VSI Episode 9

Speaking of science fiction, you know I never actually saw this movie as a kid?

From 1958, The Fly, with Vincent Price. Pasting Jones’s face into this photo for t-shirt making purposes is exactly the sort of nerdly time-wasting shenanigans we got up to during exhausted off-moments during graduate school. Obviously, I’m far too mature for that sort of thing now …

Original Blurb from 2011

Ever see The Fly?  Not the gross-out Jeff Goldblum version, the original one where the guy has the head and hand of a fly.  No?  Just asking.

This was a long episode, and even so, I had to cut the venerable Saga Morinda, wherein your heroes drive from Greensboro to Florida in search of the legendary "fruit that smells like feet."  I lost my second cell phone in a year and GoogleMaps screwed us --again-- so that, with minutes to closing time, we were stuck in traffic on the other side of a gator-infested canal.  Only time I've ever seen mild-mannered Corbin mad enough to pound a steering wheel.  OK, so it's really more of a short story ("The Saga Morinda").  Maybe just an anecdote.

Updates from 2021

Honestly, I got nothing here. I haven’t actually spoken to Jones at all in over a year, and rarely for several years before that, given his small children and workaholic professorial lifestyle. This is one of the situations that made me consider a reunion tour.

REFERENCES from the show

Oliver Sacks was recently the subject of an American Masters episode on PBS, which I totally missed.

Octanoic acid (also found it goat milk!)

Morinda Fruit (aka “Cheese Fruit”?)

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/neanderthals-ate-fresh-herbivores-not-rotten-meat