Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind production of My Heart Radio. Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind listener Mail. This is Robert Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. And it's Monday, the day of the week that we read back some messages you've sent into the show account, which if you ever want to get in touch with a contribution of your own, that account is contact at Stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. Contact at Stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. Uh, yeah, get in touch. We need contact. That's true. That that's what our mondays are made out of. Here. So okay, I'm going to start off with this message from Josh responding to some previous listener mail. And this one needs a bit of background. So in the in the previous listener mail episode, uh, somebody named Lurch got in touch and mentioned the nineteen six H. G. Wells sci fi movie Things to Come, which featured a scene of a there's a future civilization, uh, traveling to the Moon by way of a giant ballistic cannon. They're going to shoot somebody into the moon, just like in the It's like in the French movie what's it called The Voyage to the Moon uh. And our listener pointed out the amusing design choice that this giant cannon has an iron sight at the end of the barrel, like like somebody's gonna be holding it and aiming it. Um so anyway, Josh says, Hi Joe Robin Seth the launch gun from Things to Come that Lurch mentioned reminded me of an actual company that is making something similar. Huh. The concept is they put a small rocket in a cent refuge and spin it at crazy fast speeds nearly mocked two for their SubOrbit tests, and let it go. It rides its inertia to a certain altitude, then fires the rocket to get the rest of the way to orbit. At least in theory, they are still testing oddly enough, there is no iron sight to aim. How will they ever manage? I promise I'm not making this up. Here's a video that the company released recently showing their progress. It's definitely worth watching to the end, if only for the massive bullet hole in the ground from the landing. All the best, Josh, So yeah, I looked this up. The company is called Spin Launch, and the launcher mechanism looks kind of like a giant ammunition drum on a Tommy gun. You know. It's like this big circular disc like a film canister, and inside there is I think it's electrically powered, so I think there would be sort of electromagnetic rapid cycling through the circle and then eventually the thing gets released and it flies up out of a tube, straight up into the sky. The version they were testing in the video, I saw it did not actually have a rocket stage. It was just a dummy, you know, a dummy ballistic that it would see how high it could reach. So yeah, I guess the idea the end as you do it with something that actually has chemical rockets within it, so you get it up to a certain altitude and then the rockets fire and take over, getting you into orbit with less use of chemical fuel. But exactly as Josh says, when this dummy ballistic test vehicle is thrown up into the sky makes a gigantic arc and then it comes back down. And there's a part where they in this video they go to find it and it's just a hole in the ground. It has it has done a mighty piercing of the earth, you know, speaking of H. G. Wells as things to come there, I have to remind everybody that there is a nineteen seventy nine very loose adaptation of H. G. Wells is uh work here titled The Shape of Things to Come? In fact, it's it's sometimes titled H. G. Wells Is The Shape of Things to Come. It stars Jack Palance, and it's directed by George McAllen, who also directed Two Frogs, which, of course we discussed on Weird House Cinema. That's got to be good. I think I've seen it, or at least I think I watched the riff Tracks version of it. I believe this came out shortly before the pandemic. When okay, so, when movies decide to put the author of a book or author of an idea's name in front of the title of the movie, like Bram Stoker's Dracula, you know, the Francis Ford Coppola Dracula or Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I think that was also in the nineties. Are those a result of some kind of I don't know, in the contractual or intellectual property issue, hard to be hard to believe that's the case with Mary Shelley um or is it just like there's something about the title where they were like, we we've we've got to have the author's name in here. That'll that'll make people know what we're talking about, because you just say Frankenstein, they're gonna be like, I don't know what that is? Who wrote that? Yeah? I guess in some level it's about trying to indicate this is a return to the book to some extent, And of course it's never it's not like bron Stoker's Dracula the movie. As as fun as it is, it's not like it's a like blow for blow faithful adaptation of the novel. It's a lot of fun, but it's it's not that, And I think it's the I've probably I harp on this all the time, but like one of the things that always stuck with me is the mere fact that they had a movie novelization of brom Stoker's Dracula by of course not brom Stoker but some modern author. Like that's all you need to know, Like if it's is it really brom Stoker's Dracula, if the novel adaptation of it is not just the original novel, Yeah, but how do you capture on the page? Keian News English accent I will return to you, my love. Yeah, it was not the not the best performance from Kiana, was it. Um? But there's so much Yeah, yeah, he's he's great in other things. Um. And but of course, yeah, you have Anthony Hopkins, you have Gary Oldman. Uh, you have just luscious costumes and sets. It's uh, it more than makes up for one performance and picture. And I think you could pretty much plot your life by like, which Gary Oldman incarnation of Dracula are you today? Are you? Um, old man with big hair, old man with long hair? Do you feel more like you're the dapper sunglasses brown stokers Dracula. Do you feel maybe a little more like a wolf beast or a bat beast armored Dracula. There's so many to choose from, so many costume changes and flesh changes in that one. Yeah, I think I think you'd have a lot of it. Like I'm a demon bad until I've had my coffee kind of, I think I'm the I'm the the old Dracula with the long hair towards the end of the film, before I have my coffee, um, and then after the first cup, then I'm the Dracula with the big hair, and then we kind of build up from there until the caffeine starts wearing off, and then I began to revert, I guess into beast mode at that point. All