Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind production of My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. Listener mail. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick, and we're back with you after being off for a week. We uh, this is Monday, of course, the day of the week that we read back messages that you've sent into the show. Our contact address is contact at stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. We always say that at the end of episodes, but I don't know if people are tuning out at the last moments, and sometimes they miss the address. So if you want to get in touch and you've never made it that far in an episode before, it is contact at stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. Rob do you mind if I kick things off here with this message from Emily? Yeah, I go for it, all right. This is about our episodes called what were they called in the end, the Beast War and Apron or something like that, something to that effect. Yeah, we had a number of clever titles lined up, clever and medium clever, uh, but these are all about animals cooking, not necessarily with heat, but preparing meals in one way or another. And so Emily writes in with a with a message subject line potatoes, and the context of this message in particular is that we talked about a study looking into the question of whether apes like chimpanzees tend to prefer cooked or raw versions of the same food, and the study found in most cases they liked the cooked foods better, and the examples would be things like carrots, sweet potatoes, and beef, but with a few exceptions, including the seemingly bizarre fact that on average, chimpanzees and other apes didn't much have a preference between raw and cooked white potatoes. So like, oh yeah, I'll take my carrots cooked and my rusted potato raw definitely, or at least with the potato don't care if it's cooked or raw. Anyway, Onto Emily's message, Emily says, Hi, Robin Joe, longtime listener here. Always enjoy the fun and weird science you talk about. Just finished listening to the first part of the Beast War and Apron and was reminded of a practice of mine as a kid regarding raw versus cooked potatoes. When I was growing up, I would sneak a raw potato slices my mom was peeling and preparing them for cooking. She never scolded me for the practice, and frequently these were potatoes we'd grown in our own garden, which felt safe somehow. My husband did the same as a kid, and will still sneak a raw potato piece when we prepare dinner. Wow, that is a true m F e O discovery there. That is a rare matchup. Anyway, Emily says for me, I loved the earthy taste before cooking. Weird but delicious. Thanks again, and keep up the good work, Emily. Well, that's interesting, you know. Now that that Emily has shared this story, I have to say, it does sort of um spark of some vague childhood memory, Like maybe I maybe, like I remember the like the crinkle cutter for the fries that my mom would use, and I might I might have like a memory of having like a crinkle cut fry that had not been cut yet. Uh and yeah, but it's it's very faint, you know. I had a general impression, and this may be based in no fact whatsoever, but a general impression that eating raw potatoes was somehow unsafe. H Emily has the note about they came from the garden at home, so somehow it seemed safe, And I guess that's juxtaposed with an impression that they would be unsafe if they came from the grocery store. I don't know if that would actually make any difference whatsoever, But I don't know that was my feeling. But now that I think about it, I don't know why I think that. Maybe that's not true. So I'm not making a comment one way or another about that. If you're in if you're thinking about eating raw potatoes, look it up for yourself. I have not researched this subject. My sun will come up and asked to try things when I'm cooking, and uh, if you asked about the potato, I've always just been like, oh, you don't want to eat raw potato. But if he's asking about the carrot, I'll definitely give him some of the carret, especially if I have to use the mandolin on the carrots, and I get really nervous, uh using the mandolin the closer it gets to my knuckles. So you know, I'll generally stop with like an inch or more of carrot left, and I'll be like, who wants this? And he'll take it? Do you not have one of those guards. It has no guard. No, it's just uh, it's just get as close to your knuckles as as you as you dare. So I should look into this. If there's a model with a with a guard of some sort. You got the Wild West Mandolin. Yeah, but now I'm excited to hear that there's something safer out there. I've been thinking there's got to be a better way, and and lo and behold, it sounds like there's a better way. All right. Here's another bit of listener mail. This comes to us from U lurch gs Uh lurch gs rights. Good morning, gentlemen. As usual, I'm listening to your show as I drive down the road. In the portion of the reference episode where you're talking about the Japanese macaque, you point out the rather overwhelming tendencies for new learned behaviors to be from older to younger members of the group. At my age, I like to think of this as top down dissemination. I'm sure others have pointed out the exception in the human world. I find it glaringly obvious. The cell phone initially catching on with young professionals, which I was at the time deep in the early throws of high speed Internet I t and eventually became nearly ubiquitous. It's reached the point where there are phones and services designed specially for people with more