Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. A listener mail This is Robert Lamb and this is Joe mccormay. Can it's a Monday, the day of each week that we read back some messages from the mail bag. If you are a listener to Stuff to Blow your Mind and you have never gotten in touch with us before by email, why not give it a shot. You can write us at contact at stuff to blow your Mind dot com. All sorts of messages are fair game. Of course, feedback on existing episodes, that's always welcome. If you've got anything interesting to add to what we said, or if you've got corrections or just additional thoughts, any of that, send it our way. Also, if you want to suggest topics for future episodes, that's always welcome. If you just want to share something that you've thought of that's interesting that you think we might be interested into, that's fair game as well. Just send it all. Yeah, I mean, there are whole episodes in the past from a lot of listeners, and certain episodes generate a lot of comments, but they're there episodes in the vault that have never generated commentary from listeners before, so you could be the first go back, find something interesting, rite in about it. Well, we'll chat about it all right, let's see, Rob, do you want to read this next message from Josh. Sure, Well, let's see before this one a little introduction. This is related to a digression in our episodes on Fear of the Void about how some people need to apparently withdraw to a relative vacuum, to a kind of void like environment to focus on creative work. And there there are different versions of this, you know, some people might have like a featureless office with an empty desk and nothing but their typewriter or computer, or like a retreat to a place that's relatively free of distractions and so forth. And of course some people are exactly the opposite and want to surround themselves with stimulating imagery while they're while they're working. But Josh got into touch about that. Digressions as high Joe, Robert and JJ I found your reference to vacuums for art creation interesting, as I had not thought about why certain circumstances are so helpful for different types of art, especially with writing. Quiet allows my brain to fully develop an idea without interruption and for a story follow a cogent path without being pulled aside by unwanted inputs. With writing, I basically need the vacuum of silence, whereas withdrawing and sculpture, I prefer music as it interferes with my speech center, providing a different kind of vacuum. Although since I live in the Netherlands and speak less than perfect Dutch, following stranger's conversations requires effort, so I am able to tune people out. Making public transit, whether bus, metro or train a comfortable English vacuum for writing. It also helps that on public transit. The most important vacuum I experience is that since I am professionally a carpenter, I have an inability to do any work household chores, providing a guilt vacuum. Thanks for the great four partner, Josh Oh, several interesting things there, Josh, Yes, I definitely agree with you there about the I don't know if I would have used the word guilt, but yeah, what you call guilt vacuum or a responsibility vacuum. Sometimes it can be helpful to like go to a different place to get one type of work done because you are simply unable in that place to get done the other things that you currently have to get done, so it like forces you to focus. Yeah, yeah, I always I used to back in the day when I took the train every day, I always like that about the train. It's like, oh, I can I can read on the train, but you know it's going to go underground and then I'm not gonna be able to connect on my phone and worry about anything else. Or at least that used to be the way it was. I guess now they have wireless in all the tunnels so that people can can just stress out NonStop. But time wise, when I could pull out a book and felt like, well, I have free range to just sit here and enjoy this book right now. So I think we've heard from quite a few listeners who tell us that they put us on while they're doing like a visual arts drawing or painting or sculpture. Yeah, it's true. We've heard from a lot of a lot of artists. We don't hear from a lot of writers who are like, yes, I want to hear you guys chatter while I try and write dialogue. I think that would be a problem. Yeah, maybe, unless you don't speak English. Maybe then it'd be just the thing. I guess. I don't know that our voices are that beautiful, just in and out themselves. But all right, what else do we have here? Joe? Oh, we've got one message hearkening all the way back to our series on animal throwing behavior non human animals throwing objects. This is from ian Ian, says dear Rob and Joe. In listening to your episodes on animals throwing things and the accompanying listener responses, I was struck by a pattern. Most of your examples of mammals throwing things, and all of the listener males, at least that I've heard so far, involve the mammals hiking the object backwards between their legs, rather than tossing it up, as might seem more natural to a