11: #011 The Endeavour Issue
00:00The Quintet Factor, with Rhys, Derby, and David Fadriar.Hello, and welcome to another edition of The Cryptid Factor, the only podcast we know of about cryptozoology.My name's David.My name's Rhys.I'm Buddins, hi!Yes, in the corner.By the way guys, I couldn't hear that theme tune.What?
01:09I couldn't hear it.I mean, I'm sure you can fix it in post, right?Oh yeah, the list, I think it was recording.It was definitely recording.Sort of the fancy way we've got it set up here.I just want to make sure you haven't changed the theme tune or something.No, you were secretly changing it.Yeah, why?
01:25The Buttons of David show.I'm Buttons, I'm David.We're really cool together.And Rhys is stuck in our way.What a loser.Now as that alternative theme song can tell you, Rhys is over in Los Angeles.Buttons and I are here in New Zealand sort of producing the show back here.And for the next hour, we plan to take you on sort of a journey of the weird and the cryptozoological.
01:51Through a variety of news and segments and storytelling and excitement.Really? Overall?Yeah.What have you been up to, Rhys?I'm just going to...I'm just adjusting.I think listeners should be aware I'm using one of the latest microphones, the Yeti.Which is quite perfect, isn't it, for this job.
02:17I'm just adjusting the gain because your voice is really getting on my nerves there, David.I'm just trying to turn that down.It gets on my nerve too. I've got no buttons to fix that.He's here in the room with me. There's nothing I can do.And I'm just loosening the volume.I'm just turning my own voice up slightly.I like the soothing sounds of my own tones.I can hear your voice going up in my ear.
02:41You guys are starting to sound like...Why do I get excited?People are listening to this show.They never had to put up with this when we're at real radio stations doing real broadcast.When we had the radio station, back when we had people trust us.We often ruined their equipment.I think slowly over time we've been kicked out of how many radio stations now?Three.
03:13And they thought that would be the end of the cryptid factor, but no.No, that's not the end.We discovered the internet, didn't we?We discovered there was another forum where people could listen.It's got no bosses.It's a more do-it-yourself, really.And we've probably discovered through this that we've actually got more listeners than we've ever had before.Yeah, so it's been a little blessing, really, in disguise.
03:41Right, listeners?Here we go.Just pause it there so they can still say yes.Just edit a little pause in there.Because I want all the listeners saying yes!Now...Can we start again now?Was that enough of a pause?
03:59It probably sounds to you like I'm very excited, and it's true.Because guess what?I saw on Sunday.A movie?Was it a movie?I'm guessing you saw something unknown and weird.It was very known.Just give us a clue.
04:21Is it a human?I'll give you a clue.I'll show you.Oh, no.You're holding up a NASA cap at the moment.You win, and you win aboard the Challenger.What is it called? The Space Shuttle?It's the Endeavour.
04:41That is so sucky.The Challenger is the one that you can't visit,because that's the one that is in lots of different pieces.It's become more of a challenge.Put it that way.Since the explosion.I saw the Endeavour.It's absolutely fantastic.
04:57The Space Shuttle.It's at the Science Museum here in Hollywood,and we had to book tickets.It's so popular that you have to queue upfor a good half an hourbefore you get into the huge hangarwhere you get to see it.It's just phenomenal.
05:13It was a real...I wouldn't say life-changing experience.No, it wasn't.I did walk away with some merchandise.I changed the old bank account slightly.It was amazing to seethe star of the Space Shuttle fleetin all its glory,
05:29and to realise that these things are real.It was amazing to seeand realise that these things are real,and they have takenmankindup into space.It's their real-life spaceships.It's something more
05:45exciting than a rocket.I can't explain why.I think it's because it's a shuttle.It really is something more similarto something from a science fiction filmor Star Warsthan a rocket,which is more of an upstanding
06:01sort of thing that...Look, I've had a couple of wines.I've got to tell you.It's bucketless material.We're talking aboutbucketless material.I did like your comparison between a rocketand a shuttle, and I think they're all
06:17valid points.MBS, love your NASA cap.That is pure rock and roll, man.Pretty cool, huh?That's the classic geeky cap right there.You're going to come back.You're going to wear that in front of us all the time, aren't you?Even when you don't want to wear a cap,
06:33you're going to wear that just to rub it in.That is a good-looking cap.Yeah, man. That's the classic.Well, look, speaking of space,space is pretty weird.Should we get into some weekly world weird news?Weekly world weird news.Crazy, freaky. Watch out.
