The Vigilante Cannibal Nun

as Agony Aunt podcast

What is The Vigilante Cannibal Nun as Agony Aunt?

The Vigilante Cannibal Nun as Agony Aunt is a fictional comedy horror SCI FI podcast. Every Tuesday, your host, The Vigilante Cannibal Nun, reads two letters from her emotionally ill-fettered listeners, salivates over their problems, and vomits up solutions, at their expense and for everyone else’s pleasure. The Vigilante Cannibal Nun is a sin eater, well equipped to solve a little emotional problem or two, with victims sending in their letters from across time and space, cutting through all categories of Horror and SCI FI genre. Each episode is 10 minutes long.

Who is THe Vigilante Cannibal Nun? Maggie Murtagh, otherwise known as The Vigilante Cannibal Nun, was born of the imagination of the artist Carol Murphy. Her story is told in a series of Murphy’s verse-driven performance films called The Body & Blood, launched here at the beginning of 2022 and performed in a UK and Irish theatre tour in 2023. In The Body & Blood, Maggie Murtagh is a young Irish Country Girl who transmogrifies into The Vigilante Cannibal Nun during the Irish Famine, after the death of her family. She steals from the rich to give to the starving poor, eats the colonisers, and destroys her soul. She is the living dead.

EPISODES

Episode 39: Mixed Messages & Royally Shanked
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 39: Mixed Messages & Royally Shanked

I howl like the wolf because I am one-dimensional and I cling onto that formal, often traditional, sequence of actions or words performed in a specific order, often associated with religious or cultural significance for dear life, or death, seeing as I am in limbo which is like a desert island without the hope or sting ray jelly fish. You take the rough with the smooth. So take or leave the howling, hi. I ain’t stopping. But, seeing as I am bored out of my skull, I’m the perfect candidate to guide you through the perils and challenges of your life and horror misdemeanours as your very own Vigilante Cannibal Nun as Agony Aunt, speaking from my comedy horror podcast. I am ready. I am willing. And I am suitably stuffed to take on the emotional problems sent in by my horror and sci fi litter of listeners from across time and space so that I can salvage the un-heaven sent. Bring it on, throw something, anything at me and I’ll see what kind of explosive dart I can throw back. Welcome to Episode 39: Mixed Messages & Royally Shanked.

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Episode 38: Embrace The Rage & Existential Piranha
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 38: Embrace The Rage & Existential Piranha

I howl like the wolf because things never happen quickly enough, do they? I’m waiting for the day when everything will speed up. And I don’t mean like the time when you were trapped in your mum’s car as a child with your brother whilst getting an automated industrial car wash. Everything was fast, suds n shit, whilst you were stuck and miraculously dry. And then your bro metamorphosed into a child of corn and that, ladies and gentlemen, was when the trouble began. No! I mean actual movement…life going from A to B and not via F U C K E D. That’s why I howl. Nothingness implodes in the soul. Longing for change internalizes into a fetid growth or desire that leads to self-abuse on a super scale or an inappropriate focus on the wrong thing….like your neighbour’s brilliant career in botany. Yeah…fuck her….and that is why you need me to punctuate the boredom so that you don’t end up poisoning the water and killing all of us. And who am I? Your very own Vigilante Cannibal Nun as Agony Aunt, speaking from her comedy horror podcast. I am READY and I am willing to take on the stupid fucking emotional problems sent in from my brood of listeners from across time and space so that I can salvage the unsalvageable. BRING THE PAIN, and I’ll see what crap I can come up with, hi. Welcome to Episode 38: Embrace The Rage & Existential Piranha.

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Episode 37: Kill The Unconscious & Miracle Proof
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 37: Kill The Unconscious & Miracle Proof

I howl like the wolf because I am in PAIN hi, as in Bring The Pain a la Method Man but without the WU. I can give or take on that front, any which way is good for me with the voice and the schtick of Mr. Man…yes indeedy, I don’t think I be worrying about anything if I be watching him walking down the street, in heaven, hell, earth or in limbo, ho to the hum to the diddle dum, pleasure is all about that one.