right, well, if anyone else has thoughts on all of this, yes, right in, we would love to hear your take. But let's move on to another bit of listener mail. This one comes to us from Carl. Carl says, Dear Rob and Joe, just now heard your listener to mail episode about children's senses of time periods or lack thereof. When our children were little, our friends used Gilligan's to explain when something in the near future would happen will be there in about three Gilligan's. They had a good feel for the elapsed time of a Gilligan's Island episode. Enjoy your podcast, Carl. Weirdly, this email triggered a sudden, vivid memory from childhood of some adult somewhere expressing a length of time. I guess in retrospect this must have been two and a half hours as two sesame streets and a Mr Rogers, and I wondered, did somebody say that to me when I was a kid, or was that in like a movie or something? So I googled it and discovered this is a quote from an episode of Full House. Bob Saget in Full House was hiding that deep in my brain. Oh nice, I will say as a I think I growing up, I think I did think about times sometimes like this in that in in thirty minute and an hour blocks based on television blocks of time. And I know that when my son was younger we used this a little bit, and in part because sometimes on long car trips he would have the iPad, he would have things he could watch, and so that would be a direct way of saying like, not only are we one viewing of Totoro away, like you can go ahead and start Totoro now, and when you were done with Totoro, we will be at our destination. That's good system, all right. So we also got a couple of messages in response to story machines with people cranking out their own AI generated narratives. Uh, Rob, I feel like this is kind of your territory. Do do you do? You want to take the first one of these or both of them. I'll take the first one, okay, So he has this one also has a reference to two thousand and eighteen Fartanomicon episode which I tried to. I usually don't go back and listen to old episodes, but we had some had two nine year olds in the car, and so they were talking. One of them in particular, was talking about farts a lot. So I was like, well, I'm gonna hit you guys with the science. I'm gonna load up this episode. I found. I found it a very hard episode to listen to. I don't think this is the episode that that that we would record today. It's still good, you know, the science is solid, but it's it's it's a little FARTI uh so, anyways, this is from Scott. Scott writes in and says greetings and salutations. I've been messing around with this great AI creative writing tool at story machines dot net at story hyphen machines dot net, and it occurred to me to enter the title of your superb episode from two thousand eighteen, the Fartonomicon. I tried several times, providing no other text than the title of the results I got these two are the best and also quite different from each other. So here we go. The Fartonomicon is the definitive guide to the Art of flat Lens. Authored by renowned phartologist Dr Gregory House, this illustrated volume is a must have for anyone interested in learning all there is to know about the mysteries of gas, from the physiology of gas production to the history of flash lens. The Fartonomicon covers it all with its insightful illustrations and comprehensive information. The farten o Maicon is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to improve their flash hlen skills. Whether you are a beginner looking to learn everything there is to know about gas, or a seasoned fart enthusiast looking to expand your knowledge, this book is perfect for you. Don't wait any longer. Order your copy of The Fartonomicon today and now help, Wait a minute, Why was this not a story at all? This is like a This is like a promo for a book. Why did it spit that out? Sometimes it it does this. I've noticed toying around with this interface. Sometimes it gives you the story. Sometimes it tells you about the story or about the book. So sometimes it sort of is within the story. Sometimes it stands outside of the story. Scott continues here and here's the second one. In the world of fartin Amicon, farting is an art form. It is a way to communicate with your fellow humans and to show your appreciation for the environment. There are many different types of farts and each has its own special meaning. One day, a farting artist named Gary entered the farten a Maicon competition. He was very nervous, but he knew that he had to try his best if he wanted to win. Gary started by farting in the air to show how powerful his fart was. Then he farted in different directions to show how versatile his farting was. Finally, he farted in the shape of a heart to show how romantic his fart was. The impressed by Gary's farting skills, and he was eventually declared the winner of the farton A Maicon competition. Anyways, this may be a bit too long or silly for a listener, may know, but it made me laugh heartily. Your show is great. Keep it up, Scott, Scott, obviously your fears were unfounded. Here we are reading the whole thing. Yeah, yeah, Now is Gregory? How Gregory House is? Is that the house from the TV show House? I think so I've never watched that show, but I think that's his name. That's what what's his name, Hugh Laurie, Yeah, oh it is Wow, just totally pulled him and decided we're gonna go, um, you know, cross promotional on this. Huh. So I wonder why did it pull in that name, Like, what does that have to do with the phrase fardon omicon that is put in here? I don't know, but it is interesting the way that the AI interacts with proper nounds like that, if you put a name like Santa Claus or like Morbius or whatever in the in the title or in the first line, it will it obviously knows some pre existing associations with this character, and it will shape the narrative accordingly. It doesn't just treat it as a as a neutral prop her name. So that makes me think also that when it pulls in a different proper name on its own, like it just decides to retrieve Gregory House, there must be a reason for that. It's not like randomly selecting a name. I don't know. I just don't know. Was there an episode of House that was about the fart an omicon. I don't think that would make any sense. I don't know, but I did a search for Dr Gregory House and farts just to see because who knows, I had a long run. They had to come up. They might have come around to it. Eventually. Nothing was turning up from me. But maybe listeners out there can shine in. There aren't very many fart mystery shows, I guess, like even