Welcome again to pop culture Petri dish.

I mean, oh well it's the podcast where we talk about science fiction and science fact

and how they interplay culturally and in our imaginations. I'm one of your

co-hosts my name is Abe Epperson. And I am Christian Ramirez, your other co-host.

Yes, so here we are. What are we talking about today?

Today we are going to talk about monsters,

specifically ones in sci-fi.

So, and we wanted to kind of,

we talked about this, we wanted to kind of do a biology experiment like look at the like what is

what is what is the biology of these monsters some of our favorite ones yeah

some appear to be part reptile some or maybe insect and what does that mean? Yeah, so yeah, what do you want to talk about first? I think, and I just thought of this now,

I think we should probably start

with the original sci-fi monster, Frankenstein.

That's one that we hadn't talked about before,

but that's where it started that's where our concepts

of and of course Dr Frankenstein is the one that is the monster and humanity is the

monster in that story. But his monster is really the first kind of

sci-fi concept that we get in literature.

Obviously there's other stuff where if you want to argue that Egyptians and stuff like that

thought of things having animal heads and human bodies and stuff like that. That could be sci-fi, whatever. But in our current culture, we recognize Mary Shelley as being the one that invented. I think it's funny because we didn't really understand a lot when it came to when she wrote this book

We didn't understand a lot about the way that like the role that electricity plays in our brains and in our nervous system and everything.

We understood that if you shocked people it could make muscles trigger and stuff like that,

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