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Oh, That's a Thing!
by Joya Italiano and Jeff Eckman
Real stuff in Sci-Fi movies, with a couple of goons who Googled some things
Episodes
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Episode 81 - Survival of the Most Empathic
It's the final episode!! Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Terminator 2"! Topics include: Killer Robots, Why We Cry, Turing Tests, How Pain Works, and a wrap-up of what we’ve learned on this crazy journey! Links:...
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Episode 80 - The Ultimate Harsh Environment
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Gravity"! It's the second to last episode guys! Topics include: Space Disasters and Near Misses, Gravity Itself, Sound in Space, and Space Junk! Links: https://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow/most-dangerous-moments-space-shuttle-station-history/...
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Episode 79 - But There Is a Spoon
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "The Matrix"! Topics include: Living in a Simulation, Deja Vu, Nihilism, Humans as Batteries, and The One Phone Call Rule! Links: https://www.darpa.mil/program/targeted-neuroplasticity-training...
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Episode 78 - Life's a Bitch and Then You Don't Die
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Cloud Atlas". Topics include: Reincarnation, Birthmarks, Nuclear Power, Cannibalism, and Microchipping Yourself! Links: https://people.howstuffworks.com/reincarnation.htm https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/definitions-of-clouds.html...
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Episode 77 - Like Looking in a Mirror... Only Not
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Face/Off"! Topics include: Face/Head transplants, Interpol, body morphing, and Greek mythology! Links: http://mentalfloss.com/article/65363/15-peachy-facts-about-faceoff...
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Episode 76 - Extreme Coping
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Identity"! Topics include: The Insanity Defense, Meyers-Briggs, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Identity Politics, and Sea Monkeys! Links: https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-Conditions/Dissociative-Disorders...
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Episode 75 - Kids Can Be Tactless
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Battle Royale"! Topics include: Crazy Game Shows, the East Asia Anti-Japanese Armed Front, the End of the Gladiator fights, a Real Life Lord of the Flies, and Corporal Punishment! Links:...
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Episode 74 - Lame Duck
Joya and Jeff watched the 1986 movie "Howard the Duck"! Topics include: Possible Types of Alien Life, Growing Organs Within Animals, Laser Spectroscopy, and Anthropomorphism! Links: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-will-extraterrestrial-life-look-180950029/...
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Episode 73 - The Cassandra Complex
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "12 Monkeys"! Topics include: Animal Rights Activism That Backfired, The First Penitentiary, Sterilization Methods, and Old Timey Bank Heists! Links: https://bitesizebio.com/853/5-laboratory-sterilisation-methods/...
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Episode 72 - Deep In the (Uncanny) Valley
Joya and Jeff watched the 2005 movie "House of Wax"! Topics include: The History of Candles, Madam Tussauds, Using Recycled Construction Materials, and Taping Your Mouth at Night! Links:...
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Episode 71 - Connecting the Dots Wrong
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Source Code"! Topics include: Virtual Reality in our Minds, Schrodinger’s Cat, Waking Up With Fake Memories, and the Radioactive Boy Scout! Links: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/this-fall-the-radioactive-boy-scout-died-at-age-39/...
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Episode 70 - Garbage Patch Kids
Joya and Jeff watched the terrible movie "Biodome"! Topics include: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Homeostasis, Music Torture and the Biosphere 2! Links: http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/whatever-happened-to-biosphere-2.html...
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Episode 69 - Not Enough Hours in the Day
Joya and Jeff watched the 2002 movie "The Time Machine"! Topics include: The Standardization of Time, Time’s Arrow, Nukes on the Moon, and H.G. Wells Himself! Links: http://www.nextgentoothbrush.com/infographics/brief-history-of-electric-toothbrush-detailed-analysis-with-infographic/...
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Episode 68 - The Walking Id
Joya and Jeff watched the Jim Carrey classic "The Mask"! Topics include: The History of Masks, Baby Tazmanian Devils, Norse Mythology, Turning Landfills into Parks, and Freud’s Id Ego and Superego! Links: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a25414/tommy-gun-thompson-submachine/...
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Episode 67 - How Volcano Got Its Groove Back
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Volcano"! Topics include: Volcanoes, the La Brea Tar Pits, a Prince Who Built a Volcano, and What Happens If You Jump Into Lava! Links: https://tarpits.org http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-volcano.htm...
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Episode 66 - Hyperloop Precheck
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Snowpiercer"! Topics include: The Hyperloop, Cloud Seeding, Frostbite, Perpetual Motion Machines, and The Orient Express! Links: https://www.seat61.com/OrientExpress.htm https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/meteorologists/cloud-seeding1.htm...
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Episode 65 - A Tornado of Truth
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Twister"! Topics include: How Tornadoes Form, Early Warning Systems, the Fujita Scale, and Can You Ride a Tornado?! Links: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150511-tornadoes-storms-midwest-weather-science/...
