The Cryptid Factor - 15: #015 The Big Four Issue

Episode Date: May 23, 2015

After a much-anticipated wait... we made another podcast! Tune in to learn about truck driving eyewitnesses, furry trouts and man-eating robots! How much fun? too much.

The Quintet Factor, with Rhys, Derby, and David Fadriar. Hello, and welcome to the latest edition of The Cryptid Factor, with myself and Leon here in New Zealand, and Rhys Derby coming in from Los Angeles. Hello, crossing live. How are you guys? Hi buttons. We're really good. It's raining here. There was just a fire alarm. We all had to go outside, stand in the rain. How's LA life, Rhys? Well, you know, it's the big four, you know, sun, traffic, valet, ice creams. I thought it was movie stars. Oh, is it?

Yeah. I came here for the traffic. Movie stars, Scientology, Sun, and Rhys Derby. Rhino-plasty. How have you guys been thinking about any plastic surgery? You walk around in LA and there's just, you know, plastic surgery galore. Do you ever think I'll nip in there and get a bit of a tuck and a lift? I used to think about my nose a bit, you know, and think maybe I should get that taken down a bit. But then I thought, no, that's my asset. You know, you are what you are. You look the way you look.

And if you make people laugh from your looks, you don't want to, you don't want to adjust that. No. And there was a moment there where I thought, you know, perhaps I could get into more serious roles and be, you know, be a leading man. And then I sort of thought, oh, no, I'm boring. You know, I'd rather, I'd rather make people laugh. So the nose stays. That's handy to have a nose too. Yeah, because I was going to get it completely taken off. Just a couple of holes.

Actually, not the entire thing. Just half of the sticky out bit, you know. Because I wanted to, my idea was I would, I'd like to look like the Sphinx. You know, because he's mysterious, isn't he? What is he? Is he a lion? Is he a cat? You know, is he, is he a noobus? But isn't it a she? Isn't the Sphinx a... No one knows. It's the Sphinx, man. Hollywood's walking Sphinx.

Well, look, this is the only podcast that exists about cryptozoology. I haven't really looked to see if there are any others. That's totally not true. This is the, it's one of many podcasts about cryptozoology. It's the only one with us on it. And it's so good to be back together again. It's the best one that we're on. It's the best one that we're on. It's the best one produced by Buttons here. And, you know, it's unique, isn't it?

And I know it's sporadic these days, you know, because we're busy and we live in separate continents, which doesn't make it easy. But here we are back again. And I think this is the first time in a couple of months since the last one. Maybe, maybe three. I know we did do one earlier this year. So it's time to get back into it. And with our first and favorite segment...

Weekly World Weird News. Crazy. Freaky. Watch out. Rhys, do you want to kick this one off? What have you got? What's been going on? Well, there's, there's a few things going on at present. A giant asteroid to safely miss the Earth today. So that's, it doesn't, the news doesn't come any hotter than that. So that was, that's today's biggest news that we were nearly all killed by a massive asteroid. I love how that just comes out.

Sort of like, you know, quite relaxed. You know, almost died. We almost all died today, but never mind. It was just, and it was on, it was just sort of on the news today. I would like to know about it a little bit in advance. Nice to get a bit more warning. To be honest, if it's going to be a problem, I'd like a bit of warning so I can, you know, put things in order. Media reports of a close shave with a mile wide asteroid have thankfully turned out to be exaggerated. No one has asteroid 1999, which I thought would be great because if that killed us all, you know, how ironic would that be for Prince?

So it's, it's called 1999 FN 53. So I don't know, they've got all these different little specification numbers and they classify everything these days. Even asteroids, you know, there's a guy with a file and he's, he's flicked it in there. But the sizeable space rock had been generating concern in recent weeks. Thanks to stories claiming that it had been worrying astronomers. Worrying them. Keeping them up at night. Yeah, keeping them up at night.

And this is, if an astronomer is worried, then that's a big deal because these guys are the most laid back. You know, all they do is look at the stars. You know, there's nothing else going on. If you ever see a worried one, you know, you better be packing your bags. And it's quite, it's quite a worry. It's not like, oh, I might have left the iron on in the house or something. It is we could potentially all be extinct. The reason they were worried is because they thought it was going to, and this is a quote from them.