human. The reason this stood out to me is that my grandparents had a dog that, when she wanted to play fetch and no one would accommodate her, would grab her tennis ball in her teeth by the fuzz and then toss her head up and back, causing the ball to fly up over her back and behind her. She would then proceed to chase after it, as in a normal game of fetch and repeat the procedure until she got tired or someone took pity on her and threw it for her. She had pretty good range too, the ball often traveling ten feet or so before hitting the ground, and of course it would bounce and roll farther than that. At the time, I just thought it was funny that she would play fetch with herself. I didn't realize the mechanics of her throwing method were apparently so rare among quadrupedal mammals in a similar vein. As well as similar to the listener who said their dog would drop their puzzle feeder down the stairs, my father in law had a dog who would take her tennis ball to the top of the basement stairs, use her nose to gently bump it over the edge, watch it rolled to the bottom, then run down to retrieve it so she could do it again, just like my grandparents dog. She would keep doing this until she got tired or someone started an actual game of fetch. Another thing that stood out to me is that, unlike Joe's story about his dog throwing its puzzle feeder or the listener whose dog would drop theirs down the stairs, Neither of the dogs I've encountered doing these things seem to be getting any tangible reward beyond just playing, though of course fun can be a powerful motivator. Anyway, just wanted to share those anecdotes as I thought they had both interesting similarities and differences to some of the other things you discussed. As other listeners have said, I love the way you can take something seemingly mundane and make it so interesting. Thanks for all you do in well, thank you. I uh yet that is interesting. Um. Another one of the distinctions I remember making in these episodes was that it seemed almost all of the non human throwing behavior we found, with a few exceptions, uh you know, the ones in primates who do targeted throwing, and possibly the examples and cephalopods and so forth, most of the non human animal throwing behavior seemed designed to have an effect on the projectile itself, rather than designed to use a projectile to have an effect on the target. So, for example, the the oh, no, I forget which animal it was, there was some small mammal that would throw millipedes in order to damage their their armor plates. Was it a type of mongoose or something? Yeah, And I think the dog in your example would still fit into that category because the purpose of the throwing is to do something to the ball, in this case, to make the ball go far away so that it can be retreat for fun, rather than to hit something and cause an effect to the thing you're hitting. Yeah, And you know, we just recently finished up recording our series on gray whales and orcas. Orcas, I don't I don't remember we mentioned them at all in our episodes of the animals throwing things, but there are flots of documented behavior, particular particularly from the bigs killer whales, of throwing seals around, Yeah, which I think is fascinating behavior because it's not it's not necessary for the killing of the prey, especially with the seal, that they can make short work of it once they have it, and at times it's like gets really impressive. I've seen images where it looks like they're they're using their mouth to sort of throw the seal about. But then there's the one video on the internet with someone captured footage of one appearing to sort of like punt it a seal carcass with its with its with its tail and make it fly like something like eighty feet in the air. It's quite impressive and hard to hard to think about in terms of anything other than some sort of a play type of feature. You know. I'm to understand it. Sometimes the animals they play with they're not even necessarily things they're going to well eat in their entirety, which they often don't do. But also sometimes it's not something they're eating, it's just they're seemingly playing with it. That's very strange. I do recall when we were reading up for these episodes that marine mammals were featured. I guess we just didn't get into them in the series, but maybe we could come back to that. I wonder, yeah, why that would be. I think there's one theory about the loosening skin that may then subsequently be ripped off of the animal, but I haven't looked into it intremendous detail yet. That's grizzly. That's it's a grizzly world out there for the organ that's true. But once again, this would be something where if it's not for fun, the imagine the purpose of it is to do something to the projectile, not to like hit something with it, right right, Yeah, Yeah, they're not trying to like they're not trying to throw a seal at a whale or something to that effect. Yeah, all right, you know, turning to the world of Discord, we do have a Discord page, and if you want to access a Discord page, shoot us an email. We'll send you the link. That's the best way to join it. And it