Monster House Presents

It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

A giant hairy creature, part ape, part mad. In Larkness, a 24-mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland. It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster. I'm Welcome to Monster Talk.

Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters.

I'm Blake Smith.

And I'm Karen Stolznor.

Hey there, Monster Talkers, and welcome to a special somewhat spontaneous episode.

While I'm putting the finishing touches on my van meter visitor writing, we had the perfect

opportunity to switch gears for a bit.

Karen and Matt had just returned from their UK trip, where Karen's promoting her fantastic

new book, BITT, The Journey of a Word.

With the memories of their adventures still fresh, we decided to jump on a call and capture

it all.

And it was meant to be a quick, light chat, but as you'll see by the episode's length,

we had way too much fun to keep it short.

But a quick heads up about the audio.

The mischievous gremlins of technology decided to play a little prank on us.

Despite my fancy podcasting microphone being ready to go, our conferencing software, in its infinite digital

wisdom, decided to use my webcam's tiny built-in microphone for the entire call. And the result,

Karen and Matt, sound wonderful and clear while I sound like I'm broadcasting from a pirate

radio numbers station miles across the border and several

decades in the past. So, I made an executive decision. Rather than re-record or conversation

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