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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick. And today on Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb. And I am Joe McCormick.

And today on Stuff to Blow Your Mind, we are going to begin a couple of episodes on the subject of blubber.

I am surprisingly fired up about blubber.

I don't know exactly why, but I'm like aching to talk about it.

Well, I think a big part of it is that if nothing else, blubber is just a funny word.

It's just a funny sounding word.

I had to look into it a little bit before we proceeded here.

Apparently stemming from the late 14th century blobber, which describes bubbles, bubbling, or foaming.

Often pointed out like the middle English for foam.

And this also influences the verb blubber, as in to blubber.

So, yeah, at the very least, blubber is just a funny word to think about and say.

Does the word blob come from the same root as blubber?

I believe it does.

Wow.

So it might not surprise you if you know anything about marine mammal anatomy to hear that I started thinking about blubber to cover on the show because we've come into the winter months here in the in the

southeastern united states and i i have felt that desire again to wrap myself in coziness to find

barriers against the cold uh and this of course got me thinking about blubber which turned my

mind once again to one of my favorite weird novels

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