On this episode, Noah and Sim talk about snakes and why they show up so often as evil entities in stories. From venomous vipers to deadly constrictors, snakes has some sneaky tricks up their sleeves when it comes to living as a carnivore with no limbs. Our hosts ponder how these features contribute to the universal fear factor that comes from snakes, and why snake features get used so often in monster design. They also talk about intelligence, and how the modern perception of snakes and their unintelligent reptile brains is very different from how the first story to include a serpent as an adversary treats them.