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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Monstrefact Omnibus: Vampires

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In this special episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, enjoy an assortment of past Monstrefact episodes about various vampires... (originally published 05/31/2023)

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

Remember Movie Pass?

0:08.4

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

0:21.6

he built.

0:22.8

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.7

Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:34.7

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. or wherever you get your podcast.

0:41.2

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

0:55.0

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact, a short form series from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, focusing in on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

1:04.1

I have a special omnibus episode for you this week once more, collecting four past episodes, this time regarding vampires.

1:09.8

Upburst, let's consider a possible Irish origin for Count Dracula.

1:15.6

Count Dracula was Irish.

1:20.6

Or at least that's the case made by various historians and folklorists.

1:26.6

Now certainly, to be sure, the 1897 novel Dracula places the character's origins firmly

1:33.1

in Transylvania and famously draws in the legacy of historical 15th century Wallachian ruler

1:39.2

Vlad the Impalor.

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