#298: Hollywood Horrors: Mysterious Origins Of The Blob
The Cryptonaut Podcast
Marc Storrs
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🗓️ 17 July 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
“It crawls.... It creeps.... It eats you alive! Indescribable... indestructible... insatiable! Bloated with the blood of its victims! Nothing Can Stop It!” These are just a fistful of the gloriously hyperbolic taglines used to market one of the 50s’ most memorable creature features—“The Blob”—but while nearly every movie fan is at least familiar with this amorphous, undulating mega-mass from another world, very few are aware of the fact that the likely genesis for this sinister, flesh-sucking, fiend is an incident that took place in Philadelphia in the fall of 1950.
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| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the Krippin' Out Podcast. My name is Mark Storers and hang on out with me as always. |
| 0:41.1 | Christopher Carnacelli. Changed it up this week and you are. |
| 0:44.5 | Oh, I'm just excited to be here and I get to say my name and that name is Uncle Bobby. |
| 0:50.1 | I was going to do shit on him too. |
| 0:51.7 | Where are you? |
| 0:52.2 | I was going to. |
| 0:52.9 | Then why'd you point at me and ask me who I was? |
| 0:54.7 | I was going to speak but you kept talking. |
| 0:56.5 | Oh. |
| 0:57.2 | It's okay, I like it. |
| 0:58.2 | I like it. |
| 0:59.2 | It's got a little bit of aggression behind it. |
| 1:00.7 | A little bit. |
| 1:01.1 | Yeah, like it's cool. |
| 1:02.0 | It's good. |
| 1:02.4 | It sets the tone for today's pod. |
| 1:05.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.6 | Okay. |
| 1:09.2 | All right, so that's happening now. |
| 1:10.2 | We're setting the aggressive tone. |
| 1:11.6 | You got a stack of coolers lights. |
| 1:14.0 | I'd hardly call it a stack. |
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