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: Listener Mail. This is Robert Lamb and this is Joe McCormick,
Speaker 1: and we're back in the mail bag overfloweth it is.
Speaker 1: It is quite hefty this week, so we're gonna be
Speaker 1: catching up, I assume, for the next few mail Bag episodes.
Speaker 1: But Rob, if you're ready, I think I'm going to
Speaker 1: jump into some messages that we got about the three
Speaker 1: pupiled Eye episodes. Alright, this is from Rob from you.
Speaker 1: We're not having another seth rights in the listener mail
Speaker 1: type situation. Okay, this is from some other Rob. Rob says,
Speaker 1: in the second pupil episode, you mentioned the interesting fact
Speaker 1: that the Chinese word for pupil, and then Rob says
Speaker 1: that this contains the word child, making a connection between
Speaker 1: a small child and the tiny reflected image seen in
Speaker 1: somebody else's eye. I might have missed it, but I
Speaker 1: don't think you mentioned that our own word pupil comes
Speaker 1: from the same idea. It comes from the Latin pupila,
Speaker 1: meaning little girl or doll. Comparing a pupil to a
Speaker 1: child is actually very common cross linguistically The Greek core
Speaker 1: a can mean either girl or pupil. The Irish mac
Speaker 1: im risk literally means child of the iris. The hebrew
Speaker 1: ishn literally means little man. The Turkish goes bebegie literally
Speaker 1: means I baby. It's kind of creepy. Um. These are
Speaker 1: not merely translations of a phrase original to one language.
Speaker 1: They seem to have been coined independently in many unrelated languages. Apparently,
Speaker 1: in ancient times, the little reflection of yourself that you
Speaker 1: saw in somebody somebody else's pupil was considered the most
Speaker 1: remarkable thing about this body part. Thanks for making such
Speaker 1: a great show, rob Ah, Yeah, that's that's a that's wonderful.
Speaker 1: I didn't know about the the I babies of Turkish there. Um,
Speaker 1: that's that's wonderful. Uh. One of the weird the weird
Speaker 1: coincidence here. I happened to watch the old animated version
Speaker 1: of The Last Unicorn this week, and it's been a
Speaker 1: long time since I've seen it, and I'd only ever
Speaker 1: read half of the book with my son. I think
Speaker 1: it was a library book. We ended up returning it.
Speaker 1: I will say I think, as far as the movie goes,
Speaker 1: first half much better than the later latter half. First
Speaker 1: half has all the good stuff with the Mommy Fortuna
Speaker 1: and the Harpie, and also has the best America songs,
Speaker 1: uh the America songs in the In the second half
Speaker 1: of the film, um My Son even noticed that they
Speaker 1: were not up up to snuff. He was like, why
Speaker 1: is this song so bad? And I'm like, well, which
Speaker 1: half is his horse with There's no Horse with No
Speaker 1: Name in this. This is post Horse with No Name America.
Speaker 1: This is when they weren't. They don't sound that much
Speaker 1: like Neil Young in this. This is a you have
Speaker 1: you had some real some world good ones. You got
Speaker 1: the last Unicorn theme song It's self. You have Man's Road.
Speaker 1: Those are both really good. But anyway, my point about
Speaker 1: eyes is there's a there's a whole thing in it about,
Speaker 1: you know, the evil unicorn hoarding King Haggard, who is
Speaker 1: voiced by Marvelous Lee by by Christopher Lee. He has
Speaker 1: this whole thing where we have this unicorn that's the
Speaker 1: script that is a disguised as a human woman in
Speaker 1: the shape of a human woman, and he suspects something
Speaker 1: is up when he cannot see his own reflection in
Speaker 1: her eyes and later on is she becomes more human,
Speaker 1: She's losing her unicorn nous and becoming more human. He
Speaker 1: can see his reflection in her eyes. Interesting detail. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's probably, Like I said, I haven't read the
Speaker 1: second half of the book, but I imagine, uh, the
Speaker 1: author here is Umu of course, Peter Spiegel. I wonder
Speaker 1: if he's getting into something about the idea of possession,
Speaker 1: because of course this is a greedy, miserable individual who
Speaker 1: uh nothing makes him happy and life except occasionally the
Speaker 1: fact that he's collected all the unicorns but one in
Speaker 1: the world and hitting hitting them away in the surf.
