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it's monday may 9th 20 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. How the 50s sci-fi horror film The Blob was actually a

ripped from the headlines story. Plus potential cancer treatments involving magnets and dirt.

And would you undergo a fecal transplant to reverse

signs of aging? It could be an option in the future. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

You know, the blob? Not the giant vinyl monstrosity that lives in summer camp lakes and launches you into the air when fellow campers jump on the other side, but the 1958 sci-fi horror film starring Steve McQueen.

And I suppose it's gory 1988 remake, but mostly we're talking about the original.

Even if you haven't seen it,

you're probably at least vaguely familiar with the plot. It's not a complicated one. A teenage couple sees a meteorite crash while they're smooching at Lovers Lane. The meteorite turns out

to have been holding some otherworldly goo inside of it that soon begins terrorizing their

All-American town.

The goo, or the titular blob, is a sort of gelatinous red-tinged ooze that seems to have

at least some sort of sentience. A B movie originally, and not too popular with critics,

the blob was a surprise hit, not only spawning a sequel a few years later,

but inspiring countless other monsters like it in sci-fi and horror movies for decades to come.

Nerdist name-checks The Slime in Ghostbusters 2 and The Mind Flair in Stranger Things as two prime examples.

It's such a weird, unsettling, yet in some ways,

underwhelming villain, that it really stuck with audiences.

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