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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Absurd

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

In this classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe kick off the Halloween season with the notorious low-budget 1981 Italian slasher film “Absurd,” directed by Joe D’Amato and starring George Eastman. (originally published 9/27/2024)

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.0

Are there any pictures of you online?

0:06.2

Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.

0:10.2

Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts.

0:15.8

I'm Dexter Thomas, host a Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now.

0:21.5

Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect.

0:27.2

In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition,

0:31.5

and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars.

0:35.1

So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told that it was used,

0:41.1

let alone given any of the details about how it works.

0:43.7

Listen to KillSwitch on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:50.6

I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight.

0:53.9

And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke.

0:58.7

A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old.

1:02.1

And a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago.

1:06.6

How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again?

1:13.8

Listen to heavyweight on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:20.6

When news broke earlier this year that baby KJ, a newborn in Philadelphia, had successfully received the world's first personalized gene editing treatment.

1:28.5

It represented a milestone for both researchers and patients.

1:31.9

But there's a gripping tale of discovery behind this accomplishment and its creators.

1:36.0

I'm Evan Ratliff, and together with biographer Walter Isaacson,

1:38.8

we're delving into the story of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Dowdna,

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