the long running ones that did. Did they ever do a fart episode of murder? She wrote? I don't know murder she farted? Okay, Um, this story machine when when we've got got the human creativity? Okay? This next message is also a story machine submission. It's from Derek. Derek says, Hi, Robert and Joe Derek here really love your podcast. Your episode on creative writing machines was very interesting and it's been helpful to me as an amateur writer, helping me complete thoughts and sentences or simply giving me an idea or direction on how to put thoughts to words. And then Derek attaches something, so he he begins with a kind of biblical prompt that goes It wasn't with rolling thunder, a crack of lightning, or a big bang that the architect came to be. It just was one moment there was nothing, and the next it simply was the moment after it came into being. It spread its consciousness outwards, creating the vast and endless void of space. And then I think he signals, this is where the AI takes over. And then from that void the Architect began to create. The first thing it created was the laws of physics, then the molecules that make up the world, followed by the doors and planets. It worked tirelessly, creating the blueprints of everything I'm gonna read directly here, everything that would ever will exist. As it worked, the Architect grew more and more tired. It created everything, but it was alone. Oh that that's kind of a creepy conclusion there, Rob. I don't know if in all your experiments you've seen a few kind of like grammatical nonsense creep in. Most of the time, I feel like It's sentences are pretty tight, like they actually work syntactically. But occasionally I think you get something like this, the blueprints of everything that would ever will exist. Yeah, And I would find that sometimes if I threw too many things into a sentence to like if I were to write something like the son of the duck, who was also a frog. Like that sort of thing can sort of throw it off a little bit, I think. Yeah. Anyway, Derek says he was pleasantly surprised by how coherent the output of the Story Machines program was, and also ends by recommending for Weird House the movie Kung Fu Hustle, which I don't know if we do on the on Weird House. It's it's pretty recent, but but yeah, I love Kung Fu Hustle. I remember discovering that movie when I was in college and watching it way too many times. Oh yeah, yeah, it's it's a fun one. And I know it's come up on Weird House because we've covered some films that, Oh I think it's like um uh like Waguan has been in some of the films we've talked about, so um it's yeah, it has a great cast, and so it's one that will probably continue to come up as we discuss other um Kung fu movies. All Right. We continue to hear from folks about sky Bridges, which has been delightful. Uh. This one comes to us from Chelsea. Chelsea writes, Hi, Rob Joe and Death. Nicholas Johnson. I believe that that was one of our Halloween names for for seth Uh. The summer after my freshman year of college, I stayed on campus for summer research project and ended up staying in Mead Hall at Pitser College. Mead Hall was a main building with two towers behind it, all connected by sky bridges with see through metal railings on the second and third floors see attached pick and indeed, looking at the pics, looks looks nice, looks nice like the garden in the middle. I lived on the third floor of one of the towers, which meant I had to use the bridges to get to laundry, the kitchen, the main entrance, et cetera. The inside of the towers are painted a dirty white covered in school sanctioned student graffiti. Right outside my suite was a quote that wasn't abandoned all hope who enter here, but it definitely had the same pipe. The shipping graffiti and campus being almost completely deserted combined to make the whole summer feel pretty post apocalyptic. Then I saw the film twenty eight days later and developed a sudden paralyzing fear of zombies. My brain took the movie The Isolation and Major Depression, and turned that into an imagining flying zombies that would attack me from over the railings of this on the sky bridges. I was fine on the bridges during the day, but at night I walked down the exact center and dreaded every minute of it. I think the sky bridge was where the fear finally hit because I was completely exposed potential attacks from almost three hundred sixty degrees around me, but I only had a linear escape route. Fortunately, over the last decade, the zombie fear has faded somewhat, and I'm sure i'd be fine on a skybridge now. Weird House Cinema has been a great way for me to experience and enjoy horror films without the risk of developing a new phobia. Thanks for the constant flow of information and commentary, Chelsea Wow. I I don't know. First of all, thanks Chelsea, but also I don't know if this is a huge coincidence or if it says something about the college dorm experience in the I'm guessing it was also in the two thousands for you, um, but I distinctly remember thinking about zombie defense plans in my undergraduate dorm buildings. Uh uh. And actually they seemed like a pretty good spot, as they had kind of solid brick walls, solid metal doors, balconies with sturdy metal railing. Uh in you know, a hundred pack of corn dogs in the freezer. It seemed like a defensible position. Oh man, I don't not think I would ever get that far with with this line of thinking, because I would sort of reach the conclusion pretty early that oh well, we'd be dimmed, Like, I don't know, that doesn't survival was an option as soon as the utilities are cut. It's like, what, I'm gonna go to Walmart and fight people for Walmart stuff. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I can kind of deal with the zombies and I can like speak for them. I can be like the low Ax of the Dead or something. Yeah, I, for one, welcome our new undead overlords. All right, I guess we're gonna wrap up by doing a couple of responses on weird House. First one, Rob, I didn't even know what this was. This must be something you you put out into the world. There's something about a doodle contest. Somebody sent in draw wings of us and I'm screaming two bees. Oh yeah yeah, so um uh yeah, I think this will this will be fun. It's been fun so far. And we've only uh, you know, received a couple of submissions. But as we've mentioned before, we do have a store we that has some merch in it. It's a T Public store. And the other day I received an email from our contact, a T Public and they're like, hey, why don't you do a contest and give away a shirt? It can be anything, don't overthink it. And so I was like, Okay, I will not overthink it. How about a doodle contest about an action scene from one of our episodes and you can interpret action scene however you want? And uh and who will pick a prize? A prize winner or we'll have Seth pick one. I don't know, we'll have the random person just out in the world picket. I don't know. I haven't figured that part out yet. But whoever wins the contest gets a free Classic T shirt from the store. So we put that out there. I believe it's on It's it's been posted in the Stuff to Blow your Mind discussion module all which you'll find on Facebook. You can just request to be added and the answer a question you get in. It's also been put in our discord. If you want to access to the discord, email US will send to the link. And I may have even just thrown up a link on the old Facebook itself, which I haven't used in forever. But anyway, those are some places where you will find the details. So though it is not true to reality, I'd like that this picture has a sitting side by side sharing a Mike and Rob. I don't know if you noticed, but you're wearing You're wearing a long sleeve V neck T shirt, whereas I am wearing a collar shirt because I obviously, you know, I dressed for the occasion. Yeah, mine also kind of looks like a jumpsuit. I kind of because I kind of get a kind of get an M. S. T vibe from this, you know, I feel like we're on a spaceship or something. But but you are yelling to be's and I can I can hear your voice as I read it, so I think that's pretty accurate. All Right, Well, I'm gonna read last thing today. This message from Andrew uh in response to some weird house male subject Samuel Terry ghoul In a previous episode, we talked about local TV horror hosts. One of them was this guy from Indiana named Sammy Terry. Sammy Terry, um and so, Andrew says, Hi, there it's me again with some weird house cinema adjacent Mayle. I grew up and live in central Indiana and didn't realize Sammy Terry was a regional phenomenon until after your discussion on the show. I do not remember him as a movie feature host, but he would pop up in random commercials during the month of October. Not surprisingly, he would be advertising the spooky savings said car dealerships and so forth. Furthermore, my favorite local brewery pays homage to Sammy Terry, as one of their house beers is named for him. I've attached photo evidence this time. Rob. You take a look at these photos while I'm finishing the email here. Uh. Andrew says, this serves as a good segue to hype up the weird awesomeness of Scarlet Lane Brewing. In my current place of residence, Mccordsville, Indiana, there are TVs typically playing b horror films which capture my attention. To my wife's great annoyance. I even recently caught the beautiful train wreck that is Jason Takes Manhattan. The decor stays in line with the viewing options, and I recently spotted a low key Halloween three item this past weekend. Photo evidence of this is also attached, and so uh Andrew has a couple of photos here. One is I guess these are both of the brewery. One is of a TV screen that's showing the Silver Shamrock uh flashing pumpkin commercial, and the other is some It's like a mannequin wearing I think a lab coat, but then on its head it has the pumpkin mask from Silver Shamrock. And then the other thing is just a sort of life size sticker on the wall of Sammy Terry advertising a beer that I think is called the Semi Terry Colch. Yeah, I'm, I'm. I looked up the website for this place, and I was looking at some other photos and it looks pretty cool. They got quite a little horror vibe going on here. If I ever make it to Central Indiana, I will I will go out of my way to find this. Yeah, four locations, Joe, you don't have to go that out of your way. All right? Does that do it for today? I suppose so, I suppose that will be a good place to close it out there. But yeah, I can't help but think about spooky savings. Someone should should explore that concept in a like a haunted car dealership movie. Figure out like, what what are spooky savings? Can savings truly be so spooky? Uh that that the humans cannot even speak of it? They just turns your hair white. Deal so unbelievable, they will send you straight to hell. I like it. Somebody do it. This is why we have the story machine. You can just turn to the story machine to do it. Um. Yeah, I've actually found myself using the story machine for um dungeons and dragon stuff. Here and there we had in our groups there was somebody was creating a new character, and they're like, I'm creating an autonome. I need some ideas for an autognown backstory. And I was like, well, I don't have time to think about that, but I do have this website. So I went there and I started putting in just a few things to get it going about an autonome, and he busted out some pretty good ideas and uh and they weren't the final ideas that my friend ended up using, but he ended up taking some of those ideas, tweaking him a little bit. And now he's off to gen Con with his autognome to tear it up. Okay, this is actually the last thing today. I just did a story machine title Spooky Savings. First line deal so unbelievable they will send you straight to hell, Rob, Do you want to hear what comes next? The tale it tells goes as follows. Once upon a time, a devilish bank decided to offer its customers some of the most outrageous deals ever. Just by opening an account with them, customers could earn insane interest rates on their deposits, and even earn bonus cash if they managed to save a certain amount each month. Naturally, many people signed up for these deals, and soon the bank was flush with cash. However, as the deals continued to get better and better, some customers started to regret their decision. They found themselves struggling to make ends meet and had to sell their souls in order to pay their bills. Finally, the devilish bank ran out of juicy deals, and all of its customers were left penniless and stranded in hell. There you go. That's perfect. Wow. All right, well, well we'll go ahead and close it out there. We'll leave you with that horrific scene. But we'd love to hear from everyone out there regarding past, present, and future episodes of the Stuff to Blow Your Mind, the core episodes, Weird How, Cinema, Artifact, Monster Fact, other listener mail episodes. It's all fair games. So you know how to get in touch with us. Joe will drop at email in just a second and uh yeah, we'll catch you next week. Huge thanks as always to our excellent audio producer Seth Nicholas Johnson. 