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.

Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from

43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we welcome to the show Brian Lord.

Brian is a graduate student in psychology, a special collections archivist and master's student

at the University of West Georgia.

He joins us today to talk about the legendary Ingo Swan

as well as the complete unpublished Ingo Swan

manuscript he discovered in the archive

and went on to publish.

Great stuff. Brian, thank you very much for your time.

Thank you.

All right, so traditional question, the first Brian. Were you a weird kid? I think so. I think I was a weird kid. I know that I first

started getting into weird stuff when I was into the X files as a kid. And so it was funny when I

started working with Ingo's materials in the archives.

One of the jokes that I've had is that they have me down in the basement

working on the X-files.

That's cute.

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