STBYM Listener Mail: Tofurky Forever

just going to be me today. I've never done a solo listener mail before. The way it's worked out is that Joe will often jump in and do the solo and days when I'm still recovering from a trip or I'm sick or whatever. So this is a first, so bear with me. I can't promise that it will be as exciting as a Joe solo listener mail, but I'll try and put my own spin on it. All right, Well, let's call Carne over here and dive into the mail bag. We have a few bits of listener mail regarding our

episode on euro hydrosis. This is you'll recall this is the episode where we talked about some animals that may pee and or poop on their legs as a method of cooling themselves, and that led to a number of different discussions. We've talked about evaporative cooling, and we also talked about peeing in one's wet suit. So let's jump right into it. This one comes to us from Lindsey.

Lindsay writes, Joe and Robert. Out here in the desert, we have a very different relationship with humidity and evaporation than y'all in Atlanta. Look at the de point or wet bulb weather temps, and that is about best case for evaporative cooling, to the point that plenty of people out here go through our one hundred and six degree summers with a swamp cooler. Prior to common refrigeration, there was a desert water bag that was just a tight weave canvas, and in a lot of Mexican areas people

kept a big unglazed pottery jug in the house. These weeped enough water to be continually cooling. My grandparents, who went through the depression then the war never threw out anything. In every pickup tractor and several barns. There was a glass jug wearing Grandma's technicolor jug jacket. This, as Lindsay adds, is apparently a quilted cover for a gallon vinegar jug.

Lindsay continues, kept things cool with the occasional breakage. It kept all of the glass together, stitch together with any and all possible fabric scraps, so you didn't worry about a great loss when you did break one. And then she continues here, getting into the whole idea of peeing in your wetsuit and whether that is an effective means of warming the body short term, long term, and so forth.

Robert I was told the same thing going through Rescue Swimmers Club at NAS Jacksonville, but on the Cutter Valiant. This is a coast guard ship. I believe she reversed course so quickly that I skipped the farmer John's and just grab the wetsuit jacket. When you're coming around fast, then you're in the water, preoccupied and having to override a lifetime of toilet training. I never could relax enough

to just let it flow right on, y'all. Lindsey all right, all right, you know some almost kind of extreme of consciousness thoughts there. I dig it, especially some added experience when it comes to the awkwardness of peeing in the water, peeing in the ocean. I'm glad I'm not alone. I also heard from one Shadow Rat on our discord. You might be wondering, Hey, I want to get in on

the stuff to Blow your mind discord. Well, hey, the way to do that is to email us, and we'll send you the link to join the discord server for Stuff to Blow your mind. So just hang on. I'll throw out that email address at the end of this episode. Anyway, Shadow Rat shares the following Haha, quoth he, I pee in my wetsuit all the time. This practice is so prevalent in the surfing and free diving communities that it's

often offered up as a solution to every problem. Cold pe in your suit, animal stings, pee on it, having trouble removing your wet suit, pee in it, Want to attract marine life, pee in your suit, want to repel marine life? Pee in your suit, car trouble pee in it, and so forth. It is important to always be as stoic and straight faced as possible when advising someone to pee on it, to convey that this is indeed a

proven method. While there is a warming effect, the main reason people are peeing in wetsuits is just that there is no other choice. Nobody wants to stop a dive or a surf session to go back to the facilities. I think it's safe to assume that every rental wetsuit has been peed in many times. While the neoprene is permeable, it works by slowing down on how rapidly the water next to your skin is replaced by cold outside water. The water in the suit is heated by your body.

The layer of heated water is what keeps you warm. Joe is correct when he states that the pea is essentially transferring heat from inside your body to outside. However, it's heat that would have been pulled from your skin by the cold water. Regardless, the strategic application of pea to the suit interior does seem to me to accelerate the rate at which the water inside the suit becomes tolerable.

All right, Well, that's that's some wonderful additional information there, not only into just the urine based solutions that are common, you know among free divers and so forth, but also just you know, added experience into the awkwardness of oceanic urination among humans. And but this is a great point too, that yeah, this is this was my experience as well. You get off the boat, you're wearing the wet suit, you're snorkeling, maybe you don't have a wetsuit, you're snorkeling whatever.