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Episode 64 - A Right Handed World
Joya and Jeff watched the 1999 movie "Idle Hands"! Topics include: Self Surgeries, Cauterization, People With Two Heads, and How a Body Decomposes! Links: http://listverse.com/2008/12/09/top-10-incredible-self-surgeries/ http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/abby-and-brittany-hensel-2017-133084...
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Episode 63 - Cult of Public Opinion
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Se7en"! Topics include: The Seven Deadly Sins, Pinkerton Detectives, Blacklight Forensics, and Eating Until You Explode! Links: https://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-pinkertons...
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Episode 62 - Not the GB
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Wild Wild West"! Topics include: Steampunk, Earliest Hearing Aids, Operation Paperclip, Parties at the White House, and Bulletproof Vests! Links: https://www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-was-operation-paperclip...
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Episode 61 - Inherent Inheritance
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Dark City"! Topics include: The Higgs Mechanism, Hypnotism, Cryptomnesia, and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Links: http://www.medicaldaily.com/why-some-people-are-immune-hiv-ebola-and-other-diseases-397940...
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Episode 60 - Psychedelic Pilgrims
Joya and Jeff watched the 2000 movie "The Beach"! Topics include: Communes for Future Technologists, Longest Open Swims on Record, Urban Legends, and Secret Societies! Links:...
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Episode 59 - The Art of Flight
Joya and Jeff watched the 2001 Jet Li movie "The One"! Topics include: Parallel Universes, String Theory, "Internal" Martial Arts Styles, Parkour, and Steroids! Links: https://www.muscleforlife.com/side-effects-of-steroids/ https://www.livescience.com/3349-steroids-work.html...
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Episode 58 - Living That Goldfish Life
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Memento"! Topics include: Types of Amnesia, How Memories Are stored, Ginkgo Biloba, and How Polaroids Work! Links: https://petapixel.com/2011/05/18/how-polaroid-instant-film-works/ https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question605.htm...
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Episode 57 - Robot With a Personality Disorder
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Short Circuit"! Topics include: What a 'Short Circuit' actually is, Speed-Reading, War Robots Going Rogue, The "Memory Palace" Technique, and the Earliest Tanks! Note: We recorded this episode before the recent controversy surrounding Aziz Ansari, which is why we...
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Episode 56 - Things Got Dark and Funny
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "The Truman Show"! Topics include: The Truman Show Delusion, Why We Believe Conspiracies, Japanese Contest Show "Nasubi", and Norman Rockwell! Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgC_nkU2sg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzueQK-Q7gI...
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Episode 55 - Imaginary Friend Fantasies - With Special Guest Rachel Bloom
Joya, Jeff and special guest Rachel Bloom watched the movie “Space Jam”! Topics include: Rachel's "Space Jam" Musical Sketch, the Deepest Living Organisms, Hollow Earth Theory, the invention of Basketball, the Placebo effect, and a discussion about the intersection of Art and Commerce! Links:...
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Episode 54 - Think Outside the Cube
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Cube"! Topics include: Prime Numbers, Problem Solving on LSD, Savants and Booby Trapped Houses! LINKS: http://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/10-most-fascinating-savants-in-the-world/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelics_in_problem-solving_experiment...
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Episode 53 - Social Chameleon
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Predator"! Topics include: The Discovery of Infrared (and how to avoid Infrared Detection), Invisibility Cloaks, Awesome Animal Camouflage, and, of course, Choppas! Links: https://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/helicopter.htm...
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Episode 52 - The Code Word Is "My Bad"
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "The Happening"! Topics include: Ergot Poisoning, Harmful Algal Blooms, The Bystander Effect, and Why Body Parts Sag! Links: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/redtide.html http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/15/Salem-Witch-Trials-The-Fungus-Theory/...
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Episode 51 - Reverse Hot Pocket
Joya and Jeff watched the Van Damme movie "Timecop"! Topics include: Lost Confederate Gold, Quantum Computing, The Double Slit Experiment, and Freezing and Shattering Your Dead Body! Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10 http://www.promessa.se/about-life-death/...
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Episode 50 - Just Call Me Hal
Joya and Jeff watched the Sci-Fi classic "2001: A Space Odyssey" Topics include: Killer Robots, Pooping in Space, The Origins of Man, and The Future of Humanity! Links: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/20-big-questions-about-the-future-of-humanity/...
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Compilation Vol. 1
This week we put together a handful of our favorite segments from the first 49 episodes of the show!
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Episode 49 - The End Is History
Joya and Jeff watched the movie “Super Mario Bros.” Topics include: The Dino Extinction Event, Mario Bros, Parallel Universes, and Antimatter! LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_COcHHvte-0 http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2017/apr/26/competing-claims-over-cause-of-cosmic-cold-spot...
