WEBVTT - Listener Mail: Ephemerol 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.080 Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:12.159 Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind at a 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:14.640 listener mail. My name is Robert Lamb. 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:17.000 And I am Joe McCormick, and it is Monday, the 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.400 day of each week that we read back messages from 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.400 the Stuff to Blow Your Mind email address. If you 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.439 have never gotten in touch before and would like to 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.240 try it out, you can reach us at contact at 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.800 stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. 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We've got a lot of weird house cinema 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.840 messages in the backlog that we haven't been able to 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:04.400 get to in the past few weeks, so I thought 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.360 maybe we would just jump right into Weird House responses 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:09.119 and then see what else comes up. 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:10.600 All right, let's do it. What do we have? 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:20.440 Okay? This first message comes from Adam. Adam says, Hello, 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.600 Robin Joe. My name is Adam from up in Canada 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:25.480 and I've been a listener of the show since being 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.640 introduced to it by my girlfriend back in September of 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:32.000 twenty twenty. The installment I look forward to with the 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.640 most enthusiasm each week is Weird House Cinema, and I 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.440 was thrilled to see you were looking at another Vincent 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.280 Price picture. I think this must have been when we 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:46.200 did Doctor Five's rises again. Adam goes on. Recently, my 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:49.640 mother was telling me about which TV shows frightened her 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.080 most when she was a child, leading to my discovery 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:58.240 of a fascinating Canadian TV show that heavily features Vincent Price. 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.160 And the show is called The hell Hilarious House of 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:05.760 Frightenstein from nineteen seventy one. I don't believe it was 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.320 very popular, so I'd be surprised if you'd seen it, 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.760 but this odd sketch show might be worth a quick glance, 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.320 not for Weird House, but for the sake of interest. 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:19.200 The show centers around the titular Count Frightenstein, a green 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:23.359 skinned vampire whose quest is to electrically reanimate a stitched 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.639 together body. Sketches with him and his servant Igor are 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:31.760 broken up with those featuring a cast of other horrifying hosts, 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:37.120 the Wolfman, Griselda, the Witch, the Librarian, and many others. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:41.280 This mashup of genre staples is delightfully fun, but another 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:45.079 aspect I found interesting was the production. They filmed all 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.079 of the shows one hundred and thirty episodes, each taking 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.080 a one hour TV slot, over the course of only 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:55.040 nine months. Unsurprisingly, over the course of filming this huge 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.680 amount of show, the main actor Billy Van estimated that 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.320 near the end it was only around five percent scripted, 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.359 and I watched a bit of the show. This does 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:08.919 seem correct based on what I saw. So Adam goes 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:14.000 on Price's floating transparent head introduces us with sinister laughter 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.680 to each episode. In his role as the narrator. Decked 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:21.640 out in strange costumes, he recites a short rhyming story 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:28.000 about each zany parentheses and sometimes unfortunately culturally insensitive character 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.320 that is about to feature in the next sketch. The 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.640 show's creators wanted a big horror name, so they managed 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.360 to get Price in and out of Toronto for his 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:41.600 scenes at least three unique scenes per episode in two 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:42.640 and a half days. 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.280 Oh wow, Yeah, I was thinking for a show of this, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:51.880 the obvious limited budget and limited audience, Price was a 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:55.560 big get. I don't think he worked cheap in the 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:56.560 heyday of his career. 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:58.680 Yeah, so I guess they had to write all of 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.280 his stuff out in advance for wow, for all of 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.720 these episode, for one hundred and thirty episodes, all of 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.040 the Price segments, and film them all in a couple 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:08.400 of days. That's crazy. 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:09.880 Yeah, it seems like towards the end of it, you're 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.920 probably just telling Price, Okay, just say something, we'll make 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.480 an episode around it. Just whatever comes to your head. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.960 We we got five minutes left. Just let it go. 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.240 Adam goes on for anyone interested. There are full episodes 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.760 on YouTube, perfect to be on in the background when 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.880 you need some spooky and silly vibes. Thank you both 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.839 for all you do. And as Price signed off every 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.799 episode of the show, the castle lights are growing dim. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.440 There's no one left but me and him. And here 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.320 he apparently nods toward Bruce which is the name of 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.600 doctor Frettenstein's monster which is behind him, and then the 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:47.360 rhyme goes on when next we meet in franken Stone, 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:51.760 don't come alone. I don't know what franken Stone means. 