Hereby Monsters is a show that invites you to explore fear and the unknown.

I saw her face change. I saw her see where I pulled my hair out.

Psychological warfare was always considered kind of an oddity, something done by freaks.

On the count of three, we're literally going to step out of our body.

Step out.

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Boots.

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No, Timberd.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we need without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.

Today, I have as my guest, Tom Lutz, who's written a book that I enjoyed from beginning to end.

It's got a fabulous title, Drinking Maers Milk

on the Roof of the World. It's published by Or Books. You say the subtitle, please.

It's Wandering the Globe from Azerbaijan to Zanzibar. Now, Tom amazes me because the last time I read a book by him, it was called

Doing Nothing. And it was a history of loafing and lounging, slacking, and drifting. And here,

he reveals that he has traveled to more than a hundred and what countries.

Well, now it's 117, 18.

He travels not as an expert, but as someone who has a hunger to know the world.

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