Rob Lamb
speaker
6,505 appearances
29 recordings
4 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2d ago
Rob Lamb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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While its predecessor, the 1982 film The Dark Crystal, took its fantasy world creation incredibly seriously, Labyrinth leans more into pure musical fun and Python-esque absurdity.
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Now there's a lot of this flavor to discuss in Labyrinth, but I wanted to talk specifically about the four guards that Sarah encounters as she makes her way across the Goblin King's Labyrinth.
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They are dog-like humanoid creatures that guard a pair of doors.
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They are either conjoined beings and therefore two guards, or they are affixed behind their signature shields in a way that allow for two beings per shield.
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Their absurd appearance is of course linked to their visual resemblance to double headed European playing cards in which a king, queen, jack, or joker is double bodied and double headed in such a way that the card can be discernible from either side of the table.
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According to S.T.
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Bindey and the excellent Labyrinth Bestiary, the heads of the left door guardian are Alf and Jim, while the heads of the right door are Ralph and Tim.
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When Sarah encounters the guardians, she quickly learns the rules concerning their doors.
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One door leads to the castle at the center of the labyrinth, where of course Sarah is trying to go in order to rescue her uh step brother Toby, while the other door leads to Bum certain death.
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The lower heads have no idea which door is which, but the upper heads do.
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But Sarah is only permitted to ask one of them.
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Furthermore, one of the two guards always tells the truth while the other one always lies.
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So Sarah faces a conundrum.
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How can she find out which door is which?
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How can she risk asking the wrong guard and being lied to?
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The scenario instantly invokes what is known as the liar's paradox.
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If a liar tells you they are lying, well then they are telling the truth.
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Consider the statement, quote, this sentence is a lie, unquote.
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If that statement is true, then it's false.
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If it's false, then it's true.
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