Speaker 1: You know, there's something about the idea of something that
Speaker 1: he cannot possess fully, that that he does not see
Speaker 1: himself in perhaps anyway unicorn fans right in let us know,
Speaker 1: all right, This next one comes to us from It's is.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I guess Baron is writing in. I
Speaker 1: think someone is calling themselves Baron all the Baron rites.
Speaker 1: Good evening, this is Baron Eaton and I had to
Speaker 1: take a moment to at least address the multiple pupils
Speaker 1: for the Irish legends and the link to beauty. The
Speaker 1: first example that popped into my head is the classic
Speaker 1: Dungeons and Dragons magical item the eyes of and it's
Speaker 1: items plural, and you would insert the power of the
Speaker 1: deity here, The baron says. Typically they would be glasses
Speaker 1: of some sort, monocle, bifocals, or other lenses. Since the
Speaker 1: lenses would not be purely flat, they could have multiple
Speaker 1: facets that would allow the wearer to see into the future,
Speaker 1: see through illusions, and spot hidden treasures. Robb, you have
Speaker 1: experienced with these things. I don't think I've ever gotten
Speaker 1: to the point where I had eyes of a d
Speaker 1: I have never made these available as a d M,
Speaker 1: and no d M has made them available to me.
Speaker 1: But they sound pretty fun. They also sound like maybe
Speaker 1: they're maybe they're a little difficult to we eve into
Speaker 1: a campaign. I don't know, uh I d M s
Speaker 1: and players right in and correct us on that if
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong anyway, the baron continues, the person viewing
Speaker 1: the sears would see multiple irises through the gym, and
Speaker 1: it could be clear enough to do so. Since the
Speaker 1: type of gym would be associated with mystical powers and wealth,
Speaker 1: it could be easily tied into the idea of a
Speaker 1: multi pupil human, especially since most things in the early
Speaker 1: Before times were rife with symbolism. It would be a
Speaker 1: quick way to describe a monocle if you if you
Speaker 1: didn't have the words to describe a monocle. Love the episodes.
Speaker 1: You all keep giving me great ideas for games, characters
Speaker 1: and monsters. Much appreciated. Well many thanks to the baron. Okay,
Speaker 1: So if I understand what you're saying in the second half,
Speaker 1: it's that maybe there would have been a case in
Speaker 1: the ancient world where somebody was looking through some kind
Speaker 1: of complex transparent object like a maybe a gym with
Speaker 1: multiple facets or something that had some refractive properties that
Speaker 1: caused the eye to appear in multiple surfaces on the
Speaker 1: gym or lens to the person looking at them, so
Speaker 1: it might look like they had multiple pupils or multiple irises.
Speaker 1: I love this idea as it relates to D and D.
Speaker 1: As far as relating to to something from actual Irish history,
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued, but I would have some doubts. Uh. The
Speaker 1: last time I read about this, I think the historical
Speaker 1: consensus was that spectacles didn't really exist before the Late
Speaker 1: Middle Ages, though there are some individual objects that have
Speaker 1: been used as uh sort of uh more more specific
Speaker 1: case magnification aids and and other visual aids in the
Speaker 1: ancient world. So a few examples came to mind while
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this before we recorded. One is
Speaker 1: these these lenses from around the ancient Mediterranean and Mesopotamia.
Speaker 1: Though I think in most cases it's actually debated whether
Speaker 1: these were really used for magnification purposes, such as for
Speaker 1: reading text or as a craft workers aid, or whether
Speaker 1: they were simply decorative items. Uh. Isn't that what we
Speaker 1: talked about in our sort of history of lenses episodes on? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We did? Uh? I think more than one episode didn't
Speaker 1: we were we talked about lenses. I know we did
Speaker 1: one on sunglasses, and by virtue of getting into sunglasses,
Speaker 1: got into the idea of spectacles. Maybe we did an
Speaker 1: episode on spectacles too. I don't know, it all blurs together. Well,
Speaker 1: I think we've done the telescope and we did sunglasses,
Speaker 1: so we addressed lenses in multiple ways. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: So I think there's debate over to what extent some
Speaker 1: of these lens artifacts were actually used for magnification or not.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this still holds up but I
Speaker 1: also remember reading claims at some point about ancient Romans
Speaker 1: using glass spheres to magnify small text in manuscripts. And
Speaker 1: of course there's that great story Plenty of the Elder
Speaker 1: tells about how the Emperor Nero, of course he would
Speaker 1: enjoy watching people kill each other in the arena, but
Speaker 1: he liked to do he liked to watch it reflected
Speaker 1: in a green gym that Plenty calls a smur agdus.
