Cattitude - Episode 268 Meow! Cats in Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Movies

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome back everyone. I'd like to welcome Christopher Robinson. He
<v Speaker 1>is one of the collaborators of several for the book
<v Speaker 1>Meau Kats in Horror, sci Fi and Fantasy Movies. Welcome Chris.
<v Speaker 2>Can I call you Chris, Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Of course, yes, thank you. Thanks for having me.
<v Speaker 1>Michelle, Yeah, I'm very excited to have you. Can you
<v Speaker 1>share a little bit about your background. I know you're
<v Speaker 1>one of several collaborators on the book there is. This
<v Speaker 1>is quite a book.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it's pretty it's like a companion of basically, it's
<v Speaker 5>pretty exhaustive just about every cat themed horror and sci
<v Speaker 5>fi you know movie known is probably mentioned in my
<v Speaker 5>background is Yeah. I was generally writing about Western history
<v Speaker 5>and film for a period because I was the senior
<v Speaker 5>editor of an online publication called Western Magazine Digest. But
<v Speaker 5>over the years I've been contributing to these reference guides
<v Speaker 5>that Vanessa Morgan has been publishing. She's actually in Belgium.
<v Speaker 5>She's they call her the Stephen King, the female Stephen
<v Speaker 5>King of Belgium, well of anywhere I guess, but yeah,
<v Speaker 5>she's the one that sort of agglomerates all these international
<v Speaker 5>writers and her. You know, cats are an obsession for her.
<v Speaker 5>She's written novels about pat and she's written these film
<v Speaker 5>reference guide about horror and sci fi. But this time
<v Speaker 5>she co leesed her too favorite interests and made a
<v Speaker 5>whole reference guide that just covers every cat theme, horror
<v Speaker 5>and fantasy and sci fi film out there.
<v Speaker 1>This is and that's Vanessa Morgan.
<v Speaker 5>Yes, yes, Vanessa Morgan. Yeah, there's there's another celebrity named
<v Speaker 5>Vanessa Morgan that's probably more more known in North America,
<v Speaker 5>but this Vanessa Morgan is pretty popular in Belgium and Europe.
<v Speaker 5>She's in charge of a lot of film festivals and
<v Speaker 5>some of her books have become films too.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, now what about you. I know you're a writer.
<v Speaker 1>Are you into cats?
<v Speaker 5>I'm not into cats. I'm into films, so okay, film
<v Speaker 5>buff Yeah, But I since I helped her out with
<v Speaker 5>these other, uh these other reference guides, I guess she
<v Speaker 5>coaxed me into, uh kind of giving her something for this.
<v Speaker 5>But there were some films that I was a fan
<v Speaker 5>of that have cats in them, so you know, it
<v Speaker 5>was an easy thing.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, maybe they're calling to you, maybe adoption, you know.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yeah, maybe maybe this is getting me crept for
<v Speaker 5>a new uh, a new pastime.
<v Speaker 1>Prepped to be a cat daddy?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah right?
<v Speaker 1>So what was the reasoning behind the book? So why
<v Speaker 1>did Vanessa decide I'm going to write an exhaustive reference
<v Speaker 1>guide about cats and horror, sci fi and fantasy movies.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah? Well, I guess uh. When her first reference guy
<v Speaker 5>that she put together, it was called called When Animals
<v Speaker 5>Attack These seventy movies Best Movies with Killer Animals, And
<v Speaker 5>I think while she was putting that together, she was
<v Speaker 5>thinking that it would be great if she could do
<v Speaker 5>the same thing with one that just centered on cats.
<v Speaker 5>And the more she edited that book, the more I
<v Speaker 5>guess she discovered that there were plenty of those kind
<v Speaker 5>of sub genres out there that you could actually fill
<v Speaker 5>up another reference guide with that, and that it would
<v Speaker 5>also be interesting to people and marketable.
<v Speaker 1>You know, as I went through this reference guide, I
<v Speaker 1>couldn't help noticing that there are a lot, like a
<v Speaker 1>lot of movies about cats. There's hard there's sci fi
<v Speaker 1>and fantasy that's mentioned. How many movies are actually I
<v Speaker 1>didn't count them. How many movies are actually mentioned.