kind of keep seems to thus far keep the Discord from being flooded. You know, it's kind of a smaller community there, but we don't have just a bunch of random folks there either. We have I'm gonna just read. We'll start with let's sort of go through these. First one here comes from Fletch. Fletch says, the discussion of the Norse view of the heart. This was our Valentine's Day episode or episodes. Reminded me of the novels of Joe Ambercrombie where one character is advised, you must make of your heart a stone, and that becomes something of a mantra for her. Okay, so this is connecting to those texts from ancient nor culture or I don't know how ancient, but at least pre modern Norse culture, with the idea that like the heart sort of is the seed of kindness and positive emotion and caring and stuff. And for that reason, your heart must be shriveled and small to allow you the appropriate level of cruelty needed to be an effective warrior. Yeah, it's a very grim dark warrior ethos, So it makes sense that it might be in a Joe Ambercrombie novel. I've not read any Joe Ambercrombie, but I've read authors that are sort of Joe Ambercrombie adjacent. I know nothing of Joe Abercrombie. It's it's like dark fantasy or grim dark fantasy, depending on how you want to describe it. I guess that's what I've always heard. All right, let's see I should read something from Discord here. Well, we got one message from is this dricks? I guess this way? I read it in my head? Okay, Drix says. In terms of helping the show, it was mentioned a few times to download the latest episodes even if you don't listen right away. I never actually download episodes, but stream them the same day or next Should I also be downloading them? Okay? I apologize if we created any confusion on this. Okay, So here's what we were told by our people here. I can't speak to this directly. This is how it was explained to us. There are some platforms. Apple Podcasts specifically was mentioned where some people had it set to download all our new episodes automatically, so they're subscribed to us, they think they're supposed to be getting our new stuff. But Apple was automatically deactivating these downloads for some people, and the reason might have been if you had not listened to the five most recent of our episodes to publish. This seemed especially to affect us because, as we constantly hear from listeners, a lot of people like to save us up for a week or two and then binge all our episodes in a day or a day or two. And you know, if you want to listen that way, that's fine, But a downside of that is that apparently that will sometimes for some reason make you stop getting new episodes in your feed. Apple might interpret that as you, oh, you don't listen to us anymore, and just stop giving you our show. So, if you want to be helpful to our shows numbers in a business sense or andy, you just want to make sure that you're always getting all our new stuff. Apparently, one way around this is to try to always make sure you have listened to at least one of the five most recent episodes to publish. That being said, I mean, we're super grateful for any of our listeners out there, So if you're taking any step to listen to our show, we're grateful for it. So yeah, don't don't stress out about it too much. Exactly, listen to us however you want to listen. Whatever you prefer is fine. Just be aware that some weird stuff is going on with some of these platforms, and if if you want to take an extra step just to make sure you are helping us out, that would be one way to do it, all right. Dipping back into the discord here, a lot of people share on discord various weird house cinema suggestions. One of the users that does this allotted, Eric Eric says, coming in hot with another recommendation because he was following up some of the recommendations he had made any of the entries in the original Yokai Monsters trilogy from the sixties, but particularly I'll recommend one hundred Monsters. The creepy atmosphere mixed in with some silliness makes these movies especially charming. The practical effects and use of makeup and puppetry is absolutely delightful. They're all currently on Shutter and AMC plus two. I'm gonna say I've got these movies on the short list for me. Yeah. Yeah. One hundred Monsters was one we were talking about selecting for the hundredth Weird House Cinema because it seemed like that would that would make sense, but we went in a slightly different direction. But it's still on the radar. But speaking of weird House Cinema, maybe we'll finish this off with a weird house email. This one comes from Tom. Tom, says high Robin Joe. This is Tom from Canada. Robot Monster is indeed an enigma. As an aside, if you haven't listened to this episode yet or see in the movie, this is a movie from the early fifties that Rob and I covered where Earth is invaded by aliens or maybe just invaded by an alien, which is a guy in a gorilla suit with a skull mask wearing a like a astronaut helmet. Yeah, yep, that's it, and he's called Roman. It's it's a very silly very entertaining movie. I would say almost at the levels of Edwood, like it is that level of schlock