Episode 24
March 14, 2018
Every Framing Device a Painting
MST3K 803 • The Mole People
Hosted by Adam Clarke and Beth Martin
The Mole People gets Beth and Adam to recite an epic of hollow-earth theories, the Epic of Gilgamesh, celebrity cameos, mushrooms, and astronauts of note.
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Show Notes.
The Mole People is available (with annotations!) on YouTube! Thanks, Shout Factory.
The Mole People: IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Thor: We Accept the Challenge.
Beth is on This Is Your Mixtape!
(EDIT: There used to be a link to a survey here, but that was long ago.)
(EDIT: And there used to be a link to a party here, but that, too, was long ago.)
Atlas Obscura article on Hollow Earth theories.
Vice article on Hollow Earth theories.
Edmund Halley’s article suggesting that the Earth might be hollow.
Battlestar Galactica’s religious inspiration.
Rear Adminral Richard E. Byrd.
In Our Time on the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The sexagesimal system.
NYC “mole people” links: An article. A book. A rebuttal. A life.
IJAS 10 on Reptilicus and IJAS 15 on Starcrash, and their celebrity cameos.
In Our Time on fungi.
Matango trailer.
New data on the ant-controlling fungus!
Bonus.
A bonus bit, wherein Adam has something on his mind, is available as a thank you to our Patreon supporters.