<v Speaker 5>Well, there's I guess there's about at least eighty that
<v Speaker 5>are with main entries, and then there's an additional chapter
<v Speaker 5>that covers just memorable scenes with cats in certain films,
<v Speaker 5>so that you could have those important moments mentioned without
<v Speaker 5>devoting an entire essay to something that you couldn't write
<v Speaker 5>about as much. But yeah, there's I guess it goes
<v Speaker 5>back to the beginning of cinema. I think one of
<v Speaker 5>the first Thomas Edison films featured a couple of cats boxing.
<v Speaker 5>They had like gloves on and had them doing like
<v Speaker 5>a sparring boxing match. And I don't know, I don't
<v Speaker 5>know how realistic it was. It would it looked like,
<v Speaker 5>but it sounds like something I might want to see
<v Speaker 5>one day.
<v Speaker 1>Was that the first film ever with cats?
<v Speaker 5>That might have been yet that might have been one
<v Speaker 5>of the very first ones, if not the first one,
<v Speaker 5>because that's like before the twentieth century, something like the
<v Speaker 5>eighteen nineties. I think when he was doing these experiments.
<v Speaker 1>That's pretty incredible. I've talked about this on the show before,
<v Speaker 1>but not in the genre of film we were discussing.
<v Speaker 1>It was more with Halloween but this is not that,
<v Speaker 1>and Halloween is many months away unless you're listening again
<v Speaker 1>to this show during Halloween. Thank you. But let's talk
<v Speaker 1>about this. Why are there so many cats in horror movies?
<v Speaker 1>You know again with the black cats, the cats, and
<v Speaker 1>the witches. I get that, But just in your opinion,
<v Speaker 1>as you know, an expert, you wrote about this. You're
<v Speaker 1>a writer, you're a fan of the films. You hear
<v Speaker 1>about horror cats. You hear about, you know, bewitching cats,
<v Speaker 1>but not so much like say dogs, I mean, except
<v Speaker 1>for were wolves, and that's quite a dog.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, different.
<v Speaker 1>So why cats?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, there's something that you know that the imagery of
<v Speaker 5>cats has always I think spurred people's imaginations and fantasies.
<v Speaker 5>I guess it goes back to their mysterious that there's
<v Speaker 5>sometimes mysterious sort of persona, you know, their eyes and
<v Speaker 5>the way they can move around, the whole nocturnal thing,
<v Speaker 5>and that's always fed into people's imaginations in terms of
<v Speaker 5>what you can do cinematically and in literature and so on,
<v Speaker 5>which is probably why they're the subject of so many
<v Speaker 5>fantastical and horrific films and videos and books. Or they
<v Speaker 5>could just be in the periphery. Sometimes they're just they're
<v Speaker 5>a part of the storyline or just off to the side,
<v Speaker 5>but their imagery is memorable, even in a story that
<v Speaker 5>doesn't concentrate specifically on cats, or they don't figure into
<v Speaker 5>the story at all.
<v Speaker 1>It made me think about cats, and all three of
<v Speaker 1>mine have very distinct personalities. I think the one that
<v Speaker 1>would be best in film is Molly because she does
<v Speaker 1>have that look. I think you hit it on the
<v Speaker 1>head when you said their eyes, because cat's eyes are
<v Speaker 1>so unique, and you know it's sometimes it's the shape
<v Speaker 1>of their eyes. For instance, my cat Dennis, he's part
<v Speaker 1>me incun is a rounder. He always has the innocent eye,
<v Speaker 1>like what me, I didn't do it, you know, like
<v Speaker 1>that innocent round.
<v Speaker 5>But yeah, yeah, that's their personalities, right.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and he has that personal Molly's are like more
<v Speaker 1>evil looking, and she's a diva and she can be evil.
<v Speaker 1>So sorry Molly, but.
<v Speaker 5>You know, well we should sign her up maybe. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>she's one of them to make it into a film, right.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, she has to get in better shape though she's
<v Speaker 1>a little fat.
<v Speaker 5>I think those cats that did the prize fighting made
<v Speaker 5>like thirty five dollars a week or something like that
<v Speaker 5>that wasn't too bad in those days.