Now you are in the midst of it. It's not really a good time to go back to the boat. And if you do go back to the boat, there's not necessarily a bathroom there either, Like this is the place where you were going to have to pee, and you just have to make the best of it, all right, Moving along. We also had some folks write in about an October episode we did on sirens. I say October.

It's possible that this was one of the late October episodes, like October thirty third or thirty fifth, once we actually got into November. A bit concerning the sirens. This one comes to us from Eric subject Odysseus and the Sirens. Hey, gentlemen, I am currently enjoying the episode about the sirens. You mentioned that presumably Odysseus had his ears unplugged out of curiosity, and I think that's probably true. But I had always understood that he did it as a sort of cirenometer

for his crew. In short, when I stopped freaking out, it's safe to unplug your ear holes. If he hadn't, they might have just failed on and on, unable to talk to one another until someone finally just became frustrated and unplugged an ear potentially prematurely and thus fatally. I assume he picked himself as the cirenometer, if you will, out of curiosity. Though maybe I overanalyzed the story in

my youth, but the idea is plausible. Thanks as always for excellent podcast, Eric, Eric, This is a this is a great point. Yeah, when in reading about this episode in the Odyssey, Yeah, a lot is said about curiosity and uh, and Odysseus is curiosity regarding the song of the sirens, and that does seem to be an important theme.

But I, like you, I think, always grew up. But even before I was reading the story, I would see these fabulous illustrations, and you see Odysseus, you know, bound of the mass straining against them, you know, a very intentionally I think erotic image that is presented by these these painters. You know, he is he is his putting himself in the position to receive like the full temptation

of the sirens. And the only thing that prevents him from giving into that temptation is not strong willpower, but just strong not tying abilities and the determination of his crew, you know, to keep those ears plugged, and you know, don't don't look over at Odysseus, don't untie him, you know, wait until the coast is clear, that sort of thing.

But yeah, in looking at it, I always kind of thought, well, Okay, their ears are plugged, they're continuing to row, and they just need to keep doing that, stay plugged until Odysseus stops freaking out. So I think that that makes sense to me as well. So I don't know, I guess we can kind of take a little bit of each of these answers to stitch together the rationale for this plan. All right, here's another one. This one comes to us from Scott in response to our Grimoure of Horror episode.

This is the first of these, hopefully we'll do more in the future, where for Halloween, Joe and I will each select a work of short written horror fiction and then discuss it on the show, and we said, hey, you know, let's get ahead of next year if you have suggestions right in and so we heard from Scott. Scott writes and says the following, Hello, all, I recently enjoyed the grumoure of horror episode and I'm looking forward

to more next Halloween if you can find it. A short story I read as a middle schooler would be perfect for next year. This would have been in the mid nineteen sixties, but I haven't been able to find any information about it. The gist of the story is that there is a radio star whose live weekly broadcast features him going to some haunted location and telling the listeners about what happens. He is always by himself and restrained,

so he can't leave. He has a portable radio which transmits to the radio van, which along with his crew, is some distance away. Essentially, he's helpless to save himself and there is nobody nearby to aid him. The show's format is that he tells his listeners the tale of the haunting, what the ghost or creature that inhabits the haunted place is supposed to look like and do, how he fears, strange sounds approaching, and then oh no, there's

the monster. Nothing can save him except the listeners, who, through their concentrated thoughts, can force the creature to leave and spare his life. The reality is, of course, that there is no monster. It's pure radio drama, except for the show, which is the subject of the story. At the end of the broadcast, while communicating with his crew, they tell him that the Knight's listening audience is the

largest ever. He's happy, but ask them to hurry things up and come get him because he's been hearing some weird noises. Before they can reach him, he screams into the radio that the creature is real and that the room and it is in the room with him. Then silence. By the time they arrive, they find nothing safe for chains which held him broken and twisted by some monstrous strength. It is asserted that the combined belief in the monster

by the large listening audience brought it into existence. As a youngster of this story scared the but Jesus out of me. All those people believing in the monster brought it to life. So what if me thinking about it causes the same thing? Then I try not to think about it, which of course only makes me think about

it all the more. This fits in well with what you guys discussed in the follow up to the second story, when Robert mentions that there is quote this weird connection between thought and action and ideas of the supernatural, and if you put thought and action in motion, like what does that? What does that do? Of course I knew that logically there was no way I could will a monster into existence, but as Joe said, there is a difference between what you consciously believe and what kinds of

things scare you in theory. Anyway, thanks for the hours of interesting content you provide during my long commutes, Scott. All right, well, Scott, this sounds like a really interesting story. Reminds me of some related works, you know, to get into similar areas describing toolpose, you know, thought emanations. I think of some of the there's a particular story, The Circular Ruins by Borges, you know, I instantly think of