06:49A lot of weird stuffgoing on in the past weekall around the planet.I thought I'd kick off hereand sort of all originated with a really goodTwitter account I found calledFlorida Man.I don't know if you have noticed this, Rhys,
07:05or if you're reading a paper,often say a Florida Mandid this. Florida Mandid whatever.Basically, they've now got a Twitter accountfor Florida Man making out that he is just one guy.Sohere's some of the tweets.
07:21Florida Man steals 20 turtles at gunpointfrom man in parking lot.That's Florida.This is next up what Florida Mancan do. You can't read out headlines like thisand not give the deal.Florida Man tells 9-1-1girlfriend was kidnapped after she tries to leave him.
07:37Florida Man arrestedfor swimming naked in Toxic Lake.Florida Man tells police he has a gunso they'll respond to his 9-1-1 call quicker.Andmy favorite headline of what Florida Man'sbeen up to, Florida Man arrested twice in one weekfor sex with dogs.
07:53Soif you want to follow Florida Man, he's just at Florida Manand honestly, the stuff Florida Mangets up to is outrageous.That's our weekly World Weird News. It's justFlorida Man every week. We renameweekly World Weird News into Florida Man News.So I just want to read a little bit more
08:09about this article. Tallahassee policepull Florida Man from Lake Ellaand I really justI mainly likedwhat Florida Man had to say about this. His real nameDaryl Majingashea police officer basically responded
08:25to calls of anaked man in Lake Ella onyesterday afternoon.So basicallyaccording to the police report, he refusedto exit the lake when they instructed himto do so. Florida Manreplied to officers that he wasn't able to exit
08:41because he was naked and he had comeand entered the lake fully clothedto swim. His clothing had fallen off.What?It had fallen off.So I likehe that was an excuse he'd gone for a swimfully clothed but the clothing had fallen off.
08:57Your clothing can fall off.If you've got loose clothing and you're divingand you must know that how many timeshave your togs come off buttons when you'vejumped in the hotel pool?I know but you're the type that doesn'teven tie them up. He doesn't botherdoes he? Well it's just
09:13I get my togs. I hope they wouldcome off. SpeedosI was told were clingyenough so that you didn't have to worry aboutif you're doing you know like someform offorward roll diveyou know that they should
09:29stay on. I mean that's the wholepurpose of Speedos. I like undiesundies don't often just come off butthese did.Oh Leon.The guy what did he have on? I mean did he haveunderwear? No he reckoned he hadhe reckoned he had shirts and
09:45he had proper jeans onand a shirt. That's what he saidand underwear. It all just came off.It all came off. I mean obviously jeans come offvery easily on their own. Well experiencedespecially when you're swimming.What were you doing summer salts in the water?After being retrieved by emergency
10:01responders he said he had entered the laketo swim and take a bath and hadwalked most of the way to the platform.He said he knew he shouldn't have entered the lakebut was adamant about taking a bath.He said then his clothes fell off and decidedto go for more of a swim.So anyway and the other thing that Florida
10:17Man has been up to that I was quite interested inwas this Florida Manholding someone at gunpoint and stealing20 turtles.So they're searching for this guy.He basically held up a guy at gunpointand stole20 turtles along with
10:33$500.ApparentlyYou need to feed the turtles. Theprice is $10 per turtle.So if you're in Floridaand you see a guy with20 turtleshe's not legit. He's stolen them off
10:49someone else at gunpoint andFlorida Police want to find him.So I just sort of put them out there.How hard can it be to track him down?It can't be too hard. But I mean it's FloridaFlorida Man's up to all sorts of stuff.Florida Man'sarrested for holding a friend's cell phone at
11:05ransom after he vomited in his bathroom.Florida Man arrested for kidnappinga neighbor's dog.He just Florida Man is just crazy.He does sound ratherexciting but he'snot a patch on California Man, is he?I mean
11:21he's not from the Ice Agehe's not a Neanderthal that wasthawed out.That was a classic filmmaker from the 90s.That was great. So good.They don't make them like that anymore, do they?Last one from Florida ManFlorida Man arrested for sitting on crying baby's
11:37head.God, this guy needscrying already. How many followers has he got?Florida Man, he's got 130,000.Wow. More than me.His Twitter profile is real lifestories of the world's worst superhero.So there you go.
