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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeart Radio's House of Works.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam. And I'm Joa McCormick. And welcome to Boxing Day. It is a traditionally boxing day. If you've ever wondered about this point, we call it Boxing Day. As I was a kid, I remember it would always especially be featured on the Canadian calendar. And I always assumed, well, this is when you, I guess, you box things back up. Maybe you're not supposed to have all these gifts.

Sure. My understanding though is that it's tied in with the idea of this being a day when you would traditionally give a box, you would give a gift to, you know, to various delivery people and whatnot.

So it's another day about giving. But you could also be inclined to make the mistake that our mail bot carny has made. He knows that it is boxing day. He knows that boxing is a physical combat sport in which humans punch each other.

Generally in the head region with large gloves on. And then of course he has the rock and sock and robot example to go by. And so he's become incredibly aggressive. Yes. Incredibly so. I mean, Lucky's wearing the luckily's wearing the gloves because otherwise carny's hands are metal. But that's what we're having to put up with today. Still, he has his primary programming is to deliver listener mail to us. And he is still doing it granted with a little more punch than usual.

We'll just have to dodge the fists of fury every time we retrieve one. Right. Well, you know, since it's so close to Christmas, since Christmas is still in the air, dissipating in the air around us, we should probably kick off with some Christmas holiday related listener mail before we get into more general listener mail.

Okay, let's get ready to rumble. Here's the first message. This comes from Corbin. It's about our episode is Santa a God. Corbin says, Hey, Robin Joe, your discussion about minimally counterintuitive narratives brought to mind one of my all time favorite sci-fi series.

Doon. Oh, excellent. I haven't listened to all your podcasts, my sincerest apologies, but somehow I feel like you're familiar with the books. A little you know, Corbin. Yes.

I found it interesting that Frank Herbert, when depicting Leto the second as a God Emperor, began his transformation, remaining primarily humanoid and gradually over time became more warm. So this is the transformation of a person into a giant sandworm.

Right. If you only know Doon from the films, you haven't really seen this yet. I think the TV mini series is about as far into the books as anyone has visually dared go.

Corbin continues, however, even till his last day, RIP, he maintained his human face. Despite the fact that his brain was a distributed collective nervous system. That's right. It's an interesting thought that Frank Herbert did this as an illustration, not only to the readers,

but also to the characters in the universe that Leto the second was at one point a human and therefore more easy to anthropomorphize. Leto's goal was, after all, to rapidly spread his religion across an entire universe, albeit through more nefarious means.

I feel it's also easier to say, yeah, we worship a giant worm, but he used to be a human. He still has a human face. Then, yeah, we worship a giant worm with a gullet filled with rows upon rows of teeth.

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