John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness. But as for this particular story, I do not know what this is. I looked around a little bit online and I'm pretty sure I found a poster on Reddit asking about this same story, but there were no satisfactory answers. So I'll bump the signal on this request here and maybe it'll ring a bell with someone out there listening. You can write in to me and then we'll share it on

a future listener mail episode. But yeah, my mind instantly turns to a few different nineteen sixties horror fiction mainstays. I instantly think of somebody like Ray Bradberry. But you know, a lot of these are authors that were quite prolific, so it doesn't really narrow it down a lot for me anyway. So hey, if you know what Scott is talking about here, write in and we'll go from there. All right. This one comes to us from Matthew. This

was a response to our Hogs of Hell episode. Matthew says, hey, I have a fun story about pigs eating a drunk irishman. I came across it in an episode of the Blind Boy podcast. Link below includes a link to where you can find this on Spotify. I imagine this is one of those shows you you can find this wherever you

get your podcasts. But he continues, the short version is this In eighteen eighteen, James O'Sullivan, after failing to sell his two pigs at market, got drunk at the public house, and then got into his horse drawn cart and passed out in the back with the pigs. The horse, unguided, walked the path home. What Miss Sullivan found when the cart returned was only her husband's boots remaining. The neighbors

were gathered and the priest was called. He suggested that the man eating pigs be slaughtered and given a Christian perial. That was the best they could do for poor mister Sullivan. Then their stomachs. His gravestone, with a depiction of two pigs still lays in the local graveyard. Thank you for the consistent and wonderful content. It's all fantastic. Oh and don't forget about Pigsy Zubaji, the human reincarnated as a pig demon protagonist from Journey into the West. Matthew. A

good point on Pigsy, Matthew. Yeah, I hadn't really thought about Pigsy so much, because I think of him not so much as a as a monster, but as you know, like you know, an important character of that particular narrative. But still we're worth mentioning in passing. Certainly, certainly one of if not the most famous pig human hybrid characters for sure. As for the story of the drunk Irishman, yeah, that's quite quite horrific. I had not heard that one before,

and this detail about the gravestone also quite pantalizing. All right, let's get into a little weird house cinema. We have one here from Jeff and this is about Spirited Away. Greetings Joe and Rob. Last year, along with the usual re releases of Ghibli films, I was able to catch a showing of the live stage version of Spirited Away at the local cinema. It was amazing, stunning. It's not better than the movie and would probably make no sense

whatsoever if you hadn't seen the original. But they did almost every scene, almost every shot, the close ups, flying, falling, swimming, hanging off the side of a building, in a moving train, in a car, almost everything. Despite being one of the top films that comes to mind if asked which would be the most insane to try to turn into a stage performance, the sets were simple but brilliant. They broke the movie into puzzle pieces and then put it all together.

The acting was great. The original voice actor played Ubaba and many of the parts were so physical they must have been dancers or gymnasts. The audience in our movie theater actually applauded at the end when the camera pulled back and showed the full orchestra and stage. Not as emotionally engaging as the film, but a super impressive spectacle. I highly recommend checking it out if you have the opportunity. Yeah, I have not seen this myself, but I had heard

that this was excellent if memory serves. There's also a Totoro stage adaptation that somebody has put together, but again I haven't seen that either. Anyway, Jeff continues on the topic of subs versus dubbs. I think the English Spirited Away dub is quite good, but you haven't actually seen Keiki's Delivery Service if you haven't seen it with the original voices Phil Hartman as Kiki's cat's sidekick. This is

in the English version. Of course, the English dub is not only a completely different character, he changes the meaning of the film. Hartman's gg is like Kiki's superpower, a force of positive energy. The original GGI is a quiet little voice inside Keeeky's head telling her she's not good enough. Thus the communication breakdown between the two has a totally different meaning. Kiki is by far my favorite Ghibli film.