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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind production of My Heart Radio. Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind listener Mail. This is Robert Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. And it's Monday, the day of the week that we read back some messages you've sent into the show account, which if you ever want to get in touch with a contribution of your own, that account is contact at Stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. Contact at Stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. Uh, yeah, get in touch. We need contact. That's true. That that's what our mondays are made out of. Here. So okay, I'm going to start off with this message from Josh responding to some previous listener mail. And this one needs a bit of background. So in the in the previous listener mail episode, uh, somebody named Lurch got in touch and mentioned the nineteen six H. G. Wells sci fi movie Things to Come, which featured a scene of a there's a future civilization, uh, traveling to the Moon by way of a giant ballistic cannon. They're going to shoot somebody into the moon, just like in the It's like in the French movie what's it called The Voyage to the Moon uh. And our listener pointed out the amusing design choice that this giant cannon has an iron sight at the end of the barrel, like like somebody's gonna be holding it and aiming it. Um so anyway, Josh says, Hi Joe Robin Seth the launch gun from Things to Come that Lurch mentioned reminded me of an actual company that is making something similar. Huh. The concept is they put a small rocket in a cent refuge and spin it at crazy fast speeds nearly mocked two for their SubOrbit tests, and let it go. It rides its inertia to a certain altitude, then fires the rocket to get the rest of the way to orbit. At least in theory, they are still testing oddly enough, there is no iron sight to aim. How will they ever manage? I promise I'm not making this up. Here's a video that the company released recently showing their progress. It's definitely worth watching to the end, if only for the massive bullet hole in the ground from the landing. All the best, Josh, So yeah, I looked this up. The company is called Spin Launch, and the launcher mechanism looks kind of like a giant ammunition drum on a Tommy gun. You know. It's like this big circular disc like a film canister, and inside there is I think it's electrically powered, so I think there would be sort of electromagnetic rapid cycling through the circle and then eventually the thing gets released and it flies up out of a tube, straight up into the sky. The version they were testing in the video, I saw it did not actually have a rocket stage. It was just a dummy, you know, a dummy ballistic that it would see how high it could reach. So yeah, I guess the idea the end as you do it with something that actually has chemical rockets within it, so you get it up to a certain altitude and then the rockets fire and take over, getting you into orbit with less use of chemical fuel. But exactly as Josh says, when this dummy ballistic test vehicle is thrown up into the sky makes a gigantic arc and then it comes back down. And there's a part where they in this video they go to find it and it's just a hole in the ground. It has it has done a mighty piercing of the earth, you know, speaking of H. G. Wells as things to come there, I have to remind everybody that there is a nineteen seventy nine very loose adaptation of H. G. Wells is uh work here titled The Shape of Things to Come? In fact, it's it's sometimes titled H. G. Wells Is The Shape of Things to Come. It stars Jack Palance, and it's directed by George McAllen, who also directed Two Frogs, which, of course we discussed on Weird House Cinema. That's got to be good. I think I've seen it, or at least I think I watched the riff Tracks version of it. I believe this came out shortly before the pandemic. When okay, so, when movies decide to put the author of a book or author of an idea's name in front of the title of the movie, like Bram Stoker's Dracula, you know, the Francis Ford Coppola Dracula or Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I think that was also in the nineties. Are those a result of some kind of I don't know, in the contractual or intellectual property issue, hard to be hard to believe that's the case with Mary Shelley um or is it just like there's something about the title where they were like, we we've we've got to have the author's name in here. That'll that'll make people know what we're talking about, because you just say Frankenstein, they're gonna be like, I don't know what that is? Who wrote that? Yeah? I guess in some level it's about trying to indicate this is a return to the book to some extent, And of course it's never it's not like bron Stoker's Dracula the movie. As as fun as it is, it's not like it's a like blow for blow faithful adaptation of the novel. It's a lot of fun, but it's it's not that, And I think it's the I've probably I harp on this all the time, but like one of the things that always stuck with me is the mere fact that they had a movie novelization of brom Stoker's Dracula by of course not brom Stoker but some modern author. Like that's all you need to know, Like if it's is it really brom Stoker's Dracula, if the novel adaptation of it is not just the original novel, Yeah, but how do you capture on the page? Keian News English accent I will return to you, my love. Yeah, it was not the not the best performance from Kiana, was it. Um? But there's so much Yeah, yeah, he's he's great in other things. Um. And but of course, yeah, you have Anthony Hopkins, you have Gary Oldman. Uh, you have just luscious costumes and sets. It's uh, it more than makes up for one performance and picture. And I think you could pretty much plot your life by like, which Gary Oldman incarnation of Dracula are you today? Are you? Um, old man with big hair, old man with long hair? Do you feel more like you're the dapper sunglasses brown stokers Dracula. Do you feel maybe a little more like a wolf beast or a bat beast armored Dracula. There's so many to choose from, so many costume changes and flesh changes in that one. Yeah, I think I think you'd have a lot of it. Like I'm a demon bad until I've had my coffee kind of, I think I'm the I'm the the old Dracula with the long hair towards the end of the film, before I have my coffee, um, and then after the first cup, then I'm the Dracula with the big hair, and then we kind of build up from there until the caffeine starts wearing off, and then I began to revert, I guess into beast mode at that point. All