Hi, this is Shannon Doherty, host of the new podcast, Let's Be Clear, with Shannon Doherty.

So in this podcast, I'm going to be talking about marriage, divorce, my family, my career. I'm also going to be talking a lot about cancer. The ups and the downs,

everything that I have learned from it. It's going to be a wild ride. So listen to Let's Be Clear with

Shannon Doherty on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to

podcasts.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb and this is The Monster Fact. A short-form series from stuff to blow

your mind focusing in on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time. One of my favorite films of all time is easily the 1986 fantasy musical Labyrinth,

a movie that summons the combined creative talents of Jim Henson, Brian Froud,

Terry Jones, David Bowie, Sarah Connolly, and composer Trevor Jones, just to name a few.

While its predecessor, the 1982 film The Dark Crystal,

took its fantasy world creation incredibly seriously,

Labyrinth leans more into pure musical fun and Python-esque absurdity.

Now there's a lot of this flavor to discuss in Labyrinth, but I wanted to talk specifically about the four guards that Sarah encounters

as she makes her way across the Goblin Kings Labyrinth.

They are dog-like humanoid creatures that guard a pair of doors.

They are either conjoined beings and therefore two guards, or they are affix behind their signature

shields in a way that allow for two beings per shield.

Their absurd appearance is of course linked to their visual resemblance to double-headed European

playing cards in which a king, queen, jack, or joker is double-bodied and double-headed in such a way that the card can be discernible from either side of the table.

According to St. Binday and the excellent labyrinth bestiary, the heads of the left door guardian are

Alf and Jim, while the heads of the right door are Ralph and Tim.

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