Animalia Stupendium: The Common Kingfisher

Animalia Stupendium: The Common Kingfisher

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Weirdhouse Cinema: I Married a Monster from Outer Space

In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss 1958’s “I Married a Monster from Outer Space,” directed by Gene Fowler Jr. and starring Gloria Talbott and Tom Tryon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Lilliputian Hallucinations and the Kingdom of the Small

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the psychedelic mushroom tied to hallucinations of little people and how it might have impacted Chinese myths and folktales of tiny men.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

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