life experience. The same trends apply to home computers and internet access, though possibly to a lesser extent. I admit I find these particular interests because yet I watched it happen best regard from the road lurch g s. I am at the age where I've started to note with horror that I'm becoming the older person who doesn't get some new piece of technology that uh, you know, like I'm I'm the object of pity for my younger self because like I used to always be the person, yeah, I understand what's going on with this new piece of software or this new app everybody's using or something, and I and I sort of pity to the older folks who seemed to bewildered by them. But now I'm in this, I don't even know what all the snapchats and TikTok's. Uh, it's it's a horrible transition to to watch within yourself. Now you are becoming the beast master wandering the streets of Yeah. But anyway, yes, totally and you know, I I don't know this for sure, but I bet it's probably a common pattern for cultural innovation across both humans and other animal species that have you know, complex enough behaviors and and learning that you can say they have something analogous to culture. Uh, for cultural innovation to go something like this. So, so a new behavior starts when younger individuals with more plastic brains invent it and take it up, and then that behavior slowly spreads to older individuals, both by mimedic uptakes, so older individuals copying the younger ones who invented it, and so by the original innovating generation just aging up getting older. And then when new generations are born, the very young learn the new behavior from the older ones by copying. Of course, all this is going to depend on the exact social structures of a given species, because you know, you do hear about species where you have individuals that that innovates something, but then due to the way they're um they pass things on or in some cases don't pass things on, that particular practice will be lost, Like I believe this was the case with some cheetahs that had learned how to effectively take down ostriches. I believe, yes, the memory serves. This was this was on BBC's Life documentary. It was like three cheetahs that I believe we're brothers that had learned an innovative strategy to help take down an ostrich which you know, you might not think a bunch of ostriches, but they're huge, and they're they're risky prey A cheetah. Certainly, an individual cheetah risks a lot in trying to bring that animal down. And if memory sir as one of the take comes from it, too, was that, Okay, we have these three male cheetahs who have learned how to do this behavior. But male cheetahs don't pass on anything. Uh so this particular innovation is going to be lost when they die. Interesting, they can learn, but they learn alone. They learn, but they can't really share. And when you contrast that with the particular skills of the human species, I mean, it seems like one thing that's true about us is we don't we don't really lose learned behavior as nearly as much as other animals do, right, I mean, like, once we learn a better way to do something, there's a very good chance it will be shared and preserved. Yeah, this would be a fun topic to come back to them and discuss, like culture in in animals, because I know there's some wonderful examples to look at, particularly with orcas. Yeah, okay, this next message comes from Anna. This is about our Days of the Week episodes. Uh and it says, hello, Robert, Joe and Seth, enjoyed your recent episode on days of the week. When you're talking about what day of the week people like best. Remember there's some studies about this huge surprise, people really like Fridays. Um and it says I had the song Friday on my mind by the easy Beats in my head. The Easy Beats are what some people call Australia's answer to the Beatles. Anyway, the song Friday on my Mind is very catchy. I think by now someone must have done a study about songs about days of the week. I'm sure it would be pretty easy to compile a list of the top ten songs that have a day of the week in their title, and then work out which day of the week has the most songs. I wonder if it changes through different years or decades. At more optimistic times, are there're more songs about Fridays. At more cynical or difficult times are there're more songs about Mondays, such as the songs I Hate Mondays or Manic Monday. But maybe during difficult times people are inspired to write more optimistic songs, like how some of the best comedy comes from difficult times. Anyway, thanks for the thought provoking content, Anna, Well thanks Anna. I did look up this song. I enjoyed it. I don't know how much it sounds like the Beatles. I mean, I guess kind of it has, you know, as the general British invasion sound. But also I found the lyrics and I thought they were so funny because let me read part of the first first, it goes, Monday morning feels so bad. Everybody seems to nag me. Coming Tuesday, I feel better. Even my old man looks good. Okay. I love this idea, though, of chronicling songs that refer to specific days of the week. I feel like, like like the challenge has been has been um has been given that I need to put together a playlist. Uh, that we all should put together playlists like pick pick your favorite song that references each day of the week and see what the results look like, would survey data bear out that, in general, by Wednesday, everybody's old man looks good? I don't. I was struggling to come up with some Wednesday songs off the top of my head. I was just pulling up a list, and I'm like, Okay, Simon and Garfunkle