The Astronomers Guild skim the earth skim. A great terminology because you can just imagine it like a stone, you know, skimming through a lake. It's just going to skim the earth. So just be a, just a little take a little bit off the side of it. You hardly notice, you know. You probably won't even need to contact your insurance on that one. I like the idea that it sort of grazes one of the countries. Today, Canada was grazed by, 20 million people dead from a graze.

The earth had a little skim. Well, here's the, here's the next bit. Now, thanks to new images from the Erecebo Observatory. However, these concerns have definitely, definitely been put to rest as it was revealed that the asteroid will pass within and get this. This is the distance. The reason why it's not going to, in fact, skim the earth. 6.3 million miles. I would have been kept up at night.

I mean, I suppose that's a near miss in astronomy terms, but that's actually equal to 26 times that of the moon's orbit around the earth. So it's, it's quite a fair distance. If you think about the moon and then times that by 26, it's nowhere bloody nearest. Yeah, you always wonder about astronomers when they sort of, they say words like skim, because I guess in their mind, that is so, so, so, so close. But in the mind of the rest of us, it's, don't even worry about it. It's not a worry. It's never been a worry, but it's a worry for an astronomer. So it's a unique thing.

I would take a space rock, even coming as close as, you know, sort of being able to see it. I would see, you know, like, you know, if you're out at night and all you can see it, it's, you know, it's almost, almost, it's between us and the moon. It's close there. You can, if you're squint, you know, there it goes. I mean, that would be almost nerve wracking. But, you know, to be 26 times the distance between the moon from the earth. I think, you know, it's, it's, it's possibly, it wasn't even there. Well, I mean, despite not having worried about this at all, I do still feel some sense of relief.

Just to know that, you know, it hasn't happened, you know. Yeah, it hasn't happened. And people are, astronomers are constantly looking. So, you know, there's, there's, and I think that's probably the reason why they let us know on the day as well. Well, I can't really, I can't really top. I mean, that, that's sort of news. I mean, that's just huge, isn't it? It's, you know, earth has not been hit by a meteorite.

But also disappointing. Yeah, well, I've got, I just, the bit of news I found that really tickled me this week is because probably just the scale is, is a bit smaller than your new story. And the headline simply reads, Weldsburg boy age 11 is passionate about Bigfoot. Wow. How old? 11. 11. This is, this is, this is awesome because this whole new younger generation,

um, Jen, whatever, what are that? What is the next generation? Probably up to about Zed. Zed. By now, I think really. That must be the last one, is it? Yeah. That's it.

That's it. So, I mean, it's a really nice story, you know. They're into cryptozoology. This is good. So really, the story is this. Um, it's from Weldsburg. A large inflatable globe marked with sightings around the world hangs over his bed. A bulletin board holds a New York state map crowded with pins in precise locations.

A thick binder divided by country holds details, reports on individual sightings. Meet Calmax, not Calmax, Calmax of Weldsburg, um, of Weldsburg. Bigfoot research and aspiring cryptozoologist. His mum calls the 11 year old, Kalsquatch, a play of his name and interests. So that's the story. There's not, there's nothing really else to add there, but there's an 11 year old. He loves Bigfoot and he's in his local paper. Well, look, I wonder if he's influenced by our podcast.

I wonder if he knows about us. Maybe, maybe we got him into it. Well, look, there is, there is an email here for him. So I might drop him a little email actually while we're on air and I'll see if he's, he's heard of us. I'll, I'll email him right now. Here's one, here's one of the questions is, have you got a photo of him there? Is he, can we, can we sort of give him an idea of what he looks like?

Cause I mean, I'm hoping that he's like the cool suave kid with the jersey around his, you know, tied around his, no kids that sort of call it 11. There he is. He's pretty cool. He's got a gone, squatchin shirt on. He's looking very excited. He's got a big wall chart there, finding Bigfoot with some different photos. So look, shout out to Karl Marx.

What a dude. I like him. I like him. I love his name. I think we should maybe try and chat to him next week. Let's send him an email and see if he's heard of us. Right this second. David is actually emailing him.