right, well, if anyone else has thoughts on all of this, yes, right in, we would love to hear your take. But let's move on to another bit of listener mail. This one comes to us from Carl. Carl says, Dear Rob and Joe, just now heard your listener to mail episode about children's senses of time periods or lack thereof. When our children were little, our friends used Gilligan's to explain when something in the near future would happen will be there in about three Gilligan's. They had a good feel for the elapsed time of a Gilligan's Island episode. Enjoy your podcast, Carl. Weirdly, this email triggered a sudden, vivid memory from childhood of some adult somewhere expressing a length of time. I guess in retrospect this must have been two and a half hours as two sesame streets and a Mr Rogers, and I wondered, did somebody say that to me when I was a kid, or was that in like a movie or something? So I googled it and discovered this is a quote from an episode of Full House. Bob Saget in Full House was hiding that deep in my brain. Oh nice, I will say as a I think I growing up, I think I did think about times sometimes like this in that in in thirty minute and an hour blocks based on television blocks of time. And I know that when my son was younger we used this a little bit, and in part because sometimes on long car trips he would have the iPad, he would have things he could watch, and so that would be a direct way of saying like, not only are we one viewing of Totoro away, like you can go ahead and start Totoro now, and when you were done with Totoro, we will be at our destination. That's good system, all right. So we also got a couple of messages in response to story machines with people cranking out their own AI generated narratives. Uh, Rob, I feel like this is kind of your territory. Do do you do? You want to take the first one of these or both of them. I'll take the first one, okay, So he has this one also has a reference to two thousand and eighteen Fartanomicon episode which I tried to. I usually don't go back and listen to old episodes, but we had some had two nine year olds in the car, and so they were talking. One of them in particular, was talking about farts a lot. So I was like, well, I'm gonna hit you guys with the science. I'm gonna load up this episode. I found. I found it a very hard episode to listen to. I don't think this is the episode that that that we would record today. It's still good, you know, the science is solid, but it's it's it's a little FARTI uh so, anyways, this is from Scott. Scott writes in and says greetings and salutations. I've been messing around with this great AI creative writing tool at story machines dot net at story hyphen machines dot net, and it occurred to me to enter the title of your superb episode from two thousand eighteen, the Fartonomicon. I tried several times, providing no other text than the title of the results I got these two are the best and also quite different from each other. So here we go. The Fartonomicon is the definitive guide to the Art of flat Lens. Authored by renowned phartologist Dr Gregory House, this illustrated volume is a must have for anyone interested in learning all there is to know about the mysteries of gas, from the physiology of gas production to the history of flash lens. The Fartonomicon covers it all with its insightful illustrations and comprehensive information. The farten o Maicon is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to improve their flash hlen skills. Whether you are a beginner looking to learn everything there is to know about gas, or a seasoned fart enthusiast looking to expand your knowledge, this book is perfect for you. Don't wait any longer. Order your copy of The Fartonomicon today and now help, Wait a minute, Why was this not a story at all? This is like a This is like a promo for a book. Why did it spit that out? Sometimes it it does this. I've noticed toying around with this interface. Sometimes it gives you the story. Sometimes it tells you about the story or about the book. So sometimes it sort of is within the story. Sometimes it stands outside of the story. Scott continues here and here's the second one. In the world of fartin Amicon, farting is an art form. It is a way to communicate with your fellow humans and to show your appreciation for the environment. There are many different types of farts and each has its own special meaning. One day, a farting artist named Gary entered the farten a Maicon competition. He was very nervous, but he knew that he had to try his best if he wanted to win. Gary started by farting in the air to show how powerful his fart was. Then he farted in different directions to show how versatile his farting was. Finally, he farted in the shape of a heart to show how romantic his fart was. The impressed by Gary's farting skills, and he was eventually declared the winner of the farton A Maicon competition. Anyways, this may be a bit too long or silly for a listener, may know, but it made me laugh heartily. Your show is great. Keep it up, Scott, Scott, obviously your fears were unfounded. Here we are reading the whole thing. Yeah, yeah, Now is Gregory? How Gregory House is? Is that the house from the TV show House? I think so I've never watched that show, but I think that's his name. That's what what's his name, Hugh Laurie, Yeah, oh it is Wow, just totally pulled him and decided we're gonna go, um, you know, cross promotional on this. Huh. So I wonder why did it pull in that name, Like, what does that have to do with the phrase fardon omicon that is put in here? I don't know, but it is interesting the way that the AI interacts with proper nounds like that, if you put a name like Santa Claus or like Morbius or whatever in the in the title or in the first line, it will it obviously knows some pre existing associations with this character, and it will shape the narrative accordingly. It doesn't just treat it as a as a neutral prop her name. So that makes me think also that when it pulls in a different proper name on its own, like it just decides to retrieve Gregory House, there must be a reason for that. It's not like randomly selecting a name. I don't know. I just don't know. Was there an episode of House that was about the fart an omicon. I don't think that would make any sense. I don't know, but I did a search for Dr Gregory House and farts just to see because who knows, I had a long run. They had to come up. They might have come around to it. Eventually. Nothing was turning up from me. But maybe listeners out there can shine in. There aren't very many fart mystery shows, I guess, like even