Rob Lamb
speaker
6,505 appearances
29 recordings
4 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 3d ago
Rob Lamb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And all that is well and good for the fieries, except as we see in Labyrinth, they can scarcely comprehend beings that don't have these strange powers of bloodless living dismemberment and instant re-grafting.
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We're to understand that many an outsider guest to their festivities winds up as a pile of body parts that puzzlingly refuse to graft back together.
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Way to kill the vibe, and well, also the guest.
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But it's a detail I always appreciated.
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The fieries are indeed good time party creatures, but their inability to understand other beings makes them a very dangerous encounter in the world of labyrinth.
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Naturally, we don't have anything quite like the fieries in the natural world.
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Certainly we have some amazing examples of regeneration, from sea stars and sea cucumbers to the axolotl, but they regrow, they don't reattach.
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Humans alone have developed the medical knowledge of limb reattachment, and even this has its limits and in the best of cases is far from instantaneous.
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And as for the grafting of another's individual limbs onto your body, and even the xenotissue of other organisms such as pigs, humans face severe limitations due to the body's autoimmune response to transplanted limbs, tissues, and organs.
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This generally requires the use of immunosuppressive medication to prevent rejection of the donor limb tissue or organ, but the lowering of the body's immune
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immune response in general can then open the door for other infections.
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Donor recipient matching can also help, and a host of more advanced techniques, including stem cell therapy, genetic engineering, biomaterials, and more, may provide additional possibilities in the future.
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Now, with the fieries, we might imagine: well, it's possible that their own immune systems would reject another fiery's head or limbs if it remained attached for too long.
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Human rejection can play out over days, months, or even years.
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The fieres might simply not remain attached to other limbs long enough for it to be a problem, something maybe they only do during these games and festivities.
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On the other hand, knowing nothing about their deeper biology, it's also possible that they're all genetically identical and therefore perfect donors for each other.
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It's also possible that the fieries boast an overall reduced autoimmune response to allow this sort.
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Fusing and evolve some other form of complementary autoimmune strategy to make up for it, which may well be the case with the natural world anglerfish, in which the bodies of genetically disparate male and female counterparts are able to fuse together without invoking a strong anti-graft immune rejection response, a rejection response that we see in pretty much all other vertebrates.
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The fieries don't
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does seem particularly concerned with predators or anything really, which raises the question of why they might have evolved to be like this if such logic even applies to the labyrinth.
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