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Episode 36: Burn It All Down & In League With A Dark Force
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 36: Burn It All Down & In League With A Dark Force

I am not a wolf, but I howl like the wolf because I feel feral and wolfish, and that is enough for me. I’m with Bert Cooper on this one, my identity changes depending on what room I enter. There just aren’t that many rooms in limbo, so I’m sticking with the howl to introduce you to moi, your favourite friendly neighbourhood Vigilante Cannibal Nun as Agony Aunt, and this is my comedy horror podcast where I siphon off the choicest letters from my brood of listeners from across time and space, yes the ones who’re expecting me to solve their emotional problems which have invariably blown up out of all proportion to such a degree whereby they think that I, a country girl who ate all the colonizers in Ireland during the famine and ended up as the living dead in limbo can actually help them. I’m not making any promises, but I will tell you this: I will laugh at their expense, and I hope you do too. Welcome to Episode 36: Burn It All Down & In League With A Dark Force.

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Episode 35: Chronic Self-Doubt & I Am Who I Am.
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 35: Chronic Self-Doubt & I Am Who I Am.

I howl like the wolf because I sit on the fence. I’m nothing if not ambivalent but it hurts my butt cheeks so much that I can’t accurately throw a spanner into the status quo. I keep missing ad infinitum, and yet even the mistakes do the same job, i.e. turn me into a chronic self-sabotager. No matter where I go, which isn’t very far these days, seeing as I am in limbo, I upset someone’s apple cart. But what can one do? Be yourself, whatever that means, as in something like, do your thing and pay the price, because there’s always a cost.

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Episode 34: Police in Your Pocket & The Writer’s Revenge
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 34: Police in Your Pocket & The Writer’s Revenge

I howl like the wolf because I want to ride in your fuck away off red Ferrari and yet I can’t seem to garner your attention. The strange and mysterious look I have concocted with my head in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, a sickly looking face, a bit of a rendition of 90’s drug chic, with a dribble of blood dripping down my chin, troubled and Byronic, but not bionic and riddled with TB with a desire to be utterly riddled with something else…ie you, hi is not working. Because I know that when you jumped into your fuck away off Ferrari it was at the point when the world and all its mediocrity had finally pushed you over the edge. I feel your pain. And I understand that when you put your foot to the floor, you didn’t expect to land in limbo next to me hi, but here we are, Miles Davis and me. Is he in limbo, is he in hell, is he in heaven? That is a debatable question. And truth be told, I wouldn’t want to be his friend, or his lover for that reason, the cost is too high and I’m already dead, but I would like his car, because we all need a getaway option, don’t we. But here, today, now hi, here is your get IN option. Welcome to The Vigilante Cannibal Nun As Agony Aunt comedy horror and SCI FI podcast Episode 34: Police In Your Pocket & The Writer’s Revenge.

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Episode 33: The Gut & Mac
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 33: The Gut & Mac

I howl like the wolf to ward off all foreign and ghostly miscreant endeavours, whatever that means, to scare off the dead, even though I am one, with a little of the living to add to the confusion, and to give any loiterers time to fuck away off and let me do my ting n ting, hi, innit guvnor. And now that the coast is clear, what are we going to talk about today? Ehhhhhhhhh. Well ain’t that the truth, you fight and you fight and you fight to get your voice heard, after years of scrubbing and polishing, when the coast is finally clear and you stumble over yourself, with your loss for words. Come to think of it, I think of it THE BEASTIES should do a part 2 to SABOTAGE called SELF SABOTAGE….and it would go something like this….

Can’ t stand it, I know I planned it

I’m gonna set it straifght, this Watergate

Then I realise that my rocking is true

And it is the me and definitely not the you

Who can’t sit back and wonder why

Because I put the fucking thorn in my side

And blinded myself to my own mirage

I'm tellin' y'all, it's self-sabotage

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Episode 32: The Severed Armed Juggler & The 111 Chat Up Lines Serial Killer
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 32: The Severed Armed Juggler & The 111 Chat Up Lines Serial Killer

You have to realize that no one is on their white horse galloping to your house to save you, unless they are carrying a machete to cut off your head and feed it to the sheep. What I’m trying to say is that you need to ACT and STOP thinking. When I say this I take it for granted that you are still sane and that your rationale has not tipped over into the horrifically silly. OTHERWISE you can write to me and I will jump into the detail of what is seemingly insurmountable in your life and the fact that the horror show is like an amourphous lump that will not define itself. And who am I? No one but The Vigilante Cannibal Nun as Agony Aunt, ready to jump into this new episode of my podcast where I read two problem page letters each week and give all the pathetic excuses for horror fans the help and advice they need to truly destroy their lives whilst in the process give the rest of y’uns the laugh of your life. Laugh? I nearly choked on a rancid potato. Welcome to Episode 32: The Severed Armed Juggler & The 111 Chat Up Lines Serial Killer.

