HBM010: The Time Travelers Convention

Please note: This is a very early episode of Here Be Monsters that aired in 2012. This episode no longer appears on the official HBM feed. However, you can still download it here.

Until tragedy struck, Andrew Nissenbaum was a highly successful stock trader. His loss sparked an interest in time travel. On this episode, Andrew tells his story and explains some of the achievements and hurdles yet to overcome before the 2013 Time Travelers Convention.

More information about the convention: http://www.disaster.tv/

Music: Swamp Dog ||| The Black Spot

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CONTEST: What the $&@# is that Bug?

Please note: This is a very early episode of Here Be Monsters that aired in 2012. This episode no longer appears on the official HBM feed. However, you can still download it here.

I'm trying to become better about practicing what I preach. So, when I recently got terrified of a bug on my wall. I wanted to learn why I was scared of it. That's what the show is about, after all, confronting the unknown. So, help me identify this many legged friend and you could win a neat prize that will make you the coolest kid on the block by a long shot.

Take a look at the pictures and post your answers!

HBM009: Captain Staudinger Flees Myanmar

Photo by Jeff Emtman

Please note: This is a very early episode of Here Be Monsters that aired in 2012. This episode no longer appears on the official HBM feed. However, you can still download it here.

Captain Chris Staudinger is an experienced world traveler...now. But back in 2006, he visited Myanmar (Burma), during a time of political unrest, militarization and a general mistrust of anyone American. He looked like a spy.

On this episode, Chris tells his story of escaping the country after he and his friends saw something that they should not have seen.

Photos from Chris' Myanmar trip.

Chris now runs a travel blog with his girlfriend Tawny Clark. They travel the world on next to no money and teach others how to do the same.

HBM008: Chuck Gets Circumcised

Please note: This is a very early episode of Here Be Monsters that aired in 2012. This episode no longer appears on the official HBM feed. However, you can still download it here.

Chuck was twelve when he went to a health clinic in the Philippines to rid himself of his "tip" and become a man. Of course, little went according to plan.

Content Note:
This episode contains both scientifically accurate references to genitalia and swearing.

Our good friend Bethany Denton produced this piece.

Music: Swamp Dog ||| Lucky Dragons

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HBM007: Placentophagy

Photo by Jeff Emtman.

Please note: This is a very early episode of Here Be Monsters that aired in 2012. This episode no longer appears on the official HBM feed. However, you can still download it here.

Humans are one of just four land-dwelling mammals who don't regularly eat their placentas after childbirth. But that's changing as, each year, more and more mothers are electing to save their placenta to eat.

Stepha Lawson is a doula working in Bellingham, Washington. She called me up one day when she had a fresh placenta, ready to be turned into pills for the mother.

Pictures of the placenta she cooked.

HBM006: Clever Hans

Please note: This is a very early episode of Here Be Monsters that aired in 2012. This episode no longer appears on the official HBM feed. However, you can still download it here.

On this episode, Kathy Johnson of the Medicine Horse Project explains the nature of equine intelligence in regards to Clever Hans, the a famous German horse who could count, spell, and answer questions. Pictures right here.