This week’s entry is my third appearance at the Encyclopedia Show Minneapolis, way back in December of 2012! (Which explains the bit at the end of my piece.) It’s the first one where I began to get abusive with that show’s monthly theme, which was, in this case, “Obsolete Diseases.” Still, it went over pretty okay, and afterwards Mike Fotis (a producer of the show, seen here transitioning between myself and fact-checker Levi Weinhagen) was kind enough to give me a standing invitation to the show. I thanked him, and said, “But you do realize I’ll always take the monthly theme and turn it into being about monsters?” “Yes, that’s fine, you’ve shown that you can do that,” he said. Continue reading…

For our second video here, we go to the first Rev. Matt’s Monster Science ever, in the Minneapolis Encyclopedia Show from July of 2012. (See “About” for more on said Show.) The theme was mythical creatures, which somehow led to quite a lot of talk about copulating with horses; the hosts were Allison Broeren and Mike Fotis. I had to operate my own slides, on a computer a few feet from me, which explains the silences behind some of the images here – which displayed above me, which explains some of my gestures. Probably there are some more things about this that would make more sense were I to give you context, but you’re clever sorts. You’ll figure it out. Suffice it to say it was all an extraordinary time and I am thrilled to have been a part of it.