Speaker 1: So to read from the Natural History quote, even when
Speaker 1: the vision has been fatigued with intently viewing other objects,
Speaker 1: it is refreshed by being turned upon the stone. And
Speaker 1: lapidaries know of nothing that is more gratefully soothing to
Speaker 1: the eyes. It's soft green tents being wonderfully adapted for
Speaker 1: a suaging lassitude when felt in those organs. And then
Speaker 1: later he says, when the surface of the samur agnus
Speaker 1: is flat, it reflects the image of objects in the
Speaker 1: same manner as a looking glass. The Emperor Nero used
Speaker 1: to view the combats of the gladiators upon a sami agnus.
Speaker 1: So I guess one imagines he's like holding up this
Speaker 1: green gym like a mirror and then looking back behind
Speaker 1: him at the at the gladiators whacking each other with
Speaker 1: swords and throwing the nets and stuff. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean a few interesting examples of possible magnification devices, lenses,
Speaker 1: gems and stuff like that that would have been used
Speaker 1: in the ancient world, though I don't know if any
Speaker 1: of this stuff would have ever shown up, would have
Speaker 1: been known in ancient land. I have to say I
Speaker 1: was immediately reminded of the scene in Disney snow White
Speaker 1: where Dope the dwarf. Uh, it's kind of it's kind
Speaker 1: of frightening to look at actually now where he takes
Speaker 1: two giant gemstones and he like lodges them in his
Speaker 1: eye sockets, and then it makes it look like he
Speaker 1: has um, you know, multiple irises and pupils per eye,
Speaker 1: like a big, big dope fly. I believe that is
Speaker 1: what the exactly what the baron is suggesting here. All right, anyway,
Speaker 1: I am going to read this next message from Taylor.
Speaker 1: Taylor says, Hey, Rob and Joe, I just finished listening
Speaker 1: to part two of the Three Pupil Die and unless
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting something from part one, you missed an opportunity
Speaker 1: to discuss a wonderfully weird example of multiple pupils in nature.
Speaker 1: The genus Annableps, also known as four eyed fish, are
Speaker 1: a genus of fish native to brackish waters in Central
Speaker 1: America and northern South America. The four eyed fish does
Speaker 1: not in fact have four eyes, but it does have
Speaker 1: four pupils sort of species in the genus Annibleps spend
Speaker 1: their life at the surface of brackish estuaries, where they
Speaker 1: peak above the water to watch for insect prey. When
Speaker 1: the opportunity presents itself, the four eyed fish leaps from
Speaker 1: the water to consume inattentive arthropods. However, annibleps are not
Speaker 1: particularly large like our beloved house cats. These species are
Speaker 1: both predator and prey and must watch the waters below
Speaker 1: for approaching picene predators. What's a fish to do if
Speaker 1: it needs to keep its eyes in the sky and
Speaker 1: the water at once. Evolution has produced an incredible answer.
Speaker 1: Two pupils per eye, or rather one hour glass shaped
Speaker 1: pupil per eye. The constricts in the middle in such
Speaker 1: a fashion that the fish appears to have for pupils.
Speaker 1: When Antibleps rests near the top of the water, the
Speaker 1: upper halves of its pupils are held above the water
Speaker 1: to watch for prey, and the lower halves remain below
Speaker 1: the water to watch for predators. The neatest feature of
Speaker 1: this adaptation to me, is that the lenses of the
Speaker 1: fish's eyes are bifocal to account for the different diffraction
Speaker 1: of light in air and water. This strange fish has
Speaker 1: split the function of its eyes in half to adapt
Speaker 1: to its liminal place at the surface of the water.
Speaker 1: Please check out some pictures of this bizarre fish, and
Speaker 1: thank you for continuing to create weird, wonderful and uh
Speaker 1: edutaining content to fill the slower hours of my days.
Speaker 1: All the best, tailor, are you not edutained people? I
Speaker 1: have to say I was not familiar with this fish,
Speaker 1: but I just looked up some wonderful images of it
Speaker 1: and yeah that these eyes are remarkable. It is very
Speaker 1: much kind of an hour glass said looking situation in
Speaker 1: many of these shots, where it's as if the an
Speaker 1: oval shaped pupil has been pinched in the middle, allowing
Speaker 1: a portion above and a portion below the water. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's really cool. All right. Here's one from cat in
Speaker 1: response to our seven day work or seven day week episodes.