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.479 I guess that is the castle like Castle franken Stone 0:04:55.720 --> 0:05:01.839 and then frightened Stein's monster. Yeah, that's my limited interpretation here. 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.719 So anyway, I looked up this show and I watched 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:06.919 some parts of one of the episodes. I think it 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.160 was the first ever episode. Also, I pulled in some 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.800 screenshots for you to look at rob By the way, 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.000 can we get a little sample of that sweet opening music? 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.000 Now, I do really like that, and I didn't get 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.719 a chance to more than glance at this show, but 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:25.840 i'd love that theme song. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:30.360 Yeah. So the opening shows us a couple of signs, 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.320 like on a fork in the road. One way points 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:37.039 to Transylvania twelve thousand kilometers and the other way points 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.880 to Castle Frtenstein. I guess suggesting that Castle Frightenstein is 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.200 far from Transylvania, and our heroes here who are from 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.120 Transylvania are like exiled. 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.719 So yeah, now I don't know what Frankenstone could possibly be. 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:52.479 Maybe Frankenstone is a state of mind. 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.680 Franken Stone is like a cool hookah bar that all 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.159 of the monsters go to. But yeah, so we pan 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:03.200 over some some grave markers and dead trees, and then 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.200 we get a translucent, floating Vincent price head reciting some 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.960 rhyming poetry about I don't know, just about things that 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:15.840 are scary are gonna happen. The font for the title 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:19.839 The Hilarious House of Frightenstein is very goose bumps in nature. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.640 It's that like dripping ooze font. And then Rob I 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.359 pulled in some screenshots for you to look at of 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.320 the opening sketch, which is just sort of some banter, 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:35.719 some hilarious banter between Count Frightenstein and Igor. Here, Igor 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:40.080 is like a large bald man with very bushy eyebrows 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.360 and a very bushy mustache, and he's got like a 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.000 garden hose around his neck. I think this is part 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:47.960 of the skit where he's claiming that he was out 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:52.039 on the lawn pretending to be a sprinkler. I don't 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:56.560 fully understand that. But then in the scene, the Count 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:00.720 suddenly demands that Egor raise the flag, and behind them 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.120 they have a flag on a flagpole that what can 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:04.520 I see on it? It looks like I see a 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.760 bat and a storm cloud with lightning coming out of it, 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:13.360 and maybe a wolf's Frankenstein head too. Oh okay, okay. 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:15.800 But so they've got a flag, and so the count 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.960 says raise the flag, which causes Egor to lower the flag, 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.840 and then he tells him to sing the national anthem, 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.520 and Igor begins to sing a song that sounds to 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.960 me like it's being made up on the spot. It 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.160 is to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.920 Republic or John Brown's Body, and the lyrics here are gory, 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:37.240 gory Transylvania, the werewolves and bats will always maim. 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:41.960 You Sorry, the Residence of Romania. 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.400 To me, it gives a strong impression of improv comedy, 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.280 like it has that rhythm where there sort of pauses 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.160 between everything where they're thinking, thinking of the next thing 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:55.239 to say, and the introductory poem read by Price obviously 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.480 seems scripted. I mean, he's not making that up on 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.480 the spot, so you know he's got these rhyming things 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.200 to read. But once the characters come out, it really 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.320 feels like they're just winging it, or maybe they've got 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.840 a few scripted beats here and there, but they're stringing 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:13.200 them together with improvised stuff in between. Oh but then 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.600 I thought there was an interesting thing. So it's got 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.880 these different skits and segments, And the very next segment 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:20.800 that came on on the show, they bring on Vincent 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.760 Price to say some more stuff, just say some rhyming 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.320 couplets while he's wearing a cape. And then after that 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:31.360 there's a science education segment. They go to one of 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:35.600 the characters in the castle who is he is the professor, 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.160 And there's like an animated segment which it shows like 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.400 an animated hand coming in and pressing a button on 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.640 a machine that says the professor. But then when he 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.360 comes out, he sort of dressed up as a mad scientist. 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.040 But this host is a real scientist and science educator 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.320 named Julius Sumner Miller, and he's just doing He's like, 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.480 I'm a mad scientist, but he's just doing a straightforward, 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.880 real world accurate science lesson about why and how you 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.960 can cause metal pipes to sing by applying thermal energy 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:06.360 to them. 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.120 Yeah. I was just looking this guy up. Yeah, he 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:13.400 was a physicist at one point. He had a Carnegie Grant. