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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Deep in the back of your mind, you’ve always had the feeling that there’s something strange about reality. There is. Join Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick as they examine neurological quandaries, cosmic mysteries, evolutionary marvels and our transhuman future.
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Episodes

Weirdhouse Cinema: The Loreley's Grasp

It’s time for another Spanish monster romp on Weirdhouse Cinema! In this episode, Rob and Joe discuss Amando de Ossorio’s 1973 film “The Loreley's Grasp,” full of Germanic mythology and highly questionable science. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 20, 20221 hr 1 min

Creature with the Crystal Skin

It is dark inside the human body, but not every denizen of the animal kingdom is such a closed book. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss various creatures with transparent anatomical features and translucent bodies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 19, 202247 min

The Monstrefact: The Loreley

In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses the Germanic siren known as the Loreley… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 18, 20225 min

The Hot-Cold Empathy Gap

You may think you know yourself, but humans have a striking inability to predict their own behavior in differing emotional states. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the hot-cold empathy gap. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 17, 202256 min

Listener Mail: Gates of Heck

Once more, it's time for a weekly dose of Stuff to Blow Your Mind and Weirdhouse Cinema listener mail... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 16, 202224 min

From the Vault: Phobos and Deimos, Part 1

The god of war does not march into battle alone. His sons, embodying panic and terror ride beside him. The same can be said of the planet Mars and its two moons: Phobos and Deimos. In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the Martian moons as well as a bit of mythology. (originally published 4/20/2021) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 14, 20221 hr 1 min

Weirdhouse Cinema: Jason Takes Manhattan

In celebration of Friday the 13, Rob and Joe dive into one of the sillier entries in the Jason Voorhees franchise with 1989's "Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan" on this week's Weirdhouse Cinema. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 13, 20221 hr 39 min

The Facsimile, Part 2

It’s easy to take document duplication for granted in our modern age, but our digital ease follows centuries of mechanical innovation and millennia of human specialization in the form of the scribe. In this Stuff to Blow Your Mind two-parter, Robert and Joe explore the history and invention of the facsimile. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 12, 202252 min

The Monstrefact: The Nuppeppo

In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses a ghoulish blob from the yokai tradition of Japan… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 11, 20223 min

The Facsimile, Part 1

It’s easy to take document duplication for granted in our modern age, but our digital ease follows centuries of mechanical innovation and millennia of human specialization in the form of the scribe. In this Stuff to Blow Your Mind two-parter, Robert and Joe explore the history and invention of the facsimile. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 10, 202250 min

Listener Mail: Turtle of Enormous Girth

Once more, it's time for a weekly dose of Stuff to Blow Your Mind and Weirdhouse Cinema listener mail... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 09, 202224 min

From the Vault: The Machine Lords of Barnard 68, Part 2

Even as humans reach out into the void with robotic probes and turn to artificial intelligence to aid in the search for extraterrestrial life, we face the possibility that the life we find out there might be mechanical and governed by artificial intelligence as well. In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss alien AI and post-organic life. (originally published 4/1/2021) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

May 07, 202255 min

Weirdhouse Cinema: Planet of the Vampires

In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss Mario Bava's hypnotic 1965 sci-fi horror movie "Planet of the Vampires." It has all the style you could ask for, plus giant space skeletons. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 06, 20221 hr 5 min

The Stargazer and the Well

Can you see the light of the stars from the bottom of a well? Did an astrologer once fall into a well because he was staring up at the stars? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss a couple of well-and-cosmos-related tales from antiquity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 05, 202255 min

The Monstrefact: The Bog Octopus

In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses tentacled lurkers in the bog from the worlds of gaming, fantasy literature and industrial music… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 04, 20225 min

Fire From the Rocks, Part 3

It might surprise you to learn that the oldest raging fires on Earth are actually underground. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the world of eternal flames and coal seam fires. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 03, 202240 min

Listener Mail: Vegetable in Sheep's Clothing

Once more, it's time for a weekly dose of Stuff to Blow Your Mind and Weirdhouse Cinema listener mail... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 02, 202230 min

From the Vault: The Machine Lords of Barnard 68, Part 1

Even as humans reach out into the void with robotic probes and turn to artificial intelligence to aid in the search for extraterrestrial life, we face the possibility that the life we find out there might be mechanical and governed by artificial intelligence as well. In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss alien AI and post-organic life. (originally published 3/30/2021) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Apr 30, 20221 hr 1 min

Weirdhouse Cinema: Atragon

The surface world fights back against undersea aggression! In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss Ishirô Honda’s 1963 Toho film “Atragon,” which features an armored submarine and the debut of the kaiju Manda! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 29, 20221 hr 12 min

Fire From the Rocks, Part 2

It might surprise you to learn that the oldest raging fires on Earth are actually underground. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the world of eternal flames and coal seam fires. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 28, 202246 min

The Monstrefact: Torterra, a Pokemon

In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses the Pokemon known as Torterra with a little help from Sebastian… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 27, 20226 min

Fire From the Rocks, Part 1

It might surprise you to learn that the oldest raging fires on Earth are actually underground. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the world of eternal flames and coal seam fires. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 26, 202242 min

Listener Mail: Planta Haereticus

Once more, it's time for a weekly dose of Stuff to Blow Your Mind and Weirdhouse Cinema listener mail... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 25, 202225 min

From the Vault: Jupiter the Destroyer, Part 2

Did the planet Jupiter, like a reckless god, wreak havoc on a young solar system? Join Robert and Joe and they consider the red planet’s destructive powers on Stuff to Blow Your Mind. (originally published 3/25/2021) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 23, 202251 min

Weirdhouse Cinema: The Guyver

It’s time for more big meaty monsters slapping meat on Weirdhouse Cinema, as Rob and Joe discuss 1991’s “The Guyver,” a biomechanical slapfest full of wonderfully weird casting and an array of glistening special effects by synthetic flesh wizard and co-director Screaming Mad George. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 22, 20221 hr 11 min

The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, Part 2

In the previous week’s episodes of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discussed contemplations of plant memory and other topics that blur our understanding of the animal/plant divide. In this episode, they continue on some of those themes by considering the legendary vegetable lamb of Tartary, said to be a flesh-and-blood animal that grew from the ground. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 21, 202243 min

The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, Part 1

In the previous week’s episodes of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discussed contemplations of plant memory and other topics that blur our understanding of the animal/plant divide. In this episode, they continue on some of those themes by considering the legendary vegetable lamb of Tartary, said to be a flesh-and-blood animal that grew from the ground. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 19, 202252 min

Listener Mail: Smaragdus Eyes

Once more, it's time for a weekly dose of Stuff to Blow Your Mind and Weirdhouse Cinema listener mail... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 18, 202229 min

From the Vault: Jupiter the Destroyer, Part 1

Did the planet Jupiter, like a reckless god, wreak havoc on a young solar system? Join Robert and Joe and they consider the red planet’s destructive powers on Stuff to Blow Your Mind. (originally published 3/23/2021) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 16, 202254 min
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