{"podcast":{"title":"MonsterTalk","slug":"monstertalk-162017","podcast_index_feed_id":162017,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6267523/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7698c27b5af520e6dca580217c19bd71.jpg","author":"Monster House LLC","episode_count":503,"summary":"MonsterTalk: The Science Show About Monsters is a free audio podcast that critically examines the science behind cryptozoological (and legendary) creatures, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, or werewolves. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T08:19:22.443337+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/monstertalk-162017"},"episode":{"title":"🦕 S05E38 - Champ Across the Border","slug":"s05e38-champ-across-the-border","published_at":"2026-07-06T03:55:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/monstertalk-162017/s05e38-champ-across-the-border","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/monstertalk-162017","url":"https://www.monstertalk.org/%f0%9f%a6%95-s05e38-champ-across-the-border/","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72799258/s05e38_monstertalk.mp3","summary":"Champ Across the Border: Blake and Karen welcome back historian Dr. Joseph Gagné, a specialist in New France and the French colonial period of North America, to talk about Champ - the famous monster of Lake Champlain. Most of the lake sits between New York and Vermont, but about 7% of it lies in Quebec, and Joseph's upcoming paper in the ethnology journal Rabaska asks a question almost nobody else has: how does the French-speaking side of the border see this most American of lake monsters? The answer involves a fabricated Samuel de Champlain quote, a five-foot fish that really was a monster in its own way, nearly 300 years of digitized Quebec newspapers, and a curious case of cross-border monster pride - because why borrow Champ when you already have Ponik and Memphré ? Plus hoax serpents, colonial werewolf panics, and how Nessie taught every lake monster what a lake monster is supposed to look like. Extended show notes at MonsterTalk.org Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support . Some product links may be affiliated with Amazon revenue sharing.","meta_description":"Champ Across the Border: Blake and Karen welcome back historian Dr. Joseph Gagné, a specialist in New France and the French colonial period of North Ameri…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2738,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/monstertalk-162017/episodes/s05e38-champ-across-the-border/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/monstertalk-162017/s05e38-champ-across-the-border.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}