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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Listener Mail: Guaranteed to Work Perfectly for 1,000 Years

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Once more, it's time for a weekly dose of Stuff to Blow Your Mind and Weirdhouse Cinema listener mail...

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Joel Stein. I want you to close your eyes and imagine a pocket watch.

0:05.7

It's moving from side to side. You're getting very sleepy.

0:11.6

Great. Now that I've hypnotized you against your will, you're going to start liking long-form journalism.

0:16.2

Like so much. You're going to listen to a podcast where the host interviews a writer about their long-form story every week.

0:23.6

I'm that host.

0:25.0

Listen to Story of the Week on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast.

0:30.3

I'm Danish Ward's host of Stealing Superman, a new I Heart original podcast about the most unlikely art heist of all time.

0:40.6

It was Nick Cage's own personal national treasure.

0:44.9

At a 1999 New Year's Eve party, someone snatched Cage's priceless comments.

0:52.4

But who? Listen to Stealing Superman on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you find your favorite shows.

1:00.5

Hi, I'm Ophira Eisenberg. I'm a comedian and a parent.

1:06.5

Uh, the absurdity of telling jokes late at night and then waking up early with a small child in the morning.

1:14.4

I have a new podcast called Parenting is a joke. I'll talk to other funny people who are also parents.

1:20.8

Will we be laughing? Will we be crying? Find out by listening to Parenting is a joke on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:31.5

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

1:37.7

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, listener mail. This is Robert Lam.

1:44.9

And I'm Joe McCormack and it's Monday, the day the week we read back some messages from the mail bag provided by our loyal mail bot carny.

1:53.2

Uh, let's see. Today's episode is probably going to be a heavier with weird house cinema responses than usual, mainly on account of the absolute deluge of messages we have received about return to Oz.

2:04.5

I think this may be our biggest weird house mail bag ever.

2:08.1

Uh, yeah, it certainly, it certainly got a lot of responses from folks. A lot of strong memories of the return to Oz.

2:14.7

But before we get to that, I thought we could do a couple of messages about our episode on whistling.

2:20.4

Um, let's see. Rob, I'm going to start off with some selections from an email from Lurch, who writes in a good bit.

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