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Episode 31: Don’t Touch The Devil’s Trumpet Unless You’re Prepared to Blow His Horn & The Metal Detector
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 31: Don’t Touch The Devil’s Trumpet Unless You’re Prepared to Blow His Horn & The Metal Detector

I howl like the wolf because I is your host, willfully bastardizing the English language because fun is the name of the game inside and out, up and down, micro and macro, all in or all out and I is all in, like Flynn. Your host of what, I hear you cry, I am The Vigilante Cannibal Nun as Agony Aunt, this is my comedy horror and SCI FI podcast and each week I read two letters from my bag of jump scared and paranoid speed and blood freaks, like give it to me fast or kill me now, here, you bastard, ie horror fans and crims and give them the help and advice they need to truly destroy their lives whilst in the process give the rest of y’uns the laughs of your life. Laugh? I nearly murdered a sausage. Welcome to Episode 31: Don’t Touch The Devil’s Trumpet Unless You’re Prepared to Blow His Horn & The Metal Detector.

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Episode 30: Eat The Feet & Roadkill PT 2
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 30: Eat The Feet & Roadkill PT 2

Yes indeedy, I howl like the wolf because I is hungry, bloodthirsty and your host, someone’s gots to do it and that someone is yours truly. So, I was putting on my makeup this morning, you know the look, Minger the Merciless, part Ming the Merciless, part Amy Winehouse, by the way, I can’t believe that Max Von Sydow took that role, Flash in the Pan Gordon back in 1980, then again, I absolutely adore him for it. So much of his brilliant career spent making transcendental films like Winter Light and a whole OEUVRE of films with Ingmar Bergman, you know, the only director who could truly rock that baseball hat worn backward look, and of course there was the minor point that some of his films are arguably the best in the world, and not just on a scale of greatness, but films that you watch and the moments, time watching is like the best in your life. I get that a lot. Years ago, I hated leaving the cinema, now I just haunt them….like the victims of An American Werewolf in London. Addiction never dies. But I have learnt to take a massive step back into the realms of the rational, so that I don’t succumb, only to get the DT’s, the prowler comes out and I have to find a colonizer quickly, eat him or her, get the old colonizer detector out, scouring the land, so that I can get my fix of flesh and calm the fuck down, and of course, do the whole nation of Famine Stricken Ireland one MASSIVE favour. All the while sporting my MINGER THE MERCILESS look, with a few blood splats to boot, but hey, I’m not about perfection. I’m about….ehhhh…what am I about….yeah…bloody misconstrued altruism….I mean, ask yourself, is ALTRUISM ever on the straight and narrow? Is it a virtue? Is it REAL…as in keeping it or is it like the hooded claw but not CIRCA Dick Dastardly, not even Penelope Pitstop, the best straight-legged sprinter this side of the Sperrin’s, more Cavey wavey poo, an uber repressed Captain Caveman ready to pop his bally clogs hi. Wow, my nonsense speak is on a roll today. But back to my point. Max Von Sydow. One of my favourite roles of his was the artist in Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters. I absolutely ADORED HIM in it because I love a talented MISERABLIST BASTARD, whose rants are hilarious whilst also being like the most emotionally exposed, raw and beautiful person in the room. But before that, Ming The Merciless, with Mike Hodges holding the reigns. And why not? Get Carter is a fucking revelation. If he had’ve asked me to play the part, I would have done it for free, as long as I could chew on the odd radom extra, no one would miss them anyway. What am I saying, I love you Max, dead and all, and surely in the heaven made for the truly talented with the best taste ever, and gifted, and you know, hot. Personally, I think that if someone makes the odd clanger of a film, it makes them even better for it, and the bigger and more ambitious the failure, the credit hits the roof in my eyes for your exploding ambition and fearless attack of RISK! HI. And here I am ready to take that risk with Episode 30…wow 30 episodes…of The Vigilante Cannibal Nun As Agony Aunt comedy horror podcast otherwise known as my excuse to talk shite. Today’s episode is called EAT THE FEET & ROADKILL PT 2.

