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MonsterTalk

Unbottling some Jinn

MonsterTalk

Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2011

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

If you think Genies are funny like in Aladdin, or sexy like in I Dream of Jeannie get ready to have your assumptions challenged. In the Middle East, Jinn aren’t whimsical characters of fantasy. They are considered to be frightening, real entities that haunt desolate places and can perform terrible magic. In this episode of MonsterTalk we interview author Robert Lebling about his book Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar. If you miss this episode you’ll wish you hadn’t! READ episode notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The big picture questions and the most interesting research in science

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0:22.7

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0:24.4

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0:26.9

and we have fun along the way.

0:28.4

The show is called Big Picture Science

0:30.1

and as Seth said, you can hear it wherever you get your podcast.

0:34.8

Hey there, Blake, how are you doing?

0:37.8

I'm cold, Ben, because I don't have a Monster Talk t-shirt.

0:41.3

You know, you know what would be really cool really cool Blake would be if there was a monster talk

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t-shirt yes that just that's just what I was thinking why why don't we have somebody

0:52.1

designed a t-shirt Blake?

0:54.3

But then who could we ask?

0:56.3

Hmm, I don't know. Let me think.

1:00.0

Hey, I have an idea, Blake. Why don't we hold a contest and we'll have our listeners, many of whom are very creative and frankly much better artists and are smarter than we are and ask them to submit some designs for our super

1:17.0

cool awesome monster talk t-shirt.

1:19.6

I like this idea, but how can we properly incentivize our listeners to participate?

1:25.0

That's a great question, Blake. Let me think.

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