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If you're getting this in your MonsterTalk podcast feed it means you've somehow managed to miss the update to our new host. Please re-subscribe from your podcast platform, or if you want to use the RSS feed, the new URL is: Thanks so much! If you have any trouble please let us know. Blake @ Monstertalk dot Org
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Bonus - Chaosium and The Malleus Monstrorum
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In this bonus episode, we're talking with Mike Mason of Chaosium, the gaming company that makes the role-playing system Call of Cthulhu. Mike is here to talk about the newest version of Chaosium's monstrous bestiary, which is called the Malleus Monstrorum, for the seventh edition of the classic game ecosystem based on the works of HP Lovecraft, and all kinds of Lovecraft-adjacent horror.
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8/1/2021 - MonsterTalk Live - 8 pm ET
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Hey folks, we'll be doing another "MonsterTalk Live" event tonight, discussing psychic mediums. You can catch it at our YouTube channel and participate in the chat. Hope to see you there! 8/1/2021 - 8 pm ET - http://youtube.com/monstertalk -Blake
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233 - Bigfoot: America's Abominable Snowman
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On July 18, 2021 the AiPT SciPhiFest Conference included a 45 min segment of my interview with author and comic-book artist Stephen R. Bissette (who is probably best known for his work on the Alan Moore run of the DC comic Swamp Thing). The interview is about Stephen's book CRYPTID CINEMA (http://bit.ly/CryptidCinema) with a special focus on the little-known touring film used by Roger Patterson to promote (and profit from) his famous alleged Bigfoot film.
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232 - Bacteria
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They're everywhere. They're inside you. You can't escape them - and can't live without them: Bacteria!
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AIPT Presents SciPhi Fest 2021
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The online convention starts at 10 am and I'll be participating in a couple of ways if you're interested. At noon, I've got a special interview with Stephen R. Bissette. You might know him as a key artist on Alan Moore's run of Swamp Thing in the 80s - but if you've been subscribing to BIG FOOTAGE the Patreon bonus cast, you'll know him as the author of CRYPTID CINEMA.
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231 - Asian Monsters with Sapphire Sandalo
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Sapphire Sandalo is the host of the web series Stories with Sapphire. She's a writer, animator, podcaster, TV personality, and part-time university instructor. Her series tells stories with distinctive music and animation and has a strong representation of many monsters, ghosts and creatures that come from Asian folklore from multiple cultures and stories submitted by her audience.
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Progress Report - June 23, 2021
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Hey there MonsterTalkers. We're not dead and I'm not on vacation. I'm happy to report that I've got a new job and have spent the past couple of weeks working on a software project that is nearing its first release. In the meantime Karen and I have been recording interviews, but those require edits and I haven't had time to get everything done to my level of satisfaction. But episodes are coming! I should be able to get our next one out this weekend and another by the end of the month. I'm doing some work on managing our workflow that I hope will put us ahead. In a...
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230 - Otter King & Other Things
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Karen and Blake are joined by the hosts of MonsterFuzz, Eamonn O'Neill and Rob Billington, to discuss monsters and folklore of Ireland. Well, that's what we were supposed to talk about but we wandered a bit because it was obvious we all loved talking about monsters.
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229 - Watertown 2: Eclectic Boo-Galoo
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Blake Smith has uncovered the uncropped "Watertown Ghosts" photo, lost to the public for more than fifty years, plus more discoveries about this famous alleged ghost photo.
info_outlineIf you thought Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter was fun - wait till you hear the shocking true story of Thomas Jefferson, Monster Hunter! We're joined by Justin Mullis who presented his paper on Jefferson's work in Cryptozoology at the Of Gods and Monsters conference at Texas State in San Marcos, in April 2019.
Links of interest:
Martin Rudwick - The Meaning of Fossils
Glossopetrae - an outdated theory about fossilized shark teeth
Lee Alan Dugatkin's Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon - "the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century "
The full poem about Lewis & Clark's pursuit of Mammoth is on Page 11 of this digitized document.
Some additional reading suggested by listeners:
Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology
American Monster: How the Nation's First Prehistoric Creature Became a Symbol of National Identity