, like
Speaker 1: a lot of fog. And and I wonder if that's
Speaker 1: something that was originally a technological limitation that later got
Speaker 1: rhet coon into a piece of the setting for its
Speaker 1: own purposes. Like originally, if you have fog everywhere, you
Speaker 1: don't have to do do as much render distance well
Speaker 1: when you're you know, creating the polygons in the environment.
Speaker 1: But of course I guess that turns into its own
Speaker 1: scary atmospheric thing, which works well in a horror game.
Speaker 1: And then later you could say, oh, yeah, that's because
Speaker 1: of all the fumes coming up from the ground. There's
Speaker 1: actually a coal seam fire in this town. So I
Speaker 1: always like things like that, you know. I was actually
Speaker 1: just speaking of of ghastly leaking up from the ground
Speaker 1: and tying into our last listener mail that we read there.
Speaker 1: I was reading in Yokai Attack by Hiroko Yoda and
Speaker 1: Matt Altum, and there's a bit on one of the
Speaker 1: yokai named Koonaki Gigi, which is like the little old
Speaker 1: man in the encounter. He's like a he looks he
Speaker 1: may look like a baby, but he's an old man
Speaker 1: and if you pick him up, he grows in size
Speaker 1: and crushes you. Um. But in in that book, the
Speaker 1: author's point to a possible explanation for this being linked
Speaker 1: to methane fumes from decomposing organic material, Like people go
Speaker 1: out on the foot into a like a really rich
Speaker 1: forest environment, they're overcome by the methane fumes and then
Speaker 1: they hallucinate. Uh, Kannaki Gigi here, that's brutal. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: haven't researched it further, so I don't know if there's
Speaker 1: how robust that theory is. Uh, But it's a fun
Speaker 1: little yokai, like like many of the okai yokai are
Speaker 1: so much fun. Also, now that I know about this
Speaker 1: link to the Silent Hill Games, that means there's a link,
Speaker 1: a clear link between the Silent Hill Games and the
Speaker 1: film Nothing But Trouble. And I think this is how
Speaker 1: you bring the Silent Hill Games back. We haven't had
Speaker 1: a proper Silent Hill game in a while. They need
Speaker 1: to join together the Nothing but Trouble universe and the
Speaker 1: Silent Hill Universe into one cohesive video game experience. Dan
Speaker 1: Ackroyd's next venture, pyramid Head Vodka. All right, well let's
Speaker 1: get into weird house cinema here. Here's one. This one
Speaker 1: concerns Planet of the Vampires. And I think we'd asked
Speaker 1: the question, well, what are some of the best planets
Speaker 1: surface sets ever to be featured in a science fiction film?
Speaker 1: So James writes in and says, Hi, guys, I'm going
Speaker 1: to redefine best here to best at being a set.
Speaker 1: I nominate the generic cave set from Deep Space nine,
Speaker 1: referring to Star Trek The Space nine. Uh. The set
Speaker 1: itself is okay. It's a decent job of fiberglass and
Speaker 1: stucco for a weekly spinoff show. What it lacks in glamour,
Speaker 1: it makes up in persistence. It is the hardest working
Speaker 1: cave in show business. Every Deep Space nine episode involving
Speaker 1: anything remotely underground uses that same set. They change the
Speaker 1: lighting of what they scatter on the floor, and the
Speaker 1: camera angles, but once you see it, you can't un
Speaker 1: see it. I never noticed when watching the original show,
Speaker 1: but when you can binge watch something you notice these things.
Speaker 1: Most sci fi does this to some extent, but I
Speaker 1: think that that set is in as many episodes as
Speaker 1: it isn't in. They do a really good job of
Speaker 1: disguising it for the first few seasons, but by the
Speaker 1: end of the show they are just adding a few
Speaker 1: alien knickknacks and some side lighting or something well, not spectacular.
