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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 3: My name is Robert Lamb and I am Joe McCormick,

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Speaker 3: and it's Monday, so we are bringing you a listener

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Speaker 3: mail episode. This is the day of each week we

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Speaker 3: read back messages from the Stuff to Blow Your Mind

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Speaker 3: email address, which is contact at stuff to Blow your

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Speaker 3: Mind dot com. A little announcement for most of this week,

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Speaker 3: we are going to be running episodes from the Vault

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Speaker 3: because we're going to be out for a few days.

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Speaker 3: So Tuesday and Thursday's core episodes this week will be

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Speaker 3: Vault episodes, and we will have a Weird House Cinema

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Speaker 3: rewind for you on Friday. But today it is all

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Speaker 3: new listener mail messages. Let's see, rob Do you mind

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Speaker 3: if I jump right in with this message from Eden

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Speaker 3: via Facebook?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's have it.

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Speaker 3: So this is in response to our Anthology of Horror episode,

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Speaker 3: specifically my selection of a Kulchak the night Stalker story,

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Speaker 3: which concerned a type of Cajun bogeyman named Paramoufay, which

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Speaker 3: is a monster like a kind of plant based sasquatch.

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Speaker 3: It is covered head to toe in Spanish moss, and

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Speaker 3: Paramoufay in this episode would attack his victims by squeezing

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Speaker 3: them to death. Now I'm still not one hundred percent

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Speaker 3: certain on this, because there are some sources that make

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Speaker 3: claims to the contrary. But after pretty extensive digging, I

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Speaker 3: came to the conclusion that Paramoulfay is probably not a

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Speaker 3: real figure from organic Cajun folklore, but something invented by

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Speaker 3: the writers of the show, though based loosely on existing

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Speaker 3: monsters from Cajun folk tales, for example the rugaroo. Of course,

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Speaker 3: if you have any evidence to the contrary, if you

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Speaker 3: do know of authentic from the people Para Malfay stories,

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Speaker 3: please write in and let us know. I would love

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Speaker 3: to be corrected on that. Eden writes in at the

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Speaker 3: Facebook module to say, paramou Fay may be a television bogeyman,

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Speaker 3: but moss Man is a very real boogieman. Boogie spelled

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Speaker 3: bogie in this case, so Eden says, the late great

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Speaker 3: Steve nico is how I think you would pronounce it.

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Speaker 3: It's inn icaud, I think that'll be. Steve Nicode used

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Speaker 3: to dress head to toe in a costume of Spanish

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Speaker 3: moss and a pair of sunglasses and would show up

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Speaker 3: to Marti Gras parades and such a folk figure in

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Speaker 3: his own right while he was doing it. After that

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Speaker 3: episode of Colchak, the idea of a Spanish moss bodysuit

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Speaker 3: has surely occurred to many people independently throughout history. It

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Speaker 3: just begs to be a costume. In fact, moss Man

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Speaker 3: moss as a costume. As far as I know, however,

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Speaker 3: Nico was the only one to complete the look with

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Speaker 3: and there is little trace of his moss Man on

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Speaker 3: the internet. I can't find a single photograph of the

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Speaker 3: man himself. But I submit these photos of my family's

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Speaker 3: Mossman poster and kids coloring worksheet. And this is some

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Speaker 3: and it says moss Man and it shows a figure

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Speaker 3: the background there's a convertible like a car that also

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Speaker 3: looks like it's covered in Spanish moss, with a bunch

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Speaker 3: Moss is boss the most partying dude you'll come across.

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Speaker 3: And also there's a page from a coloring book here

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Speaker 3: that seems to be a I don't know, some kind

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Speaker 3: of promotional item from the New Orleans Rhythm run nineteen

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Speaker 3: ninety three. Then Eden says, ps, you should do an

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Speaker 3: episode on Christmas witches. There are a lot of them,

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Speaker 3: and Louisiana as a creepy one. Oh, I hope I'm

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Speaker 3: saying this right, Madame grand Dewey. The nice version of

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Speaker 3: to misbehave so she can snatch them with her long fingers. Wow,

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Speaker 3: I did not know about that one. That's really good.

