The Cat goes positively bonkers over an audience with the best-dressed man in speculative fiction, game designer, teacher and writer, the incontrovertible Rik Lagarto. While Joseph gets all the ups and Aaron clobbers a Hobbit, Kaaron is haunted by a butterfly cake. The ghosts at Bethnal Green are discussed, as is ham (again), Nazis (fuck ‘em), and Russell Crowe’s piss. Also scar trees, scars in time, and the awareness of historical time as a new angle from which to perceive or experience the present. The importance of The Ugly Duckling. David Hasselhoff’s frozen poo. Aaron gives Rik some sensible advice.

Scats and scent trails sniffed over in this episode include:

• Joseph’s collection The Measure of Sorrow
• Michael McDowell’s Blackwater
• Iain Banks’ The Crow Road
• John Waters’ A Dirty Shame
• Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year Of Rest And Relaxation

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