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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Flatus Ex Machina, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Why is it so hilarious when robots and artificial intelligence fail? What does it reveal about comedy itself and our technological anxiety? Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick explore in this Stuff to Blow Your Mind two-parter. In this second episode, the joke's on us.

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0:00.0

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0:07.8

with LeBron James, Chris Bosch and Duane Wade, set the NBA ablaze.

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will take you inside those four monumental years with behind-the-scenes access and insight about one of the greatest teams ever

0:25.3

for a sum. Four years of heat on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:32.8

I'm Nedra Glover-Tawab and I'm coming to you with a new podcast. You need to hear this.

0:38.4

I'm a therapist and relationship expert and I'm helping people like you navigate through tough relationship issues.

0:46.6

We all go through them. You're also going to hear from some of your favorite public figures

0:52.0

because hardship is universal. Listen to you need to hear this on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:02.0

Laura Ingalls-Wilder, author of The Little House on the Prairie Books.

1:05.7

She's one of the most important American children's authors of the 20th century.

1:12.0

Inspiration for a hit television show.

1:14.3

Women will come up to me crying saying,

1:15.9

Little House on the Prairie was my escape.

1:18.0

As a kid, I idolized Laura and last summer I went on the road in search of the real Laura.

1:24.1

What I found is a complicated person alongside the complicated country she represents.

1:29.0

I'm Glena Smick-Nickel and this is Wilder. Listen to Wilder starting June 8th on the I Heart Radio app,

1:35.2

Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:41.7

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How Stuff Works.com.

1:48.0

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

1:54.7

And I'm Joe McCormick and we're back with part two of our discussion of the Flate of Sex Machina.

2:00.6

I think that's what we're going to call it. The comedy of errors that exist in the machine

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