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Hello and welcome back to the Americana Show. My name is Freddie Gray. I am the deputy editor of the

spectator and the US editor. And I'm pleased to tell you that this is the 10th year of the

Americano podcast. And I think it's fair to say it's been a fairly fascinating time in American politics, life and culture.

And that's what we talk about every episode on this podcast. So please keep listening and provide

as much feedback as you like. I'm delighted to be joined today by the wonderful Catherine D,

who is our technology correspondent and also

substacks as default friend. She's a brilliant writer on all things, particularly in the world

of technology, which is why she is our technology correspondent. Kat, lovely to have you

with us. I want to talk about your latest column because I find it rather mind-blowing, actually.

I find a lot of the stuff you write quite mind-blowing.

It's about cryptids, which is something you seem to have developed a fierce interest in.

And it's also about the way we understand truth and how we might be more like a kind of medieval

world now because of the internet because of more like the medieval imagination in terms of

our willingness to believe in what might be called sort of folklore or mystical creatures.

And cryptids are, let's just make this clear for our listeners who don't know,

cryptids are mystical creatures.

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