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the mission. The The Good evening and welcome to Monsters Among Us.

I am your guide, Derek Hates.

I usually start to show with some sort of plea to donate money or to follow me on Facebook or to please call in with your story.

While I'm still probably going to do those things in the future, I wanted to use this space on the show to tell you how excited I am that my pet project, Cryptic Crate, is less than one week from launching.

On the morning of April 18th, you will be able to subscribe to the first and only monthly box subscription for paranormal and

cryptozoological fans. I'm thrilled for a number of reasons, but the two most important

are that I get to share artwork and goods created by wonderful creators across

the country, in addition to providing some really cool items to you, the consumer, and fan.

So if you're interested, head over to crypticrate.com and sign up for further updates, and most

importantly, a discount on your first box.

And if you have an item you think would go great in the crate,

shoot me an email at crypticrate.com.

I'm always looking.

All right, I'll contain my excitement just long enough to begin the show.

... to begin the show. Anyone that's listened to more than a few episodes of this show will quickly realize I

reference the road quite often.

It's not due to any obsession or fascination, nothing like that, though I do have a soft spot for

travel. No, it's much more simple than that. You see, in order to have an encounter with a strange

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