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Study 117 - Hyperpilosity (Patreon)

Published:
2025-01-09 17:11:00
Edited:
2025-02-06 17:40:48
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What happens when people suddenly get shaggy like wookies? Find out as we pick through Hyperpilosity by L. Sprague de Camp!

Special thanks to our reader, James Holloway, host of the Monster Man podcast and various gaming pamphlets of high renown!

Next up: We continue Janu-Hairy with two stories adapted for the celebrated Japanese movie Kwaidan: The Reconciliation and The Corpse-Rider by Lafcadio Hearn!

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Rick Hound

Society of reluctant werewolves sounds like a faux memoir of Chad, after he caught a case of lycanthropy.

Jason Thompson

I like this story a lot. I read it when I was very young, like 10, and the twist was really surprising.

Nathaniel Lekki

I thought the AI bit would end, and then IT JUST DIDN'T

Daniel Restione

Sounded like a bit of “Old Hollywood” leaking out there Chad. I loved that bit… my backside’s for tootin!

Aaron La Vene

“Please subscribe to our Patreon.” *Insert fake ai sketch to really push the free listeners.* That will get them for sure!!! I say this with sincerity. Never change. If they don’t enjoy the what reminds me of mst3k invention exchange shenanigans. Then idk what to tell em.

Its Mr Bat Man To You

This reminds me of the “killer bee” scare that went through in the 80’s. Turns out those killer bees are actually hardier and produce more honey for beekeepers now.

Forrest Rush

Just imagine how popular a Queer Eye for the Hirsute Guy would be. Every ep having a bear bares all segment.

Gideon Falcon

That was definitely a weird little story. It did have some fun satire, but it mainly strikes me that so far, even when he's not writing about bears, L. Sprague still writes about bears! Speaking of the Johnny Black stories, when you first said L. Sprague's name in that episode, I had the weirdest de ja vu as I *knew* I had heard that name somewhere before. That's when you mentioned that he wrote a biography about H. P. Lovecraft, and it finally clicked that I *own* that biography! I got it in college for research for my final project, which I chose to be about the history of Lovecraftian horror in literature. It was a bizarre coincidence, but I got quite the kick out of it.

Oleh R

The US government only being concerned with protecting the cotton industry is the most believable part of this story. Chris: “this story is nothing to write home about.” Also Chris: records a 30 minute podcast about it.

Gideon Falcon

On the topic of the public lashing back against advertising, it reminds me of what I think is an example from a few years back with DirecTV. They had an ad making a big deal out of their new feature that let you rewind live broadcasts - which was pretty new at the time - using some country singer going on about it giving you "the power to turn back time," awkwardly in a family's living room of course. Thing is, he demonstrated this by *erasing the family's second child,* just because he was being loud and annoying so they "reconsidered." I don't know for sure how many people were as horrified as I was, but I expect there was SOME backlash because the commercial seemed to stop airing unusually quickly, and the replacement had the same singer instead allowing a guy to say goodbye to his "Grampy Tim" again. So, there are definitely times in real life when advertisers have shot themselves in the foot.

Andew

I agree. I'm willing to be proven wrong, but so far I haven't read a L. Sprague de Camp story that really blew my hair back.

Jb Lee

I read HYPERPILOSITY when I was a wee bairn -- is that right? Is a bairn a thing you can be? -- in the same book that introduced me to Wollheim ne Grinnell's nightmare THE RAG THING and the dread COLOUR OUT OF SPACE. It had a lot of other gems in it, too. Conklin's OMNIBUS OF SCIENCE FICTION, which I'm guessing is the necronomidoorstop with the Sarah dedication, though mine's from 1951. And if you guys haven't done THE RAG THING you should. How about THE CONQUEROR? WINNER LOSE ALL? SPECTATOR SPORT? MANNERS OF THE AGE? THE HEAD HUNTERS? THE DOORBELL? All in that ominous omnibus.

Sweatin' to the Great Oldies

I was reminded of Heinlein's Puppet Masters in which folks surprisingly quickly learn to walk 'round nearly nude. I remember pretty much nothing else from that book. Which says something about the book. Or me.

Christine M

I don't know how many people caught it, but I really enjoyed the references to salvaged suits of armor and Edogawa Ranpo's "The Human Chair!" Enjoy your totally legit, 100% mechanical AI robot, Chad!

Runninghead

Great episode guys! Chad's impression of Dr.Nick from the Simpsons really made it. 😉 Seriously I can't wait for more from Chad Pfeif-hair and Chris Wookie next week. Janu-hairy is definitely an idea who's time has comb!😄

Jim Cannon

The leading theory for why humans are the hairless apes, as I understand it, is linked, as with most things, to our bipedality. We need to absorb Vitamin D from sunlight, but projecting a much different profile to the sun than our quadrepedal relatives meant making what skin is exposed as hairless as possible to maximize absorption. And then the dark skin was necessary to avoid skin cancer. Notice that we still have hair on the top of our heads - well, most of us, anyway - which gets sunlight directly no matter where we stand. So the whole world getting suddenly hairy without any side effects seems unlikely; somebody somewhere is going to get rickets.

Jon Maness

This story weirdly reminded me of a scene in Slapstick of Another Kind where Jim Backus as the president asks the super intelligent twins how to solve a fuel crisis which has everyone using chicken poop to fuel cars. Priorities. Also, is AL available for other podcasts? Asking for a friend.

Jon Maness

I guess it is a shame(?) the Medusa Coil was covered well before Januhairy?

Tomas Rawlings

So liked the idea of how the story reaches back to human evolution as we used fire to cover for the loss of hair to stay warm. So there is a hypothesis that cooking food (so yay, fire!) led to our brain development as much less time is needed foraging and eating with cooked food as absorbing nutrients is more efficient so we had more time to socialise and do other stuff so driving brain development. Only issue with the narrative in the story is that fire use pre dates Homo sapiens by quite a lot

Anne Ominous

I've read greater than 97% of the stories for this show and none of them made me feel as awkward as this one... That probably says more about me. Great hair puns everyone!

Kendle

This is the long version of the “Star-Bellied Sneeches” by Doctor Suess.