apparently have a Wednesday song. Yeah, there's a there's a Tory Amos Wednesday song, but most of these I'm not familiar with. This is also a good counterpoint to that that song by the Cure we ended up riffing about extensively in those episodes, Tuesday's fine and Wednesday to Tuesday's great and Wednesday too. Okay, Tuesday's great, even my old man looks good. Let's see here. Oh okay, do you want to move on to this message about three pupiled Eye? Sure? This one comes to us from Christopher Christopher Rights. Hey, guys, I just finished your latest episode on multiple irises in Eyes. When you guys were listing out pop cultural references at the end, it reminded me of my old roommate from about a decade ago, who was really into the anime um Naruto. I'm not familiar enough with the show to completely track how it worked in the narrative, but some of the characters when doing something with ninja powers, seem to achieve different multi iris or altered iris patterns. The visual of it was pretty cool, so I figured I throw what little I could gather into this email and then there's uh, we would get it at least one image of yup. Here's here's an eyeball that has the singular pupil in the middle, but then it seems to be orbited by what three different additional pupils that kind of look like commas, like they have little tail spiraling out from them, kind of spiral galaxy shaped. Yeah, Christopher says, love the show, looking forward to the next episode. Best Christopher. I also know absolutely nothing about the shows, but I looked it up. It appears to be about a guy with blonde hair who has cat whiskers, and I'm sure the Naruto fans out there are screaming at their phones hearing three people. Robb, I assume you know nothing as well. I do know no um no Ruto. I recognize that I've seen you know, images from it, but I should take a look. It's I know people love it and I'm especially interested in finding anything that I can we could watch as a family that you know, that's creative and cool, because you know, we've enjoyed some animated series. We've tried some animated series that turned out to be just a little too too much for a nine or ten year old to watch. Um Full Full Metal Alchemist. It turns out is UM is not uh necessarily for nine ten year older at least not for my nine ten year olds. But but it was great from what I watched that But I look forward to continuing it when he's ready for it. Uh So, I don't know, I'll look into it. Parents out there, if you have opinions on any of this recommendations, let me know. I think at least once per episode from now on, you and I should end up talking about a an anime show with a devoted fan base that neither of us have seen. I mean, there there are plenty of them, but I will say I will drive home again what I watched A Full Metal Alchemist. The newer series was pretty incredible. Just me, it was just a little a little too dark in places for my son to keep watching it. Um and but but also just very inventive and very creative. All right, you want to do some weird house cinema email? Yeah, let's do. What do we have? What's what's rising to the surface here, let's see. We got messages from Peter and Grace. Here take your pick, all right, um, yeah, I can jump in with one here. All right, this one comes to us from Grace. Grace says, Hi, Rob and Joe. I love stuff to blow your mind and weird. How cinema episodes have become my go to whenever I have some downtime, I go back to old episodes and listen over and over again. Speaking of old episodes, my partner and I recently watched Dr X and then re listen to the episode. I have a couple of thoughts. Alright, so and then we have bullet points. Thought number one, I think Dr Wells shoes on the radiator that you described as boiling are actually covered in mud. I think Wells put them on the radiator because they are wet and muddy, showing he has recently been outside and therefore wasn't in the lab so could have killed the scrub woman. Oh, this is one of those that's getting into the details of something I haven't watched in a long time, so I don't remember what this is. I do remember, I think I was the one who was commenting about what was up with those boots. They were like melting on the Radiatorum, but it sounds like, yeah, I I buy this. This was probably more mundane than I gave it credit. I was just like, probably weirded out by everything else in the movie, and I was like, why did now boots are melting? The next note, though, is about something I remember from dr X, which is the fact that it's sort of in color. It's a very early attempt at creating color films. It's not really full technicolor like we're used to now. It was a kind of half in color. Yeah, they're right. The red and green lens leading to orange and green tints throughout the movie are so interesting to watch. I also thought it was fitting that the beach scene is the most realistic looking in terms of color, perhaps because it had the most light. Not sure mechanically, whine the colors would look more natural here, while in the dark and lab heavy scenes the eerie effect is so much stronger. And then here's the third Lee Tracy is much stoogier than I was expecting. He obviously is part of the overall fast talking newspaperman trope, but but is much less smooth and less good at it than Carrie Grant in his Girl Friday, for example. I got to agree with that. Remember, Lee Tracy is the leading man in this movie. He's like the guy who you know, he's doing the whole investigation, he falls in love and all that, but he's also just this I don't know he he doesn't fit the mold of like what kind of actor would