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Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick connect neuroscience, folklore, and B-movies in Weirdhouse Cinema.
Stuff To Blow Your Mind treats odd questions as serious invitations to think. Recent episodes move from ancient cynicism and trust-game research to koi longevity, goldfish coloration, Mothra biology, and the eccentric pleasures of fantasy and kaiju films.
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Stuff To Blow Your Mind is produced by iHeartPodcasts and hosted by Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick, who record as a two-person panel rather than bringing on outside interview guests. The core format alternates between standalone science-explainer episodes and serialized multi-part deep dives, such as a three-part series on disorientation in microgravity ('The Upside-Down') and a two-part history of goldfish domestication and biology ('Court of the Golden Fishes'). A recurring segment called Weirdhouse Cinema (also styled Weird House Cinema) shifts the format toward film history, covering kaiju movies, Shaw Brothers-era Hong Kong horror, and fantasy adaptations, with attention to production history and casting rather than conventional criticism. Listener-mail episodes revisit prior topics through audience questions, often chasing a single scientific or historical tangent. Subject matter regularly blends hard science, such as inner-ear physiology, deep-sea biology, and optics, with mythology and folklore, including yokai, cryptids, and regional legends, and with film and cultural history. Episode tone throughout is educational and exploratory rather than debate-driven or news-oriented. Episode length varies widely, from roughly 48 minutes for standard topic episodes to over 100 minutes for some Weirdhouse Cinema installments. The show cites academic papers, museum collections, and historical texts as sources for its claims. Some episodes carry a noticeable amount of network promotional content ahead of the main discussion. Listeners drawn to the overlap of science, folklore, and cult film history are the core audience for the show.
Made for: Listeners interested in long-form two-host discussions that connect science explainers, mythology and folklore, and cult or B-movie film history.
What sets it apart: Pairs a standard science-explainer format with a dedicated, long-running cult-film review segment (Weirdhouse Cinema) instead of staying within a single science or film beat.
Deep in the back of your mind, you’ve always had the feeling that there’s something strange about reality. There is. Join Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick as they examine neurological quandaries, cosmic mysteries, evolutionary marvels and our transhuman future.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Its Weirdhouse Cinema conversations pair detailed film criticism with an enduring affection for strange performances, genre oddities, and ambitious misfires.
Stuff To Blow Your Mind turns its Weirdhouse Cinema episodes into close, companionable examinations of films whose strange choices deserve more than a verdict.
A rocket-launcher Tinkerbell is your cue: movie talk here prizes the gloriously strange.
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A clear, research-minded look at whether cynicism makes people wiser or just more suspicious.
Cynicism gets handled as a testable habit of mind rather than a stylish pose. This vault episode picks up the question of whether cynics are better judges of people, or whether suspicion simply looks like intelligence from the outside.
A Weirdhouse Cinema pick for kaiju fans, though the available audio is promo-heavy before any real Godzilla talk arrives.
Stuff To Blow Your Mind's Weirdhouse Cinema slot points toward Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974), a title that already carries plenty of TV and film baggage: kaiju spectacle, franchise mythology, and the handmade charge of 1970s effects work.
A measured koi-longevity story that lets a 226-year-old fish legend shimmer before asking what can actually be proven.
Court of the Golden Fishes, Part 2 turns on a wonderfully slippery bit of koi lore: carp as symbols of longevity, and Hanako, the red koi said to have died in 1977 at 226 years old.
A careful look at how carp, light, pigment, and controlled environments helped make the goldfish feel iconic.
Court of the Golden Fishes, Part 1 finds a surprisingly visual story in the biology of goldfish. The episode follows prized carp through Chinese fishkeeping and the advantage humans gained by shaping the fish's environment, then turns that history into a close look at color…
A cast-focused look at Dungeons and Dragons (2000) as a fantasy misfire with performers worth talking about.
Stuff To Blow Your Mind treats Dungeons and Dragons (2000) as the kind of misfire where the cast becomes more interesting than the movie around them.