<v Speaker 1>Prize fighting.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, there's there's boxing cat hopefully fake. Yeah, well they
<v Speaker 5>didn't have what aspca back then, but hopefully, yes, somebody
<v Speaker 5>was making sure it didn't get too crazy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Okay, so let's get back to the movies. Like
<v Speaker 1>I said, there is a lot of movies. If you
<v Speaker 1>like cats and you like movies, this is the book
<v Speaker 1>for you. And now I mentioned black, but there's not
<v Speaker 1>only black cats. I saw gingers, I saw white cats.
<v Speaker 1>I saw what I think is gray because some of
<v Speaker 1>these are in black and white. Most of them are
<v Speaker 1>in black and white. All of them are in black
<v Speaker 1>and white. Actually, so there's something mystique about cats. What
<v Speaker 1>I find interesting is cats can be depicted as mysterious,
<v Speaker 1>as evil, as sexy. You hear that. You know, dogs
<v Speaker 1>are not considered sexy, but cats are.
<v Speaker 5>Cat Woman from the Batman comics. They never had dog warmen. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Cats have all these stereotypes placed on them for different reasons.
<v Speaker 1>Why do you think that is.
<v Speaker 5>Well, it goes back to the like ancient ancient cultures,
<v Speaker 5>ancient Egypt, they had a god, right, a goddess, cat goddess.
<v Speaker 1>They did fast.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, and it's in the ancient Rome, ancient Greece, Japanese
<v Speaker 5>and Chinese cultures, Nordic mythology because cats have always been
<v Speaker 5>around and maybe that you know, they've had this long
<v Speaker 5>lasting impact too, so their image just kind of transcends
<v Speaker 5>storytelling almost you know, it predates. It goes back to
<v Speaker 5>the spoken folklore, you know, just spoken stories before they
<v Speaker 5>could write down histories and tell their stories their different mediums.
<v Speaker 1>That makes a lot of sense, and thanks to the
<v Speaker 1>magic of Ai. I think the Egyptian Cat you were
<v Speaker 1>thinking of his.
<v Speaker 5>Best debt, best set, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Even
<v Speaker 5>in that The Old Mummy Boris Karloff, it has no
<v Speaker 5>cat subplot, but it figures. The heroine's cat figures into
<v Speaker 5>the story after towards the finale, and I think Boris
<v Speaker 5>Karloff is taken back just by her cat because of
<v Speaker 5>his you know, ancient he's actually this ancient mummy and
<v Speaker 5>it goes back to, you know, his faith. No one
<v Speaker 5>covered that. I don't think that movie in the book,
<v Speaker 5>but that could have been one, you know, just because
<v Speaker 5>of the subtext of it.
<v Speaker 1>You know, there were a few that I looked up
<v Speaker 1>that I didn't see and listed, but there are so
<v Speaker 1>many listed. What is your favorite cat horror or sci
<v Speaker 1>fi or fantasy film or one of each.
<v Speaker 5>I really like Shadow of the Cat, the black and
<v Speaker 5>white film from the early sixties, which was about this. Well,
<v Speaker 5>it was a woman with a cat, with her pet cat.
<v Speaker 5>She was reading I don't know if it was Poe,
<v Speaker 5>but she was reading some poetry to her cat when
<v Speaker 5>she was killed by her ex husband and some of
<v Speaker 5>the servants that he used to help him knock her off.
<v Speaker 5>And after that point there's a big gathering of all
<v Speaker 5>the benefactors of her will, and the cat is still
<v Speaker 5>roaming the grounds, making them all nervous because I guess
<v Speaker 5>her cat or cat Tabitha is the name of cat,
<v Speaker 5>and tabith have witnessed the murder, and Tabitha is the
<v Speaker 5>only one who knew who did it, and they're all
<v Speaker 5>very guilty and apprehensive, and they're out to try and
<v Speaker 5>try and forge a new will and get the fortune
<v Speaker 5>and get away with murder, but the cat isn't going
<v Speaker 5>to let them do it. So it's like a unique
<v Speaker 5>kind of story that actually it's kind of a theme.
