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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. Listener mail.

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Speaker 2: My name is Robert Lamb.

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Speaker 3: And I am Joe McCormick. And it's Monday, the day

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Speaker 3: episodes and if you've got something interesting to add related

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Speaker 3: to a topic we've talked about. Let's see, Rob, do

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Speaker 3: you want to kick things off today with this message? Oh,

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Speaker 3: the message from Paul that mentions your Monster Fact on

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Speaker 3: the Horta.

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Speaker 2: Ah yeah, yeah, it's nice to hear here from another

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Speaker 2: trucky on this topic, Paul says, regarding the Monster Fact

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Speaker 2: episode about the star Trek Horta. In several non Cannon novels,

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Speaker 2: there are Hortas mentioned. In one of them. There's a

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Speaker 2: Horta ensign on the Enterprise and he's in the geology department.

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Speaker 2: He analyzes samples by tasting them. I thought this was

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Speaker 2: both hilarious and brilliant.

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Speaker 3: Now, is that a joke related to the horta's biology.

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Speaker 2: Yes, because the horta is not a carbon based life form.

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Speaker 2: It's memory serves as like a silicon based life form.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, so it kind of interfaces better with the

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Speaker 3: rocky substances. Yeah. Though, it's funny because this connects to

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Speaker 3: something that we covered last year in our Ignobels episode.

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Speaker 3: One of the Ignobel prizes from twenty twenty three was

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Speaker 3: awarded to an essay by a geologist named Jan I

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Speaker 3: believe his name was Jan Zawashevich. I'm sorry if I'm

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Speaker 3: getting that wrong, but it was a geologist who wrote

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Speaker 3: an article about geologists in the real world licking rocks

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Speaker 3: for information and various people eating rocks for one reason

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Speaker 3: or another, and among other topics. This essay got into

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Speaker 3: the history of this eighteenth century Italian geologist named Giovanni Arduino.

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Speaker 3: This was the man who loved rocks, who tasted the strata.

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Speaker 3: You might remember rob that he had all these like

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Speaker 3: tasting notes on different types of soil and fossils and stuff.

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Speaker 3: And he said that burned fossil mud rock tasted bitter

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Speaker 3: and urinous, like urine, So delicious, awesome.

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Speaker 2: Well see. Paul continues here and says, also, I have

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Speaker 2: a suggestion for the main series. One of the worst

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Speaker 2: plagues of humankind the earworm. No, I don't mean the

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Speaker 2: worm that crawls into people's ears and star trek to

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Speaker 2: the wrath of Khan, although that might be preferred. I

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Speaker 2: mean getting music stuck in your head. I'm extremely susceptible

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Speaker 2: to earworms, and unfortunately people know it and take great

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Speaker 2: pleasure inflicting them on me. Admittedly, it doesn't take much effort.

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Speaker 2: Just a brief SoundBite, mention, or even a vague reference

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Speaker 2: can set me off. To quote Robert from a previous episode,

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Speaker 2: because as everybody knows, Spider Man does whatever a spider can,

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Speaker 2: ah or odd or oh you.

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Speaker 3: Know, I think that should be read as like ough, oh.

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Speaker 2: All right, there we go. Anyway, I think this would

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Speaker 2: be a fascinating topic. Keep up the good and mostly

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Speaker 2: non agonizing work. Paul from New Hampshire.

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Speaker 3: Have we not done something on earworms before? It seems

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Speaker 2: I know I've done something with earworms you know, it's

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Speaker 2: ever came to fruition. So, yeah, this might be a

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Speaker 2: topic worth analyzing, you know, it's something or reanalyzing. There

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Speaker 3: Anything that was long enough ago that we don't remember

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah, and yeah I get earwormed all the time,

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Speaker 3: This next message comes from Nathan. It is about cicadas,

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Speaker 3: Nathan says, Glad Tidings. A few months ago, another listener

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Speaker 3: pitched the film Pumpkinhead for Weird House Cinema. That one's

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Speaker 3: used to great menacing effect whenever the titular creature appears, Nathan. So, Nathan,

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Speaker 3: I had no idea. I've seen this movie before. We've

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Speaker 3: no idea, And you're exactly right. I looked this up.