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Speaker 3: So she never leaves. She's a crampus that never leaves

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Speaker 2: She's like Gary Busey and that movie Hider in the

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Eden, I had no idea about the

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Speaker 3: Moss Man. The Moss boss, the most partying dude you'll

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is great. I mean this is one I

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Speaker 2: I love all this, like local New Orleans culture stuff,

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Speaker 2: A lot of it, you know, tied up with Marty

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Speaker 2: Marti Gras, but you get like the early Marti Gras parades,

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Speaker 2: focused on local politics. And then you have a lot

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Speaker 2: of other cool stuff like that. They always do a

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Speaker 2: and I know that we actually heard from listeners who

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of fun stuff that goes on down there,

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Speaker 2: all right. This next one comes to us from a Lurch.

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Speaker 2: Lurch says, good morning, gentlemen, listening to Search for Alien

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Speaker 2: Live with Doctor Frank. He references a TV show UFO

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Speaker 2: in a related Space nineteen ninety nine. UFO was a

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Speaker 2: short lived series produced by Gary Anderson, who also produced

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Speaker 2: Space nineteen ninety nine, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlett Stingray, Fireball XL five,

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Speaker 2: of wonderful shows, my favorite being Space Precinct. In some

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Speaker 2: shows the actors were human and others they were marionettes.

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Speaker 2: All of them featured beautiful, cheap model work. In my

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Speaker 2: biased estimation, it's well worth the time it would take

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Speaker 2: to Binge watch his entire library. Keep the gravy warm, lurch.

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Speaker 3: Oh, and Rob, you should probably do this next message

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Speaker 3: from Sean because it's on exactly the same subject in

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Speaker 3: response to yours, Adam Frank.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Sean rides and it says, Hi, Rob love the interview,

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Speaker 2: but I cannot believe you've never seen the Gary Anderson

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Speaker 2: classic program UFO. Pretty hokey by today's standards, but I

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Speaker 2: think the show would suit your aesthetic. The funk is

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Speaker 2: strong in this one. There's a moon base of women

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Speaker 2: dudes and mess shirts. If you haven't, I implore you

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Speaker 2: as a longtime listener to check it out. Sean, all right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so UFO is a show that I do not think

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Speaker 2: I've ever seen anything. I don't think I've ever watched

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Speaker 2: I'm familiar in passing with some of these other series.

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Speaker 2: But look into it. Looking at some of the stills,

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Speaker 2: Space Ladies, and it does look like it might be

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Speaker 2: have been some like recuts into something like a film,

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Speaker 2: I'll have to poke around a little bit more. Maybe

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Speaker 2: there is something we could consider for weird House in

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Speaker 3: Oh, I had the wrong era in mind for some reason.

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Speaker 3: I was picturing this as a show like from the nineties,

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Ed Bishop, I believe, was the lead on it,

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Speaker 2: one A Space Oudus. He played the Lunar Shuttle captain.

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Speaker 3: Okay, why do all of the moon dwellers have purple hair.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Why are they all gorgeous? I don't

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Speaker 2: know these things happen, especially in sixties science fiction.

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Speaker 3: Exposure to that moon radiation turns all original shades of

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks for the recommendation. Yeah, I'll have to check

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Speaker 3: Okay. This next message is from Paul. It is in

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Speaker 3: three pupiled eye. Paul writes, Hi, there, longtime listener, first

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Speaker 2: was sent to us on discord. This is from Steve.

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Speaker 2: Steve writes, the Crossbow episodes were great fun. What about

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Speaker 2: Star Wars If a blaster like a gun is the

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Speaker 2: is the blaster bad Obi Wan obviously thought so in

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Speaker 2: Yet Han Solo is all about using blasters, as are

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Speaker 2: of hair splitting questions to keep me up at night,

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Speaker 2: smiley face. Also, why did the Jedi never practice force

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think it does play into the

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Speaker 3: You know that even the Jedi are called Knights, so

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Speaker 3: the elite good guys use the sabers, though I guess

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