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

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

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Speaker 2: This is Robert Lamb.

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Speaker 3: And this is Joe McCormick. And it's Monday, the day

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Speaker 3: of each week that we read back messages from the

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Speaker 3: Stuff to Blow Your Mind email address. If you have

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Speaker 3: never gotten in touch with the show before, but maybe

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Speaker 3: you've thought about it, maybe you've felt a little tingle

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Speaker 3: in your brain that maybe you should get in touch,

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Speaker 3: this is the time, This is the week you should

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Speaker 3: do it. Reach out at contact at stuff to Blow

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Speaker 3: your Mind dot com. All types of messages are fair game.

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Speaker 3: We of course, always appreciate feedback to recent episodes. If

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Speaker 3: you want to suggest a topic for the future for

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Speaker 3: a core episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, or

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Speaker 3: a movie for Weird House Cinema, or if you have

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Speaker 3: something interesting you would like to add to something we've

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Speaker 3: recently talked about on the show.

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Speaker 2: I do want to throw in though, give us a

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Speaker 2: little context if you If you're just sending like a

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Speaker 2: link or a video attachment, so yeah, that just just

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Speaker 2: get throwing a little text there. Just let us know

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Speaker 2: what this is and why it has been sent. Because

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Speaker 2: sometimes we have been trained to be a little suspicious

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Speaker 2: about some of these things, So just a little added

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Speaker 2: context in those cases would be great.

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Speaker 3: That's a really good point, Rob. Yes, if there's like

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Speaker 3: text you'd like to include or something like that, it's

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Speaker 3: often better to just copy and paste into the email.

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Speaker 3: Then give us a link. We got to be cautious

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Speaker 3: about links.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and uh yeah, And I think we've said

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Speaker 2: this before, but you know, write in and if you

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Speaker 2: if you want to share something and you don't want

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Speaker 2: it to go on listener mail, you don't want us

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Speaker 2: to feature it on the podcast, just state that, and

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Speaker 2: we're happy to honor that as well.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well let's go ahead and dig into this

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Speaker 2: mail bag. Who wants to go first? You want to

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Speaker 2: grab one, Joe?

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Speaker 3: Uh, let's see, Well, why don't you do this one

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Speaker 3: about dust or Matt?

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Speaker 2: All right, Matt Wrights, Greetings science humans. I have to say,

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Speaker 2: last time I wrote in, I did not expect to

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Speaker 2: hear it read on air, and it was a wonderful experience.

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Speaker 2: So thanks for that. It has been a while and

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Speaker 2: I think I might write more frequently in the future.

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Speaker 2: Life is crazy and the show helps ground me. So

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Speaker 2: when you were asking for more writers in, I figure

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Speaker 2: it's the least I can do. I've been listening to

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Speaker 2: a lot a lot to the archive, but I always

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Speaker 2: get excited for new episodes. Weird House Cinema has given

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Speaker 2: me endless hours of joy. And though I used to

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Speaker 2: wrinkle my nose of the kind of movies you talk

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Speaker 2: about on there, I have discovered that I have a

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Speaker 2: deep well of love for them. And my girlfriend's family

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Speaker 2: all think I'm crazy for it.

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Speaker 3: How's this coming up with your girlfriend's family? You like?

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Speaker 3: Have you seen Highlander two?

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Speaker 2: Hey? You know? I mean, I think movies are often

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Speaker 2: a great place to go. It's better than talking about

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Speaker 2: the weather as long as that connection's there. So anyway,

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Speaker 2: Matt continues, anyway, I wrote in to talk about dust,

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Speaker 2: so here goes. I am a veteran of the US

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Speaker 2: Navy CEBE, which I'm very proud of. And if you

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Speaker 2: don't know anything about CBS, I suggest you look them up,

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Speaker 3: like the ocean and like the hymenoptera. But CBS, I

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Speaker 2: All right, Mac continues that they spent many months in

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Speaker 2: be a lot more careful walking around. I definitely tripped

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as far as driving in a sandstorm goes, this

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Speaker 3: Much love, Matt, Oh, thank you so much, Matt. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: these are exactly the kinds of experiences we love to

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Speaker 3: hear about in listener mail. It adds a lot of

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, all right, what else do we have in the

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Speaker 3: Year, let's see? Oh well, we got a response to

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Speaker 3: the first part in our series on meteorite iron, the

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Speaker 3: from listener Joe. Joe says, your story of iron suddenly

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Speaker 2: It's a great twist. I love this one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it totally is that kind of irony the Twilight

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh man, some of the Yeah, when Twilight

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Speaker 2: of it that in the original Outer Limits. We were

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Speaker 3: Stuff, the one where Donald Pleasance plays a professor who

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Speaker 3: invents a way of like telekinetically controlling events, but then

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Speaker 3: of course it spirals out of control. I think he

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Speaker 2: All right, let's see what else do we have here?

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Speaker 2: Always have some more weird House specific email. We're already

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Speaker 2: in the basic vibe of weird house, but let's go

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Speaker 2: all the way in. This one comes to us from Albert,

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Speaker 2: subject line Dragon Slayer. Hi, Robert and Joe. I remember

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Speaker 2: in the midst of playing advanced dungeons and dragons. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: b z PS. As a land surveyor, I work with

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