<v Speaker 5>I don't think too many people too many other filmmakers
<v Speaker 5>have touched upon. But it's not even that well known
<v Speaker 5>of a film, I guess, but I thought it was
<v Speaker 5>a good one. And it's a black bat too, so
<v Speaker 5>it falls into the black category pun intended.
<v Speaker 1>The black cat category is like a love and hate
<v Speaker 1>relationship on catitude because while we love black cats, but
<v Speaker 1>there's a stigma which causes people to adopt black cats
<v Speaker 1>right around. A lot of shelters, won't you know, adopt
<v Speaker 1>out black cats around Halloween because they get adopted out
<v Speaker 1>people like you know, use them as their costumes and
<v Speaker 1>then they either let them loose or return them to
<v Speaker 1>the shelter.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, yeah, that I didn't know, but I was aware
<v Speaker 5>that there was they had problem that they had more
<v Speaker 5>black cat in shelters that have a less chance of
<v Speaker 5>getting adopted. Very true, but there are more black cats.
<v Speaker 1>Not only cats, dogs too, but definitely with black cats.
<v Speaker 1>Probably goes back to superstition, goes.
<v Speaker 5>Back to the bad luck saying yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Which we know is just superstition. Anyway, We're going to
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<v Speaker 1>Com Welcome back everyone. Talking to Christopher Robinson. He is
<v Speaker 1>a collaborator of the book Meow Cats and Horror, sci
<v Speaker 1>Fi and fantasy Movies. Okay, so moving along with my
<v Speaker 1>questions on cats and how are sci fi and fantasy
<v Speaker 1>movies which I don't watch that many of them. I
<v Speaker 1>have watched some, probably more sci fi than fantasy and horror.
<v Speaker 1>I don't watch a lot of horror because then I
<v Speaker 1>can't sleep. But very interesting how the cats are depicted.
<v Speaker 1>It's also interesting to me that there's this is not
<v Speaker 1>just something in North America. You know, we're based in
<v Speaker 1>the US. We have lots and lots of listeners, which
<v Speaker 1>I'm always grateful for in the US, but our listeners
<v Speaker 1>are all over the world because you know digital, We're
<v Speaker 1>on the Internet. So with that in mind, it's interesting
<v Speaker 1>that this book has films from all over the globe.
<v Speaker 1>What country do you think has the most. I think Japan,
<v Speaker 1>That's what I was going to say. Yeah, they have
<v Speaker 1>a whole subgenre just about supernatural cats. So that's a
<v Speaker 1>popular thing right there. There's a multitude of movies and
<v Speaker 1>stories made just about those type of cats. But that's
<v Speaker 1>probably like just like China, I think that's that's something
<v Speaker 1>that's been in their culture for a long time, that
<v Speaker 1>kind of those entertainment ideas. And the other thing is
<v Speaker 1>I had a show a long time ago, and cats
<v Speaker 1>are just they're very popular in Asia and they're also
<v Speaker 1>popular I think they have. I might be getting this wrong,
<v Speaker 1>so somebody will send me an email correct me. But
<v Speaker 1>I believe either in China Japan, cats are actually considered
<v Speaker 1>good luck not bad luck.
<v Speaker 5>It's interesting, yeah, because it depends like whether poosh culture
<v Speaker 5>is influenced by neighboring you know, country's culture or something
<v Speaker 5>like that, you know, and that would make sense that
<v Speaker 5>another region would see it in a totally different way
<v Speaker 5>and proliferate a different, different kind of traditional It was
<v Speaker 5>even that the mule cat, which is I guess that's Nordic.
<v Speaker 5>It's it's supposed to be a myth of this of
<v Speaker 5>a giant, giant tiller cat. I would equate it to
<v Speaker 5>sort of like children's tales. Fairy tales seek to encourage
<v Speaker 5>kids to be good children by remembering certain fairy tales.
<v Speaker 5>I think in the case of the mule cat, it's
<v Speaker 5>a monster that comes out when the Norwegian children, if
<v Speaker 5>they haven't done their chores before Christmas. The cat will
<v Speaker 5>know by the you know how the way the house looks,
<v Speaker 5>and then the cat will emerge from the shadows.
<v Speaker 1>You know, Saint Nick not to bother.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yeah, I guess that I would imagine that would
<v Speaker 5>do the trick, that would that would scare me into
<v Speaker 5>doing my chores.
