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Hey there monster talk listeners,

Karen and I are getting ready to head to Texas for LubbockCon this weekend.

If you're in the area, stop by and see us in Lubbock, Texas, Saturday, February

23rd, 2019 at Lubbock-Con at 2 p.m. in the Civic Center Room 101. It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

A giant hairy creature, Part 8, Man.

In Lark Ness, a 24-mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland.

It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster. Monster Talk.

Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters.

I'm Blake Smith.

And I'm Karen Stolzno.

In this episode we begin an intermittent series on what I'm calling monstrous medicine.

I think we're going to have some interesting and macabre topics to cover around the history

of medicine as it evolved over the past couple of thousand years.

Up first in this series we welcome

Australian author Mike McCray who's going to talk with us about his new book

Unwell which looks at the meaning of the entire concept of disease.

I wouldn't give this episode an explicit tag, but we do talk a good bit about some disturbing

terms and ideas and we talk about human sexuality.

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