It's an instruction manual for leading a rewarding life. I go see it every summer when they re release it. It's probably not weird enough for Weird House, but I very much encourage all your listeners to check it out if possible. In the original Japanese. Oh, this is an excellent suggestion. I have never seen Kiki's delivery service in the original Japanese, but this is one that I watched Fairmount with my son. This was for a time. This

was his absolute favorite as well. It's such a sweet film, and yeah, I mean I really like Phil Hartman in it, so it would be an interesting experience to get into this other like original version of Gigi, Let's see Jeff continues here. Also, despite Michael Keaton's great performance in Porco Rosso, the original Porko is far more charming. Here's a comparison of an ex change between our hero and a group of old ladies he hasn't seen in a long time.

American Porko, Are you girls really still alive? Japanese Porko, The Angels haven't come for you? Yet, I mean, come on, of course, I'm basing my opinion on the Japanese subtitle translation on the DVDs, But I have seen the Disney Voice directors boasting about how hard they work to make new dialogue that syncs with the animated mouth flaps, which is the cart leading the horse if I ever heard it. Thanks for covering Spirited Away. It's always nice to get

a little duckling spirit in our lives. Jeff well excellently, Jeff. I knew that we had some ghibli fans out They're out there with some strong opinions on dubbs versus subs. You know, I've heard some of it before in regard to certain films. You know, I've certainly heard it in regards to like the the mytho religious context that is present in some of these films, and how the English dub often like takes a more monotheistic approach versus versus

what was originally present in the original untranslated material. So anyway, thanks for writing in about all of that. Yeah, I need to I need to cueue up a Miyazaki film and watch it in the original Japanese. It was probably gonna be I'm probably gonna turn to one of my favorites. I'm probably gonna do something like NAUSICAA, but yeah, I'll come back to that in the future. All right. This next one comes to us from Iris. This is another spirited away response. Iris says, Hi Robin Joe, hope you

both are doing very well. I just came from your weird house cinema episode unspirited Away. It is my ultimate comfort film, though as a child, I too was traumatized by the foodstall scene and made my parents promise to

never eat food without paying first. Throughout the years, I have rewatched the movie in different stages of life and have gained different perspectives on this film in two aspects, one the power within a name and two the Kobukicho the red light district culture, reflection on the bathouse setting, and a content warning. There are going to be some mature themes explored in the later paragraph. Okay, so mature

themes warning applied. I've always loved applied linguistics, and it is an interesting exercise to learn about the character names of the key characters. Chihiro's name in kanji is Chi thousand and hero to seek to find which reflects her character's journey to be constantly seeking a way out, seeking a way to save her parents, and seeking the truth

of the spirit realm. So when Ubaba takes her name, she chose to take away the verb in her name and left her with the numerical character sin also means thousand. Ubaba is minimizing Chihiro down to a money making servant and taking away her central motivation of seeking away out. Haku's real name expands into Junior master of fast winding Amber River or Niji Hayami Kohaku Nushi. The Haku or white dragon is derived from Kohaku Amber, which reflects his

spiritual form. When I was younger, I question if it is really that easy to forget your name when the new name sounds so similar to the original name. But the Japanese language is a funny combination of romanticized syllables that string into meaningful kanji characters. You can see that by taking a part of one's name, the meaning changes completely. On a more lighthearted note, Ubaba and twin Zeniba have an interesting title pair. The former translates roughly to soup

grandma and the later money grandma. When you put the characters of you and zen together, it makes the word tozin, which is a synonym to onsen or hot spring bath very on the nose. It's also interesting that Ubaba and Zeniba both use titles such as the Grandma of soup or money throughout the film, as opposed to a more conventional name. My guess is that by not uncovering their true name, magical creatures in the spirit realm would not

have any power over them. If you were a fan of the fantasy genre, you'll know that the law of name is a common trope among large fantasy works such as Earthsea and Lord of the Rings. Folklore such as Rumpelstilskin also explores this magic behind a name and how you can control the creature if you hold their real name. The ritual of changing one's name is present and still

practiced in the kabukicho culture in Japan. To Chihiro's journey in getting a job in the bath house starts with signing a work contract in a way selling her name to gain employment. The sequence is a similar journey for Chio from Memoir of a Geisha, where she was sold to the geisha house for labor and then abandons her name to sayuri. Mister Miyazaki himself has made comparisons between the bath house in Japan's Edo period red light district.

