Episodios

  • S04E46 - SciCom and Science Comedy with Brian Malow

    S04E46 - SciCom and Science Comedy with Brian Malow
    Sep 29 2025
    We finish up Season 4 of MonsterTalk, not with a bang - but a chuckle, as we welcome Science Comedian Brian Malow to talk about using humor and science to entertain.

    https://sciencecomedian.com/

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    1 h y 2 m
  • S04E45 - Resurrecting Dire Wolves and Moa Bad Ideas

    S04E45 - Resurrecting Dire Wolves and Moa Bad Ideas
    Sep 22 2025
    We discuss the sketchy "science by press release" of Colossal Biosciences and the controversies lurking in the history of its lead scientist. Have they resurrected dire wolves? No. Definitely not. If only overblown celebrity endorsed hype was the only problem…

    Did they make a Dire Wolf? (Spoiler: NOT EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE)

    George Church's explanation of Epstein ties

    James Arthur Ray - Guru of Death?

    Tony Robbins (more from Quora and Reddit)

    Peter Jackson and the Moa

    George R. R. Martin and the Dire Wolf

    For a more… salacious take on this, check out the 2-part "Behind the Bastards" coverage of this topic. Part 1 and Part 2.

    --- on a more positive note ---
    What is CRISPR?


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    47 m
  • S04E44 Ghost Hunting 1975

    S04E44 Ghost Hunting 1975
    Sep 15 2025
    We take a look at a fascinating slice of paranormal history in the form of a 1975 BBC documentary The Ghost Hunters. How much has changed in paranormal research since 1975? Not much, after a fashion…

    Anybody know something about these plastic pub barrels from the 1970s?

    Show Notes:
    Benson Herbert - ghost hunter
    Andrew Green - the Spectre Inspector

    John Cutten (SPR, Inventor)
    Watch this masterpiece on YouTube here.
    Yes - the Ion Gun is, in fact, a device for cleaning vinyl records.
    Hugh’s other paranormal doco - "Out of this World" from 1977
    The Three Horseshoes Pub (Wiltshire)

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    57 m
  • S04E43 - Big Foot and Van Meter

    S04E43 - Big Foot and Van Meter
    Sep 8 2025
    Blake catches Karen up on his current research projects: The four-wall tour dates of the PGF, and a contextual look at the Van Meter Visitor. Neither of these projects are finished but he is excited to share what he's been working on.

    Dolemite is mentioned favorably.

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    43 m
  • S04E42 You Don't Know Jackalopes

    S04E42 You Don't Know Jackalopes
    Sep 1 2025
    Blake is joined by regular contributor Matt Baxter, and special guest Kara Van Hoose from the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife to discuss the (not that mysterious) outbreak of "tentacle bunnies" in Colorado this summer.

    News reports of "rabbits with tentacles"

    Deer wasting disease (zombie deer)

    "Colorado Cannibal" Alfred Packer

    Colorado Parks & Wildlife

    Colorado Parks & Wildlife Karl Shuker's blog about Jackalope

    99% Invisible episode on Jackalope

    Wall Drug

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    35 m
  • S04E41 Karen and Matt in Scotland

    S04E41 Karen and Matt in Scotland
    Aug 25 2025
    Karen and Matt are back from their book tour in the UK and they got to have some real MonsterTalk moments! Loch Ness, Boleskine House and more plus Blake wrestles with gremlins!

    More photos will be available on Patreon:
    https://www.patreon.com/posts/137274189?pr=true&cr=true

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    59 m
  • Flashback: Shaver Mystery Super-cut

    Flashback: Shaver Mystery Super-cut
    Aug 18 2025
    It's Hollow Earth, UFOs, the birth of Sci-Fi, and more wierdshit than you can believe as we present a super-cut of our 2-part interview with Jerry Drake and Jeb Card about one of the foundational stories of "weirdshitology" in a new ginormous single episode.

    And there's a little bit of reading if you want to follow us down the rabbit hole...

    EXTENSIVE show notes freely viewable at Patreon.




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    2 h y 50 m
  • S04E40 - Catching Up: UK Edition

    S04E40 - Catching Up: UK Edition
    Aug 11 2025
    Karen and Matt check in from the UK! Karen is on tour promoting her new book Bitch: The Journey of a Word. (affiliate link)

    Islands are engines of language diversity

    Borley Rectory

    Mentioned for future coverage (but touched on before):

    The Black Monk of Pontefract

    Episodes covering Enfield and Poltergeists

    Boleskine House

    Some Nessie & Scotland coverage

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    43 m