have been cast in this role later on? Yeah, yeah, I do remember him standing out, and now nothing stands out as much as the synthetic flesh though. Doctor ACTS is where we get synthetic flesh, and that's that's what. Okay. I do think about about this film from time to time, especially I'm when I'm thinking about, oh, what are some old films we could watch for a weird House and I think back to Doctor XC, and I'm like, we need something something else like Dr X. Yeah. Anyway, Grace finishes out by saying, I really just wanted to say that I've been loving the Weird House Cinema episodes and then watching Doctor X was awesome, especially with the background information from your episode. Thanks for so much amazing content. All the best, Grace, Thank you, Grace. Okay, I'm gonna do this message from Peter. Peter says, HI really enjoyed your episode on Next of Ken. Remember this is the the Australian horror movie we did a couple of weeks back. Now. While I can't share a lot of official detail about it, I do remember it from nineteen two. The film did not get a cinema release at the time or at any time as far as I can tell, but appeared on home video at the end of that year. So until the recent local blue ray release. Well that's kind of a tongue twister. Recent local blue ray release. It wasn't seen in widescreen nor heard in at least stereo. I remember as an undergraduate student in Brisbane waiting for a release that didn't come. The image of the girl with the ball outside the mansion made the cover of the industry Glossy Cinema Papers, which had run a multi page feature on the film's production, A new Australian Gothic horror that looks like that cover art I'm in And then it was a four by three of glooy vhs with compressed mono sound. Oh that's a tragedy, Peter goes on. When a film doesn't appear when and where it should, there are usually reasons unrelated to the film itself, like licensing or contracts, and I have no idea what prevented this one from joining what was still being called the Australian film renaissance. Unlike a lot of local indies, it didn't make it into the schedules of the then well supported art house cinemas, and I never noticed it showing on late night TV. Now it sits on the shelves at retailers, beside the other discounted titles, waiting for someone to take a chance on the interesting cover art Girl Ball Mansion. I remember that I kept wanting it to lift off into something more like a Hammer movie, and thought little of it until the Blu ray restoration, which really brings it to life and enhances all those non or anti genre decisions you mentioned. Maybe now it could get a look in on a big screen venue, mayhap, Peter. Yeah, interesting now that the poster that that Peter mentions the with the ball girl and Mansion. Yeah, this is one off you started looking around for like next of ken poster and make sure you put in two, otherwise you're only getting Patrick Swayze. Um, you'll see this one. There's yeah, there's one where it's the creepy little girl ball next to her mansion behind her. There's also a variant that I was seeing a lot of places where you have mansion, red clouds and then like zombie hand coming down from the clouds like horrible. Yeah, which it doesn't. I mean it, I guess it's not completely um giving the wrong impression of what the movie is. But it's it's weird. I mean, I like it okay, but it it ultimately feels like it's not a poster for this movie. I'm gonna challenge you. I think it gives completely the wrong impression. I think it's ugly as heck. I hate that main poster with the hand coming out of the sky. I really like the poster. I don't know what do I say poster. I guess it's cover art. I really like the poster that's just the sugarcube pyramid. I think that is very a very interesting image. It does communicate the essence of the film. Well, uh, that that's what it should be. Yeah, that one, that one is the best. That's also the one that's on the album cover for the Klaus Schultz Um soundtrack. Absolutely gives you the right the right taste of what's to come. But anyway, to come back to Peter's message, I completely agree. It's such a shame when a movie that looks this good only got a release on some horrible medium. You know, it was only released in a bad transfer onto VHS or something. Yeah, but you know, greedily. For modern film fans, it I mean, it is kind of nice when this sort of thing happens. I mean it's where there's a film that you haven't heard of, and suddenly it has been brought back into the limelight to some extent and it's really good and it's so or it or it has some creative ideas in it. So it's it's especially if if you're you know, like me, and you're perhaps more interested in older films than you are in the new ones. It's like you can you can wait on new releases from both the future and the past. Yes, I totally agree. All Right, we're gonna go and close up the mail bag there, but we'll be back more listener mails. On Mondays, we have short form artifact or monster fact episodes on Wednesday's core episodes of Stuff to Blow Your Mind on Tuesday and Thursday, and then on Fridays we set most of the serious matters aside and we just talk about a strange film, and then we have a little rerun in the weekend. Huge thanks as always to excellent audio producer Seth Nicholas Johnson. If you would like to get in touch with us with feedback on this episode or any other, to suggest topic for the future, or just to say hello, you can email us at contact at stuff to blow your Mind dot com. Stuff to Blow Your Mind is production of I Heart Radio. 