Chuck Bryant

Yeah.

There's 175 different languages.

Tagalog is one of the larger language families or groups or just languages.

Yeah.

And because there's 7,000 islands, there's a bunch of different languages, there's a lot of cultural, different cultural beliefs.

But some of the ones are spread pretty far and wide across the Philippines, which would suggest they're very, very old, like folk beliefs.

And one of them that we're going to talk about today is the Aswang.

It's one of the worst things I've ever heard.

Right.

And you mentioned a dog.

I saw somewhere that the name comes from Asawang, which means dog, I think, in Tagalog.

Oh.

All right.

So people are like, okay, great.

What's up with the name, though, the CIA vampires thing?

What are you talking about, you guys?

Well, this is what we're talking about.

In the Cold War, in the 50s, there was a guy whose name was Edward Geary Lansdale, and he worked for the CIA.

And he used the tail of the Aswang to try to manipulate people into turning against a guerrilla army there.

Do you have a lick hole?