Speaker 1: Cat rights high there did I miss the part where
Speaker 1: the mythology Science, my Science boys that's Us by Sam
Speaker 1: talk about the English names for the days of the week.
Speaker 1: I am surprised I didn't hear you at least mention it.
Speaker 1: I recall how you mentioned the planetary names a few
Speaker 1: times Saturday, Saturday, Sunday, Sun, Monday, Moon, but I didn't
Speaker 1: hear any mention of the other half as the Norse
Speaker 1: god days Tuesday, Tears, Wednesday, woden or Odin, Thursday, Thor's
Speaker 1: and Friday freya. Some people might be thinking, what planet
Speaker 1: is Thursday? Ha ha. Also I'm curious why use Norse
Speaker 1: gods doesn't seem market related or anything unless it is
Speaker 1: days of worship. Also why half Roman and half Norse
Speaker 1: gods love the show? You guys are the best cat,
Speaker 1: Thank you cat. Uh. I think the answer here is
Speaker 1: just the modern English language inherits both Roman and Germanic
Speaker 1: or Norse cultural influences. So uh, the names of the
Speaker 1: days of the week trace back to Old English or
Speaker 1: Anglo Saxon the language of the Anglo Saxons. Uh. You
Speaker 1: know this is the language that Beowulf is written in,
Speaker 1: and this language was also influenced by Roman religion because
Speaker 1: Britain was occupied by Rome for hundreds of years from
Speaker 1: like the first century until I think sometimes in the
Speaker 1: fifth century a d. So, Saturday still has the name
Speaker 1: of the Roman god Saturn. You've got you've got that
Speaker 1: Roman influence. I think the Sunday and Monday probably also
Speaker 1: come from the Roman influence. But then yeah, other days
Speaker 1: of the week come from the names of these gods
Speaker 1: that have Norse or Germanic pagan origins. Al Right, if
Speaker 1: we're moving on to the next email, uh, let's see.
Speaker 1: But before we get into this one, I just want
Speaker 1: to say part of the background for it is. Remember
Speaker 1: in the Seven Days of the Week, we talked about
Speaker 1: how there was the scholar who wrote a book on
Speaker 1: the history of the week, and in one of the
Speaker 1: interviews we read, he speculated that life in which a
Speaker 1: life in which the seven day week is an important
Speaker 1: organizing principle might seem subjectively to go by faster than
Speaker 1: other schemes such as monthly organization or maybe longer market
Speaker 1: weeks or something. I think he mainly sided just like
Speaker 1: letters from the past, in times when the week was
Speaker 1: in ascendancy and becoming more front of people's minds. He
Speaker 1: said that people seem to be talking more and more
Speaker 1: often about how the time seems to be flying by.
Speaker 1: Uh though, you know that could be a coincidence or
Speaker 1: just his mistaken impression. And Jacob, in this next message,
Speaker 1: has some great perspective to provide as someone in the
Speaker 1: rather unique position of having lived under multiple radically different
Speaker 1: regimes of time. So I love this email. Rob. Did
Speaker 1: you want to read this one? Sure? Yeah? All right,
Speaker 1: here we go. This one is from Jacob. Jacob says
Speaker 1: the following, Hey, everyone, love the show so far. I
Speaker 1: hope not to disappoint you. I was introduced to your
Speaker 1: podcast by an old friend who worked with me and
Speaker 1: endured the first of the schedules i'll describe below. I
Speaker 1: just listened to the three part series on the seven
Speaker 1: day week, and towards the end of part three, there
Speaker 1: was some musings on whether or not life seems faster
Speaker 1: when you break it down by week, and I do
Speaker 1: not believe so. So long as there is a cycle,
Speaker 1: I think it seems just as long when averaged over time.
Speaker 1: The short version is I've lived on a three week
Speaker 1: cycle with eighteen hour days instead of twenty four, and
Speaker 1: now I work a schedule that repeats every thirty five days.
Speaker 1: In the case of the former, I think there was
Speaker 1: some time dilation due to the circadian rhythm wrecking schedule.
Speaker 1: In the case of the latter schedule, any given week
Speaker 1: will very significantly, but over time I think it averages out.