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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind production of My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. Listener mail. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick, and we're back with you after being off for a week. We uh, this is Monday, of course, the day of the week that we read back messages that you've sent into the show. Our contact address is contact at stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. We always say that at the end of episodes, but I don't know if people are tuning out at the last moments, and sometimes they miss the address. So if you want to get in touch and you've never made it that far in an episode before, it is contact at stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. Rob do you mind if I kick things off here with this message from Emily? Yeah, I go for it, all right. This is about our episodes called what were they called in the end, the Beast War and Apron or something like that, something to that effect. Yeah, we had a number of clever titles lined up, clever and medium clever, uh, but these are all about animals cooking, not necessarily with heat, but preparing meals in one way or another. And so Emily writes in with a with a message subject line potatoes, and the context of this message in particular is that we talked about a study looking into the question of whether apes like chimpanzees tend to prefer cooked or raw versions of the same food, and the study found in most cases they liked the cooked foods better, and the examples would be things like carrots, sweet potatoes, and beef, but with a few exceptions, including the seemingly bizarre fact that on average, chimpanzees and other apes didn't much have a preference between raw and cooked white potatoes. So like, oh yeah, I'll take my carrots cooked and my rusted potato raw definitely, or at least with the potato don't care if it's cooked or raw. Anyway, Onto Emily's message, Emily says, Hi, Robin Joe, longtime listener here. Always enjoy the fun and weird science you talk about. Just finished listening to the first part of the Beast War and Apron and was reminded of a practice of mine as a kid regarding raw versus cooked potatoes. When I was growing up, I would sneak a raw potato slices my mom was peeling and preparing them for cooking. She never scolded me for the practice, and frequently these were potatoes we'd grown in our own garden, which felt safe somehow. My husband did the same as a kid, and will still sneak a raw potato piece when we prepare dinner. Wow, that is a true m F e O discovery there. That is a rare matchup. Anyway, Emily says for me, I loved the earthy taste before cooking. Weird but delicious. Thanks again, and keep up the good work, Emily. Well, that's interesting, you know. Now that that Emily has shared this story, I have to say, it does sort of um spark of some vague childhood memory, Like maybe I maybe, like I remember the like the crinkle cutter for the fries that my mom would use, and I might I might have like a memory of having like a crinkle cut fry that had not been cut yet. Uh and yeah, but it's it's very faint, you know. I had a general impression, and this may be based in no fact whatsoever, but a general impression that eating raw potatoes was somehow unsafe. H Emily has the note about they came from the garden at home, so somehow it seemed safe, And I guess that's juxtaposed with an impression that they would be unsafe if they came from the grocery store. I don't know if that would actually make any difference whatsoever, But I don't know that was my feeling. But now that I think about it, I don't know why I think that. Maybe that's not true. So I'm not making a comment one way or another about that. If you're in if you're thinking about eating raw potatoes, look it up for yourself. I have not researched this subject. My sun will come up and asked to try things when I'm cooking, and uh, if you asked about the potato, I've always just been like, oh, you don't want to eat raw potato. But if he's asking about the carrot, I'll definitely give him some of the carret, especially if I have to use the mandolin on the carrots, and I get really nervous, uh using the mandolin the closer it gets to my knuckles. So you know, I'll generally stop with like an inch or more of carrot left, and I'll be like, who wants this? And he'll take it? Do you not have one of those guards. It has no guard. No, it's just uh, it's just get as close to your knuckles as as you as you dare. So I should look into this. If there's a model with a with a guard of some sort. You got the Wild West Mandolin. Yeah, but now I'm excited to hear that there's something safer out there. I've been thinking there's got to be a better way, and and lo and behold, it sounds like there's a better way. All right. Here's another bit of listener mail. This comes to us from U lurch gs Uh lurch gs rights. Good morning, gentlemen. As usual, I'm listening to your show as I drive down the road. In the portion of the reference episode where you're talking about the Japanese macaque, you point out the rather overwhelming tendencies for new learned behaviors to be from older to younger members of the group. At my age, I like to think of this as top down dissemination. I'm sure others have pointed out the exception in the human world. I find it glaringly obvious. The cell phone initially catching on with young professionals, which I was at the time deep in the early throws of high speed Internet I t and eventually became nearly ubiquitous. It's reached the point where there are phones and services designed specially for people with more