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

A giant hairy creature, part 8, part mad. In Larkness, a 24-mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland.

It's a creature known as the Loch N about monsters. I'm Blake Smith.

And I'm Karen Stolznor.

Sometimes things work out in unexpected ways.

The story behind this episode is that Karen wanted to interview her good friend, Steve Kuno,

on the topic of Mormonism, but I'm always reluctant to do episodes that potentially sound

like we're hammering on religious belief.

While I'm not a belief in the supernatural, I don't find much value in the

religion is pure poison narrative. To me, religion is a complex human phenomena. It has cultural

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