Hey folks, before you listen to this episode of the show, we just wanted to let you know that we love Mr. Stephen Graham Jones around here. Isn't that right Eric?

Oh man, he's one of our favorites. One of our favorites.

And we have a long running tradition of asking Mr. Jones

about various insane animal encounters

that he has had over the years. He is a wealth of information in that regard.

We prompted him to tell another story

about a crazy animal encounter on this particular show and it gets it gets really

gnarly and it's really depressing and we can't remove it entirely from the show and we don't we don't want to we want we want Stephen's words to to be where they are but

We do want to issue this warning the only time we've ever had a content warning on the show, I think.

Is that correct?

The only time, and we've talked about some really messed up stuff on the show, so that you give you

an indication of how sad and depressing that the story is and might trigger some not great responses.

Yes, so if you know animal death sounds like something like you just do not want to

fuck with we completely understand in fact you will hear me stand up and go leave to

take a leak while he's telling this story, but we did figure we should issue a warning.

So, there it is and, you know, do with it what you will.

Eric?

Uh, yeah, no, I think that that's all that needs to be said on that.

You have been warned.

It's a great episode.

Can't wait for you guys to hear it.

But before we dive in, you know what I have to do.

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