life experience. The same trends apply to home computers and internet access, though possibly to a lesser extent. I admit I find these particular interests because yet I watched it happen best regard from the road lurch g s. I am at the age where I've started to note with horror that I'm becoming the older person who doesn't get some new piece of technology that uh, you know, like I'm I'm the object of pity for my younger self because like I used to always be the person, yeah, I understand what's going on with this new piece of software or this new app everybody's using or something, and I and I sort of pity to the older folks who seemed to bewildered by them. But now I'm in this, I don't even know what all the snapchats and TikTok's. Uh, it's it's a horrible transition to to watch within yourself. Now you are becoming the beast master wandering the streets of Yeah. But anyway, yes, totally and you know, I I don't know this for sure, but I bet it's probably a common pattern for cultural innovation across both humans and other animal species that have you know, complex enough behaviors and and learning that you can say they have something analogous to culture. Uh, for cultural innovation to go something like this. So, so a new behavior starts when younger individuals with more plastic brains invent it and take it up, and then that behavior slowly spreads to older individuals, both by mimedic uptakes, so older individuals copying the younger ones who invented it, and so by the original innovating generation just aging up getting older. And then when new generations are born, the very young learn the new behavior from the older ones by copying. Of course, all this is going to depend on the exact social structures of a given species, because you know, you do hear about species where you have individuals that that innovates something, but then due to the way they're um they pass things on or in some cases don't pass things on, that particular practice will be lost, Like I believe this was the case with some cheetahs that had learned how to effectively take down ostriches. I believe, yes, the memory serves. This was this was on BBC's Life documentary. It was like three cheetahs that I believe we're brothers that had learned an innovative strategy to help take down an ostrich which you know, you might not think a bunch of ostriches, but they're huge, and they're they're risky prey A cheetah. Certainly, an individual cheetah risks a lot in trying to bring that animal down. And if memory sir as one of the take comes from it, too, was that, Okay, we have these three male cheetahs who have learned how to do this behavior. But male cheetahs don't pass on anything. Uh so this particular innovation is going to be lost when they die. Interesting, they can learn, but they learn alone. They learn, but they can't really share. And when you contrast that with the particular skills of the human species, I mean, it seems like one thing that's true about us is we don't we don't really lose learned behavior as nearly as much as other animals do, right, I mean, like, once we learn a better way to do something, there's a very good chance it will be shared and preserved. Yeah, this would be a fun topic to come back to them and discuss, like culture in in animals, because I know there's some wonderful examples to look at, particularly with orcas. Yeah, okay, this next message comes from Anna. This is about our Days of the Week episodes. Uh and it says, hello, Robert, Joe and Seth, enjoyed your recent episode on days of the week. When you're talking about what day of the week people like best. Remember there's some studies about this huge surprise, people really like Fridays. Um and it says I had the song Friday on my mind by the easy Beats in my head. The Easy Beats are what some people call Australia's answer to the Beatles. Anyway, the song Friday on my Mind is very catchy. I think by now someone must have done a study about songs about days of the week. I'm sure it would be pretty easy to compile a list of the top ten songs that have a day of the week in their title, and then work out which day of the week has the most songs. I wonder if it changes through different years or decades. At more optimistic times, are there're more songs about Fridays. At more cynical or difficult times are there're more songs about Mondays, such as the songs I Hate Mondays or Manic Monday. But maybe during difficult times people are inspired to write more optimistic songs, like how some of the best comedy comes from difficult times. Anyway, thanks for the thought provoking content, Anna, Well thanks Anna. I did look up this song. I enjoyed it. I don't know how much it sounds like the Beatles. I mean, I guess kind of it has, you know, as the general British invasion sound. But also I found the lyrics and I thought they were so funny because let me read part of the first first, it goes, Monday morning feels so bad. Everybody seems to nag me. Coming Tuesday, I feel better. Even my old man looks good. Okay. I love this idea, though, of chronicling songs that refer to specific days of the week. I feel like, like like the challenge has been has been um has been given that I need to put together a playlist. Uh, that we all should put together playlists like pick pick your favorite song that references each day of the week and see what the results look like, would survey data bear out that, in general, by Wednesday, everybody's old man looks good? I don't. I was struggling to come up with some Wednesday songs off the top of my head. I was just pulling up a list, and I'm like, Okay, Simon and Garfunkle