the long running ones that did. Did they ever do a fart episode of murder? She wrote? I don't know murder she farted? Okay, Um, this story machine when when we've got got the human creativity? Okay? This next message is also a story machine submission. It's from Derek. Derek says, Hi, Robert and Joe Derek here really love your podcast. Your episode on creative writing machines was very interesting and it's been helpful to me as an amateur writer, helping me complete thoughts and sentences or simply giving me an idea or direction on how to put thoughts to words. And then Derek attaches something, so he he begins with a kind of biblical prompt that goes It wasn't with rolling thunder, a crack of lightning, or a big bang that the architect came to be. It just was one moment there was nothing, and the next it simply was the moment after it came into being. It spread its consciousness outwards, creating the vast and endless void of space. And then I think he signals, this is where the AI takes over. And then from that void the Architect began to create. The first thing it created was the laws of physics, then the molecules that make up the world, followed by the doors and planets. It worked tirelessly, creating the blueprints of everything I'm gonna read directly here, everything that would ever will exist. As it worked, the Architect grew more and more tired. It created everything, but it was alone. Oh that that's kind of a creepy conclusion there, Rob. I don't know if in all your experiments you've seen a few kind of like grammatical nonsense creep in. Most of the time, I feel like It's sentences are pretty tight, like they actually work syntactically. But occasionally I think you get something like this, the blueprints of everything that would ever will exist. Yeah, And I would find that sometimes if I threw too many things into a sentence to like if I were to write something like the son of the duck, who was also a frog. Like that sort of thing can sort of throw it off a little bit, I think. Yeah. Anyway, Derek says he was pleasantly surprised by how coherent the output of the Story Machines program was, and also ends by recommending for Weird House the movie Kung Fu Hustle, which I don't know if we do on the on Weird House. It's it's pretty recent, but but yeah, I love Kung Fu Hustle. I remember discovering that movie when I was in college and watching it way too many times. Oh yeah, yeah, it's it's a fun one. And I know it's come up on Weird House because we've covered some films that, Oh I think it's like um uh like Waguan has been in some of the films we've talked about, so um it's yeah, it has a great cast, and so it's one that will probably continue to come up as we discuss other um Kung fu movies. All Right. We continue to hear from folks about sky Bridges, which has been delightful. Uh. This one comes to us from Chelsea. Chelsea writes, Hi, Rob Joe and Death. Nicholas Johnson. I believe that that was one of our Halloween names for for seth Uh. The summer after my freshman year of college, I stayed on campus for summer research project and ended up staying in Mead Hall at Pitser College. Mead Hall was a main building with two towers behind it, all connected by sky bridges with see through metal railings on the second and third floors see attached pick and indeed, looking at the pics, looks looks nice, looks nice like the garden in the middle. I lived on the third floor of one of the towers, which meant I had to use the bridges to get to laundry, the kitchen, the main entrance, et cetera. The inside of the towers are painted a dirty white covered in school sanctioned student graffiti. Right outside my suite was a quote that wasn't abandoned all hope who enter here, but it definitely had the same pipe. The shipping graffiti and campus being almost completely deserted combined to make the whole summer feel pretty post apocalyptic. Then I saw the film twenty eight days later and developed a sudden paralyzing fear of zombies. My brain took the movie The Isolation and Major Depression, and turned that into an imagining flying zombies that would attack me from over the railings of this on the sky bridges. I was fine on the bridges during the day, but at night I walked down the exact center and dreaded every minute of it. I think the sky bridge was where the fear finally hit because I was completely exposed potential attacks from almost three hundred sixty degrees around me, but I only had a linear escape route. Fortunately, over the last decade, the zombie fear has faded somewhat, and I'm sure i'd be fine on a skybridge now. Weird House Cinema has been a great way for me to experience and enjoy horror films without the risk of developing a new phobia. Thanks for the constant flow of information and commentary, Chelsea Wow. I I don't know. First of all, thanks Chelsea, but also I don't know if this is a huge coincidence or if it says something about the college dorm experience in the I'm guessing it was also in the two thousands for you, um, but I distinctly remember thinking about zombie defense plans in my undergraduate dorm buildings. Uh uh. And actually they seemed like a pretty good spot, as they had kind of solid brick walls, solid metal doors, balconies with sturdy metal railing. Uh in you know, a hundred pack of corn dogs in the freezer. It seemed like a defensible position. Oh man, I don't not think I would ever get that far with with this line of thinking, because I would sort of reach the conclusion pretty early that oh well, we'd be dimmed, Like, I don't know, that doesn't survival was an option as soon as the utilities are cut. It's like, what, I'm gonna go to Walmart and fight people for Walmart stuff. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I can kind of deal with the zombies and I can like speak for them. I can be like the low Ax of the Dead or something. Yeah, I, for one, welcome our new undead overlords. All right, I guess we're gonna wrap up by doing a couple of responses on weird House. First one, Rob, I didn't even know what this was. This must be something you you put out into the world. There's something about a doodle contest. Somebody sent in draw wings of us and I'm screaming two bees. Oh yeah yeah, so um uh yeah, I think this will this will be fun. It's been fun so far. And we've only uh, you know, received a couple of submissions. But as we've mentioned before, we do have a store we that has some merch in it. It's a T Public store. And the other day I received an email from our contact, a T Public and they're like, hey, why don't you do a contest and give away a shirt? It can be anything, don't overthink it. And so I was like, Okay, I will not overthink it. How about a doodle contest about an action scene from one of our episodes and you can interpret action scene however you want? And uh and who will pick a prize? A prize winner or we'll have Seth pick one. I don't know, we'll have the random person just out in the world picket. I don't know. I haven't figured that part out yet. But whoever wins the contest gets a free Classic T shirt from the store. So we put that out there. I believe it's on It's it's been posted in the Stuff to Blow your Mind discussion module all which you'll find on Facebook. You can just request to be added and the answer a question you get in. It's also been put in our discord. If you want to access to the discord, email US will send to the link. And I may have even just thrown up a link on the old Facebook itself, which I haven't used in forever. But anyway, those are some places where you will find the details. So though it is not true to reality, I'd like that this picture has a sitting side by side sharing a Mike and Rob. I don't know if you noticed, but you're wearing You're wearing a long sleeve V neck T shirt, whereas I am wearing a collar shirt because I obviously, you know, I dressed for the occasion. Yeah, mine also kind of looks like a jumpsuit. I kind of because I kind of get a kind of get an M. S. T vibe from this, you know, I feel like we're on a spaceship or something. But but you are yelling to be's and I can I can hear your voice as I read it, so I think that's pretty accurate. All Right, Well, I'm gonna read last thing today. This message from Andrew uh in response to some weird house male subject Samuel Terry ghoul In a previous episode, we talked about local TV horror hosts. One of them was this guy from Indiana named Sammy Terry. Sammy Terry, um and so, Andrew says, Hi, there it's me again with some weird house cinema adjacent Mayle. I grew up and live in central Indiana and didn't realize Sammy Terry was a regional phenomenon until after your discussion on the show. I do not remember him as a movie feature host, but he would pop up in random commercials during the month of October. Not surprisingly, he would be advertising the spooky savings said car dealerships and so forth. Furthermore, my favorite local brewery pays homage to Sammy Terry, as one of their house beers is named for him. I've attached photo evidence this time. Rob. You take a look at these photos while I'm finishing the email here. Uh. Andrew says, this serves as a good segue to hype up the weird awesomeness of Scarlet Lane Brewing. In my current place of residence, Mccordsville, Indiana, there are TVs typically playing b horror films which capture my attention. To my wife's great annoyance. I even recently caught the beautiful train wreck that is Jason Takes Manhattan. The decor stays in line with the viewing options, and I recently spotted a low key Halloween three item this past weekend. Photo evidence of this is also attached, and so uh Andrew has a couple of photos here. One is I guess these are both of the brewery. One is of a TV screen that's showing the Silver Shamrock uh flashing pumpkin commercial, and the other is some It's like a mannequin wearing I think a lab coat, but then on its head it has the pumpkin mask from Silver Shamrock. And then the other thing is just a sort of life size sticker on the wall of Sammy Terry advertising a beer that I think is called the Semi Terry Colch. Yeah, I'm, I'm. I looked up the website for this place, and I was looking at some other photos and it looks pretty cool. They got quite a little horror vibe going on here. If I ever make it to Central Indiana, I will I will go out of my way to find this. Yeah, four locations, Joe, you don't have to go that out of your way. All right? Does that do it for today? I suppose so, I suppose that will be a good place to close it out there. But yeah, I can't help but think about spooky savings. Someone should should explore that concept in a like a haunted car dealership movie. Figure out like, what what are spooky savings? Can savings truly be so spooky? Uh that that the humans cannot even speak of it? They just turns your hair white. Deal so unbelievable, they will send you straight to hell. I like it. Somebody do it. This is why we have the story machine. You can just turn to the story machine to do it. Um. Yeah, I've actually found myself using the story machine for um dungeons and dragon stuff. Here and there we had in our groups there was somebody was creating a new character, and they're like, I'm creating an autonome. I need some ideas for an autognown backstory. And I was like, well, I don't have time to think about that, but I do have this website. So I went there and I started putting in just a few things to get it going about an autonome, and he busted out some pretty good ideas and uh and they weren't the final ideas that my friend ended up using, but he ended up taking some of those ideas, tweaking him a little bit. And now he's off to gen Con with his autognome to tear it up. Okay, this is actually the last thing today. I just did a story machine title Spooky Savings. First line deal so unbelievable they will send you straight to hell, Rob, Do you want to hear what comes next? The tale it tells goes as follows. Once upon a time, a devilish bank decided to offer its customers some of the most outrageous deals ever. Just by opening an account with them, customers could earn insane interest rates on their deposits, and even earn bonus cash if they managed to save a certain amount each month. Naturally, many people signed up for these deals, and soon the bank was flush with cash. However, as the deals continued to get better and better, some customers started to regret their decision. They found themselves struggling to make ends meet and had to sell their souls in order to pay their bills. Finally, the devilish bank ran out of juicy deals, and all of its customers were left penniless and stranded in hell. There you go. That's perfect. Wow. All right, well, well we'll go ahead and close it out there. We'll leave you with that horrific scene. But we'd love to hear from everyone out there regarding past, present, and future episodes of the Stuff to Blow Your Mind, the core episodes, Weird How, Cinema, Artifact, Monster Fact, other listener mail episodes. It's all fair games. So you know how to get in touch with us. Joe will drop at email in just a second and uh yeah, we'll catch you next week. Huge thanks as always to our excellent audio producer Seth Nicholas Johnson. 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