Charles Liu

Right, right.

That's right, in the Zodiac.

And indeed, dragons are considered particularly successful, particularly smart, particularly potentially wealthy.

So people will actually change their birth dates of their children so that they are born in the year of the dragons.

They will delay C-sections, they will wait, and so forth, just to make sure.

This is the kind of thing that I want people to think about when it comes to monsters, right?

They're not necessarily good or bad unless we project those facts in.

In fact, aren't the true monsters we humans ourselves?

What do you know?

I don't know.

There you go.

Right.

Is a vampire a monster?

Ooh.

Absolutely it was, right?

When the original Vlad, right, the impaler, right, and was later on died and then people in Transylvanian area, not Transylvania itself, but that area of Eastern Europe wanted to scare their kids.

They said, be careful because Vlad will come get you even though he's dead.

The concept of the undead, which had been around for thousands of years in folk mythology, got embodied in this one guy, Count Dracula, which was then brought into modern times by Bram Stoker and then into the movies with Bela Lugosi.

And you kind of went from there.

And Tom Cruise, yeah.