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Study 177 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Part 1 (Patreon)

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2026-09-03 21:24:33
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Join us as we travel back to the 1950s, when podcasting meant something quite different. It's Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney - accept no imitations!

Special thanks to our reader, Erik Peabody! Check out his new horror fiction podcast: DEGENERATED!

Other notes from today's show:

Invasion of the Booty Snatchers

Our show on "The Body-Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson

I Love Galesburg in the Springtime

The Incredible Halloween III Mask-Throw!

The film adaptation from '56 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Next up: Feedback and then MORE SNATCHING!

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Cgkucey

Speaking of Halloween 3 season of the witch, Tom Atkins is delightful as another drunk doctor. I recently managed to get him to sign my “night of the creeps” poster at a local horror con. He is utterly charming.

Newk

I have trans reality I really think you should keep up with that kind of stuff Chris

MonsterTalk

So it seemed a stretch the Doc would pick up on the snatchers getting you while you sleep, right? But hold on - remember when he talked about his intuition and knowing when he was gonna have a date interrupted, that sort of thing? Surely that’s like Checkov’s gun? Only maybe Checkov’s PSI? Not to be confused with Keonig’s PSI on Bab-5. Damn, nerding is complicated.

Jamie Allinson

Ah, the gentle pat of female disappointment. I know it well.

Eric - Speaker in Digressions

Kids these days, always on their newfangled dial phones! Where's the human connection?! (Related: Just watched Patton Oswalt's latest special last night, "Tea and Scotch," which has a great bit on how people have always been on their cellphones, even before cellphones, citing a passage in "Pride and Prejudice" in which people at a social gathering all withdraw from one another into solo activities, like Mrs. Hurst, who is "principally occupied in playing with her bracelets and rings.")

The Lonely Sand Person

It's funny that he calls out automated telephone exchanges as his example of the dehumanization of technology, because the man who invented it did so because he suspected that calls to his funeral home were being misdirected to a competing funeral home by the competitor's wife, who was an operator. Sometimes there's a little too much humanity in the loop, you know?

Science Doctor, PhD

I had also never read this book, but seen some of the direct adaptations and heavily inspired ones (like World's End), and too was surprised when my first thought was not "Communism..." but "Technology..." Specifically, I feel this maps very well onto social media. It allows us greater and more convenient communication; I now know the innermost thoughts of many of the relatives I may have talked to a dozen times over the first twenty years of my life (whether that is a good thing is a different question). However, I feel like that connection is considerably less "connected." And, of course, Like Dean Koontz quoting Chad, I am not the first to say this. Of course, in a perfect world, these tools would be amazing. Social media, even AI (though that's a whole 'nother thing), in the hands of responsible businesses and an active and engaged (for good though, not evil) government, may be world changing (again, in a good way... So many annotations on this post...). So, closing it up, I think what keeps this stuff (for me) from being "old man yells at cloud" is thinking about really trying to dig into keeping those connections alive, rather than letting technology do the work for us. As an elder millennial (according to Dean Koontz the coolest and most attractive kind of millennial), I've been trying to do that, it's work for a lot of reasons, but totally worth it to hang out with people in meat-space regularly, rather than offloading that foundational aspect of humanity to whatever the newest app is. All of this can be found in Koontz' "Musings of some guy who really should be working," forward by Chad Fifer, in the postscript of the upcoming "Quiet and Bold 7: 7Quiets7Bolds".

G. Gorgo

I just re-read this novel because you're covering it, and it is a million times better than I remembered. I also read Wyndham's Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos for the first time last month and they were fantastic too. So much science fiction is sad or depressing, but this midcentury stuff slaps.

grey tom

"Too much humanity in the loop" would be an excellent tag line for an upcoming Feedback Show.

Jone Haney

Such an interesting comment; thanks for sharing!

Jim Cannon

Science fiction writers, and other people, most notably in the post-war United States, still had hope back then.

Doug Bolden

One of my favorite quick lines (and maybe my favorite scary line in the whole book) got a bit passed over. When he is talking to Wilma and she mentions the scar and he gets excited and asks, "And the scar’s gone?," only to have her reply “No! It’s there—the scar—exactly like Uncle Ira’s!" That's such a good weird horror line. It was specifically called out in King's introduction to the Stephen King Horror Library version (according to a listing online, the intro was written in 1981) and it makes me think of the famous Stephen King quote: "And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute." I'm can't find that exactly copy of The Body Snatchers but I do wonder how much this novel specifically inspired that philosophy.