I’ve been catching up with the Monster Talk podcast from the worthy Skeptic Magazine. Recent episodes of interest to readers of this blog will be…

* MonsterTalk: The Call of Tut-Thulhu. “This episode spends a lot of time talking about the unusual connection between H. P. Lovecraft and the discovery of King Tut’s Tomb.”

* MonsterTalk: Teaching with Monsters. “Dr. Thor Hansen has been teaching a course at Western Washington University that uses monsters to teach science”.

* MonsterTalk: Spouting off about Gargoyles. “Mathew Duman, author of An Education in the Grotesque: The Gargoyles of Yale University.”

It’s one I hadn’t yet plugged into my recently-discovered OneCast podcasting app on my Amazon Fire tablet. OneCast is genuinely free and ad-free and is very nicely designed, if you were looking for such an app. It has everything you could want, except for an imaginary ‘YouTube subscriptions to MP3, then treated as podcasts’, which would get me regular shows like ‘Ask Lovecraft’ as podcasts. OneCast also has a feed set that discovered everything I wanted, once I learned that it doesn’t like phrases only keywords. For instance, to find ‘The Lovecraft Geek’ don’t search for the full name, just search for ‘Lovecraft’ and then hunt and peck among the ‘Lovecraft’ results.