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🗓️ 19 February 2025
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In this classic episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses a fictional denizen of the planet Uranus, as brought to life in Stanley G. Weinbaum’s 1935 short story “The Planet of Doubt.”
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0:00.0 | Black History Month is here and we're excited to kick off season faux. |
0:05.4 | If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either. |
0:07.5 | This season, we're shining a spotlight on revolutionary women who redefined excellence. |
0:12.8 | Give Grace Wisher her flowers. |
0:15.0 | Next time you see the American flag, you just remember a 16-year-old black woman helped to make it happen. |
0:20.1 | Listen to I didn't know. |
0:21.4 | Maybe you didn't either. |
0:22.5 | From the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or simply wherever you get your podcast. |
0:29.9 | I didn't know. |
0:35.6 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
0:41.9 | Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact, a short form series from Stuff to Blow |
0:46.9 | your mind focusing in on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time. |
0:56.2 | I'd like to offer this episode as an imaginative sideshow to our core episodes on the moons of Uranus. |
1:04.3 | As we discuss in those episodes, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that one of the icy |
1:09.1 | uranium moons contains, or may have once contained |
1:12.9 | life, but the planet itself is a cold, dead world and its temperatures, pressures, and |
1:18.4 | materials simply don't correspond to life as we know it. |
1:23.2 | However, if we venture back far enough in science fiction, we can find some interesting dreams |
1:29.0 | regarding what life on the seventh planet might consist of. |
1:34.3 | American author Stanley G. Weinbaum's 1935 story, The Planet of Doubt, is just such a dream. |
1:42.0 | The story, which you can find in various collections today, is very old-fashioned in many |
1:47.0 | respects. |
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