Speaker 1: If we rank it on cost per entertainment unit, this
Speaker 1: has most sets beat. Possibly the only thing to beat
Speaker 1: it in that department isn't a set but this thing.
Speaker 1: Oh and then James links to a video that I
Speaker 1: went and watched that is a massive compilation of every
Speaker 1: movie and TV show, including a lot of Star Trek
Speaker 1: episodes that use this random sci fi set piece of
Speaker 1: It's like these two metal housings with a tube in
Speaker 1: between them, and they seem to be shooting red lasers
Speaker 1: back and forth, but inside the tube. Oh wow, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm looking at this now. It shows up in
Speaker 1: the Last Starfighter. Oh yeah, Dan o'herley, he and Monster
Speaker 1: makeup going like, oh what are you doing? And then
Speaker 1: it's just that thing behind him. Yeah, it looks like
Speaker 1: we had some incredible whole TV show in there. Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness. Uh yeah, I've definitely seen this thing before,
Speaker 1: but I've never really put it together that it is
Speaker 1: showing up in other shows, including Star Trek the Next Generation.
Speaker 1: It's crucial to defeating Zoo in the Code and Armada. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of Star Trek TV series planet surface sets again,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be unkind because I know a lot.
Speaker 1: I know everybody loves uh Star Trek the Next Generation,
Speaker 1: and I know I would probably love it too if
Speaker 1: I made it far enough in the series. But I,
Speaker 1: as I've admitted on the show multiple times before, I
Speaker 1: sort of like tried the first season and couldn't really
Speaker 1: get further than that. Uh. And one of the things
Speaker 1: that I found most hilarious about it was the planet
Speaker 1: surface sets, many of which to me appeared to be
Speaker 1: like what looked like a nineteen eighties like family portrait
Speaker 1: photos studio full of potted plants and just shooting people
Speaker 1: from the knees up so you don't see the pots. Yeah. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: I don't remember the earlier the first season that much.
Speaker 1: The main thing I remember about the first season from
Speaker 1: back when I was watching all these in junior and
Speaker 1: I is that the the the the the uniforms look
Speaker 1: a lot rougher that first season. There seemed to be
Speaker 1: some huge advancements that were made in subsequence of seasons
Speaker 1: regarding just how um authentic the costumes look like. They
Speaker 1: looked like the actors were maybe more comfortable in them,
Speaker 1: though I've also read that the the the actors were
Speaker 1: just sort of uniform universally uncomfortable in those outfits for
Speaker 1: like the whole run of the series. So I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it comes back to something we've talked about before
Speaker 1: in the show. In your science fiction, if you've got
Speaker 1: a good looking jumpsuit, done matter, I guess how comfortable
Speaker 1: it is. But if it looks good, a good jumpsuit,
Speaker 1: a good uniform will go a long ways towards creating
Speaker 1: this feeling of some some future society. Oh yeah, there's
Speaker 1: there's Planet of the Vampires right there. Those those uniforms
Speaker 1: that Planet of the Vampires look uh, agreedient like they
Speaker 1: they do not breathe. Those cur members are just cooking
Speaker 1: in their own juices. Now, that is a cast that
Speaker 1: had a lot of very attractive people in it, But
Speaker 1: so this may explain it. But another thing I would
Speaker 1: say is that nobody looks like severely awkward in those uniforms,
Speaker 1: and that is that is sometimes the case with your
Speaker 1: sci fi uniforms. Uh. And I come back to Santa
Speaker 1: Claus conquers the Martians in this The Martians had these outfits,
Speaker 1: and some of the actors fill those outfits out enough,
Speaker 1: some look a little bit awkward in them. So that's
Speaker 1: always uh something as well, especially when you're dealing with
Speaker 1: alien outfits that are basically leotard's or some other kind
Speaker 1: of you know, awkward costume that's going to ultimately make
Speaker 1: all but the fittest of of of people on the
Speaker 1: cast look a little silly. And then sometimes they're really
Speaker 1: fit acts look ridiculous in them too, So you know,
Speaker 1: nobody has ever looked awkward in a Star Trek episode.