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Speaker 2: So I also watched this clip that was sent and yeah,

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Speaker 3: As a horror movie. There's some good things about it,

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Speaker 3: a it's like a tragic revenge story. But it does

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Speaker 2: And it has Dick Warlock in it, so it's got

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Speaker 2: comes to us from Jeff and this Jeff's warning or

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Speaker 2: did you label this fear Joe?

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Speaker 3: No, I just threw it in warning that this does

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Speaker 2: All Right, we'll strap in. Jeffs says greeting science humans.

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Speaker 2: After hearing about Joe's ill advised googling of human parrotfish victims,

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Speaker 2: harassing a large porcupine fish sometimes called a pufferfish, but

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Speaker 2: a roughly basketball sized porcupine fish, grabbed it and started

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Speaker 2: spinning it on its longitudinal axis, like spinning a basketball

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Speaker 2: before taking a free throw, laughing as it inflated. Surely

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Speaker 2: I guess there are more bubbles the bubbles have laughed

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Speaker 2: it severed the tip of the finger, it didn't cut

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Speaker 2: through the glove, so he didn't lose the chunk. The

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Speaker 2: the story is true. Okay, so anyway, he continues. Cautionary

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Speaker 2: tales of rambo divers, inconsiderate jerks who harassed wildlife, damaged

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Speaker 2: I know I'm a snorkeler as opposed to a scuba diver.

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Speaker 2: But in snorkeling you often are around scuba divers, and

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Speaker 3: But I can easily picture the rambo divers in my head.

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Speaker 2: All right, Jeff continues, The focus of the glove makes

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Speaker 2: managed to remain incurious enough to not embark on Joe's

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Speaker 2: Google image search journey, although I did get some perverse

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Speaker 2: enjoyment from the story. In the same way I enjoy

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Speaker 2: hearing you guys discuss Cory movies I would never watch myself.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for continuing to keep our imaginations engaged.

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Speaker 3: Jeff, Thank you, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I'll also add I haven't researched this.

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Speaker 2: I haven't done like an episode of or done any

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Speaker 2: show research on pufferfish. But it's my understanding, through just

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Speaker 2: chatting with folks on you know, snorkeling trips and so forth,

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Speaker 2: that you also shouldn't mess with them because it's like

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Speaker 2: you know, it's not some it's not a trick they

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Speaker 2: it can necessarily do that many times in their life.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you mean the inflation when they when they puff up. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So there are numerous reasons not to provoke fish

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Speaker 3: All right, this next message comes from Gerald Gerald says, Hi,

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Speaker 3: Robert and Joe, greetings from Adelaide, Australia. Knowing your love

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Speaker 3: for all things Crab, I immediately thought of you when I

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Speaker 3: saw today's cartoon on my desk calendar. You may have

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Speaker 3: seen it before, but I figure you can never have

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Speaker 3: too much Gary Larson in your life, so I'm sharing

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Speaker 3: it with you. So this is a Far Side calendar

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Speaker 3: panel and it's a it's the The bottom text is

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Speaker 3: Boxer Nightmares and it shows a man asleep in a

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Speaker 3: Beautiful perfect that it's a little parasite. All right, Gerald continues,

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Speaker 3: You never failed to find fascinating topics to cover, and

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Speaker 3: pleasure to listen to. Cheers Gerald. Oh, well, thank you.

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Speaker 3: That's so kind of you to say, Gerald, thank you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, this one comes to us from Taylor. This

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Speaker 2: I have to provide some additional context on Akihiro MIA's

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Speaker 2: voice role as the Pokemon Arcius. Arcius is not only

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Speaker 2: I mean Pokemon, I've I haven't seen anything quite like this,

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Speaker 2: strange and artistically transgressive Pokemon. As always, thank you for

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Speaker 2: I've included a link to the Arsius video if you'd

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Speaker 2: like to check out the weirdness I've described, and they

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Speaker 3: It is so weird. So this isn't a game I

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Speaker 3: I don't know what system.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know. This is not a switch. This

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Speaker 3: I don't know what this is for. But it looks

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Speaker 3: It's like when it's like in the that Treehouse of Horror,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, something like that. It also reminds me maybe

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Speaker 3: I guess all right, does that do it for today?

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Speaker 2: I think so? Yeah. Yeah, thanks for writing in about

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