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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'm Joe McCormick, and it is Monday, the day

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Speaker 3: Send it to us contact at stuff to Blow your

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Speaker 3: Mind dot com. Rob do you mind if I kick

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Speaker 3: things off with this message from me Lissa? In response

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Speaker 3: to the vegetable Lamb of Tartari.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how's that?

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Speaker 3: Melissa says, Hello, Stuff to Blow Your Mind Team. I'm

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Speaker 3: Melissa from Taiwan who listens to podcasts to No Interesting

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Speaker 3: Things and Learn English. Thank you for all those fantastic episodes.

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Speaker 3: They really blow my mind. Here, I would like to

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Speaker 3: share an idea for a future episode. Hope you don't mind,

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Speaker 3: because maybe you did this topic before. If not, that

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Speaker 3: would be wonderful. The idea is the walk Walk tree.

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Speaker 3: I heard about the story about the vegetable Lamb of

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Speaker 3: Tartari from your show. So when I heard of the

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Speaker 3: walkwalk tree from a kid's educational TV show talking about

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Speaker 3: Islamic art, the vegetable lamb of Tartari came to mind immediately.

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Speaker 3: Both topics related for me because the two trees both

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Speaker 3: produce animals. The walkwalk tree produces fruit looking like women, men,

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Speaker 3: or monster anima. After googling, I found out that a

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Speaker 3: similar tree was described in the Chinese ancient novel Journey

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Speaker 3: to the West. Also, the walkwalk tree has some links

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Speaker 3: to Indian ancient stories. So weird, but we're able to

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Speaker 3: trace the historical origins of this tree. It both appeared

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Speaker 3: in literature and artwork. Surprisingly, wishing you like this suggestion,

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Speaker 3: love your show. Have a great cool hydrated summer, Melissa.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Melissa. I don't know if I was aware of

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Speaker 3: this before, if I'd ever come across this, it did

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Speaker 3: this up again. It's called the walkwalk tree, sometimes spelled

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Speaker 3: wakwak or sometimes waqwaq. I found a very cool illustration

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Speaker 3: from a fourteenth century Arabic text called Kitab al bu Han,

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Speaker 3: which that name translates to something like the Book of Wonders.

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Speaker 3: So it's a fourteenth century text attributed to an author

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Speaker 3: named Abdul Hassan al is Ahani. And in this illustration, yeah,

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Speaker 3: there's like a tree growing up from the earth, and

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Speaker 3: there are fruits coming off of it, and some of

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Speaker 3: the fruits apparently like seems to be according to their

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Speaker 3: level of ripeness, starts splitting open, and then when they

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Speaker 3: split open, their sort of legs dangling out of them,

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Speaker 3: and then some have legs and torsos dangling out, and

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Speaker 3: one has like a whole body with a fully formed

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Speaker 3: head with hair. And I was reading about this text.

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Speaker 3: Apparently it says that this tree exists in a land

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Speaker 3: I think, where there are only women, and so the

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Speaker 2: Hmmm. Interesting, Yeah, I don't remember coming across this one before,

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Speaker 2: I was looking it up, I also noted that it

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Speaker 2: has appeared as an enemy in I think two Castlevania games.

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Speaker 2: So great, our Castle Castlevania players out there may have

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Speaker 3: Well, very interesting. Thank you for bringing it to our attention, Melissa,

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Speaker 3: and indeed, maybe this legend will be worth a deeper

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Speaker 2: All right, this one comes to us from Sheldan. This

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Speaker 2: is in response to our series on Stickiness subject title

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Speaker 2: geck o hnts. She says, Hi, guys, I've just finished

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Speaker 2: listening to the second Stickiness episode. It was so interesting

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Speaker 2: adhesives I use day to day. In your call for

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Speaker 2: sticky superheroes, not really a hero, but in the third

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Speaker 2: Takeshi Kovac's novel Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan, Takeshi

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Speaker 2: is wearing a genetically enhanced sleeve. This is like a body.

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Speaker 2: I'll explain this in a second that has Gecko abilities,

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Speaker 2: which is used as a plot device. It always stuck

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Speaker 2: I highly recommend reading the trilogy. Thanks for the great podcast, Sheldy.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so do you know this book? Rob?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I read this trilogy years back. It's been a

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Speaker 2: but yeah, it's The basic idea is like, it's a

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Speaker 2: a futuristic world like this can be resleeved into different

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Speaker 2: some cases. It's also used to ensure some sort of

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Speaker 2: immortality for the wealthy, and it also enables a lot

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Speaker 2: of action sequences and also some occasional sexy scenarios as well.

