It’s a special Thanksgiving episode for LD and Derek and they are thankful for so much. We are thankful to you, our wonderful audience (like all 7 of you), we are thankful for the opportunity to make a podcast as friends, and we are thankful for all of the smoochable monsters! So this episode, we prepare a Thanksgiving feast, and the main course? Why, it’s our monstrous singletons! So strap in and strap on for The Bird Beasts of Var as our protein with a side of The Veggieman of West Virginia. These flavorful cryptids are hopefully not too much of a mouthful…

Featuring: What we are thankful for - funeral potatoes - Spooky News: Superstitions may make you super sad, a new paranormal book rec, haunted Disney, congressional UAP update(!) - looking for monsters in Shagtown - a sucking hug - sometimes it’s just birds - tits, tats, and all that’s - And more!

CW: mentions of food throughout, brief mention of funerals (2:00-3:45 ), mental health/depression (9:10-13:15 ), Sk**w*lkers (13:55-14:50 ), thorns/needles/vampirism (35:15-39:00 )

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