Speaker 1: In Between working these two schedules, I worked a regular
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, as most Americans do. In the case
Speaker 1: of the former schedule, the three week cycle with eighteen
Speaker 1: hour days. That was what U S Submarines did on deployment.
Speaker 1: When I was in we didn't even care about the
Speaker 1: twenty four hour day, instead organizing our lives around three
Speaker 1: sections of six hour watches, yielding an eighteen hour day.
Speaker 1: When I was junior and didn't need to know the
Speaker 1: date I drove the boat uh. If we were deep,
Speaker 1: I could mark the time by day of day by chow,
Speaker 1: and the weeks by a cleaning ritual known as field day.
Speaker 1: As I got more senior, I had to be cognizant
Speaker 1: of time and date, but rest assured I'd forget when
Speaker 1: I got off watch. If I had no obligations, every
Speaker 1: twenty one days, you'd stand watch at the same time
Speaker 1: and day as you did before, so the cycle was
Speaker 1: effectively a three week One weeks seemed long because of
Speaker 1: the eighteen hour day and the various things that could
Speaker 1: cut into your sleep, But over time I think twenty
Speaker 1: one day periods would start to blur together the same
Speaker 1: way weeks do. In the case of the latter schedule,
Speaker 1: the thirty five day cycle, that is the modified DuPont
Speaker 1: that is very common across the power system operations world.
Speaker 1: In thirty five days, I'll have worked seven day shifts
Speaker 1: of twelve hours, seven night shifts of twelve hours, and
Speaker 1: four training days of ten hours. Power Plant operators tend
Speaker 1: to work a similar schedule of twenty eight days without
Speaker 1: the training week. Any given week in that rotation will
Speaker 1: be different from a work perspective, and that will make
Speaker 1: a different schedule for someone's personal life. The average Americans
Speaker 1: work week is closest to my training week of forty
Speaker 1: hours in four days with three days off. I also
Speaker 1: have a week where I worked three day shifts and
Speaker 1: three night shifts with twenty four hours in between, which
Speaker 1: is very different uh compared to the built in weeks
Speaker 1: off I have within that schedule. By the end of
Speaker 1: my thirty five days cycle, I think time will have
Speaker 1: felt similar to five weeks. Yeah, if we were to
Speaker 1: look at fifteen weeks or a hundred and five days,
Speaker 1: I don't think the few day walkers on a submarine
Speaker 1: who don't organize their lives around standing watch will feel
Speaker 1: they spent more or less time on deployment than those
Speaker 1: who have gone through the five of the twenty one
Speaker 1: day cycles most of us lived on. I don't think
Speaker 1: three of my thirty five day cycles would feel any
Speaker 1: longer or shorter than fifteen of your seven day cycles. Anyways,
Speaker 1: I hope this was or is a useful perspective on
Speaker 1: a show that aired three weeks ago or during the
Speaker 1: week off in my thirty five day cycle. Wow, Jacob, Uh, well,
Speaker 1: this is a great email. I I love the reference
Speaker 1: to the day walkers on the submarine. So if I'm
Speaker 1: understanding you right, you're saying that, like on a submarine,
Speaker 1: there will be people who are living according to a
Speaker 1: regular twenty four hour day schedule, and then there are
Speaker 1: other people walking amongst them who are living this this
Speaker 1: eighteen hour day cycle. Uh. That sounds chaotic and and
Speaker 1: I almost imagine a kind of like Eloi and Morlock
Speaker 1: situation imaging Uh, it's great to hear from somebody who
Speaker 1: has experience on a submarine like this. I'm reminded of
Speaker 1: an older episode that we did call Troubled Sleep in
Speaker 1: the Arcs of Doom. Uh. That was looking at sleep
Speaker 1: studies pertaining to individuals who served on submarines. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I remember it being rather fascinating, because, yeah, you're essentially
Speaker 1: dealing with this this artificial world set off from the
Speaker 1: from night and day and the rest of reality, never
Speaker 1: exposed to sunlight, probably working weird cycles that don't line
Speaker 1: up with our four programming. Yeah. Yeah, I remember a
Speaker 1: lot of discussions in the paper about it, about it
Speaker 1: being a job that could be both exceedingly boring but
Speaker 1: also still very stressful due to various factors from the
Speaker 1: environment to sort of the nature of the mission, etcetera.