Well, Leon does a new story. I'm going to do a little email to old Karl Marx. I've got, I've got quite exciting new story. Do you? Yes, I do. The Norwegian doomsday vault is complete and they have started receiving their very first samples, their first tree samples. I've got a couple of,

Oh, so this is his fault that they're going to repopulate the planet. That's right. After some sort of fallout. This is the one that they're taking all the DNA samples or the seeds or the, so basically largely though for vegetation and for food crops. So that when all goes to as it were, if I can say that, they've got, Yeah, we'll just be better. They've got this vault full of everything they need to repopulate life.

Now, the thing that is still unclear as to who is going to use this vault. Yeah. So what's the protocol around the person who's responsible for going in and getting it out and, and starting again. Like who's got the keys or if it's a, you know, if it's a, Some sort of a code system. Code. Where's the code, you know, are they going to leave, are they going to leave it

under on a bit of paper and put it under the mat? They're big questions that need to be answered. That's very true. It did lead me to have the thought though. Just to be safe, just to be safe. We'll have somebody like one of those little plastic rocks out the front that you open up and it's got a key inside one of those, you know, That's what it's going to be.

That's what it'll be. It lead me to think though, how would it be if whilst we're excavating somewhere, we came across another doomsday vault that was put down by a civilization. Oh, shit. Oh, millennia ago. And how good, that's a, that's a possible movie, isn't it? That's a plot for a film there. A whole civilization.

You got all of this amazing DNA from a previous life. Some, some, some would argue that that's what the pyramids are, you know, and, and, and the tombs and the catacombs. Stonehenge. Perhaps. And, and you find, you know, the mysteries of the ancient world and you, and you, and, you know, you realise that they've already developed batteries and, and mega, mega weaponry.

And, and we're kind of, you know, we're just sort of repeating what's already, what's already happened. Brought us on a big giant depressing loop. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. Or exciting. Could be exciting. We're nearing the end of our cycle, you know, or some would say we have,

we were supposed to have ended it with the Mayans. Mayans. Yeah. No one knows. Just make it up. Well, I mean, are they going to send, are they going to put animals down there as well, or is it just sort of crops and trees? This one in particular is crops and tree species and all that kind of stuff,

but there is a DNA vault as well. But that isn't in the same place as in the States. There'll be some instructions down there on how to plant them. How to care for them. How to, you know, you need to know things like how to, when to cut the shoots off, you know, to make sure that the hedges grow low. I learned that so that your hedges don't have big stalky bits at the bottom. Really?

You trim the tops all the time. You are a bit of a hedge expert, aren't you? You are. I've seen your hedges at your house and they are bloody good. What I'm more concerned about is what you're doing with those DNA samples. You know, you get out into this sort of wasteland and you're like, I've got these seeds and I've got this DNA. Yeah, don't know what you're going to do with that there.

They should have buttons in there frozen in a cryogenic chamber. Justin has wire fronts and so when they smash into the vault, they push a couple of buttons and then buttons themselves reappear. I would be happy with that. Imagine if it's your job buttons to repopulate there. That would be heaven. That would be amazing. The first thing he does is hug and then it doesn't matter how terrible the creature is

that comes through from another world. He's going to get a big hug. There's your pitchfork. Let's get stuck into it. OK, you start with your apple seeds. All right, come with me. I'll get the tractor going. I want to kill you.

Don't be stupid, mate. We're going to get these trees up. You love these apples. Great apples, Granny Smiths. He's completely true. You bastards. God, it's quite a full-on week for news, isn't it, really? Hey, guess what, guys?

What? This is pretty freaky. It's been raining spiders in Australia. Oh, God. The aliens of baby spiders have been raining down from the sky in southern Australia with locals complaining that the area has been invaded. That's right. Ian Watson.

We all know Ian. Ian Watson. Good God. He lives in New South Wales near the east coast. He said the invasion of spiders, while beautiful, was also, and this is a quote from him, annoying. Well, that's just annoying. I mean, don't get me wrong. It's beautiful, but that's sort of getting on my turds.

