Apr 9 2015

What's the deal with blood types?

60 min 3 movies discussed
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Blood types have one of the more interesting backstories in medical history. But as much as we've figured out about them and how they work, we still don't know much about why we even have different blood types. Listen in for a truly fascinating look at your most essential bodily fluid.

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# SYSK Episode Summary: Blood Types

Join Josh and Chuck as they dive into the fascinating and surprisingly dramatic history of blood types, from early doctors experimenting with animal transfusions to Carl Landsteiner's breakthrough discovery of the ABO blood group system. You'll learn why mixing certain blood types creates a dangerous immune response, what the positive and negative really mean, and some wild facts like how your blood type can actually change throughout your lifetime or even be artificially modified.


Movies Discussed

General Hospital
General Hospital
1963
★ 5.8
"It was also a general hospital subplot. Was it really? Yeah. I was just poking around and it was like a, leave it to the soap opera to make that like the rarest blood type, a subplot, a paternity subplot. — Chuck mentions that the soap opera General Hospital used the rare Bombay phenotype blood type as a paternity plot device." — Chuck
Love Is Blind
Love Is Blind
2020
★ 6.2
"we're going to be talking to Nancy Rodriguez from Netflix's love is blind season three — Referenced in an advertisement for the Cheekies and Chill podcast featuring a guest from the Netflix reality show."
The Monuments Men
The Monuments Men
2014 1h 58m
★ 6.1
"we just hold hands and watch monuments men are just like, oh my God — Josh jokingly references the film while commenting on George Clooney's appeal and smugness." — Josh

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