Speaker 1: So anyway, yeah, Jacob, thanks for writing in. All right, Rob,
Speaker 1: you ready for a little bit of weird house cinema. Okay,
Speaker 1: this first one is from Jane. Jane says hi, Rob
Speaker 1: and Joe, just a quick note to thank you for
Speaker 1: choosing the abominable Doctor Fibes as the subject for your
Speaker 1: latest weird house cinema. Growing up in seventies Britain. This
Speaker 1: was a late night staple on TV and it came
Speaker 1: to be one of my favorite, one of my absolute favorites.
Speaker 1: If you hadn't beaten me to it, I was all
Speaker 1: set to request that you do a Weird House Vincent
Speaker 1: Price trilogy, consisting of fivees one fives too, plus Theater
Speaker 1: of Blood, which I was also thrilled to hear you mentioned.
Speaker 1: In fact, I watched Theater of Blood again, not two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, for the umpteenth time, and uh, and it
Speaker 1: was sad to think that now even Diana Rigg is
Speaker 1: no longer with us. It looked like she was having
Speaker 1: a blast in the role of Vincent Price's daughter. Time
Speaker 1: flies by too quickly. These movies are filled with so
Speaker 1: many staples of British cinema, so many familiar faces now
Speaker 1: long gone. And I was also thrilled that you singled
Speaker 1: out Terry Thomas. There was no one better at portraying
Speaker 1: a cat or a bounder. I always look forward to
Speaker 1: Weird House Cinema to find out what you've selected, and
Speaker 1: I'm also trying to catch up with your voluminous back catalog,
Speaker 1: the anthology editions. I think that's starring about the episodes.
Speaker 1: We do some octobers of like anthology of horror series
Speaker 1: and talk about science related to those uh those episodes.
Speaker 1: But James says the anthology editions are particular favorites, as
Speaker 1: those take me back to childhood viewing in the seventies.
Speaker 1: A story from one of these, involving hundreds of razor
Speaker 1: blades embedded in the walls of a nero corridor still
Speaker 1: gives me nightmares today. So anything with a hammer, horror psychomania,
Speaker 1: man who haunted himself, quatermass in the pit vibes vibe
Speaker 1: is good with me. And if any of your listeners
Speaker 1: can point me in the direction of a short film
Speaker 1: that was shown at a film festival in Leeds in
Speaker 1: the early nineties that involved a car driving ever downwards
Speaker 1: in an underground parking garage that seemed to lead to hell,
Speaker 1: I will be eternally grateful. Thanks again for a great podcast,
Speaker 1: all the best, Jane, Oh absolutely, uh well, I know
Speaker 1: that we have at least we will definitely come back
Speaker 1: to more Vincent Price films, and I do. I did
Speaker 1: just purchase a Vincent Price film for us to discuss
Speaker 1: at some point, but I'm not sure when will will
Speaker 1: continue the the Vincent Price cycle. I have an idea,
Speaker 1: actually robbed, we could do an entire weird house cinema
Speaker 1: episode just on Vincent Price TV commercials. We easily could.
Speaker 1: There's so many good ones. I figure, at the very least,
Speaker 1: anytime we do a Vincent Price movie, you know, we
Speaker 1: can't just you know, rehash the biography of Vincent Price
Speaker 1: each time. Each time, it makes sense to instead dwell
Speaker 1: on different commercials that he did, because they're also fabulous.
Speaker 1: Um of the other movies that that are mentioned in
Speaker 1: this listener male, Um, yeah, Quatermass in the Pit or
Speaker 1: let's see what was the US name for that? I
Speaker 1: want to say, it's like, um, how for many million
Speaker 1: years to Earth? Um? Yeah, five million years to Earth? Uh?
Speaker 1: This is this one is one I remember as being
Speaker 1: a great film as well with with with kind of
Speaker 1: by modern standards, perhaps unconvincing special effects, but within the
Speaker 1: context of the film they work really well, just very
Speaker 1: well done. It was very influential on a lot of filmmakers,
Speaker 1: including John Carpenter. Oh, that one's got Julian Glover and
Speaker 1: nice to mention excellent British character actors. You know, he's Uh,
Speaker 1: he's Viers and the Empire strikes Back, and he's the
Speaker 1: bad guy in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and
Speaker 1: of course he's and Masters. Yeah. So anyway, thank thanks
Speaker 1: for writing in Jane. Um. I should also mention that
Speaker 1: our listener Susan was very enthusiastic for uh the Abominable
Speaker 1: Dr Fibes and did like a running commentary about the
Speaker 1: episode on our in our Facebook discussion group. That's the
Speaker 1: stuff to blew your mind discussion module. Uh. If you
Speaker 1: want access to that, uh, go look it up. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: she she was very enthusiastic about this film as well.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, shout out to that. I don't often peek
Speaker 1: in at the Facebook group, but I did see that
Speaker 1: and Susan, Yeah, I really appreciate your your live blogging
Speaker 1: of the episode. And speaking of the back catalog of
Speaker 1: Weird House cinema selections, I will mention again that that
Speaker 1: really the best place to see a list of those
Speaker 1: would be at a blog I maintain, Simuta music dot com.