<v Speaker 1>That would okay, So I got clarification. It's Japan, Scotland
<v Speaker 1>and parts of England that consider black cat's good luck.
<v Speaker 1>I remember doing a show way back and it was
<v Speaker 1>actually Japan. That was what I had previously talked about,
<v Speaker 1>that black cats are considered good luck. And there's actually
<v Speaker 1>really nothing against black cats crossing your path. Don't do
<v Speaker 1>anything other than any other cat crossing your path. But
<v Speaker 1>there's the stigma of imagination which will cause people to
<v Speaker 1>say something bad happens after I see a black cat.
<v Speaker 1>Let's attribute it to the black cat.
<v Speaker 5>Right, you have to blame something or someone.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, of course. So I found in going through the book,
<v Speaker 1>I found some that I found interesting. There's those few
<v Speaker 1>popular movies. These are the ones that I found. The
<v Speaker 1>most popular horror pet cemetery. You can talk about the
<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty nine and twenty nineteen version Cats Eye, and
<v Speaker 1>of course the Black Cat with Edgar Allan Poe, and
<v Speaker 1>then for science fiction Alien and then the Cat from
<v Speaker 1>Outer Space Fantasy. There's just a lot And when you
<v Speaker 1>mentioned Japan, because a lot of it is anime.
<v Speaker 5>Am I anime?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so there's a few movies in that style as well.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it's pretty predominant. I believe in that genre as well.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, And there's even you even discuss TV shows, So
<v Speaker 1>when anybody thinks of a TV show, they think of
<v Speaker 1>Sabrina the teenage witch, right with the talking cat.
<v Speaker 5>Right, Yeah, I forget the name of the cat, right.
<v Speaker 1>And then this is an old old I wasn't around
<v Speaker 1>when this came out, but it's I've seen it bewitched, right, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>because I think in the.
<v Speaker 5>It was a black cat from what I recall.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, like he has a cat jump into arms and
<v Speaker 1>it becomes her husband in the intro.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, that went along with the witch stereotype.
<v Speaker 1>The witch stereotype. Yep.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, you mentioned the cat jumping. That's even considered like
<v Speaker 5>a cliche. And uh, suspense movies are horror movies. The
<v Speaker 5>cat jump where it's one of those false scares where
<v Speaker 5>you want to get the audience to get a rise,
<v Speaker 5>get get a big jump, you know, jump out of
<v Speaker 5>their seats without showing any hard like just a faker,
<v Speaker 5>you know, Oh it's just a cat. You know. They'll
<v Speaker 5>throw a pat into some of those horror pictures just
<v Speaker 5>so they can do that, you know. At some point.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, if you were to write your next movie and
<v Speaker 1>it had cats, and it was either horror science fiction,
<v Speaker 1>which would you choose? When what kind of a movie
<v Speaker 1>would it be?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah? I would go into science fiction or out because
<v Speaker 5>you could project all your ideas alongside some of the
<v Speaker 5>tropes and mythology that's already out there, with what you
<v Speaker 5>can sort of foresee in the future in a time
<v Speaker 5>that hasn't happened with technology, maybe taking the story into
<v Speaker 5>a different direction that nobody's really covered yet. So I'd
<v Speaker 5>probably go this science fiction or out for that reason.
<v Speaker 5>And I think I think cats, you know, could figure
<v Speaker 5>into that kind of scenario very, very interestingly.
<v Speaker 1>I agree with you, okay, with everything we've talked about
<v Speaker 1>cats and with just every you know, you're a writer,
<v Speaker 1>You've written about all kinds of things. Is there any
<v Speaker 1>other animal I know we think of that cats as
<v Speaker 1>are for babies, but they are an animal that could
<v Speaker 1>fit into movies or even books, not as a book
<v Speaker 1>about cats, but where cats are either a side character
<v Speaker 1>or the main character. Is there any other animal that
<v Speaker 1>could fit into that role? Because I can't think of one.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe wrote into a little bit, but that's I don't
<v Speaker 1>want to talk.
<v Speaker 5>That's you know, yeah that when you said wrote that
<v Speaker 5>reminded me of that movie Willard. That's what came to mind.