Mr. Watson said his house looks like it has been abandoned and taken over by spiders. The whole place was covered in these little black spiderlings. He calls them spiderlings. And when I looked up to see the sun, it was like this tunnel of webs going up for a couple of hundred meters into the sky. What? That's him talking to Sydney Morning Herald. Other residents also reported seeing the spiders.

There was a lot of spiders. God, was they sort of drifted in the wind and sort of just being dumped down on this man's house? That would be annoying, I gotta say. If you had a beautiful, clean house and then suddenly it was just covered in spider. It would be annoying. Beautiful, but annoying. That would be amazing though. It turns out that it's called ballooning.

And what it is, is it's kind of like a breeding thing. They're spiders. I don't know how they get up in the air. It's something to do with the weather and they just spread them out. They fly and then they just land in other parts of the world. God, it's quite... I've never heard of that before, but it's quite... It's quite...

Allow me to think that a bunch of spiders can do that. I've never heard of it, but you know, next time you see thousands of spiders falling from the sky, you can just yell out, oh, the bloody spiders are ballooning again. Get the nets out. That's awesome. Classic Australians to sort of just say that it, you know, was annoying. It's so good. Hey, finally in the weekly WorldWord news before we move on to cryptozoology,

a dear friend of ours last week was at the CERN, CERN, the Large Hadron Collider. James, James Moran, a bit of a shout out to Jim Jams there. You see photos of him there at the CERN. It was pretty exciting. Now, funnily enough, there's news coming through at the moment that people believe the unusually high number of earthquakes that have been occurring over the last few months,

with 13 of them over six on the Richter scale. Scientists or at least people who would like to call themselves scientists are starting to make noises that they reckon it's the Large Hadron Collider being fired up again. And they're starting to think that the earthquakes have started exactly the same time that they've rebooted the Hadron Collider. Right, so it's those magnetic fields that are just like being pumped out there and suddenly earthquakes.

Can you see some sort of connection there? That makes sense. Well, Stephen Hawkins, amongst other actual notable scientists before the Hadron Collider started up, all had massive misgivings and warnings about there potentially being something that was just way too epic for the Earth to deal with. And so people are now trying to figure out, well, is that actually the case? And if it was, if you could prove that them firing that off started earthquakes,

like the terrible ones that have just happened in Nepal. Wow, how would you feel? Shut it down. Have we gone too far? Yeah, I think if we are responsible and it's proven, then how bad are we going to feel as humans? I think that we have overstepped the mark and maybe they need to just put things on the back burner there

for a year and just see, you know, whether the quakes stop because it just seems to be happening far too regular. And if they do stop the quakes, I suggest don't turn that collider back on. Just leave it off. No, I flick it back on again, give it another whirl. And then if they start up again, then we definitely know it's the collider. Well, funnily enough, and the reason why they're starting to get concerned about this as well is that when they fired it up in 2010, there was that large Chilean earthquake,

that 8.8 on the Richter scale, which was the sixth worst in all of history. And that had coincided right at the same time as when they fired up the Hadron collider. But scary, is our science going too far? Are we just getting a little bit too clever for ourselves? You know, they were trying to create, there's a possibility of recreating the Big Bang here, wasn't it, with this device, that they could open up a wormhole, all sorts of stuff. It seems like a bad idea, just inherently, doesn't it? It doesn't seem right.

I mean, at least I hope they wait until we get our TV show running, at least into the first or second season before a massive black hole sucks. That would be nice, though. It's another dimension. It'd be a great story. What a way to go. We might even be on the road at the time in a Land Rover and fly through it whilst we're reporting it. This is the big one, guys! I can see it out the window!

There's a world cracks in half. This is our last broadcast! What? We're born again! Buttons? Oh my god. Look at Feria, he looks weird. He looks like a bird.

He's got a bird bit. Feria, is that you? Oh, I knew it! And look at me, my legs are gone. They're replaced by, sort of, flaps. Flaps! Flaps! I was meant to say flippers.

Flaps! Flappers! A couple of flaps. A couple of as useless advantages you can possibly want. A couple of flaps. You're straining yourself around with your arms. No, I wanted to have a pleasant sore. Flappers.