royalty. Oh but a piece of background for Tom's email here is we were incredibly perplexed as to whether the movie is supposed to be a dream or not, because as one of those double fake out endings where it was all a dream or was it? Because then the Roman from the thing you know, it's supposed to be like the whole alien invasion was a dream, and then Roman walks out of the cave again. So it's like, what's going on? Yeah, very confusing, So Tom says Robot Monster is indeed an enigma. A part of the movie which might serve to cast some clarity, though, is to know exactly when the Child's dream starts. It has two potential starting points. Either when young Johnny falls asleep in the desert with the others. You remember they're out picnicking on a blanket surrounded by rocks and they'll just like lay down on the desert sand and fall asleep. So that could be one point, but Tom goes on which would make all the following a dream escape, including the arrival of Roman and the shift in the roles of the adults, or the dream starts at the cave, which makes the arrival of the Roman reel, but the story itself just a dream. The ending plays with both versions, as the story goes back to reality following Johnny waking up, yet still entertaining the idea that Roman did arrive all the best, Tom, Tom, I think you've solved it. Maybe that's the second So maybe it's it's a triple fake out. It's faking you out, making you think that the whole movie was just a dream. But then the reveal reveals that only part of the movie was a dream. The part where the humans are able to defeat Roman is the dream. It sounds to me like the movies in superposition. That's that's how we should approach it. I think that's that's a good way of putting it. Yes, all right, well we're gonna go ahead and close it out on that note here, But we'd love to hear from everyone again, right in with your thoughts on current episodes of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Weird House Cinema Listener mail or the Artifact or Monster Fact episodes, or writing on past episodes of these or future episodes episodes you'd like to see in the future, topic you wish that we would revisit that sort of thing. Everything is fair game, that's all right. So before we close out, big thanks to our audio producer JJ Pauseway. And if you do want to get in touch for any of those reasons we listed before, you can email us at contact at stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. Stuff to Blow Your Mind is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from my heart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. A listener mail This is Robert Lamb and this is Joe mccormay. Can it's a Monday, the day of each week that we read back some messages from the mail bag. If you are a listener to Stuff to Blow your Mind and you have never gotten in touch with us before by email, why not give it a shot. You can write us at contact at stuff to blow your Mind dot com. All sorts of messages are fair game. Of course, feedback on existing episodes, that's always welcome. If you've got anything interesting to add to what we said, or if you've got corrections or just additional thoughts, any of that, send it our way. Also, if you want to suggest topics for future episodes, that's always welcome. If you just want to share something that you've thought of that's interesting that you think we might be interested into, that's fair game as well. Just send it all. Yeah, I mean, there are whole episodes in the past from a lot of listeners, and certain episodes generate a lot of comments, but they're there episodes in the vault that have never generated commentary from listeners before, so you could be the first go back, find something interesting, rite in about it. Well, we'll chat about it all right, let's see, Rob, do you want to read this next message from Josh. Sure, Well, let's see before this one a little introduction. This is related to a digression in our episodes on Fear of the Void about how some people need to apparently withdraw to a relative vacuum, to a kind of void like environment to focus on creative work. And there there are different versions of this, you know, some people might have like a featureless office with an empty desk and nothing but their typewriter or computer, or like a retreat to a place that's relatively free of distractions and so forth. And of course some people are exactly the opposite and want to surround themselves with stimulating imagery while they're while they're working. But Josh got into touch about that. Digressions as high Joe, Robert and JJ I found your reference to vacuums for art creation interesting, as I had not thought about why certain circumstances are so helpful for different types of art, especially with writing. Quiet allows my brain to fully develop an idea without interruption and for a story follow a cogent path without being pulled aside by unwanted inputs. With writing, I basically need the vacuum of silence, whereas withdrawing and sculpture, I prefer music as it interferes with my speech center, providing a different kind of vacuum. Although since I live in the Netherlands and speak less