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.880 I mean, not for this show, but for other things, 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:17.840 like in the nineteen fifties. 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.160 Apparently I'm wondering about the conceit though, I mean, I actually, 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.400 I guess it's not unique to hear. So he's playing 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:27.360 a mad scientist, but he's giving real science lessons. I 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.800 think there were sort of TV science show hosts like 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.320 was I don't know, like Beekman's World or whatever. Was 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.440 He supposed to be like a mad scientist in a way, 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.840 except he taught real science. There's a weird blurring there. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.079 I think. So mister Wizard, I guess he was a wizard, 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.760 but you know, still there's a little crossover between wizards 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.360 and mad scientists. And having always been a fan of 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.600 mad scientists growing up and at one point wanting to 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.400 be a mad scientist when I was a child. That 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.640 was probably the earliest thing that I said I wanted 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.360 to be when I grew up, and I found I think, 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:01.200 a reasonable compromise on that ambition. But you know, it 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.280 was even though mad scientists, as we often discuss, you know, 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.160 a lot of it has it has its roots and 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.200 fear of science and scientific development. You know, to a 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.800 kid like it is. It is kind of a perfect 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.800 angle to get in on to get kids excited about science. 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.240 You know, it's mad scientists are scientists. They're just really 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.480 fun and they make monsters for crying out loud, which 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:25.240 is a good thing if you're you know, eight twelve. 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.480 Right at that age. I mean, the very logic of 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.480 the show seems to make sense, though it's also weird 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:36.000 because Count Frightenstein here is a vampire, but he's trying 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.080 to he is also a mad scientist because he's trying 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:44.199 to reanimate this corpse. Yeah, they're they're stitching together some roles, 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:45.600 some archetypes as well. 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:47.840 Yeah, I mean, you're a vampire, you got time to 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.520 apply yourself to the mad science as if you're so inclined. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.880 You know, I've always thought if one were to obtain immortality, 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.760 it'd be great to go back and like, you know, 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.800 get different branches of education, you know, educate yourself and 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.040 several of the sciences and whatever. 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:08.080 Yeah, Satlle vampires are rarely so farward thinking. But anyway, 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:09.480 this show looks like it was a lot of fun. 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.440 I can see where if you were exposed with us 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.760 early on, it would have had an impact on you 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.600 I was looking into it a little bit on Wikipedia. 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:22.720 It looks like it was ONCTV in Hamilton, Ontario, so 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.160 that's not I wasn't exposed to this when I lived 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.800 in Canada because I only had CBC. But it looks 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.880 like I mean, I'm assuming you can get this on 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.120 YouTube or somewhere, but Wicki says that you can or 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.199 could get it on two B so it's probably out 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.439 there in some form or another for folks that want 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.760 to stream it. Can you should you watch all one 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.080 hundred and thirty episodes? I don't know. We leave that 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:45.680 to you. 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:50.880 Can your heart stand the shocking facts of Frtenstein? Okay, 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.080 let's see Rob. Do you want to do next? Message here? 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:54.680 Take your pick? 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.280 All right? This one comes to us from Andrew. Andrew says, hello, gentlemen. 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.600 As always, thanks for the pod and for the thought 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.160 provoking content. I had quite a backlog of pods to 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.040 fill my ear holes, but I did catch up on 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.040 most of your listener mail to make sure I'm not 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.480 doubling up Number one. I was shocked, shocked, I say 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.720 to hear the shade throne at my guy Hans Zimmer 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.440 during one of the Dune weird House episodes. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.199 I don't remember us throwing any shade at Zimmer. I 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.480 thought our comments about him were pretty much totally positive, 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:30.160 weren't they. 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.000 I think as I remember it, our main comment was 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.040 that Hans Zimmer has scored a lot of films, not 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:41.160 all of which are anything you want to see. I understand, okay, 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.760 but there are definite high points in his career. And 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.640 I loved his work on Dune. I was listening to 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.680 it in isolation there for a while, and I love 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.120 all the Dune memes that make use of that resurrection 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:58.200 theme from it with the vocals. But anyway, Andrew continues 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.600 as a movie score nerd. His work in multiple Christopher 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:05.160 Nolan films, The Dark Knight and Inception in particular, is 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.680 some of my favorite recent Ish movie music. Don't forget 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.599 the certified banger, that is, he is a pirate or 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.640 He's a Pirate. Side note. The song works well if 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.800 you sing the title to the beat of the music. 