Best Part of the Book
Hosted by Mark Perzel and Mark · Mark Perzel
5.0from 5 ratings
- 49
- Episodes
- 13
- Transcribed
- 5
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 575
- YouTube views
About Best Part of the Book
Mark Perzel hosts engaging conversations with authors of nonfiction books published by McFarland.
- Publisher
- Mark Perzel
- Category
- arts · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 1 May 2024
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
13 of 49 episodes have a transcript.
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Erin McGuire-Thompson: Cross Country Cryptids
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Jesi Stracham: Power in the Roll
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Wendy Welch: Nine Lives at a Time
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Erin McGuire-Thompson: Cross Country Cryptids
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yes. But sometimes they're just called something different. In Virginia, wood boogers. I noticed in the book a tendency in different regions for them, it's not always Bigfoot. Sometimes it's a wood booger or some other title, but they all have kind of the same cryptid at the heart of all the stories. Exactly. So Bigfoot creatures, Bigfoot like creatures. That's kind of your standard name. That's, you know, the Americanized anglicized name Bigfoot. We just kind of use that. It actually came from the breaking news story from Northern California, which is I talk about in the book. as well, but there's always been history of Bigfoot-like creature. […]
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- Erin McGuire-Thompson
- Jesi Stracham
- Wendy Welch
- Robert Bakos
- David Wayne Russell
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- YouTube views
- 575
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 4 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 1 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100
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- Quality
- 35
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 66
- Engagement
- 32
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