Speaker 1: It's a very simple blog. There's nothing exciting about this
Speaker 1: blog other than I have done a post for each
Speaker 1: episode that we've done of Weird House and Uh, it's
Speaker 1: a pretty good las to see what we've done, all right.
Speaker 1: This one comes to us from Aaron. Erin writes in
Speaker 1: and says, Hey, Robin Joe, I meant to message you
Speaker 1: about this a few months ago, but I'm on a
Speaker 1: workship now listening to old episodes, so it seemed appropriate
Speaker 1: now that I have time. I was watching an episode
Speaker 1: of Mythic Quest, a series on Apple TV. In it,
Speaker 1: there's a scene that has a frantic story writer stuck
Speaker 1: in a closet drinking What is he drinking? The character
Speaker 1: calls it a rutger Howard port wine, coffee, lots of sugar,
Speaker 1: and I seem to remember other ingredients. I couldn't help
Speaker 1: but think that this has to be a connection to
Speaker 1: a new favorite movie of mine, Split Second. I was
Speaker 1: wondering if you guys have ever had a deep cut
Speaker 1: reference pop out at you in some form of entertainment,
Speaker 1: like an article or a movie. Thanks for all of
Speaker 1: the great content. I really appreciate what you do for
Speaker 1: all of us. Eron, this would be referencing the facts
Speaker 1: that in Split Second, starring your how our Howar's character, Uh,
Speaker 1: he has a real sweet tooth, like he's constantly chugging
Speaker 1: coffee with huge amounts of sugar in it. Though I
Speaker 1: don't recall him drinking port wine. Um No, but I
Speaker 1: guess he might have. I just don't remember. No, I
Speaker 1: think that was the thing. He doesn't drink alcohol, right,
Speaker 1: he gave it up. Maybe he had, Maybe he was
Speaker 1: sober now, like he had quit drinking and replaced it
Speaker 1: with copious amounts of sugar and coffee. Or maybe it's
Speaker 1: a maybe this is the thing. Maybe it's so deep
Speaker 1: a cut that it's referring to his character and Split
Speaker 1: Second and some other Rugger Howard role that I'm not
Speaker 1: familiar with or I've forgotten about, in which he drinks
Speaker 1: a lot of port wine. Either way, that's that's a
Speaker 1: good choice. Do you remember how later in Split Second
Speaker 1: like his you know, it's it's sort of a future
Speaker 1: monster buddy cop movie, and the nerd buddy cop they
Speaker 1: pair him with, he like gets turned into a copy
Speaker 1: of rugger Hower by some traumatic experience, and he also
Speaker 1: starts to drinking the sugar. He becomes converted, and he's like,
Speaker 1: this is the way now we we we drink sugary coffee,
Speaker 1: We eat candy bars, and we carry around big guns.
Speaker 1: What's the character's name. He's like, he's like Rex Power
Speaker 1: or something. I believe you're thinking of Detective Dick Durkin.
Speaker 1: Dick Durkin. That's not exactly that I was thinking. It
Speaker 1: was something more like, uh, I don't know, Johnny Magnum
Speaker 1: or something. Now, Dick Durkin. And of course Ruggar Howard's
Speaker 1: character is Harley Stone. There's some good names. No, that's
Speaker 1: what I was thinking. That's what I was Harley Stone, Harley. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's got motorcycle plus plus Stone, yeah, plus rock. Dick Durkin.
Speaker 1: That didn't sound right at all, Harley Stone of course.
Speaker 1: Oh and he's got the motorcycle in his apartment. Remember
Speaker 1: it's in there, and like the guy just sits on it.
Speaker 1: That was a good one. Okay, does that do it
Speaker 1: for you? I guess that does it. We're gonna go
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