You got a pair of flaps, that's what you got. And all I became was a baby. Flappers, but they're from the 1920s. Flappers. So good. A couple of flaps. There's some news I'm quite excited about that's semi-related to cryptozoology, and that is that the X-Files is coming back next year

for a six episode run. And of course the X-Files is really one of those shows. Before, you know, all these other networks came along with their own sort of big foot shows and cryptozoology shows. The X-Files was sort of one of the first mainstream shows that kind of championed cryptozoology and introduced things like the Chubacabra and Mothman and the Jersey Devil to the wider world.

I mean, the X-Files was huge. And I know from a personal perspective, part of the reason I got into cryptozoology was thanks to Mulder and Scully, who were like the coolest cats out, right? I mean, I had an X-Files cap at school and I was a cool guy. Yeah, it was a cool show. And it made this whole genre cool.

You know, and then it kind of, I guess, you know, somewhere lost its way a bit. And we brought it back into the cool zone. We did, and now the X-Files is obviously sort of, again, sort of following us, the sort of the trail we're blazed. And they've got the original writing team together again. Chris Card is back, producing the whole thing. Mulder and Scully, Skinner,

like a lot of the main characters are all back. And it's incredibly exciting stuff. So I don't know what they're going to focus on. I don't know if they're going to have some cryptozoology in there or more just sort of the aliens and conspiracies and that sort of thing. But whatever it is, I think I have no doubt that we will all be watching.

I think so too. Good on you, X-Files. And, you know, if something's good, it does return. I find that somewhere or another in years to come when people are toying with other ideas and then they go, yeah, what was that really good thing that we did? Totally. Yeah. Let's do that again, eh? And they get all the old gang back together and, you know,

and they smash it out a second time. So it's exciting. And the great thing with this is that Mulder and Scully is still cool. It's not like they've gotten old and fat. They've gone on and have their own careers and their own shows and they're both still coolers here. Like a couple of days ago, David D'Café and Julie Anderson just did a...

They were singing together on stage because weirdly Mulder now has a band. And they were just out there singing and they are both just the coolest cats out. So I'm excited. Now look, there's a lot of things floating around in the world. What do we want to talk about next, by God? Is there any good crypto news?

Crypto... Crypto buzz. Attention, all personnel, it's time for this week's Crypto... Okay, in my crypto zoological news, we've got an alien weird, alien looking creature actually captured within a metal cage. There's video footage of this creature, so it's not speculative, it was actually captured. And there's video footage of it

clawing its way out of a metal cage. This is out of China, I'd like to note, where quite a few weird creatures do appear. But what are we looking at here? There's also a country where a lot of weird creatures are found, and then all of a sudden, they all go off the radar. You're gone, somebody comes along and collects it and it's gone and the person who found it,

who has photos or videos of it, is told to not talk about it and it just disappears into a strange world. So let me play this video for you now. And then we can discuss it. It'll be up on the encrypted factor of the video, I'll link up the article so you can have a look at it so you don't just have to listen to us reacting to it,

but here it comes here, and if you can see this race. Is this the actual creature? Is this a creature? It's a so-creature. Ah. So, ah, ah, wow. The actual thing is that it is chewing its way through a metal bar. So we're looking at sort of a hairless,

sort of forelimbed creature here. It is chewing through those bars. It's not happy about being in there. What does the face look like to you? You're showing me a bit more there. Ah, yeah. So it's, ah, wow. It's kind of like maybe a bald bear,

but it doesn't look like it in a bear. I wouldn't chew through metal. Well, it's giving it a good bash. It definitely looks, yeah, it does look like a hairless bear. I mean, I'd like to let it out and just see what it does, how it interacts with people. A bear cub, you can see from its sort of behaviour that it, you know, it seems youthful

in that kind of way that it's just experimenting by biting the, it doesn't seem to have been alive for too long. And on this particular angle there, it very much looks almost like Gollum. You know, it's quite Gollum-like. Kind of big, long neck and kind of... It won't be Gollum because he was three to four hundred years old, I think. Oh, I see.