In the book Turning Point nineteen ninety seven through two thousand and eight, Chihiro is employed as a bath girl or Yunah, who cleans after customers. In the Edo period, Yunah's services offered woding include eating, drinking, playing games, and in some private cases, prostitution. You can also see this connection to Ubaba's title, which is a form of madam.

She determines which yuna works for which customer. Even though there are a ton of elements in the film that reflect the kubuki cho culture of Japan, I have to applaud that mister Miyazaki chose to focus on the genuine relationship between Shihiro, rin Haiku and Kamaji that was forged

in the most brutal workplace. Lastly, going back to the language of the film, the full Japanese title of the film is send to Chichiro no Kama Kanushi, which consists of the two names of our main heroine and Kama Kakushi. The word is typically translated to the disappearance, but the Kanji form of The word literally means hidden by the gods. The specific usage of this word is usually reserved for

Japanese children who disappear without a trace. There are a lot of Japanese myths and traditional Shinto tales that address the disappearance of women or children, which are usually summarized to be the doing by gods or spirits who lures them into the ghost realm. I would love to hear you guys's deep dive on some famous Kama Cohee cases of Japan, perhaps the future episode. Thanks again for choosing such a classic film for this episode of Weird House Cinema.

I'm forever blown away by your breadth and depth of topics and the endless passion I hear for the past six years. Thanks for being the show that I look forward to catch up on the most best. Iris Well, Iris, thanks for writing in with all of that some excellent insight into the into the world, the real world behind Spirited Away, and some of the thoughts and ideas that it went into it. I hope I was able to do an okay job at least with some of those

those words. My apologies if I am any mispronunciations of the Japanese there that I inevitably inflicted. But that's yeah, that's that's absolutely fascinating, and I could see us coming back and doing episodes related to these topics in the future. We're always fascinated different folk beliefs and urban legends and so forth in varying cultures, and you know, we come back time and time again to Japanese culture as well.

All Right, this next one comes to us from Skylar, and I really love the title on this particular email. It is local libraries can be your video drome. Skyler is, of course referring to Atlanta's own Video Drome video rental store. This is a wonderful place where I rent a lot of the discs that I watch for Weird House cinema, and Skyler makes a great point here that, yeah, if you don't have a videodrome in your city or something like video Drome, you might have a library that can

writ me some discs. She writes, Hey, I always enjoy your weird House selection, but there is not a video rental store near me, so I have to stream it if available. I use my local library for books, but checked out the movie section, and because of the regional library system, I can request books for numerous libraries. Same goes with movies. Many of the movies you've highlighted on

the podcast are available through the library system. Just another option for watching awesome, weird house movies on DVD with cool bonus features and a great opportunity to support your local library. Also, I was listening to Arnold Schwarzenager's memoir and he said that he was signed on to be in the im Legend film that starred Will Smith, but because Arnold had recently had heart surgery, the cost to

ensure him was enormous. I wish that had happened, because I have a hard time imagining him in the role. Thanks for all that you do, Skyler, Well, great points, Skyler. Yeah, don't forget the excellent resources afforded to you by your local library. You know I don't. It's been a while.

It's been a long time since I've rented any movies to the library, but I do continue to use the library local library for books and such, and I do have friends who more religiously use the library as their means of getting on the waiting list for various films. So it's an excellent idea. I'm glad you brought it up. I need to touch on that more when we're bringing up ways to watch these various films. As for Arnold and will Smith, yeah, obviously I've loved both of them

in different projects. Though I'm hard pressed to imagine a version of two thousand and sevens I am legend that I would personally be fond of. But then again, I know a lot of people like this film. Ebert gave it like three out of four stars, so maybe I need to revisit it. I don't know. Maybe time has been kind to it, and I'm just remembering the CGI Monsters and I don't know. It didn't hit. It didn't land properly for me back then, but maybe if I

re experienced it would be different. All right. I haven't completely depleted the mail bag here, but there are a couple here that I wanted to save because I knew that Joe would really want to get into them. So I want to upset a few aside, and we'll come back to them later on. In all likelihood, we'll do another list or mail towards the end of December or the beginning of January. Obviously, there's going to be a lot of disruption and so forth due to the holidays.

