HBM031: The Roman Slug Death Orgy
Here Be Monsters
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🗓️ 23 April 2014
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In a strange, small, moss-covered forest in Bellingham, Washington, Jeff stumbled on to the most gruesome scene of hedonism he's ever seen.
While it's not common for humans to witness slug death orgies, every once in a while, someone's there with a camera in the right time and place.
These slugs are most likely European Red Slugs (Arion Rufus), which were first noticed in the Western United States by a Californian biologist who found one in a lawn in Seattle.
Now, the slugs are commonplace, and have incredible omnivorous, cannibalistic, and genetalial (not a word) appetites.
Some parts of slug life are akin to aristocratic Roman life under the rule of Caligula,a figure that historians love to hate...incest, murder, insanity, sloth, greed, etc. While the stories of his perversity and violence are often debated and overblown, no one in their right mind argues that he was a good emperor or even someone you'd want to grab lunch with.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Hereby Monsters contains references to sex and death, mostly with invertebrates. |
| 0:06.5 | Consider yourself warned. I used to live in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, the most overcast town in the Lower |
| 0:20.3 | 48 nestled under Canada on the Puget Sound. I lived in an old house that was |
| 0:26.4 | isolated from the other houses by tangles of blackberry bushes and a field. It was on the |
| 0:31.9 | edge of a small forest and just a block. in a And for what the forest lacked in acreage, this little patching off to secret outlets into the city? |
| 0:46.0 | And for what the forest lacked in acreage, this little patch of trees seemed ripe for creation myths and origin stories. |
| 0:55.0 | On today's show, I want to share with you something I saw once that really bothered me and I want to share how I've come to think about it now, you know, like in a spiritual sense. |
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