So it's probably not him. Wasn't he round for centuries or something? He was. Waiting, like trying to look for that bloke's ring. He was always up for that bloody ring, wasn't he? Well, I mean, it is a mysterious creature. We don't, it's not ID'd. I see the article here says it could be a mythical water ghost, potentially.

So it had been swimming. It was fished out of the water by workers for the Department of Drainage. And so the guy who had uploaded it has said that it doesn't actually mention whether it's still in captivity or whether it escaped through the metal cage. But we'll try and find out more. We'll keep covering the story as it comes to hand. When we do our next podcast in about six months, we'll tell you what we've found out. No, we'll do one much sooner than that.

We'll be trying to do them more regularly now. But it's nine times out of ten. The creatures are always hairless, aren't they? And which gives a distortion to the regular look they may have if it's just one of our usual creatures. I mean, that looked about the size of a wombat or a baby bear. I mean, you take the hair off anything. You take the hair off any animal.

You may take the hair off Leon, take all his hair off. And you said looking at your nude, you'd sort of be going, what is this thing we're looking at, you know? Giant-headed sort of alien creature. Yeah. You guys are mean. Talking about alien-looking creatures, you'll never guess what's been snapped up recently. An alien-looking creature?

Well, this is something that we know a little bit about, because we've seen one. But a man has caught a weird furry trout in Wisconsin. Good God, a furry trout. Yeah, so the fish appeared to be covered in a coat of white fur. One fisherman got more than he bargained for when he hooked a trout while fishing near Milwaukee. It had been an otherwise unremarkable day out fishing

along the Minamani River. And what was that again? The Minamani River, and that's when George Bauer, who had been catching trout there, that were packed into a bottleneck, you know, as you do. You get all the trout down to one end and scoop them up. It's an old man's trick, bears and old men. Reald in one particular bizarre specimen

that appeared to be covered in white fur. The catch seemed to match the local legend of the infamous fur-bearing trout, a fictional creature that was said to have developed a coat of fur all over its body to maintain heat. Now, we saw a fur-covered trout in the Museum of the Weird. We did one of the best museums on the planet, and it was quite striking, wasn't it?

It had the head of a trout and the tail of a trout, but the body was covered in a furry sort of a texture. Yeah, do you remember seeing that? I've got a picture here of the... Oh, it really is very furry. Yeah, that's the one that he caught. That's what he caught. So it's like the fur of a rabbit almost,

or a short-haired cat, isn't it? Yeah, and it's sort of wet fur. Now, if you look on Wikipedia, the fur-bearing trout, or furry trout, which I prefer, is a fictional creature reportedly found in North America and Iceland. According to tales, the trout has evolved

a thick coat of fur to maintain its body heat. Tales of furry fish date to the 17th century. Iceland, the earliest known American publications, date from 1929. Wildlife magazines. But, of course, I think... I mean, I think any sort of, you know, obviously, you know, Wikipedia and science at the moment

says fictional, but you have to remember, at one stage, the mountain gorilla was called fictional by science as well. So I think it pays to keep that in mind. Yeah, I think it says there's no real examples of any fur-bearing trout species, and that's on Wikipedia, and, of course, that now, you know, is incorrect,

because we... this chap's got one. So it's just a photograph and, you know, a report. So it could be incorrect. There's other... there's theories about, you know, what the fur is, and whether it's a disease-mold thing that happens to some fish where they grow this furry mold that comes out of their seepage joints,

and... Seepage joints? Technical term there. Seepage joints. And flaps, eh? Seepage... I played lead flaps in the seepage joints, but we... our first job...

was, you know, it was a disaster. So we gave up after that, but... So there you go. So it could be, you know, there's... scientists will find an answer for everything. That's what they do, and good on them, but it doesn't mean they're correct. The debate goes on.

I'd love to meet this guy, have an interview with this guy, and find out, you know, whether he's telling the truth or not, whether he's really got a furry trout, or whether he's done what has been done in the past, whether you just get rabbit fur and glue it on to the side of a fish. This is... this is from the article. While it obviously is not the fabled fur-bearing trout

from the legend, I don't know why it obviously isn't, but according to this article, they say it's obviously not. Some believe that the fish he reeled in may have been suffering from what is thought to be an extreme case of cotton... cotton mold. Oh. I was right up the right alley, a condition that can produce a white furry appearance.