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.720 Second side note. I saw a live performance of this 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.480 last summer at an outdoor concert venue. Two young boys 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.880 started fighting with foam pirate swords immediately after the song began. 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.280 Their timing was superb. Third side note I did watch 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.040 the entire Doom mini series on VHS a long time ago, 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.400 after picking it up from the local library. Even as 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.320 a twelve year old kid, I could tell it was, 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:41.800 let's say, not good. You know, Hans Zimmer is he's 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.679 touring right now. I you know, free plug for the 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.160 Hans Zimmer concert experience. But he's like he's like coming 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:49.600 into coming to our neck of the woods. 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:51.880 Composers go on tour. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.160 If you're Hans Zimmer, you do, Yeah. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.880 Okay, how does that work? Like you like he tours 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.040 with an orchestra or does he can believe them? 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.320 I think both is the case. Yeah, okay, yeah, I 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:08.800 mean some form of Tangerine Dream still tours, no original members. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.079 But you know Goblin has toured. You've seen Goblin? 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.320 Oh yeah yeah, but but Goblin, I feel like it 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.600 is more like it's a band, you know. Yeah, They're 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:20.360 like there's there's crossover between like the people who wrote 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.600 the songs and are playing the instruments, or there's some 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:23.560 amount of crossover. 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.280 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not exactly sure how this goes down. 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.880 I'm assuming orchestra, but is it traveling orchestra? Do you 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:33.640 use like regionally available orchestras. I don't know the zimmer 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.560 fans Zimmerheads, I guess right in and give us more details. Anyway, 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.480 Andrew is not finished yet. He has more to say 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.960 Number two. During the Flash Gordon episode, there was mention 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:47.200 of the soundtrack by Queen. There was also talk of 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.200 not knowing any other movies where an original soundtrack directly 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.960 relates to the characters on the screen. For that, I 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.400 would like to present yet another wild eighties movie with 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:59.240 the Queen's soundtrack, and just a quick note, it is 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.200 key that they're There is a difference here between the 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.400 Queen's score and soundtrack that is Flash Gordon and what 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.760 is about to be mentioned that is a Queen's soundtrack. 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.400 It is, of course nineteen eighty six is Highlander. Maybe 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.240 it doesn't quite meet the letter of the rule, but 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.000 I believe the intent is there also. It wasn't until 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.640 later I realized your coverage of Highlander and Highlander two 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.680 was in a regular episode of Stuff to Blow your Mind, 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.920 not Weird House. That set. Apologies for yelling Highlander at 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.080 my car stereo during the episode. 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.360 Well, thank you for feeling the quickening. Now I am 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.440 not sure about this. I wonder because what was really 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.680 unique it seemed to me about the Flash Gordon soundtrack 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.680 was that it was Queen wrote original songs for the 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:44.720 movie that had lyrics about the characters and plot of 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.720 the movie. Is that the case with Queen's music and Highlander? Yeah? 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.520 Yeah, I mean it? Oh, ok, yeah, I mean you 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.280 have track. I mean it's a kind of magic. Maybe 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.480 feels a little bit vague, but it does get into 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.960 some of the plot elements, and I think is essential 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.600 to understanding the plot the first two movies. But then 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:04.080 you have you know, gimme the prize. You have don't 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.640 lose your head? Who wants to live forever? I mean 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.400 these are all bangers. I love this this soundtrack. 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:14.160 Okay, I didn't realize that. Yeah, well, I'm glad both 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.280 of the examples we can think of now are by Queen. 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:19.320 Yeah, gimme the prize. One of the like I think 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.640 the like the heaviest, most metal Queen songs, but not 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.000 everyone's favorite. My wife does not like it. Freddie Mercury 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:31.000 reportedly was not crazy about it either. But I love it. 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:31.640 I think it's great. 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:32.120 Oh. 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.960 But on the other note, here about us talking about 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.960 Highlander and more specifically Highlander two in a regular episode 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:39.520 of Stuff to Blow your Mind. This is true. This 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:44.440 was before Weird House existed, and we have discussed the 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.560 possibility of coming back and giving at least Highlander to 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:52.600 a proper Weird House treatment. There are issues, of course, 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.720 with the sourcing of the true cut of Highlander two, 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.920 which of course for us is the theatrical cut Zeist cut. 