11:53That's some stories from Florida Manthat I thought I'd bring to you this week.Well, check him out. Let's follow him.Let's follow him till he gets put away.Yeah, Florida Man's pretty amazing.My last bit of news that I've gotis an example of an amazingheadline and a really
12:09mediocre story.Headline, China's heat wavebrings dead man back to life.Oh, that sounds...Sounds...Okay, so China's heat wave bringsdead man back to life. The actual storyis to paraphrase it. It was
12:25a guy protesting, pretendingto be dead under a sheet that was part of theprotest. It was so hothe needed a water andsteam, woke up.Oh, brilliant.That's pretty good.I've got a lovely story to end on
12:41and keep people's spirits high.A three-year-old boy usinga metal detector for the very firsttime has uneartheda golden pendant estimatedto be worth over two and a half millionpounds.Three years old, he just is
12:57dead who has been a...who's been ascrounger, what do you call them?Guys that go around with metal detectors.He's been doing it for 50... A knob.A knob.Thank you.He's been doing it for 15 years,
13:13found nothing morethan a couple of old pennies.Yeah, a couple of cans. His three-year-old songrabs the metal detector at theage of three, is using it forless than five minutes.The machine starts going mental,they start digging, and just
13:29eight inches deep into the groundthey found what they now know to bea 500-year-old gold pendant.Wow. That's cool.That's awesome. How would you feel as the dad though?You'd be like, oh, good on your son?Yep. Yeah, I was justabout to look there. I was just about to...
13:45I was... I'm in charge of it. Get off it.I found that.No, I did, dad. No, don't...just get your hands off it. I got it.No, he's mine. He's mine.David, it's his.Put it down.He's got... It's the wife coming in there.
14:01He's going to take it to show and tellthe next morning, look what I found.It just goes to show, you know,it is a pretty geeky hobby.It's probably the ultimate...It is. You know,when you think of, you know,stupid things you could do in your spare time
14:17and, you know, and...the lack of friends they must have.But if you persevere,you know, look what can happen, and it'sworth it. You know, there's a TV showover here. I can't remember what it'scalled, but I was watching it the other night,and it's about metal detectors. It's about these
14:33dudes. They call themselvestreasure hunters. They're muchcooler name than what they are. They're justa knob walking around with a metaldetector, right? But the program,it's on discovery or something like, you know,treasure hunters. So obviously I click on it,you know, I go watch it. And
14:49it's just these... thesereally odd guys who clearlyhave got nothing going on, but they've spent upthe, you know, they've bought thesemetal detectors, and then they goand find... they competeto find, you know, whatthey can with their detector in a certain
15:05area of a certain province.And, you know, they come up with a lot of pennies,but they always come up withthings that are worth a lot of money, andthey find history, you know, andthen you start getting into it, go, okay, andthen all the statistics about the things thatthey've found in this. So there is a bit of
15:21history, but I can see why they do it.So what you're saying, what you're saying isyou've bought one, you'vegone out with your sons.Is that what you're trying to...Is that what you're bringing yourself to say?It doesn't interest me, butwhat I'm saying is it's from
15:37something that's, you know, we all knowis probably the ultimate loserfor the past time,has actually become a televisionshow. I know. So go on them.How about that show? And this is...They just go into the river Thames at low tidewith a couple of little shovels,
15:53scrape away a little bit, find somethingthey probably just placed there before the camerastarted rolling, and TV,somebody needs to start a cryptozoological show, I reckon.Oh, yeah. I mean,that hasn't happened yet.All right.
16:09All right. Now, look, I think this isa perfect time to segue into a bit ofcryptid news.Obviously, this is a radio show. Well,it's not. It's a podcast.We've seen that for years, a radioshow. We're not even on the radio anymore.We're on the internet. Yeah, for the first time
16:25we're not even on the radio.Should be in buzz. Sothis is a show about cryptidozology.We're not even in the same room.I don't know in this life. It's so strange.Soit's a show about cryptidozology, which isthe science of hidden animals. So,
16:41you know, some common ones, obviously, big foot,Loch Ness monster, but it goes much,much wider than that. And the sort of nextsection of the show issort of going to dive into a bit of that.Yes.We've got a new sting for this, by the way.Hmm.
16:57Very, very good.And it's a buddygood one. Yeah.He recorded that.There's some guy emailedsomething over, I think.You know, we thought it sounded good.Just someone, someone quite skills
17:13and we just thought, shit, that sounds good.We'll throw that into the mix. Instead of sayingcryptid buzz each week, we'll justhave it pre-recorded. Okay, you ready for this?Sure, yeah. Yeah, let's do it.Attention, all personnel,it's time for this week's cryptidBlah!
17:31This is cryptid buzz. The part of the showwe will bring you the latest cryptidnews. Who'd like to kick it off?Rhys? Yeah, I thinkyou've got the, you've got the best.Oh, sorry.You caught me mid, mid-drink.You're doing pretty well with that
17:47bottle of wine over there, Rhys, actually.Yeah. Well, it's, it'sto celebrate our, our secondinternationaltranswhat, what ocean is it? I forget.The Trans-Ocean.Trans-Ocean.
