Christoper Walken as a toaster, what not to name your kid, redefining weird across the multiverse, and how oysters affected Spanish colonization of the early Americas. Plus, not see bashing! (It's important.)Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're pondering what could have been with our ninth book in the vast collection, Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, edited by Alasdair Richmond. In this episode, our featured story is An Undistinguished Boy by Gerald Kersh.