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Thank you. We couldn't have made it without you. Be safe. Be gentle. Be kind.

Hey! Before you listen to this episode, if you haven't seen Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa, you can watch alongside us. We've got a commentary track available to everyone over on our Patreon. The movie is, blessedly, free to watch on Youtube.

Our dear friend and cover artist Jalla (@nyalliest) joins us for our final episode of 2021 to talk about a treasured piece of once lost media, Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa. It's probably our most chaotic episode ever.

This week we're joined by London, who's sharing stories from their upbringing, as well as breaking down how modern Native Horror can fumble or succeed in its explorations of indigenous heritage, folklore, and storytelling. We discuss Bone Tomahawk, Anoka, The Only Good Indians, and more!

This week, Cas and Teese are kicking back with a fun game. Teese is subjected to a gauntlet of guessing what wild names are actual FFXIV quest names. Let us know your score and maybe Cas will buy you a chocolate treat and take you to see the sail ships.

We brought back Nica to talk about their love of MKs (that's mechanical keyboards (and also membrane keyboards, but we mean mechanical here (yes, it's confusing. we know. we're sorry.)))! If you've got someone in your life diving into the hobby, Nica is here to share a wealth of knowledge to get you started in understanding all the intricate little info about these clickity clackity boys.

Way back in our Final Fantasy 7 House episode, we mentioned that it seemed as though Jennifer Cornet had gone on to repeat her behavior in the Hannibal fandom. And she might have. This week, Cas takes us through the Tattlecrime saga, a story shared far and wide by Monica Edwards in a pursuit that began, humbly, in search of NBC Hannibal leaks.

Pyramid Head has long been an icon of the horror genre, especially for video games, but his appearance has shifted to something more and more sexual over time. This week, Cas uses Pyramid Head as an introductory case study to talk about our sexual desire for monsters, why we're fascinated with them, and why we keep making them more and more romantic. It's an episode all about Monster Fucking (TM).

That right there is the babygate. Now let's talk about the babygate. Can we talk about the babygate please, Cas, I've been dying to talk about the babygate with you all day. Babygate. This name keeps coming up over and over again, every day.

Teese is here, and they've brought babygate with them - It's a One Direction conspiracy that spun out of control and into toxic, upsetting waters. This week, Teese brings us through the fiasco blow by blow, alleged photoshop by photoshop.

In a sweep of autumnal spookiness, Cas brings Teese through a brief history of The Slender Man, the internet's favorite bogeyman.

This episode's got a tasty dash of half & half - This first end is a coffeehouse chitchat styled episode, where Cas and Teese discuss both Lamb (2021) and The Last Duel (2021) and in the latter half, Teese and Cas dive into the origins of Hanahaki and Alexandria's Genesis, two enduring fictional illnesses. Why do writers invent disease and what can they communicate in the narrative?