18:03Trans-Ocean. Trans-Ocean podcast.Hmm. Trans-Pacific.Second, secondpodcast when we're not in the same room.Uh, same show,just slightly less connected.Same show, different rooms. That's our motto.Yep.
18:19Still encouraging the same bullshit.Yes.Guess what's happened this week? It's beenrather bizarre.Did you hear about the spooked baboonsthat baffled the Dutchzoo in Emmen?No.
18:35It sounds like a riddle or ajoke.It's a joke, guys.This is no joke.News is getting weirder, right?I'm sure when we started doing this five years ago,stuff was weird, but it was nowhereas bizarre as what we're getting these days.
18:51I got to say. It's exciting.We're, soon, this, our weekly worldweird news is just going to be the regular news.We're going to be on TVat 6 o'clock, the three of usreplacing whoever the anchors are,sorry, wankers are,the normal news.
19:07They'll be thrown out the bagand will be chucked inbecause this is the sort of stuffthat's really happening right now.Staff at the zoo in Netherlandssay they are baffled by their baboonswho have spent days sitting stillhuddled together in fear
19:23and hardly eating.The behaviour started on Monday eveningand only now are the 112baboons becoming their normalactive selves again.Wow.The zoo still has no ideawhat spooked the baboons
19:39but it's a good signthat some are nowfinally eating apples.Biologistswould bringBy the way, if you're going to bein a news article, have a normal name.I don't care.
19:55I don't care if you're from the Netherlands.Please.I want to say normal. I mean the name I can pronounce.You knowand I'mguilty of it. My namewhen you look at it in its letter formR-H-Y-S
20:11you think what the hell's that?You knowand I think it justI don't know. I've talkedmyself into a circle that I don't want to be inbut I'm in the centre of itfeeling embarrassed. I'll continue.Right, so depressed baboons.
20:27The zoo lastwas such hysteriaso it's seen it before by the wayin 2007. What frightened them?We don't know.It's a mystery. There have been manysuggestions. An earthquakeescaped snakes, aliens
20:43thunderThe other animals hereare okay. They havethey have lemurs, elephantsand kangaroos as neighboursand they show no signof panic.Eman lies in the north
20:59eastern Netherlands near the Germanborder.That's good.Thank you.Was it Nazis? Was it the Nazis?I don't know what I'm going to take from this article.These people at the zoo have consulted a Frenchbaboon expert.
21:17Hang on, sorry. The Dutch are contactinga French baboon expert.I don't think they should hear about this.If you want to get a baboon expert, always geta baboon expert.If you want to talk about the baboonthat was the worst French accentI've ever seen.
21:33He said it was like yogi bear.I come on baboon.Let's go get a baboon.I have nohood in America.Does this articlehave any sort of conclusion?I'm just a stupid mystery at the moment.
21:51At one stage they were depressedand they were eating apples.Now this French baboon expert has beenbrought in.This Frenchbaboon experthad witnessedthis similar behaviour
22:07from baboon's hysteria in the wild.It was usually triggered byawareness of a predator.It's just really odd in a zoofor so many baboons tosuddenly freak.They just didn't even movefor a minute and a half.
22:23They just stayed in their little trees.People just thoughtwhat has happened?Something spooked the baboonsand no one knows what it was.All I'm saying isobviously it was aliens.Do you know what I like?
22:39You could just faintly hearunderneath the creepy music I'm playing therethe sound of an American police cargoingwhoo!It's always happeningthere's always something happeningof the murder.
22:55Reese is actually living on the streetat the moment.That articlehas just so many plot points in there.It's like a movie.Do you want to go buttons?Have you got something?Yeah! Reese, that was an incredible bit of news.
23:11My mind's reeling at that.Thank you.I've got...It's been all over the net with these baboons.Which is weird because I hadn't heard about it.I'm sure I was reading the newspapersbut maybe in New Zealandthe Dutch news hasn't made it
23:29to New Zealand yet.It'll get here.The news that I've gotwhich I'm strugglingto makesense of whether or not I actuallybelieve it or notis a man
23:45in the Statesof Ogdenand I'm strugglingto find out where Ogden is.Does anybody know where Ogden is?It's not like a well-known place.But Ogdenclaims to have found
24:01a fossilized bigfoot head.Oh, wow!I've got a photo here so you can make upthe mindyour own mind.This gentlemanwho had found ithe's obviously a believer in bigfoot
24:17and he's found this rockandhe's suggestingthat it's definitely a fossilizedbigfoot head.It's a rock, clearly it's a rockbut obviously fossils become rock.I'm going to show you guys a photo here
24:33and you can tell me whether or not you thinkthat's a fossilized bigfoot head.It's a rock that looks like a face,isn't it?Have a look.Okay.He's just putting it up to the cameras now.Of course I'm in another city
24:49but I can see using the computer.Yes, it looks to melike a largerockand the man holding it, is that Sean Connery?Doesn't it look like Sean Connery?It looks like Sean Connerywhen he was on Indiana Jones
25:05asMD's dad.Listen, listen, Junior, this is bigfoot.It's not bigfoot.Yes, Junior, it's bigfoot.It's a fossilized version of bigfoot.It's a rock.It's not a rock.