apparently have a Wednesday song. Yeah, there's a there's a Tory Amos Wednesday song, but most of these I'm not familiar with. This is also a good counterpoint to that that song by the Cure we ended up riffing about extensively in those episodes, Tuesday's fine and Wednesday to Tuesday's great and Wednesday too. Okay, Tuesday's great, even my old man looks good. Let's see here. Oh okay, do you want to move on to this message about three pupiled Eye? Sure? This one comes to us from Christopher Christopher Rights. Hey, guys, I just finished your latest episode on multiple irises in Eyes. When you guys were listing out pop cultural references at the end, it reminded me of my old roommate from about a decade ago, who was really into the anime um Naruto. I'm not familiar enough with the show to completely track how it worked in the narrative, but some of the characters when doing something with ninja powers, seem to achieve different multi iris or altered iris patterns. The visual of it was pretty cool, so I figured I throw what little I could gather into this email and then there's uh, we would get it at least one image of yup. Here's here's an eyeball that has the singular pupil in the middle, but then it seems to be orbited by what three different additional pupils that kind of look like commas, like they have little tail spiraling out from them, kind of spiral galaxy shaped. Yeah, Christopher says, love the show, looking forward to the next episode. Best Christopher. I also know absolutely nothing about the shows, but I looked it up. It appears to be about a guy with blonde hair who has cat whiskers, and I'm sure the Naruto fans out there are screaming at their phones hearing three people. Robb, I assume you know nothing as well. I do know no um no Ruto. I recognize that I've seen you know, images from it, but I should take a look. It's I know people love it and I'm especially interested in finding anything that I can we could watch as a family that you know, that's creative and cool, because you know, we've enjoyed some animated series. We've tried some animated series that turned out to be just a little too too much for a nine or ten year old to watch. Um Full Full Metal Alchemist. It turns out is UM is not uh necessarily for nine ten year older at least not for my nine ten year olds. But but it was great from what I watched that But I look forward to continuing it when he's ready for it. Uh So, I don't know, I'll look into it. Parents out there, if you have opinions on any of this recommendations, let me know. I think at least once per episode from now on, you and I should end up talking about a an anime show with a devoted fan base that neither of us have seen. I mean, there there are plenty of them, but I will say I will drive home again what I watched A Full Metal Alchemist. The newer series was pretty incredible. Just me, it was just a little a little too dark in places for my son to keep watching it. Um and but but also just very inventive and very creative. All right, you want to do some weird house cinema email? Yeah, let's do. What do we have? What's what's rising to the surface here, let's see. We got messages from Peter and Grace. Here take your pick, all right, um, yeah, I can jump in with one here. All right, this one comes to us from Grace. Grace says, Hi, Rob and Joe. I love stuff to blow your mind and weird. How cinema episodes have become my go to whenever I have some downtime, I go back to old episodes and listen over and over again. Speaking of old episodes, my partner and I recently watched Dr X and then re listen to the episode. I have a couple of thoughts. Alright, so and then we have bullet points. Thought number one, I think Dr Wells shoes on the radiator that you described as boiling are actually covered in mud. I think Wells put them on the radiator because they are wet and muddy, showing he has recently been outside and therefore wasn't in the lab so could have killed the scrub woman. Oh, this is one of those that's getting into the details of something I haven't watched in a long time, so I don't remember what this is. I do remember, I think I was the one who was commenting about what was up with those boots. They were like melting on the Radiatorum, but it sounds like, yeah, I I buy this. This was probably more mundane than I gave it credit. I was just like, probably weirded out by everything else in the movie, and I was like, why did now boots are melting? The next note, though, is about something I remember from dr X, which is the fact that it's sort of in color. It's a very early attempt at creating color films. It's not really full technicolor like we're used to now. It was a kind of half in color. Yeah, they're right. The red and green lens leading to orange and green tints throughout the movie are so interesting to watch. I also thought it was fitting that the beach scene is the most realistic looking in terms of color, perhaps because it had the most light. Not sure mechanically, whine the colors would look more natural here, while in the dark and lab heavy scenes the eerie effect is so much stronger. And then here's the third Lee Tracy is much stoogier than I was expecting. He obviously is part of the overall fast talking newspaperman trope, but but is much less smooth and less good at it than Carrie Grant in his Girl Friday, for example. I got to agree with that. Remember, Lee Tracy is the leading man in this movie. He's like the guy who you know, he's doing the whole investigation, he falls in love and all that, but he's also just this I don't know he he doesn't fit the mold of like what kind of actor would