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.440 Yes, some fans on the internet call it. Yeah, there 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.239 are They tried to re release Highland or two with 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:11.560 supposedly superior cuts of the film that take out a 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.879 lot of the best stuff. I guess the idea is 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.639 to make it less ridiculous, but all they really did 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.320 is made it less amazing. 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.600 Yeah, yeah, absolutely, So that's that's our view on it. 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:25.280 So on one hand, part of part of a part 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:26.840 of me, I want to I want to wait for 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.359 Highland or two to the z Ice cut to really 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.280 be released in a format that I can get behind. 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.360 I think we were looking into it and at least 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.960 for a window there. Maybe still if you were in 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.719 the UK, you can stream the ze Ice cut on 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.479 Amazon Prime, but I don't know if that's still valid. 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.720 That might have been like a brief mistake, But there 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.520 is as yet like no cut outside of a VHS 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:53.159 tape that you can really watch it officially. But on 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:54.760 the other hand, we might just go for it and 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.560 maybe in our own small way we can help push 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.720 a proper release of the Zece cut in to existence. 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.359 I mean, I have a VHS of the correct cut, 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.000 just a question of can we watch it? 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:07.560 Yeah, but can. 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.400 You imagine the audacity of someone trying to re edit 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.240 Highland or two and say, no, no, no, this movie 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:17.679 is not claiming that they're aliens from another planet the 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:19.280 gall I can't believe it. 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.560 All right. Now back to Andrew's message. Let's see he 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.199 has a bit about Wikipedia Brown. I don't know, all right, 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:28.440 are we done talking about Encyclopedia Brown and Wikipedia Brown? 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.040 I can't decide. My heart's not in it. 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:34.679 Read as you feel, rob Okay, I'm. 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:37.760 Gonna say I'm gonna skip the de vowed and interesting 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:41.560 comments though about Encyclopedia Brown and get to point four 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:46.879 in Andrews's email. Four finally some updated Sammy Terry Google 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.280 News and I feel if you have a note of 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:51.200 context on this, Joe. 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.320 Well, yeah, just to remind listeners, Sammy Terry came up 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.639 in previous listener mail. It came up because we were 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:01.080 talking about TV horror hosts, people like you know, like 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:05.560 al Lewis as Grandpa Munster and and you know a 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:10.200 Vampira and el Vira, these people who would host TV shows. 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:14.000 Of course Boris karlofft did this with Boris called Carloff's Thriller. 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.520 They would host TV shows where there would either be 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:21.440 originally produced sort of segments or they would just show 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:25.320 pre existing films and that you know, the horror host 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.480 would be there in some kind of creepy costume to 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:31.280 introduce them. And Sammy Terry was one of these. He 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:35.920 is a local TV horror host based out of Indianapolis, Indiana, 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:39.000 a sort of grim reaper figure with a pet spider 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.479 named George. And I think Andrew in particular had written 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:44.280 in about Sammy Terry in the past. 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.160 Yeah, yes, and I believe in reference to the place 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:50.640 that he's about to mention here. Scarlett Laine Brewing, whom 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:53.240 I am fond of mentioning, updated their tap room last 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.680 October and it is now the Sammy Terry Dungeon see attached. 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.520 It's the best kind of kitch. Since I already made 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.560 reference to a scholastic book fair above. We skipped that one. 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:04.680 I should also say the brit that the brewery did 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:09.199 a scar elastic book fair last month, which featured a 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.920 number of independent horror authors. It was only the second 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:13.720 year for the event, but it drew uppards of seven 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:15.600 hundred attendees. We had a great time. 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.680 Is that scare elastic book fair? Scare? 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:23.119 Yeah, I guess scare scare elastic or scare elastic as 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.400 opposed to what scar elastic, which I don't I like scarlastic. 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:31.000 It also sounds to that thing, but at any rate, yeah, but. 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.760 Yeah, anyway, Andrew does attach some pictures here. I guess 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.040 this is a brewery where people hang out try the 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:38.800 different beers. I don't get a flight of beers and 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:41.600 hang out in this area that looks like a museum 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:44.480 of Sammi Terry. There's like a wall up with clippings 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:47.399 all over it and shots from the show and full 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:50.879 full sized real life stand ups of Samit Terry in 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:54.560 full costume. They've got a recreation of the set from 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.439 the show, so it's like a an interior of a 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:01.640 castle wall with shield and Haraldry hung up and then 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:03.080 skulls in the fireplace. 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:04.679 Very nice, very nice. 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:06.640