25:21I know about rocks. I was in the rock.No one knowsrocks more than I do, Junior.This is bigfoot's headand it's fossilizedin the form of a rock.It's a rock, you're right.I'm going to digress.
25:37It's a rock, but it's a fossilizedbigfoot head.It looks slightly like it's got some eyes on it.Yes, a bigfoot eye.Wouldn't you say it's your bigfoot eyes?I mean, look,I'll tell you this much, Junior.These are for your eyes only.
25:53This rock.He did it.He did it. He brought it around.He crossed genre.Oh, shit.Right.That's an actual recording.That's an actual recording.
26:09I just played thatfrom the actual recording.The funny thing is the thing I love most about this articleabout this guy and hisit goes on and on this article.I mean, God, it's like an essay.But the journalist who writes about this guywho believes he's found a
26:25fossilized bigfoot headstarts off by sayingthis manTodd Maywent into his carwhere he popped the hatchbackon his Nissan 300ZXpeeling back
26:41an American flag draped across the cargoarea of the vehicleand hefted a black piece of luggage that resembledan oversized bowling ball baglowering it to the asphalt of the parking lotwith a clunk.He struggled to pulla noggin-sized seemingly ordinary
26:57rock out of a bag, held it upand turned it over.I love that he drives a Nissan300ZXIf anybody is going to finda fossilized bigfoot headit's Todd May and a 300ZXwould you not think?
27:13Did he have an American flagthat starts the strikesdraped on the back?What a legend.I mean, if you're not going to believe that guy, who are you going to believe?Exactly.Just so you know, David, because I knowthat you're not a massive car fan
27:29you know, what do you drive?Drive a little car, right?Drive some sort of little car.I'm not sure what it is to be honest.I'm going to show you the car that Todd May was drivingjust so you canfully appreciate.I suggest you at home
27:45that there's been an interactive podcasthave a look upof a 300ZX so you can see whatyou know, just so the fullgamut of the story.Yeah, that's interactive.But let's give them some timeto Google it now.
28:01Let's give them some old music.Okay.And don't forgetthe car, of course, to Google was thewhat was that?Nissan 300ZX.Nissan 300ZX.Please Google now.
28:23Okay, here you go.Do-do-do-do-do-do-do.Do-do-do-do-do.What?I just showed it to him and he just goes,what did you say?Oh, it's a car, isn't it?Well, that's fair, he's not going to be excited
28:41about a car, they all look the same to him.Yeah, I've got nothing to add to that.But I did like the whole music.Anyway, listeners out there, I'm sure you've Googled itand what a car and what awhat a story that was.Yeah.All right, look.
28:57You've done so much goodresearch on cryptozoologythis week.Okay, to be fair,I Googled Nissan 300ZXand a big foot story came up.That'll be handy.Look, I'm going to use it.
29:15Oh, there's a cheap one though on eBaygoing for three and a half grand of 300ZXReese.I'm going to whizz through a bit of cryptid news here.Okay, here we go.I got some stuff to get through here.All right, now look.First up,
29:31we talked last week aboutthe SquatchitBigfoot Noiseon Kickstarter.That is now up to 60%funding-wise.Are you going to buy one?No, I listened to the
29:49video. I watched it obviouslybut thelistening was the main part of itbecause you could hear it.It just sounds like your wife, doesn't it?I mean...No.It sounds like my wife.
30:05It just sounds like anybody's wife.Yeah.I think I've got enough of that kind of noisein my house.Well, basically,it's 14 days in.It's got another 17 days to go.Kickstarter is usually...
30:21they do kind of trail off a little bit towards the end.So, hopefully, it makes itfor those guys. So, yeah, 60%just sort of do a little update on that. Okay, well, that's good.That's good news for the Squatchit team. Now, this is oldand I'm just afraid we might havemissed this, that Charlie Sheenwent out on Loch Ness looking for
30:37Loch Ness Monster. Oh, yes.Yeah, I don't think we mentioned this but it happenedlast month and he basically went outon Loch Ness and spent four days.So, it wasn't just a one little cruise.He spent four days looking for Loch Ness Monster.He's dedicated. So,that's what Charlie Sheen's been up to.