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Episode 29: Red FLags & Road Kill
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 29: Red FLags & Road Kill

What is happiness when it’s at home or out on a date? Cause I ain’t getting any. You ever have those wastelands of time where you just can’t get no nothing, let alone satisfaction and if you got any it wouldn’t be good enough, even if Mick jagger serenaded it to you in his stuffed underpants? Is it a warm gun, a cold gun, no gun, no gums, toothless, denchers, drenchers? Will a Hamlet cigar suffice? A hot towel? A sports massage? AND YET, it’s Tuesday, time to read a couple of your pathetic specimen of letters to solve all your horror and sci fi ills to ease your pain, then ridicule your problems, which are probably all in your head, at your expense and for everyone else’s pleasure. Welcome to Episode 29 of The Vigilante Cannibal Nun as Agony Aunt comedy horror podcast - Red Flags and Roadkill.

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Episode 28: THe Dead Never Let Go Of The Living & Give Me A Cause, Any Cause
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 28: THe Dead Never Let Go Of The Living & Give Me A Cause, Any Cause

I was happy for a nanosecond, fancying myself as a Calvinist, thinking that instead of being one of the elect, I was one of the damned and how liberating that was. At least me being in Limbo has nothing to do with me, I was always going to end up here, predetermination and all that, God didn’t choose me, and why would anyone do that, create you to abandon you, WTF, man….so thank God I ate the Colonisers. It made absolutely no difference to my outcome.

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Episode 27: Top Ten Tips on Surviving The Office
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 27: Top Ten Tips on Surviving The Office

Here I am, The Vigilante Cannibal Nun, your favourite, Horror and SCI FI agony aunt, and no, I am not on the road to Damascus, nor am I about to chop – hi ja!- Miss Piggy Stylee, someone’s ears off and eat them, bit o soy sauce, ginger, attitude, No NO NO No NO, I am here as your resident Agony Aunt, as I already said, so why not repeat it? I mean, why not? Residing and floating in limbo, having eaten all the colonisers in Ireland during The Great Irish Famine. Was there one that wasn’t so great? Back to the point, I’m a kind of a mythological sin-eating monstrosity, waiting for all the horror letters of woe to pop into my lap, like the pearls the swine ate and pooped out of their BE HIND, HI. Each week, I solve two horror and SCI FI emotional problems, in less than 10 minutes. What more could you want, I ask you? A chronic disease? A mental illness? A bucket of despair? Cancer? Kemo? Keto? A blood thirsty addiction, thin legs? Oh, Christ, YES! If I had thin legs, I’m sure I never would have eaten that priest at the beginning of this crazy journey. I would be happy, and you would know it because they, the legs, would be out on the street, loud and proud and wrapped around every hot man’s head until I sang “Oh Danny Boy” at the top of my voice when hitting the proverbial high notes. But no, I have a big ass, short legs, builder’s shoulders and rigor mortis. Go figure. Because I can’t. Welcome to Episode 27 Top Ten Tips on Surviving The Office.

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Episode 26: Werewolves in the Highlands & The Olympic Robot
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 26: Werewolves in the Highlands & The Olympic Robot

I howl like the wolf because I’m bored and looking for attention, seeing as I’m dead and stuck in limbo, but also because I am your favourite & funniest Irish revenge sister and host of this fictional comedy horror sci-fi podcast, where, every Tuesday, I read two letters from my horror / SCI FI fans, otherwise known as depraved lunatics, who are looking for somewhere to lay their fetid brains to soothe their compromised moral core, or to put them aside for a moment, and give them a reason to carry on with their lives after metaphorically killing their awl man or something equally heinous. Personally, I would rather ponder the fact that the moon is not geologically dead as was previously thought or discuss undersea mountains and the fact that they are key hubs for sharks, according to Science Daily. But I dig those desires deep into my underwear so that I can focus on reading your letters in all earnestness, of which I have none. We are not alone, you and I. Bummer, dude. Welcome to Episode 26: Werewolves in the Highlands & The Olympic Robot.