<v Speaker 5>But they brought cats into that also into that storyline.
<v Speaker 5>But yeah, you're right, it's hard to sort of imagine
<v Speaker 5>another kind of animal. Whereas you could tell those you
<v Speaker 5>could do the same things in terms of these films,
<v Speaker 5>you know, at least stories and these TV shows.
<v Speaker 1>I couldn't see a dog, and I love dogs too.
<v Speaker 1>I love cats and dogs and lots of other things.
<v Speaker 1>Couldn't see a dog, couldn't see a fair, couldn't see
<v Speaker 1>a fish, couldn't see a lizard or iguana, snake. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>snakes can be a little creepy, but I can't see
<v Speaker 1>a snake having that range just in harm maybe not
<v Speaker 1>the range horse, snow turtle, pig, duck, goat.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, we can see ourselves a little.
<v Speaker 1>Or we could sit here and just get through them.
<v Speaker 1>But I think that's why people either, you know, they
<v Speaker 1>have such a love hate relationship with the cats. Not
<v Speaker 1>that many people hate cats, only a small percentage. Actually
<v Speaker 1>not everybody has cats because of allergies. But I think
<v Speaker 1>the people that don't like cats, I think just don't
<v Speaker 1>get them because they are stoic creatures. They're not easily
<v Speaker 1>red which could be part of the mistake and why
<v Speaker 1>they're successful in you know these types.
<v Speaker 5>Of right, that's true. There's an inscrutability about them, and
<v Speaker 5>there's a human, almost human aspect, and that's why we
<v Speaker 5>can't envision that, I think like a dog doing some
<v Speaker 5>of these same things.
<v Speaker 1>No, never, where can people purchase meaw exclamation point Cats
<v Speaker 1>and Horror, Sci Fi and Fantasy Movies? And it is
<v Speaker 1>by Vanessa Morgan.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I almost forgot the exclamation point myself.
<v Speaker 1>And well I put an exclamation point because if you're
<v Speaker 1>doing a lot of folks do you know searches and
<v Speaker 1>if you look just up me how you're not going
<v Speaker 1>to find this? It's mew explanation point Cats and Horror,
<v Speaker 1>Sci Fi and Fantasy Movies. Where can we buy it?
<v Speaker 5>Well? Amazon is I think the best outlet to order.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, thanks, and do you have anything cal related that
<v Speaker 1>you're working on soon?
<v Speaker 5>Well, actually, Vanessa Morgan will be t trying out a
<v Speaker 5>similar reference guide but with the dog scene, So maybe
<v Speaker 5>we'll find out some of the answers to what you
<v Speaker 5>and I were just speculating. If that comes together, I
<v Speaker 5>guess it'll be just like this, but it'll be dogs.
<v Speaker 5>I believe in horror and horror movies, maybe there'll be
<v Speaker 5>a lot more of those than we realized existed, just
<v Speaker 5>like we didn't know there were so many cat horror movies.
<v Speaker 1>Right who knows? Well, Chris, thank you so much for
<v Speaker 1>coming on Catitude.
<v Speaker 5>Thanks for having me. I enjoyed it mentally.
<v Speaker 1>My feline friends, I hope you enjoyed this show. I've
<v Speaker 1>never had a show quite like this before. Again, the
<v Speaker 1>title of the book is Meow exclamation Point Cats and Horror,
<v Speaker 1>Sci Fi and Fantasy Movies, and it is a great
<v Speaker 1>reference book for all of you horror, sci fi and
<v Speaker 1>fantasy movie lovers that also, of course love cats. Thanks
<v Speaker 1>to my guest Christopher Robinson for coming on the show.
<v Speaker 1>Thanks to my cat crew, Dennis, Charlotte and Mollie. I
<v Speaker 1>think Mollie would be the device. She would be the
<v Speaker 1>best one in films. But Dennis probably is. He listens better,
<v Speaker 1>so maybe he would be Who knows. And thank you,
<v Speaker 1>of course, my listeners of Catitude. I appreciate your listenership
<v Speaker 1>so much, Thank you very much. And this show would
<v Speaker 1>not be possible without the magic of my producer, Mark Winter.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you Mark for all you do. And remember, lose
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