30:53Any...Nothing. Saw nothing.But, apparently, he didn't party and he wasquite soberand together. So, there you go.Wow, that's just... Good on him.Good on him. Good on Charlie Sheen.Mmm.
31:09Also, in a comedy coming up, a moviewhere he plays the president of the United States,which I think is kind of awesome.Awesome. A party president?You mean the president of parties?I like that they cast himin that role. Well, look, that'smy crypto news for the week. I just sort of
31:25pound through those.Oh, one last, actually, little item that I found.There's awebsite that listscrime in... I think it's in Ohio.And, basically, it's a listof stuff that people got of police scannersand they basically list it on this website in Ohio.
31:41And, for instance, one thing.A caller reported that a nine-month-old babywas locked in a car.So, police came and got the baby out.And then, just a little bit further down the list,with no other details,1.57 pm,Maliso Creek, a caller reported that
31:57a man was wearing a Bigfoot costume.Oh, that's good one.It wasn't you, was it?It wasn't me. It was Ohio.It was not here.So, I just really liked that that was listedin the police scanning of the week.Hey.
32:13Didn't you go on local TV recentlywith your Bigfoot costume? Yeah, I did.Did you do that? Yeah, I did.Tell us what happened. Yeah, yeah, Buttons and I,actually, we both went on You Late,which is sort of a funky youth show over hereto talk about the podcast, because obviously we're up on SoundCloud nowand iTunes and whatnot, so we thought we'd better talk about it.
32:29And, yeah, I worea Bigfoot costume that Ibought in LA.Which is awesome. Which is totally awesome.Buttons was sitting next to me on the couch.It felt like we'd really made it, you know?Well, we made it apart from...That's awesome. Well, we made it apart
32:45from the extra 33.333% of the team.Yeah, would it be fair? We sold itthat we'd have Reese on the show.Oh, really? With the teams here.And then we were like, oh, we forgotthat he's in Los Angeles. Small problem.Small problem. Yeah, he's here
33:01in spirit. They were gonnanot let us on the show, but we juststuck around and basically forced ourselves onto the set.Yeah. And had agood bit of television. The good thing isthat Reese is here. There's thisone of the hosts there.Here's a massive
33:17skip. Very big skip. Davidtalked to him for a few minutes, proveda couple of really good points.It became like a heated debate.It did. And he came out the other endkind of going, oh, yeah, I couldbelieve that. He did, didn't you? You turned him.You turned him. I had a...
33:33I wasn't going to put up with his bullshit, soI gave him a bit of my bullshit.And in the end, he was converted.So, yeah. Oh, good on you, David.I'm really proud of you. That's awesome.Yes, man. Well done, guys, forsticking upcryptozoology and weirdness
33:49in general and getting ontelevision. Fantastic. Hey, can we try and getthat clip? I'd love to see it. Yeah,I'll see if youcan clip it up and pop it online. They pop stuff onFacebook. Check it on the website.Hey, now, we haven'twhether or not we're going to talk about this now
34:05or maybe I wouldn't support, but there has beennew video footageof aSasquatch spotted in British Columbia.Oh. Oh, yes.Are we going to talk about that now?No, you brought it up.Or is that eye-witness news?
34:21No, yeah, do it now, for sure.Okay, well,new Bigfoot footage fromBritish Columbia has come aboutand, of course, Rhys, you emailed usabout this this week.Yeah.The article that you
34:37had, which isn'tcovered in my article, made it sound likeit was some form of a competitionor some form of a send-inyour video of weird stuff.Oh, really?Oh, you didn't read it.I read your article that you sent me.
34:53It was really good.Good article.There has been a Sasquatchspot. Now, it's really quite convincing footage.It is quite far away.The camera is notoriously, as they alwaysare, very shaky.But you do
35:09try to...Is that the one they didn't try and zoom in?Did they or did they?No, this is the one where he's onthe hilltop, right?And thebackpackers, the hikerscaptured some video
35:25and...It looks good.But once again, it's too far awayto really get any sense ofwhether it's set up orwhether it's real. But it does look good.It's good footage.It's clearly...
35:41It's clear.It's either very silhouetted or it isjust a dark, massivehair.And there isno backpack on the person's back.It's hardreally to tell.