have been cast in this role later on? Yeah, yeah, I do remember him standing out, and now nothing stands out as much as the synthetic flesh though. Doctor ACTS is where we get synthetic flesh, and that's that's what. Okay. I do think about about this film from time to time, especially I'm when I'm thinking about, oh, what are some old films we could watch for a weird House and I think back to Doctor XC, and I'm like, we need something something else like Dr X. Yeah. Anyway, Grace finishes out by saying, I really just wanted to say that I've been loving the Weird House Cinema episodes and then watching Doctor X was awesome, especially with the background information from your episode. Thanks for so much amazing content. All the best, Grace, Thank you, Grace. Okay, I'm gonna do this message from Peter. Peter says, HI really enjoyed your episode on Next of Ken. Remember this is the the Australian horror movie we did a couple of weeks back. Now. While I can't share a lot of official detail about it, I do remember it from nineteen two. The film did not get a cinema release at the time or at any time as far as I can tell, but appeared on home video at the end of that year. So until the recent local blue ray release. Well that's kind of a tongue twister. Recent local blue ray release. It wasn't seen in widescreen nor heard in at least stereo. I remember as an undergraduate student in Brisbane waiting for a release that didn't come. The image of the girl with the ball outside the mansion made the cover of the industry Glossy Cinema Papers, which had run a multi page feature on the film's production, A new Australian Gothic horror that looks like that cover art I'm in And then it was a four by three of glooy vhs with compressed mono sound. Oh that's a tragedy, Peter goes on. When a film doesn't appear when and where it should, there are usually reasons unrelated to the film itself, like licensing or contracts, and I have no idea what prevented this one from joining what was still being called the Australian film renaissance. Unlike a lot of local indies, it didn't make it into the schedules of the then well supported art house cinemas, and I never noticed it showing on late night TV. Now it sits on the shelves at retailers, beside the other discounted titles, waiting for someone to take a chance on the interesting cover art Girl Ball Mansion. I remember that I kept wanting it to lift off into something more like a Hammer movie, and thought little of it until the Blu ray restoration, which really brings it to life and enhances all those non or anti genre decisions you mentioned. Maybe now it could get a look in on a big screen venue, mayhap, Peter. Yeah, interesting now that the poster that that Peter mentions the with the ball girl and Mansion. Yeah, this is one off you started looking around for like next of ken poster and make sure you put in two, otherwise you're only getting Patrick Swayze. Um, you'll see this one. There's yeah, there's one where it's the creepy little girl ball next to her mansion behind her. There's also a variant that I was seeing a lot of places where you have mansion, red clouds and then like zombie hand coming down from the clouds like horrible. Yeah, which it doesn't. I mean it, I guess it's not completely um giving the wrong impression of what the movie is. But it's it's weird. I mean, I like it okay, but it it ultimately feels like it's not a poster for this movie. I'm gonna challenge you. I think it gives completely the wrong impression. I think it's ugly as heck. I hate that main poster with the hand coming out of the sky. I really like the poster. I don't know what do I say poster. I guess it's cover art. I really like the poster that's just the sugarcube pyramid. I think that is very a very interesting image. It does communicate the essence of the film. Well, uh, that that's what it should be. Yeah, that one, that one is the best. That's also the one that's on the album cover for the Klaus Schultz Um soundtrack. Absolutely gives you the right the right taste of what's to come. But anyway, to come back to Peter's message, I completely agree. It's such a shame when a movie that looks this good only got a release on some horrible medium. You know, it was only released in a bad transfer onto VHS or something. Yeah, but you know, greedily. For modern film fans, it I mean, it is kind of nice when this sort of thing happens. I mean it's where there's a film that you haven't heard of, and suddenly it has been brought back into the limelight to some extent and it's really good and it's so or it or it has some creative ideas in it. So it's it's especially if if you're you know, like me, and you're perhaps more interested in older films than you are in the new ones. It's like you can you can wait on new releases from both the future and the past. Yes, I totally agree. All Right, we're gonna go and close up the mail bag there, but we'll be back more listener mails. On Mondays, we have short form artifact or monster fact episodes on Wednesday's core episodes of Stuff to Blow Your Mind on Tuesday and Thursday, and then on Fridays we set most of the serious matters aside and we just talk about a strange film, and then we have a little rerun in the weekend. Huge thanks as always to excellent audio producer Seth Nicholas Johnson. If you would like to get in touch with us with feedback on this episode or any other, to suggest topic for the future, or just to say hello, you can email us at contact at stuff to blow your Mind dot com. Stuff to Blow Your Mind is production of I Heart Radio. 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