than perfect Dutch, following stranger's conversations requires effort, so I am able to tune people out. Making public transit, whether bus, metro or train a comfortable English vacuum for writing. It also helps that on public transit. The most important vacuum I experience is that since I am professionally a carpenter, I have an inability to do any work household chores, providing a guilt vacuum. Thanks for the great four partner, Josh Oh, several interesting things there, Josh, Yes, I definitely agree with you there about the I don't know if I would have used the word guilt, but yeah, what you call guilt vacuum or a responsibility vacuum. Sometimes it can be helpful to like go to a different place to get one type of work done because you are simply unable in that place to get done the other things that you currently have to get done, so it like forces you to focus. Yeah, yeah, I always I used to back in the day when I took the train every day, I always like that about the train. It's like, oh, I can I can read on the train, but you know it's going to go underground and then I'm not gonna be able to connect on my phone and worry about anything else. Or at least that used to be the way it was. I guess now they have wireless in all the tunnels so that people can can just stress out NonStop. But time wise, when I could pull out a book and felt like, well, I have free range to just sit here and enjoy this book right now. So I think we've heard from quite a few listeners who tell us that they put us on while they're doing like a visual arts drawing or painting or sculpture. Yeah, it's true. We've heard from a lot of a lot of artists. We don't hear from a lot of writers who are like, yes, I want to hear you guys chatter while I try and write dialogue. I think that would be a problem. Yeah, maybe, unless you don't speak English. Maybe then it'd be just the thing. I guess. I don't know that our voices are that beautiful, just in and out themselves. But all right, what else do we have here? Joe? Oh, we've got one message hearkening all the way back to our series on animal throwing behavior non human animals throwing objects. This is from ian Ian, says dear Rob and Joe. In listening to your episodes on animals throwing things and the accompanying listener responses, I was struck by a pattern. Most of your examples of mammals throwing things, and all of the listener males, at least that I've heard so far, involve the mammals hiking the object backwards between their legs, rather than tossing it up, as might seem more natural to a human. The reason this stood out to me is that my grandparents had a dog that, when she wanted to play fetch and no one would accommodate her, would grab her tennis ball in her teeth by the fuzz and then toss her head up and back, causing the ball to fly up over her back and behind her. She would then proceed to chase after it, as in a normal game of fetch and repeat the procedure until she got tired or someone took pity on her and threw it for her. She had pretty good range too, the ball often traveling ten feet or so before hitting the ground, and of course it would bounce and roll farther than that. At the time, I just thought it was funny that she would play fetch with herself. I didn't realize the mechanics of her throwing method were apparently so rare among quadrupedal mammals in a similar vein. As well as similar to the listener who said their dog would drop their puzzle feeder down the stairs, my father in law had a dog who would take her tennis ball to the top of the basement stairs, use her nose to gently bump it over the edge, watch it rolled to the bottom, then run down to retrieve it so she could do it again, just like my grandparents dog. She would keep doing this until she got tired or someone started an actual game of fetch. Another thing that stood out to me is that, unlike Joe's story about his dog throwing its puzzle feeder or the listener whose dog would drop theirs down the stairs, Neither of the dogs I've encountered doing these things seem to be getting any tangible reward beyond just playing, though of course fun can be a powerful motivator. Anyway, just wanted to share those anecdotes as I thought they had both interesting similarities and differences to some of the other things you discussed. As other listeners have said, I love the way you can take something seemingly mundane and make it so interesting. Thanks for all you do in well, thank you. I uh yet that is interesting. Um. Another one of the distinctions I remember making in these episodes was that it seemed almost all of the non human throwing behavior we found, with a few exceptions, uh you know, the ones in primates who do targeted throwing, and possibly the examples and cephalopods and so forth, most of the non human animal throwing behavior seemed designed to have an effect on the projectile itself, rather than designed to use a projectile to have an effect on the target. So, for example, the the oh, no, I forget which animal it was, there was some small mammal that would throw millipedes in order to damage their their armor plates. Was it a type of mongoose or something? Yeah, And I