A lively Diogenes episode about public defiance, hypocrisy, and cynicism as more than a sour attitude.
Stuff To Blow Your Mind takes cynicism back to Diogenes, treating him less as a stock grouch than as a deliberately difficult philosopher with a taste for public provocation.
A loose, funny Weirdhouse Cinema look at Nemesis, sharpest when it lingers on bizarre performances and cyborg cast clutter.
Stuff To Blow Your Mind takes Nemesis as Weirdhouse Cinema territory: a strange film full of Hammerheads, freelance cyborgs, associates who barely count as a faction, and performances that seem to run on their own private wiring.
A patient optics episode that makes the basic act of seeing feel newly unstable.
The Upside-Down, Part 3 finds its hook in a deceptively simple question: why does the world appear right side up? Once the episode gets past a long run of network promos, Stuff To Blow Your Mind settles into the kind of perception puzzle that suits the show well, taking an…
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant explain one topic per episode, from the bicameral mind to Boeing's MCAS.
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins dissect Oscar races, new releases, and Hollywood news.
Adam Kempenaar and Josh Larsen debate new releases, classics, and their own film rankings.
Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Jason Mantzoukas argue their way through terrible movies.
Cynicism meets competence.
Stuff to Blow Your Mind’s Weirdhouse Cinema segment on 1974’s Godzilla vs.
Koi can live a long time.
This episode discusses the 1964 kaiju film Mothra vs.
The fish chat comes wrapped in heavy ad copy.
Ignore the ad-static bookends.
Diogenes burns a lantern in daylight, and the hosts use that odd little image to separate old Cynicism from everyday lower-case cynicism.
Nemesis turns into a roster problem, which suits Weirdhouse just fine.
Optics finally gets the mic.
Robert Lamb explores the fictional fauna of the planet Utapau from Star Wars, blending science and mythology.
Microgravity scrambles everyday perception.
This excerpt is mostly iHeart promo copy.
A thin amphibian thread hangs on.
A promo-heavy cold open gets in the way first.
Gravity gets weird underground.
This episode explores the science and philosophy behind superpowers, using comic book examples to discuss what our preferences reveal about us.
Magnetite gets weird quickly.
A podcast exploring strange aspects of reality through neuroscience, evolution, and cosmic mysteries.
This episode explores strange aspects of reality through neurological, cosmic, and evolutionary lenses.
Rob Lamb and Joe McCormick discuss the 1964 film 'The Last Man on Earth' and its place among adaptations of Richard Matheson's novel 'I Am Legend'.
A science podcast exploring strange aspects of reality, from neuroscience to cosmic mysteries.
Robert Lamb explores the Marvel Comics character Quasimodo, a super-science take on Victor Hugo's hunchback, blending pop culture with scientific and mythological analysis.
The saguaro still has that odd pull.
This episode of Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind discusses the classic film Dr.
This episode from the vault features part 3 of 'Hunters of the Dark Ocean' and includes promotional ads for other iHeart podcasts like 2%, The Clifford Show, and Thanks Dad, ending with a teaser about women discovering they've all dated the same con artist.
The film gets the Weirdhouse treatment.
A podcast exploring strange aspects of reality, from neurological puzzles to cosmic and evolutionary wonders.
Carrie catches the crab facing the wrong way.
A podcast exploring strange aspects of reality, from neuroscience to cosmic mysteries and future human evolution.
This episode from the vault continues the story of hunters in the dark ocean and features a teaser about women discovering they've all dated the same con artist and taking action.
A podcast exploring strange aspects of reality, from neurological puzzles to cosmic and evolutionary wonders.
A podcast exploring strange aspects of reality, including neurological, cosmic, and evolutionary topics.
A cave starts as a letdown, just another dead end.
Malaysia looks almost like a promotional video at first.
The excerpt is packed with ads.
A science podcast exploring strange aspects of reality, from neuroscience to cosmic mysteries.
A science podcast exploring strange aspects of reality, from neurological puzzles to cosmic mysteries and evolutionary wonders.