Ep. 70: Flappy leg nubbins

Inspired by a photo from last week’s conversation about Thalidomide, we’re discussing the wild world of prosthetics throughout history, what disability means, and better living through body augmentation.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark gives a very affecting lesson on why you shouldn’t keep wild animals as pets

[17:10] CoRri is kind of on holiday in the Hawaiian Twin Peaks

[26:16] We talk a bit about wrasslin’ and why everyone should be watching it

[33:20] John Carpenter’s The Thing is the zeitgeist this week, and we talk about the other 1980s horror flicks we consumed over the past few days

[57:00] We look at various prosthetic technologies throughout history