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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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Listener Mail: The Reflecting Chamber
Once more, it's time for a weekly dose of Stuff to Blow Your Mind and Weirdhouse Cinema listener mail...
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From the Vault: Washing of the Waters, Part 3
The idea of healing via immersion in sacred or special waters dates back to prehistory, and it’s still alive and well in the modern world. In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe consider the myth, history and reality and healing waters. (originally published 03/21/2023)
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Weirdhouse Cinema: Dune (1984), Part 2
In this special two-part episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe return to the planet of Arrakis in their discussion of David Lynch’s wild 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s legendary novel “Dune.” The sleeper must awaken.
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Life in the Hypogean World, Part 4
We are creatures of the epigean world: the world of light on Earth’s surface. But there is another world – a world beneath the surface. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe venture into the world of cave biology or biospeleology. (part 4 of 4)
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The Artifact: Ornithopters of Dune
In this episode of STBYM’s The Artifact, Robert discusses the ornithopters of Frank Herbert’s “Dune” and its cinematic adaptations…
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Life in the Hypogean World, Part 3
We are creatures of the epigean world: the world of light on Earth’s surface. But there is another world – a world beneath the surface. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe venture into the world of cave biology or biospeleology. (part 3 of 4)
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Customer Reviews
Good show, cluttered feed, too many ads
There are some very interesting and surprising discussions here, some thorough research and the hosts seem well informed (in stark comparison to the other ‘stuff’ shows).
I only have 2 complaints:
1. The feed is a mess. Going back over the archive, there is too much clutter between multi-part episodes that makes it a lot of work to find and listen to the parts in order. As someone who loves the main show, I have no interest in listener mail, monster facts, old movies etc and I think these should move to a different feed so they can more easily be avoided. They are just clutter to me and not comparable to the main show. If people like these, fine, put them somewhere else. There are hundreds of episodes here that I probably won’t listen to only because of the amount of scrolling that would be required to find them.
2. Too many ads. Too many ads. Too many long ads repeated too many times.
Used to be good
But more and more ads and blatant shilling for companies and corporations has ruined it.
High bar…
There’s nothing like setting your podcast an incredibly high standard to achieve!
Stuff to Blow Your Mind
There’s not much scope for laurel-resting in that title!
Ok, it’s playful hyperbole and that is perfectly reasonable here because, even if the subject matter doesn’t literally cause your brain to explode, it will contribute to the inflation of your cranial knowledge bladder in a genuinely entertaining way.
It is thought provoking in an accessible way; you can imagine sitting in your den with beer and pizza and a laptop with these fellas and surfing the knowledge waves.
(And all without the need for a sycophantic guest comedian echo-chamber, like some other notable podcasts…)
So, in reference to other reviews:
I don’t mind the guys offering their opinions on subjects - perspective is informative.
If the podcast is nerdy and boring, then please stay nerdy and boring if by nerdy and boring the reviewer meant detailed and well delivered.
Please continue to use mangled English words like ‘Heredity’ and ‘Acclimate’ and ‘Hybridity’ on the off-chance that they might not be mangled after all…
As for Weirdhouse Cinema… highlight of my week.
Highly recommended.