think the dog in your example would still fit into that category because the purpose of the throwing is to do something to the ball, in this case, to make the ball go far away so that it can be retreat for fun, rather than to hit something and cause an effect to the thing you're hitting. Yeah, And you know, we just recently finished up recording our series on gray whales and orcas. Orcas, I don't I don't remember we mentioned them at all in our episodes of the animals throwing things, but there are flots of documented behavior, particular particularly from the bigs killer whales, of throwing seals around, Yeah, which I think is fascinating behavior because it's not it's not necessary for the killing of the prey, especially with the seal, that they can make short work of it once they have it, and at times it's like gets really impressive. I've seen images where it looks like they're they're using their mouth to sort of throw the seal about. But then there's the one video on the internet with someone captured footage of one appearing to sort of like punt it a seal carcass with its with its with its tail and make it fly like something like eighty feet in the air. It's quite impressive and hard to hard to think about in terms of anything other than some sort of a play type of feature. You know. I'm to understand it. Sometimes the animals they play with they're not even necessarily things they're going to well eat in their entirety, which they often don't do. But also sometimes it's not something they're eating, it's just they're seemingly playing with it. That's very strange. I do recall when we were reading up for these episodes that marine mammals were featured. I guess we just didn't get into them in the series, but maybe we could come back to that. I wonder, yeah, why that would be. I think there's one theory about the loosening skin that may then subsequently be ripped off of the animal, but I haven't looked into it intremendous detail yet. That's grizzly. That's it's a grizzly world out there for the organ that's true. But once again, this would be something where if it's not for fun, the imagine the purpose of it is to do something to the projectile, not to like hit something with it, right right, Yeah, Yeah, they're not trying to like they're not trying to throw a seal at a whale or something to that effect. Yeah, all right, you know, turning to the world of Discord, we do have a Discord page, and if you want to access a Discord page, shoot us an email. We'll send you the link. That's the best way to join it. And it kind of keep seems to thus far keep the Discord from being flooded. You know, it's kind of a smaller community there, but we don't have just a bunch of random folks there either. We have I'm gonna just read. We'll start with let's sort of go through these. First one here comes from Fletch. Fletch says, the discussion of the Norse view of the heart. This was our Valentine's Day episode or episodes. Reminded me of the novels of Joe Ambercrombie where one character is advised, you must make of your heart a stone, and that becomes something of a mantra for her. Okay, so this is connecting to those texts from ancient nor culture or I don't know how ancient, but at least pre modern Norse culture, with the idea that like the heart sort of is the seed of kindness and positive emotion and caring and stuff. And for that reason, your heart must be shriveled and small to allow you the appropriate level of cruelty needed to be an effective warrior. Yeah, it's a very grim dark warrior ethos, So it makes sense that it might be in a Joe Ambercrombie novel. I've not read any Joe Ambercrombie, but I've read authors that are sort of Joe Ambercrombie adjacent. I know nothing of Joe Abercrombie. It's it's like dark fantasy or grim dark fantasy, depending on how you want to describe it. I guess that's what I've always heard. All right, let's see I should read something from Discord here. Well, we got one message from is this dricks? I guess this way? I read it in my head? Okay, Drix says. In terms of helping the show, it was mentioned a few times to download the latest episodes even if you don't listen right away. I never actually download episodes, but stream them the same day or next Should I also be downloading them? Okay? I apologize if we created any confusion on this. Okay, So here's what we were told by our people here. I can't speak to this directly. This is how it was explained to us. There are some platforms. Apple Podcasts specifically was mentioned where some people had it set to download all our new episodes automatically, so they're subscribed to us, they think they're supposed to be getting our new stuff. But Apple was automatically deactivating these downloads for some people, and the reason might have been if you had not listened to the five most recent of our episodes to publish. This seemed especially to affect us because, as we constantly hear from listeners, a lot of people like to save us up for a week or two and then binge all our episodes in a day or a day or two. And you know, if you want to listen that way, that's fine, But a downside of that is that apparently that will