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Episode 48 - Amber Is the Ultimate Moisturizer
Joya and Jeff watched the 1993 classic "Jurassic Park"! Topics include: The Discovery of Dinosaurs, Ancient Amber, Bringing Back the Wooly Mammoth, and Chaos Theory! LINKS: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-fossil-reveals-velociraptor-sported-feathers/...
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Episode 47 - A Giant Game of Simon
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"! Topics include: UFOs, Dolphin Communication, The Bermuda Triangle, and The Game Simon! LINKS: http://nypost.com/2014/06/10/the-dolphin-that-fell-in-love-with-a-human/...
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Episode 46 - The Price of Beauty - With Special Guest Ryan Kasmiskie
Joya, Jeff and special guest Ryan Kasmiskie watched the movie “Evolution”! Topics include: The Gaia Theory, Planarian Flatworms, Metabolism, and Arsenic Based Life! Links: http://mentalfloss.com/article/61665/13-things-you-didnt-know-about-planarians...
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Episode 45 - Life's Abyss and Then You Dive
Joya and Jeff watched the movie “The Abyss”! Topics include: Liquid Ventilation, Atmospheric Diving Suits, Bioluminescence, and Why Chlorine Turns Your Hair Green! Links: http://www.history.com/news/the-midget-subs-that-beat-the-planes-to-pearl-harbor...
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Episode 44 - The Fart Hums of the Toad Fish
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Gremlins"! Topics include: "Gremlins in the Machine", Asexual Reproduction, Animal Songs, and the History of Chuck E. Cheese! Links: http://www.ancientpages.com/2015/09/09/gremlins-highly-mechanical-creatures-in-mythology/ https://byjus.com/biology/fragmentation/...
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Episode 43 - Try To Jerk Off With This, Buddy
Joya and Jeff watched “Edward Scissorhands”! Topics include: Opposable Thumbs, Topiaries, Automatons and Waterbeds! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-do-humans-have-thumbs-180953393/ http://www.nsta.org/publications/news/story.aspx?id=49036...
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Episode 42 - Pave Paradise, Put Up Several Parking Lots
Joya and Jeff watched the 1995 movie "Judge Dredd"! Topics include: Megacities, Puzzles, Cannibalism and Police States! Links: https://www.ancient.eu/Janus/ http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/22/515668867/cannibalism-its-perfectly-natural-a-new-scientific-history-argues...
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Episode 41 - I Would Run From That
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Anaconda"! Topics include: Crazy Anaconda Facts, Dynamite, New Nature Doc Technology, and Totem Poles! Links:...
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Episode 40 - Rest In Peace, the XFL
Joya and Jeff watched the 2000 Schwarzenegger movie "The 6th Day"! Topics include: Pet Cloning, the Human Genome Project, Fingerprints, and the XFL! Links! http://nypost.com/2015/10/31/i-spent-more-than-100000-to-clone-my-dog/ https://viagenpets.com...
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Episode 39 - A Place For Your Soul to Do Some Searching
Joya and Jeff watched "Beetlejuice"! Topics include: Purgatory, 'Betelgeuse' the Star, The Winchester Mystery House, Why Ghosts Wear Sheets, and A Brief History on Goths!
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Episode 38 - Whether It's God or a Little Man in Your Dick - With Special Guest Dan Eckman
Joya, Jeff and special guest Dan Eckman watched the movie "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"! Topics include: How We’re Mostly Made of Empty Space, The Homunculus, The History of the Remote Control, and How Honey is Basically Bee Puke!
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Episode 37 - A New Baby in the Mail
Joya and Jeff watched the 2002 Eddie Murphy movie "The Adventures of Pluto Nash"! Topics include: Cloning Pets, How Battery Acid Works, Artificial Gravity, Mining in Space, and Oxygen Bars!
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Episode 36 - Things That Make You Go Goo
Joya and Jeff watched the 1999 movie "The Mummy"! Topics include: Ancient Boobytraps, Mummification, the Truth Behind the Ten Biblical Plagues, Scarabs, and how Mirages Work!
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Episode 35 - A Crew of Sleuthers
Joya and Jeff watched the 1996 movie "Mission: Impossible"! Topics include: Crazy Spy Gizmos and Techniques, Super-vaults, Floppy Disks, Face Masks, and Smoking On Planes!
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Episode 34 - Legends of the Dick Fish
Joya and Jeff watched the 1978 movie "Piranha"! Topics Include: Crazy Piranha Facts, Killer Algae, Electric Fences, and Weird Government Experiments to Weaponize Animals!
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Episode 33 - Dingle Dangle, You Get Healthcare
Joya and Jeff watched the 1988 movie "The Blob"! Topics include: Animal digestive systems, the history of health insurance in the United States, fun uses for plungers, and the truth about Pop Rocks!
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