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Speaker 2: They're fairly graphic books, but them being being pretty fun

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Speaker 2: that has a lot of advanced features and one of

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Speaker 2: them is like gecko hands, and after some sort of

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Speaker 2: a big fight, he wakes up and he finds that

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Speaker 2: he's dangling by like a few fingers on that hand,

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Speaker 2: and his arm has been I think been completely dislocated.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, the gecko fingers are still holding on.

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Speaker 3: Well, that does seem plausible to me. I mean, the

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Speaker 3: spatually are again so sticky that you may well be

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Speaker 3: able to dangle by a single hand or even a

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Speaker 3: single finger. All right, This next message is from Wonko,

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Speaker 3: and this has gecko as pet subject matter, so rob

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Speaker 3: you may be more qualified to comment on this. Wonko

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Speaker 3: says Robert and Joe. I'm listening to your stickiness part too,

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Speaker 3: and your discussion of gecko's cl I wanted to show

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Speaker 3: you another method of how a gecko might cling to

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Speaker 3: a surface. This is a tok gecko or tokai tokay.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how you pronounced that. Tkay gecko. One

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Speaker 3: of the more aggressive species we've domesticated, and this is

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Speaker 3: actually a necessary part of socializing a new pet. No

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Speaker 3: harm was done. Thank you for your time, Wonko. So

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Speaker 3: what is Wonco talking about? Well, they attach a picture

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Speaker 3: of a gecko just biting the tip of a finger

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Speaker 3: and dangling from that finger by the bite hmm.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know anything about this variety of gecko.

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Speaker 2: The one that my son has is a leopard gecko,

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Speaker 2: and he does occasionally nip, but I mean, my son

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's too traumatic an experience. But I

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Speaker 3: To be clear, I don't know if I specified it

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Speaker 3: is biting a human finger and dangling from it, not

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a handsome creature, though I can see where

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Speaker 2: the where one might be inspired to try and domesticate it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look at that nice pebbly looking skin. I want

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they're very interesting to touch. I don't I

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Speaker 2: don't hold the leopard get got here at the house much,

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Speaker 2: hunt when there's a cricket or a meal worm in

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Speaker 2: it'll go into his hide and shed all of his

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Speaker 2: skin and then eat it all, so you never actually

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Speaker 2: out looking fresh and new, ready to face the day.

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Speaker 3: How often does he shed skin?

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Speaker 2: Goodness? I forget the I was just looking at the

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Speaker 3: I like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, highly efficient. All right, This one comes to us

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Speaker 2: from Angelo. Angelo says, Hi, Robert and Joe, I was

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Speaker 2: listening to your second episode on stickiness, and I wanted

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Speaker 2: walls was in the first Toby Maguire movie. In the

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Speaker 2: scene after getting bit by a genetically modified Spider, we

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Speaker 2: coming out of his hands, which then allow him to

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Speaker 2: stick to surfaces. So, yeah, it's been a long time

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Speaker 2: since I've seen that, and I have forgot about this.

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Speaker 3: That's the one with Willem Dafoe. That's what's able about

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. The Green Goblin's a difficult one

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Speaker 2: how do you really how do you really adapt that?

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Speaker 2: And I think there were some different things they tried.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember, did that have like James Franco in.

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Speaker 3: Potentially yes, the Green Goblin as son of Green Goblin.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because there's the whole thing where you have

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Speaker 2: a one of the Goblin. There are whole bunch of

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Speaker 2: goblins just like Green Goblin, Hobgoblin, lots of goblins flying around.

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Speaker 3: Oh, my god, I was I remembered this right, I

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Speaker 3: just looked it up. He plays Harry Osborne, who was

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Speaker 3: I said, son of Green Goblin. This says, alias, here

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Speaker 3: is the new Goblin, Little Goblin or Goblin Junior.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think in the comics he becomes both

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Speaker 2: Yes. Now, Angela continues here and says, presumably Spider Man

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Speaker 2: come out, because in a previous scene he would accidentally

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Speaker 2: get objects stuck to his hands. As for the webbing

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Speaker 2: in the nineteen nineties animated series, Spider Man explains that

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Speaker 2: he didn't get the ability to produce web in his body. However,

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Speaker 2: the spider that bit him transmitted the knowledge of ensigns

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Speaker 2: that allowed him to create web fluid that he could

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Speaker 2: put in web shooters. Oyeah, Well that all checks out.

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Speaker 2: There's absolutely no no issue would be had with that.

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Speaker 3: Right because by being a creature, you automatically have knowledge

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Speaker 3: of all of the chemistry of what's in your body?

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Speaker 2: Sure, why not?

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Speaker 2: As always, your podcast is an enjoyable treasure trope of

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Speaker 3: Ian says, Dear Robin Joe. In your listener mail episode

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Speaker 3: Thanks for the tip Ian folks at home. Yeah, try

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Speaker 2: quick remark to last week's Weird House Cinema episode about

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