sometimes for some reason make you stop getting new episodes in your feed. Apple might interpret that as you, oh, you don't listen to us anymore, and just stop giving you our show. So, if you want to be helpful to our shows numbers in a business sense or andy, you just want to make sure that you're always getting all our new stuff. Apparently, one way around this is to try to always make sure you have listened to at least one of the five most recent episodes to publish. That being said, I mean, we're super grateful for any of our listeners out there, So if you're taking any step to listen to our show, we're grateful for it. So yeah, don't don't stress out about it too much. Exactly, listen to us however you want to listen. Whatever you prefer is fine. Just be aware that some weird stuff is going on with some of these platforms, and if if you want to take an extra step just to make sure you are helping us out, that would be one way to do it, all right. Dipping back into the discord here, a lot of people share on discord various weird house cinema suggestions. One of the users that does this allotted, Eric Eric says, coming in hot with another recommendation because he was following up some of the recommendations he had made any of the entries in the original Yokai Monsters trilogy from the sixties, but particularly I'll recommend one hundred Monsters. The creepy atmosphere mixed in with some silliness makes these movies especially charming. The practical effects and use of makeup and puppetry is absolutely delightful. They're all currently on Shutter and AMC plus two. I'm gonna say I've got these movies on the short list for me. Yeah. Yeah. One hundred Monsters was one we were talking about selecting for the hundredth Weird House Cinema because it seemed like that would that would make sense, but we went in a slightly different direction. But it's still on the radar. But speaking of weird House Cinema, maybe we'll finish this off with a weird house email. This one comes from Tom. Tom, says high Robin Joe. This is Tom from Canada. Robot Monster is indeed an enigma. As an aside, if you haven't listened to this episode yet or see in the movie, this is a movie from the early fifties that Rob and I covered where Earth is invaded by aliens or maybe just invaded by an alien, which is a guy in a gorilla suit with a skull mask wearing a like a astronaut helmet. Yeah, yep, that's it, and he's called Roman. It's it's a very silly very entertaining movie. I would say almost at the levels of Edwood, like it is that level of schlock royalty. Oh but a piece of background for Tom's email here is we were incredibly perplexed as to whether the movie is supposed to be a dream or not, because as one of those double fake out endings where it was all a dream or was it? Because then the Roman from the thing you know, it's supposed to be like the whole alien invasion was a dream, and then Roman walks out of the cave again. So it's like, what's going on? Yeah, very confusing, So Tom says Robot Monster is indeed an enigma. A part of the movie which might serve to cast some clarity, though, is to know exactly when the Child's dream starts. It has two potential starting points. Either when young Johnny falls asleep in the desert with the others. You remember they're out picnicking on a blanket surrounded by rocks and they'll just like lay down on the desert sand and fall asleep. So that could be one point, but Tom goes on which would make all the following a dream escape, including the arrival of Roman and the shift in the roles of the adults, or the dream starts at the cave, which makes the arrival of the Roman reel, but the story itself just a dream. The ending plays with both versions, as the story goes back to reality following Johnny waking up, yet still entertaining the idea that Roman did arrive all the best, Tom, Tom, I think you've solved it. Maybe that's the second So maybe it's it's a triple fake out. It's faking you out, making you think that the whole movie was just a dream. But then the reveal reveals that only part of the movie was a dream. The part where the humans are able to defeat Roman is the dream. It sounds to me like the movies in superposition. That's that's how we should approach it. I think that's that's a good way of putting it. Yes, all right, well we're gonna go ahead and close it out on that note here, But we'd love to hear from everyone again, right in with your thoughts on current episodes of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Weird House Cinema Listener mail or the Artifact or Monster Fact episodes, or writing on past episodes of these or future episodes episodes you'd like to see in the future, topic you wish that we would revisit that sort of thing. Everything is fair game, that's all right. So before we close out, big thanks to our audio producer JJ Pauseway. And if you do want to get in touch for any of those reasons we listed before, you can email us at contact at stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. Stuff to Blow Your Mind is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from my heart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.