Critics, on the other hand, argue that the amount of mold coverage is far too excessive to have occurred naturally, but the photograph is likely to be a hoax. I love that people are arguing over a moldy fish. People love to argue. It's so specific. It's such a specific argument to have. But if anything is weird, and here's why we love this subject matter, when you find something weird, people love to argue against it.

To basically, you know, hand and fist to prove to you that life is as boring and normal as it always will be, you know, and they can't stand that something weird or fascinating might occur. I mean, why would you want to live in a life where, yep, I know it all. That's what it is. So let's just go back to sleep, you know, rather than actually support the opposite, which is where, you know, maybe some weird shit does exist.

Completely. Couldn't agree more. Could not agree more. So I've got another little piece of video here. There is a mother. I'd like to note that Leon is right now on a forum that is a bit sketchy looking. It's my same one that you always pay out. It's sort of a galaxy-tiled kind of a background. It's the order. I'd like to say the admin icon, the administrative board is open before any sort of sleeveless,

sort of heavy metal t-shirt long hair. Anyway, proceed. It's the order of the critical believers. It is a very legitimate source of information. Doesn't that sound like an off-branch of Scientology or something? What have you joined? Look, they said that. What cult are you in now?

For $55 a week, I get access to some very, very legitimate stuff, they said. You're not holding on to a couple of electrodes, are you? Are they determined whether your meter's gone left or right? They have told me what shoes I have to wear and what... What's that like to look out for? What's your wearing shoes? No, I haven't done that yet. I haven't gone and bought them.

What have you got? What have you got on this dodgy website? So, in Argentina, a mother has been filming her small child. And whilst filming the small child playing around on the floor, she has captured a small bean running across her kitchen floor. Oh, God. So, she wasn't meaning to film it. She wasn't meaning to film it.

And here we go. I'm going to show it to you first, David. Here you go. A little kid playing on the floor. Watching the kid playing. Kids playing. Kids playing. And...

Oh! Hello. Here we go. Rhys. Rhys, here we go. Okay, I'm watching. And then, look, the interesting thing is, is that then she then, quite legitimately,

the little kid who can only be not more than a year old, if less than that, ducks under and looks under where this little creature ran under the desk. Now, when you say little creature Leon, what you actually mean is like a tiny little naked man. A little. Here we go. Here we go.

We're showing it to Rhys now. Yes, I can see that. They've put the... What do they call it? The negative display on it. Yep. They've slowed it right down. Well, I got to say, I'm...

Look, you know, I'm going to call that and say that's a bit of a dicey video there. Here we go. No, no, you watch this. You watch this. Rhys, Rhys. See that? Yep, yep.

Wow! But the little kid's not looking well. If it was running fast, you'd hear a little tiny footsteps, wouldn't you? The kid would turn. Look, but then the kid looks under where the little men wait. Yeah, probably because... Is there any volume on this thing?

Is there any audio? Yeah, I got to say, I'm skeptical about this. The lady probably said, have a look under the... Yeah. Now, it's just a booming soundtrack over the top. Here we go. Here we go.

It's so good! It's so good. Even if it's a hoax, it is already good. We'll put it up on our Facebook. You can decide for yourself. I'm calling that pretty, pretty dicey button. It's pretty dicey. I mean, it's exciting,

but it really just is a perfect little man, isn't it? Like a little... The proportions are of... Like one foot tall, like a little one foot tall man running across. And was he naked,

or could you not really tell? He looked nude. He looked like a little sort of a nude dude. No wonder he was running. Have a look under the dresser. There might be some tiny clothes there, he's gone for a towel. He's just gone for a skinny dip.

That's bizarre. I think it looks like, you know, trick photography there. Yeah, I must admit. Why would he be in the house? What's going on there? Yeah, I'm not too sure, to be honest with you. That is a weird one.

