Oh hey, it's your friend who gets terrified trying to drive in around about Ali Ward and oh we've

got a good one. Oh boy, absolutely stellar, instant classic here. So this guest is an author of

many, many, many, many books and his writing is gorgeous. Even the titles are top shelf like

monsters in America are historical obsession with the hideous and the haunting and his latest book

Dark Carnivals, Modern Horror and the Origins of American Empire. Just every sentence is beautifully

descriptive and heavy with vibes in his observations of human behavior. He has a deep reservoir of

cultural knowledge. He's just, he's the perfect guest. He got his PhD at the University of Mississippi

and he teaches courses such as Monsters in America, horror, narratives of fear and violence in

American history and histories of death, the Gothic and social revolution at Charleston College

and my friend Max Oswald, Hey Max, put us in touch and I was, I was so jittery, I was so worried

because he's so cool that I would just blow the whole thing and the first half of this episode

is a lot of monster theory and sociological causes and effects of monsters and then after the

ad break we get more into Patreon questions and more about specific monsters and you can submit

questions ahead of time if you want via patreon.com slash allergies for as little as a dollar a month

and you can sport allergies, shirts and hats and totes via allergies and rich.com you can also

support the show for zero dollars just by leaving us a review on. I read all of them such as this

still wet one from m4 whose therapist recommended the show and who wrote I particularly gravitate

toward allergies on darker days when I need a reminder that life is incredible and there's so much

to appreciate and I appreciate that m4 and everyone who left reviews and everyone who just spreads

the word and tells your friends and your enemies about the show. Okay, Territology.

Who boy okay this is a real word it comes from the Greek for monster and it is the study of

monsters in folklore and fiction it is also horrifyingly the term used to describe the study of

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