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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick. And folks, if I sound a little bit groggy today, I think I do have a bit of a cold, but we're recording anyway. Since we're going to be talking about the Sith of Star Wars, I thought I'd just embrace it. I would embrace all the negativity and lean into the sithiness of this sickness.

There you go.

Use it.

It will make you stronger.

Exactly.

So a couple of weeks ago, we did a pair of episodes about the Star Wars universe.

One of them was about the ice planet Hawth from the Empire Strikes Back, where we talked

about the fictional sort of theropod dinosaur goat beast,

known as the taunton, and from that we jumped into a discussion about actual dinosaurs

that we now know lived in icy polar environments, which is pretty cool and very surprising

if you grew up like I did thinking that dinosaurs were

exclusively inhabitants of steamy jungles and, you know, deserts surrounded by molten lava.

We also talked about the Wampa and its relation to real-life predators, as well as the infamous Taunton sleeping bag scene.

And from that we got into the history and science of trying to

crawl inside a dead animal's body for warmth. People in reality have done it. Yeah,

Lister males keep piling in about this one, by the way. That's, yeah, it's generating some good stuff.

And then in a second Star Wars episode, we shifted gears and talked about Sith psychology,

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