May 4, 2025

S04E31 – Catching Up May 2025

Blake and Karen take a minute to catch their breath and talk about where things are in their lives and what’s up next in MonsterTalk news. Links: Bitch: The Journey of a Word Adhesive Capsulitis  Idiopathic Illnesses Mechanical Turk Speaking Machine Replica of Speaking Machine (YouTube) Wolfgang von Kempelen Deep Mind Deep Blue Marvin Minsky John McCarthy

Regular Episode 15 sec read
April 27, 2025

S04E30 – Dinos and Dragons – part 2

This is part two of our two part look at Dragons and how these mythical beasts are being used to promote Creationism. Our guest is Dr. Philip Senter and he’s the author of a new book about this topic.  We use the word bullsh!t a lot in this episode so I slapped an explicit tag on – but I don’t […]

Regular Episode 23 sec read
April 20, 2025

S04E29 – Dinos & Dragons – part 1

This is part one of our two part look at Dragons and how these mythical beasts are being used to promote Creationism. Our guest is Dr. Philip Senter and he’s the author of a new book about this topic. Get Dr. Senter’s book here: The Real Story of Dinosaurs and Dragons Read more about “The Dragon of Bologna” Book about […]

Regular Episode 24 sec read
April 6, 2025

S04E27 – Jewish Mysticism and Dybbuks with Peter Bebergal

We’re excited to welcome back Peter Bebergal. This time we’re talking about mysticism and dybbuks. Be sure and check out the links below including the upcoming talk Peter is giving April 14th for The Last Tuesday Society. Peter on Jewish Boston podcastAll the Haunts Be Ours (affiliate link) 15-Disk Horror CollectionThe Ibbur from Jewish mysticismPeter will be talking monster culture for […]

Regular Episode 22 sec read
March 24, 2025

S04E25 – Demon Sex in Medieval Times PT 2

We’re back with part 2 of our interview with Dr. Eleanor Janega to discuss Demons in Medieval Europe – and a lot of that has to do with sexy sex.  So… another EXPLICIT tag!  Eleanor’s Blog Going-Medieval Eleanor’s book The Once and Future Sex The Apocalypse Tapestry of Angers (The Guardian) The Apocalypse Tapestry (Wikipedia) YouTube videos with Eleanor  Monty Summers translation […]

Regular Episode 20 sec read
March 16, 2025

S04E24 – Demon Sex in Medieval Times (explicit)

We’re joined by the engaging historian Dr. Eleanor Janega to talk about how the people of Europe considered demonic sex during the medieval period of history. This episode is in two parts, and both are explicit.  Presenter on the History Hit channel – https://www.historyhit.com/  Blog – https://going-medieval.com/  Medievalist, author, blogs about medieval history, pop culture, and swearing  Author of: The […]

Regular Episode 24 sec read
March 9, 2025

S04E23 – Remembering Joe Nickell

A brief remembrance of our friend, Joe Nickell. (December 1, 1944 – March 4, 2025) Joe Nickell’s extraordinary life came to an end on Tuesday, March 4th and we’re posting this brief remembrance this week instead of our regular episode. Check out Joe’s many “personas.” The Science of Monsters: Tracking the Real-Life Creatures Archive episodes with Joe The sourtoe cocktail

Regular Episode 15 sec read
March 2, 2025

S04E22 – Women in the Paranormal

We’re joined by Allison Jornlin (paranormalwomen.com) to talk about the footprint of women in the field of parapsychology and paranormal investigation. We most recently talked with Allison during “the dark times” on our COVID-era MonsterTalk Live series. She also covered the Chicago Mothman flap with us back in 2018!

Regular Episode 13 sec read
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