But let's see as I begin to close this out. You know, I said at the top of the episode that I traveled with my family to Wales last week. So perhaps some of you are wondering, if you've listened to me long enough, well, what films did I watch on the plane? Because watching movies on a plane, along with listening to Steve Roach albums and napping, this is the main way way I cope with flights. I don't really like flying, no matter what my seating situation happens

to be. So I ended up exerting control where I can exert control, download a bunch of movies, and then pick out ones mid flight to watch. So yeah, I'll go ahead and share this with anyone who's curious. And if you're not curious, you know, I guess just you know, you can close up the episode. But I'm just going to talk about movies. Though watched on the plane here for a minute or two. So I watched both nineteen eighties Showgun Assassin and nineteen seventy two's Lone Wolf and

Cub sort of Vengeance. I watched these for an upcoming weird how Cinema episode we're going to do on Showgun Assassin. Showgun Assassin is a Western picture that takes the first two Lone Wolf and Cub movies and cuts them into one picture with a new soundtrack and narration. It is a grindhouse classic. It's tremendous fun. I had a great time watching it on the plane and then watching the first of the two movies that went into it, and I think I'm going to watch that second one as well.

Before Joe and I discussed Showgun Assassin. I love watching a film where I can just really zone out on the colors, and that's why another film that I watched this was a rewatch for me. I hadn't seen it in a while, perhaps since it came out, but I watched twenty sixteen's The Love Witch. Just a perfect film that knows exactly what it wants to accomplish and does

so with such loving technicolor style. Though this is one that as I'm watching it, you know there are, of course here on a plane, other people can see what you're watching, and sometimes I feel like I need to like turn around and explain to them that I'm watching a very art film with some very serious minded ideas behind it. But yeah, love The Love Witch. This is one that I could see. I could see an episode of Weird House Cinema devoted to this episode. I know

Joe's really fond of it. I think Annie Reese is a big fan of this film as well, if I'm remembering correctly, so, I don't know, one way or another might come back to The Love Witch. I also rewatched twenty seventeen's Alien Covenant, which I had previously rewatched on a long flight just earlier this year. Some people don't like this film, but this one remains one of my personal favorites. I realize that no one understands the lonely perfection of my dreams, but hey, this time around, I

really focused on Billy Crudup's performance here. Such a terrific actor, even if he's in something that I'm not really you know, super into. You know, there's no speculative element, it's not weird. It's like, he's still such a captivating performer. And I think part of my attraction to his acting is that I got to see him on stage back in I think this was two thousand and five in New York. He was in a production of The Pillow Man opposite

Jeff Goldblum. This is one where it just kind of grab tickets last minute, you know what can we see tonight in the Big City. We got tickets to see The Pillow Man and it was really captivating. I had never heard of Billy before, but he was tremendous in that, and I think he's just really great in anything I see him in, and he's great. An Alien Covenant, a

great cast all around there. And then finally, I'll mention a film that has come up a lot on Weird House Cinema and I wasn't sure if it would be like a Weird House Cinema selection. I was like, I need to watch it in full by myself before I make up my mind. I sat down and watched. Well, of course it was setting down iceeded for like ten hours, but I watched The Eyes of Laura Mars from nineteen seventy eight. Some of you had written in about this

one in the past. I think, so this is a film that has a great cast based on a spec script from John Carpenter, really cool seventies like late seventies New York disco feel. It's essentially a jallo film. You know, it's some sort of strange murders going on. Highest high fashion photographer is getting glimpses, psychic glimpses of the murders. You know, all the pieces seem tremendous, but it doesn't quite come together the way you want it to. So I don't think it's right for weird House. But it

is an interesting film curio. You know, you're looking at a film that it doesn't quite land, but man, all the pieces are there. It's weird that it doesn't. But I don't know. I'm sure it has its fans. If you're a fan of the Eyes of Laura Mars right in, well we can chat about it certainly has some great pieces to it and some great little performances sprinkled throughout. All Right, Well, if anyone's still with me here, I'm gonna go ahead and close out this rare solo Robert

Lamb episode of Listener Mail. Let's see what kind of notes do I need to share here as we close out? And I guess just the regular stuff that's stuff to blow your mind. Is primarily a science and culture podcast, with core episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but on Fridays we set aside most serious concerns and we just talk about a weird film on Weird House Cinema on Wednesdays, a little short form episode, sometimes a monster. I think there's a particular Welsh monster. I'm going to come back

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