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, all the all the Trekkies
Speaker 1: who are you're now composing lists of the best Next
Speaker 1: Generation episodes to send me? This has happened before, when
Speaker 1: I've admitted this on the show before that I didn't
Speaker 1: make it past the first season. I know, I know
Speaker 1: there's good next Generation stuff. I'm not denying that. I
Speaker 1: just haven't made it to it yet. So don't worry
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not slagging your favorite. Alright, looks like
Speaker 1: we have one more Planet of the Vampires email you
Speaker 1: want to get this one? Joe? Oh sure, this is
Speaker 1: from Jim, not Jim in New Jersey. Different Jim, this
Speaker 1: is a This is a two gym party today, Jim says, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I watched Planet of the Vampires over the weekend, fun
Speaker 1: weird house film. As always, I was struck in the
Speaker 1: beginning of the film how much the planet they ended on,
Speaker 1: Aura looked like Neptune in nineteen sixty five. We hadn't
Speaker 1: had fly by's yet to see what the outer planets
Speaker 1: looked like. It would make more sense at the end
Speaker 1: of the movie when they decided to come to Earth
Speaker 1: if they were already in our Solar system their only
Speaker 1: problem Colon. Without the meteor rejector, they might have a
Speaker 1: rough time getting past the asteroid belt. Keep up the
Speaker 1: great work, and thanks for all the great weird movies, Jim. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you Jim. And that's a question I do not
Speaker 1: know the answer to. What is the what is the
Speaker 1: actual chance of of running into a sizeable enough rock
Speaker 1: to have a problem. Uh, if you're flying a spaceship,
Speaker 1: around in our Solar system, past past the orbit of
Speaker 1: mars Um. You know this has come up on the
Speaker 1: show before, hasn't it discussing the distance between these objects
Speaker 1: that that in many cases, like we we're dealing with
Speaker 1: with rather large distances. So yeah, I don't know that,
Speaker 1: uh that that our aliens here would have been in
Speaker 1: tremendous risk. Though then again, I guess it would depend
Speaker 1: partially on how fast you're going, because if you're going
Speaker 1: really fast and you run into something even very tiny,
Speaker 1: that could cause major damage, right right, Yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: speed is a fact. Like it it's we're probably reading
Speaker 1: too much into it, but I guess the meteor ejector
Speaker 1: it makes it seem like maybe this is so that
Speaker 1: the the vehicle can travel at a speed uh sufficient
Speaker 1: enough to make just about anything it might run into lethal.
Speaker 1: So um, I don't know, I'm not sure where I
Speaker 1: follow on this question. Yeah, the argus and the galley,
Speaker 1: like they run into a paint chip or a little
Speaker 1: speck of dust and it's a nuclear explosion. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I don't know, I have to think about this could
Speaker 1: go either way on it, And then again, we've sent
Speaker 1: plenty of unscrewed probes past the orbit of Mars. We've
Speaker 1: sent them through the asteroid belt, and I don't know
Speaker 1: of any occasions where this has been a major problem,
Speaker 1: So yeah, who knows what if the meteor ejector isn't
Speaker 1: really reject or sorry, it isn't really technology, but it's
Speaker 1: just pure superstition. It's kind of like, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: they're being like a special piece of metal that all
Speaker 1: the sailors on a ship have to touch that protects
Speaker 1: them from evil omens and so forth there, like like
Speaker 1: what's in that plastic binocular set is actually like a
Speaker 1: pickled crows foot that a witch has put a blessing
Speaker 1: on for them. Yeah. Yeah, we don't know a lot
Speaker 1: about how their culture operates, so it's possible as well. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think that does it for this one. All Right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go and close it out then, but we'll
Speaker 1: be back with more listener Mail in the future, so
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