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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Monstrefact: Nipper Sticks of ‘Labyrinth’

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses goblin weapons known as nipper sticks in Jim Henson’s “Labyrinth.”

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, it's Janice Torres.

0:02.2

And Austin Hankwitz.

0:03.2

We're the host of Mind the Business, Small Business Success Stories, a new podcast

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Listen to Mind the Business, Small Business Success Stories every other Thursday on the

0:27.2

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0:35.7

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

0:42.4

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb and this is The Monster Fact, a short form series from Stuff

0:47.1

to Blow Your Mind focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

0:54.8

I'd like to turn our attention once more to the world of Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy

1:01.8

film, Labyrinth, where a vast shifting maze surrounds the Goblin King's castle, full

1:08.4

of various hazards, traps, and riddles.

1:12.3

It is not uncommon to encounter the Goblin army in these parts as they tend to such

1:17.7

important work as tormenting good natured beasts like Ludo.

1:22.8

In the film, Sarah encounters several heavily armored Goblins engaging in just such work

1:29.0

with nipper sticks.

1:31.1

These are long sticks or cudgles with a strange, bitey creature perched toward the end of

1:37.4

the stick.

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