35:57Well,it's generally something thata Sasquatch wouldn't have.Sasquatch could wear a backpack though.They're built like humans.They're bipedal. They can stand up.Surely they could wear a backpack.Are they intelligent enough to
36:13work out how to wear a backpack?Would they put it on backwards?Would they just eat it?Would they...It's interesting. I think we should...One of our experiments once we getinto thebig footing,
36:29is to drop a backpackin the forest.Up in Sierra Nevada.Up in Alaska. Up in the places wherethese Sasquatches are seen.Just drop random backpacks aroundand see if they end up being born by them.It's such a good idea.
36:49We should puta logo on it.It's such a specific experiment.If we wanted to really be cute,we could just put little kids,Thomas the Tank Engine backpacksout in the bush and see ifthey end up wearing those.
37:05I would love to see somevideo footage or some sightings.Whether it begrainy footage or shakyof Bigfoot in the distance.When you zoom in, you seeThomas the Tank Enginebackpack.
37:21What is it?The gods must be crazywhere they have the Coke bottledropped in. It's exactly the sameas that. It'll completelyruin the whole Sasquatchcommunity. They'll all start fightingover the little Thomas the Tank Engine
37:37backpack. They'll end up coming outof the forest. They'll go,nah, over this hiding thing. I wanta backpack too. I'm sick of...BigBig Big BigBigfoot.I'm sick of him having the backpack
37:53all the time. I want my go.Won't it? It's possible.They'll realise that you can carrythings in there. The rocks thatthey like to throw or foodor anything in the backpack.I think they're intelligent enough towork out how to use it. I think we start
38:09depositing them in Bigfootzones.100s ofbackpacks.Literally hundreds.This is the place entirelywith backpacks. Red backpacks.We
38:25made Thomas the Tank Enginepeople would be stoked.Imagine the press coverage ofthat. Bigfootspotted with Thomas the Tank Engine.All the kids would want one then.By your shares nowladies and gentlemen.
38:41Have you got this video footageto show on the podcast? Are you going to play it?Is that going to work?We'll post ithere we go.But here it is here. Davidwhat do you make of that?It does look
38:57like it's pretty good footage compared with a lot.As you say it's very clear. It's just very faraway. So it leaves a lot to theimagination. It's even further away for me.I can see it on the screen but it's reallytiny.This is another interactive part of the show.If you go to YouTube and
39:15type in Sasquatchspotted in remote mountains.Just type in SasquatchBritish Columbia.First thing that comes up.I'd like to finish today'sshow with an eyewitness report.
39:31Are you ready? That's the one thing that we can do.Here's this thing.Are you ready?Are you ready?Whathave you got there?Another eye witness account.Okay guys.
39:47I gotthis off Crypto Mundoand it'smy Sasquatchsighting in the summer of97.It's from WilliamEllen Barnes.
40:03He also describes how the Falcon projectwas born.That of course is the latest project toget an airship or a balloon of some sortto hover abovethe Bigfootzones andto use heat recognition systems
40:19to find bodies down below.But listen to thiseye witness reportfrom 97.I'll verbalizesome of it for you now.Okay.But my
40:37best guesswas between 1 or 2 a.m.in the morningwhen I was awakened by largerocks sliding from the hillsidearound the corner of the canyon.In ancient riverbedswhere gold miners dig hydraulically
40:53you'd alwayshear gravel rolling downthe banks.This night the rockswere a lot biggerand making more noise than usualand where the canyonsturn around the corner
41:09it was like an amphitheaterand the noisefrom upstream echoed off the wallstowards my camp.It was very dark outand you have to understand this hydraulicarea from the 1800swas covered with white quartz
41:25stone.I could see through my kneesso I could see through the screenup the canyonabout 20 or22 seconds laterI could hear the rocks slidingbut about that time I could see a dark figure
41:43coming around the corner.At first I thought it was a bearwhich was quite common in this areaas it was coming down the canyonit seemed like it waskind of wandering down the canyona little bit to the lefta little bit to the right
41:59my car was parked above my tentan odd place to park your carat an angleat an angleand when the creature was between the hoodof my car and the tentabout 30 feet from the carthat's when I realized this was not a bear
42:15way too big and tallwhen it got to the front of the carit took a B line to my tentI had nowhere to gowhen it walked up to the tentI do not think I was scaredplease do not thinkI was not scared
42:33my heart was beating so hardnot fast but hardpushpush pushoh god that's hardwhen it walked up to the tentdo not thinkI was not scared
42:49I could not hear my poundingbut it was pounding in my earsthis creature stoppedabout 3 feet away from meI don't know how long it stood thereit seemed like time stood stillat first I thought it wasleaning over
43:05steering at meit was dark out I could see where the eyes should bethe nose and the mouthnot clearly butI could see clearly that the figurefrom the caught stoneand gravel in the backgroundthe hair seemed
