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

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

And I am Joe McCormick. And hey, we're coming at you with new stuff after roughly a week or so off.

Did we say this was a listener

mail episode? I think you did. But if not, here we are with listener mail for you. Hey, if you are a

listener of stuff to blow your mind and you have never gotten in touch before, this is a great

time to try it. You can email us at contact at stuff to blow your mind.com. Messages of all sorts are welcome. We especially

appreciate feedback to any episodes, recent or older episodes if you want, if you've got thoughts

to add, something interesting to build on anything we brought up in the episode. Of course,

if you ever have corrections, if necessary, if you have just something interesting you want to share with us, we've got some messages of that sort here today.

Or if you just want to tell us what you like about the show, where you listen from, that kind of thing.

All sorts of messages are welcome.

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All right, Rob, if you don't mind, I think we should kick things off today with actually

a couple of messages from our listener, Robin, one about ancient art and another one about

festive holiday cocktails. We're past the point for one season of holiday cocktails, but just in time for another.

All right.

I'll start with the one about art.

So this is from Robin.

Robin says, hey, Rob, Joe, and JJ, just a quick email with some cool stuff I came across, maybe fodder for future topics.

Sometimes the almighty, cursed algorithm actually digs up something worthwhile, and I got

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