Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.

All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

Who shall it be if not us?

Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas. This week, we welcome to the show Dr. Paul, coming to you from 43rd South,

photographer, explorer, and member of the Order of the Good Death.

Paul is the author of multiple books including Empire of Death, Heavenly

Bodies, and most recently A Cats Tale, A Journey Through Feline History, which he co-authored with his

cat, Barbara. Paul joins us today to talk about Catacomb Saints, Death Rights, the impact of

Cats on the development of civilization and people who mind Jade under the instruction of

UFOs. Great stuff. Enjoy. Enjoy. Paul, thank you very much for your time.

Of course, Gordon, my pleasure.

Nice one, nice one.

Well, you are a first-time guest, and as first-time time guest you get the traditional first question which is Paul were you a weird kid?

Yeah, yeah I was that was um

remarkably pronounced actually. That was

a remarkably pronounced actually.

One of my big hobbies actually as a child

was freezing unusual things into ice cubes. I was fascinated with it. And my mother of course hated this because she'd wake up and there'd be flies or snails or po-n clippings frozen into the ice cubes,

but I was absolutely fascinated with burning strange things into ice.

So you must have had like a big ice cube tray then because snails are I mean I get flies but snails are kind of big

It had the yeah, it's America. It's America

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