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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Listener Mail: Holidays on Ice-Nine

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 20 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...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.1

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, listener mail.

0:13.0

My name is Robert Lam.

0:14.6

And I'm Joe McCormack, and today we're bringing you some of the messages that you've sent

0:18.6

in over the past couple of weeks.

0:20.7

Rob, if you don't mind, I'm going to kick us off today with a message from Albert that

0:25.6

addresses at least a half dozen subjects.

0:29.7

All right, let's have it.

0:31.1

Hit us with the bird shot that is Albert's email.

0:35.4

Okay, Albert says, hi, Robert and Joe, it's been a while since I wrote in, and I have

0:44.5

much feedback.

0:46.6

And I think we're going to skip over a section or two of the email to condense, but maybe

0:50.7

we can start with these comments about our episode on the invention of the mirror.

0:55.3

Albert says, I'm surprised you did not mention the dreaded iPhone selfie image.

1:00.5

I can't think we did, but maybe you're right.

1:04.2

It goes on.

1:05.2

I personally hate it that it is always a mirror image, not obvious unless you see lettering

1:10.5

or wearing an asymmetric clothing, such as the Japanese kimono where it is always worn

1:16.1

with leftover right.

1:17.7

In the iPhone selfie, this becomes right over left.

1:21.0

And the only time you wear a kimono right over left is when you are dead ghosts in Japan

1:26.3

also wear the kimono right over left as they are usually wearing their white funeral

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