43:21very well manicuredoh in other words healthymmm look at thatI thought to myself look at thathealthy well manicured herelike I said beforeI don't know how long it stood thereI told you that before
43:39but itit turned to my rightand what amazed me was how thick it wasand not mentallyI meanin its massivenessI could seeits facial structure
43:55the eyesthe nosethe nose was more flat than oursand the chin was shortit seemed like no neck at allhis head and shoulders looked like one piece of his bodywhen it turned sidewaysI realised it was not bent over looking at me
44:11it had a slight tiltto the body from the waist upI wonderedI wonderedjust a slight tiltit walked a straight line across the creekand up the hilland I do have to say
44:31this hill would be nearly impossiblefor a human to walk upbut this creature walked so fluidlyup this hill that it never missed a beatI could see that this creature was madeout of the woodsyes siryafter it disappeared over the hill
44:49I stayed on my kneeslooking up the hill to seeif it was going to come backI guess about 5 minutes passedbut hey I'm not counting timethis is not a counting timeperiodI finally sat down
45:05in my tentvery shook up and I was wonderingwhat just happened to me1 minute or morepossibly 46-47must have passedas I say I'm not counting timebut I sat there
45:21and then all of a sudden I had this calm feelingcome all over merealisedit was simply curiosityto my amazementI went to sleepshortly after thisnow I know I hammed that up a bit
45:39certainly but this is a fantasticreportand he goes on to sayand this is wherethethe falcon projectcomes into playI found
45:55over the years that in this fielda lot of the researchers thoughtthey knew everything about these creaturesI found out that theydid not know a lot about themI would call researchersand they would tell mewho do you think you are
46:11what makes you think you cantrack them or film them in the wildand some researchers were jerksand tell me thatI knew nothing about these creaturesI could see this as truepossiblybecause they knew nothing either
46:27only what they thoughtthey werethat's not the piece I'm looking forhere's the piece herehere's the piecehere's the piecethat explains the falcon project ideaafter many
46:43years looking at otherresearchers from outside the boxI realised they were still doingthe same thing as they were yearsbeforeand there was something I rememberedfrom being out in the woods so many yearsI would hear planes
46:59helicopters, passenger planescome over the woods and most timeslet's say 90%I would seethe aircraft when it wasclose to straight upfrom me that's when I realisedwith thermal imaging if I could see you
47:15you could see me or vice versaI first focused onmodel gas motor RC planesit was a great idea howevertoto fastwhat?sorry this chap's got
47:33very poor writingit was a great idea to fastit was a very good idea to noteatto not eat for a while it could not hoverat low airtime and small payloadI don't know what he's talking about thereI think he's basically saying the RC airplane idea
47:49didn't quite work then I spent timeresearching RC helicoptersthe good sightthe good sightthe good side it could hoverthe bad sideloud low flying timeand small payload
48:05I even looked at glider planesagain too fastand could not hoverso anyway he goes onbut you know I thinkthey're onto something here with the fact thatif they're uphigh in the sky
48:21they've got a lot of airtimewith a balloon that's why you don't have the engine etcandthere's no soundand you can usethermal imagingto look down belowand why not
48:37that's what's going to happencomments?my mind's blown by the last 10 minuteswhat you didn'thave the benefitof hearing Reese was thatwe actuallyhad
48:53he was doing what he does bestand was producing the hell out of that segmentand whenever you went into storytelling modehe would put this effect that sounded likeyou're sort of in an auditoriuma sort of echo kind of vibe with music under youand then when you just snap out of it and talkas Reese he'd go back into just
49:09normal noise so it was quite an effectoh greatbuttons you really createdthey call it the theatre of the mind don't theyand you really did thatyou were doing some next levelthank you very muchI hope people's minds felt quite
49:25theatre-esquecertainly mine has todayyou guys haveput on a pantomimefor meit was packed full of information, it was entertainingif you want to find usany input we're on twitter
49:41just at cryptidfactorso get us therewe've got a facebook page as welljust search for the cryptidfactorthanks for listeningwe'll be back with moremore cryptozoologyand weirdness next week
49:57so thanks for tuning inany parting words from over there in Los Angeleswell all I want to say isyou knowhallelujahfinallywe're here, we're here, we're onlineand we're together and it's easier than ever
50:13who needs to go into a little radio stationand mess with that classwhat I mean is no David, finallythey're getting this airship upthe jewel airshipif you want to see recentlyoh yeah, I'm in Portlandyeah, you'll be doing some shows
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