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Episode 25: Zombie Stig O’ The Dump & Faithless AI Murderer
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 25: Zombie Stig O’ The Dump & Faithless AI Murderer

And my second letter is from Pablo, an idealistic priest on an island off the coast of the insane, but not stupidity, circa 2030 who has a crisis of faith when confronted with the realization that the advancement in AI is like modernism’s end goal….ie….get rid of people and the world is perfect. So, he killed everyone and even though humanity is now sublime, and no longer excretes, apart from the dead bodies littering the streets, turning to mush, he is frustrated as he has lost his sense of smell and all the roses are dead, because nature is becoming suicidal. What can I do, he asks?

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Episode 24: Smallpoxed & Does My Bum Look Big In This?
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 24: Smallpoxed & Does My Bum Look Big In This?

I howl like the wolf because I am your host of this fictional comedy horror SCI FI podcast, where, every Tuesday, I read two letters from my Lizardly fans to feed their recognition hunger by answering all their horror and SCI FI woes deep in the knowledge that they will never ever ever ever do anything about their desire to change, because, get this, like the rest of us, they just want to wallow. And who can blame them? Sometimes, there’s pleasure in pain. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that when a crazed psychopath saws off your pinky with a rusty screwdriver to blackmail your parents out of their pension, that that is acceptable. But low-level pain that doesn’t catch you off guard is tolerable until it is too late, so you write to me and those listening, to keep all three of us entertained. Misery loves company. So, as your favourite Vigilante Cannibal Nun Agony Aunt, I love the letters, and they keep me warm of a night when I burn them. So, let’s see what we have in this week’s bag o’ shite. Welcome to Episode 24: Smallpoxed & Does My Bum Look Big in This?

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Episode 23: Waking up in Your Husband’s Wet Dream & Love on The Electric Chair
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 23: Waking up in Your Husband’s Wet Dream & Love on The Electric Chair

I howl like the wolf because I am your host of this fictional comedy horror SCI FI podcast, where, every Tuesday, I read two letters from my muck-raking fans to seek advice about all the times they royally destroyed any respect from their friends like the time they visited a nature reserve in Africa during a hurricane and let all the vampire alligators free before it started and it ended up a blood bath. Still, as your favourite Vigilante Cannibal Nun Agony Aunt, I love the letters, because there’s not much else to laugh at around here apart from my attempt to sew my face to my ass. So, let’s see what we have in this week’s bucket of shame. Episode 23: Waking up in Your Husband’s Wet Dream and Love on The Electric Chair.

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Episode 22: Ballyhalbert & Monstrous Attitude
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 22: Ballyhalbert & Monstrous Attitude

I howl like the wolf because I am your host of this fictional comedy horror SCI FI podcast, where, every Tuesday, I read two letters from the pasta jar of filth that stores the thoughts, dreams and fuck ups of my fans as they try to salvage their lives from their overblown emotions that went terribly out of control and left them with nothing more than guilt, shame, and blood on their hands. Still, I love each and every one of you, seeing as I empathize with the lost and the losing and because I am perched in limbo until the end of time as your favourite Vigilante Cannibal Nun Agony Aunt. And after that garbled mess of an introduction, there is nothing left for me to do but to welcome you to the show. Welcome to Episode 22: Ballyhalbert & Monstrous Attitude.

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Episode 21: Fannystown & Hip Hop Genius Parasite
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 21: Fannystown & Hip Hop Genius Parasite

Feb but not fab or Feb up already? What happened to January? Time is like rolling thunder without the thunder and certainly without the bells and whistles. Shrug of shoulders. I was not born to be loved. Just thought I’d throw that one in for effect or is it affect. Life is too long and boring to start with that one. Fun. A bit o’ sauce. Laughter. That is what we need and so let’s get cracking. Because I am here to solve two horror and SCI FI emotional problem letters, sent in by fans, in less than 10 minutes…and here we go.

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Episode 20: The Final Girl & OCD Killer
Carol Murphy Carol Murphy

Episode 20: The Final Girl & OCD Killer

Each week I solve two Horror and SCI FI emotional problems, sent in by my fans, in less than 10 minutes. So, forget about your two-tone aspirations to have a life of genuine happiness or fasting on a yoga holiday retreat because, get this, you will always be bloated. Just accept it. Clothes never feel right on you, but we all know that naked and blood thirsty wearing nothing, but a dicky bow is a better look.

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