In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss our psychological tendency to overestimate our control over events, with implications for everything from gambling and paranormal beliefs to our movements through everyday life. 

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss our psychological tendency to overestimate our control over events, with implications for everything from gambling and paranormal beliefs to our movements through everyday life.

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.

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Illusion of Control, Part 2

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Yes, it’s time to grease up Weirdhouse Cinema with a Shaw Brothers horror film from 1976. “The Oily Maniac” is a tale of sleaze, revenge and a rampaging black-magic oil monster. (originally published 01/22/2021)

Yes, it&rsquo;s time to grease up Weirdhouse Cinema with a Shaw Brothers horror film from 1976. &ldquo;The Oily Maniac&rdquo; is a tale of sleaze, revenge and a rampaging black-magic oil monster. (originally published 01/22/2021)

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: The Oily Maniac

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In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Rob and Joe discuss the recent discovery of a strange new deep-water predator and highlight some of the various weird, wild and downright gnarly hunters that haunt the deepest, darkest depths of Earth’s oceans. (part 1 of 4, originally published 3/18/2025)

In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Rob and Joe discuss the recent discovery of a strange new deep-water predator and highlight some of the various weird, wild and downright gnarly hunters that haunt the deepest, darkest depths of Earth&rsquo;s oceans. (part 1 of 4, originally published 3/18/2025)

From the Vault: Hunters of the Dark Ocean, Part 1

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/8ebdcb8e-1ce5-476b-9f1f-b4020122af74/transcript

In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe finally watch a little slice of b-movie perfection with 1985’s “Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf.” Directed by Philippe Mora, the film stars Sybil Danning, Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe and Reb Brown. Draw blood.

In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe finally watch a little slice of b-movie perfection with 1985&rsquo;s &ldquo;Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf.&rdquo; Directed by Philippe Mora, the film stars Sybil Danning, Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe and Reb Brown. Draw blood.

Weirdhouse Cinema: Howling II

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/9240ed58-dea6-44c0-9da1-b40401123205/transcript

The Illusion of Control, Part 2

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