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Episode 125: The Misty Nights of The Ogo-Pogo

There is something in the waters of Lake Okanagan, British Colombia. It is the subject of myths and legends. And It has stymied the likes of both Leonard Nimoy and The History Channel... But We're pretty sure we've got it all figured out. Also, borders. What's up with those?

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Enjoy the images below!

Lake Okanagan as seen from space.

The Syilx People have inhabited The Okanagan Valley and River Shed for thousands of years. To them the lake was sacred and was the home of, as well as the body of a nature spirit called, N’ha-a-itk. Offerings of food, tobacco, and herbs would be ceremonially given to the spirit in exchange for safe travels across the lake.

Susan Allison grew up on the lake as part of one of the early European "Pioneer" families in the area. She was the first non indigenous person to describe a creature in the lake in 1872. She claimed if looked like "A Dinosaur."

In 1924 "the creature" received the name that it is most known by. Ogo-Pogo was a creature described in a English Music Hall song that year. Although the song is not about Okanagan (The Ogo-Pogo was from Hindustan and played the banjo), people around the lake began using the name.

Ever since coming to non-indigenous attention, the search for what is in the lake has gone on.

Captain Shorts, entrepreneur who began hauling passengers and cargo in his row boat up and down the lake, before putting a steam engine on his small boat. He claimed to have found a bone belonging to "The Okanagan Monster" that was actually a whale bone.

For decades the only way to traverse from one end of the lake to the other was by steam ship. Captain Shorts went out of business because he couldn't compete with the railroad owned passenger ships on the lake.

In he early 1970's entrepreneur, Eddie Haymour bought Rattlesnake Island in Okanagan. The Island was traditionally seen as the home of N’ha-a-itk by the Sylix. Eddie wanted to build an amusement park there. The provincial government of British Columbia shut him down. This would lead to him seizing The Canadian Embassy in Beirut Lebanon, and eventually to the British Columbian Supreme Court ruling that a conspiracy had been enacted against Eddie to drive him insane and lose the island.

One possible (and very cute) explanation is that people are misidentifying known animals as Ogopogo. Most notably otters swimming single file. (Image © Joe Nickell)

Other sightings are most definitely waves. Due to the hydrology and geology of the lake itself, freak rogue waves do occur.

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Polterbites: California Guillotines

Cody and Garth talk politics a bit, get a history lesson, debate their preferred means of execution, and then sing a cover of a Woody Guthrie/Wilco/Billy Bragg song.

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#Repost @gogreensavegreen

You might be more than one. You might be different ones at different times. 🫶🏽🫶🏽 you might not be one of these. There are more roles 💪🏽 but this is an amazing intro.

You can’t just like the idea and envision yourself in one of these roles you have to figure out how to be about it ♥️🫶🏽

Via @deiloh & @fablefulart

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'Widely debunked misinformation' is what MAGA calls research.

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May 31 2016 - Collin Kennedy, who is a cancer patient, used expanding spray foam to disable a parking meter at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg where he gets his treatment. He says the fees are a tax on the sick. [video]

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[Tweet from @/fozmeadows: "human gender and sexuality are very much like animal taxonomy, in that both look structured and simple on the surface, but once you start investigating, it turns out there's actually no such thing as a fish despite the fact that we all know what a fish is, and that's okay"]

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Turning away from empathy and curiosity makes the world into a grim, thin place populated by strangers, objects, and adversaries.

It's akin to demanding the biggest seat in the theater, even though it doesn't face the stage. It's trading a window for a mirror. It's a theft from others and the self.

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TREASURE!

Welcome to 2025, everyone <3

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he is so pathetic

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Pugs are what happens when a werewolf bites a potato.

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Fan Favorite Episode Highlight!

Episode 74: Alien Autopsy Autopsy

Cody and Garth perform an autopsy on famous "alien autopsy" footage while they re-live the shared childhood trauma of seeing this horror show on FOX in the 1990's. But of course, the TRUE conspiracy behind the video is way more interesting and amazing than you can imagine...

This episode is particularly unique because you can listen to Cody and Garth necropsy the footage or you can watch them and the "alien autopsy" footage on YouTube!

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