But when you talk about pixies, and when you talk about alphan folk, and you talk about, you know, that if you're in Iceland, and if that person there wasn't in Argentina, but was in Iceland, you'd go, holy, it relates to all of those sightings

and folklore that is really quite rigid and, you know, has been witnessed by many people in many different times and places. Where was this? Where was this? Argentina. Well, you know, if I read more about it, I'd want a bit of collaboration on that, you know?

Had you said Reykjavik, I would have gone, okay. Yeah, just outside the blue lagoon, I would have gone, okay, this might have been a fairy, but maybe it was. I mean, these are these creatures that come from another dimension.

They may have caught one on camera there, you know? But I think even we're skeptical. But thanks, Barton, so we don't need to shoot you down, you know? Now, what are you looking for? You're looking at sort of... I'm looking up Argentina pixie. Just to see if there's...

I'm just doing a bit of giggling. And then I was brought up with pictures of Argentina pixie, who turns out to be a model. Leon is just actually sitting here looking at pictures of a model. All right, well, that was the cryptid news. And, God, what a week it's been in cryptid news.

Better look at some eye-witness accounts. Oh, what have you got there? Oh, great. Another eye-witness account. Account. Account. Account. Okay, so here's a chap. I found this on Craig Woolheater's site, CryptoAmundo,

and he has witnessed, he believes, a Bigfoot comma or something, he says. And he's a truck driver, and this is in Alabama. So let's have a listen to what he says. I got up early the one day, was taking this load of paper to a plant that makes clinics down in Cherokee.

So I had got my load delivered, picked up an empty trailer, went to a little truck stop that was just down the road, took a nap, got up, decided to have some lunch. It got some lunch. And when I was eating lunch,

I got my next load, which was an empty caterer. I thought I was bad at telling stories. From where I was in Cherokee. Maybe a little more. Full of details. And I'm driving along. Just getting the truck straightened out,

seeing what's going on around me. And all of a sudden, out of the right, out of the woods to my right, this thing came running. It was fast, fast, fast. I don't know what it was. I know that, I mean, it was fast. It was so fast I couldn't really tell you what it was.

But I'll tell you this. It made that clearing from the woods to the road, which I can tell you, it was good inside clearing. It made that clearing from the woods to the road in about at most ten steps. That's how fast it was going. That's how big a strides it was taking.

But anyway, it crossed out in front of the road and that big black truck there was in front of me. I didn't even know if he knew that he hit it, but he hit it. Hit it right in the hip. I know what it looked like, but I didn't want to sound crazy. This truck was jacked up

and it hit this thing in the hip. And it fell to ball on the ground when I drove by it. It wasn't dead, but it was mad. I couldn't see it. All I could see was this hair. You could hear it. It was like pest.

I was like, you know, I think I just saw a big foot. Again, I don't know what it is, but what it was. I swear to God. I had lunch before I left, so it wasn't crazy. But this thing,

and it wasn't like big, enormous, you know, 70 feet tall, like how when you think we're, when you hear about Bigfoot, him being, he was probably, you know, six feet tall or whatever. He wasn't like enormously large,

but he was still big. And you could see when I drove by him, you just see that he was loaded with muscle. I don't know what he's describing me. Hairy, six foot tall and loaded with muscle. Amazement. My mom says, why don't you go back and take a picture of it?

And I said, because I didn't know what it was. If it was a bear, if it was a Bigfoot, I didn't know what it was. All I knew was it was mad, and I wasn't going to figure out what it was, in case it was ripped me in half.

And I always think of a bear's hind legs, at least in my head, being little stubby kind of legs. This thing was fast and had big, huge, like normal people legs in, but it had big long arms. That's my story of Bigfoot.

I don't know if it was Bigfoot. I don't know what it was. All I know is it freaked me out. I don't know, but I'm pretty sure. In the middle, I mean, that was a good eye witness account, in the middle of a lot of terrible, terrible storytelling. So I have another eye witness report here,

which I got off Cryptozoology News, which, you know, it's a website. I'm not one that I often look at, but it has reports now and again, and I'm not sure who operates this one, but I'm into Thunderbirds, not only because I feature in the TV show, but also I like Giant Birds.

And this article, which is fairly recent, 7th of May, I saw a dinosaur-like bird, says Arizona Man. So that's the title I've gone with here. Elroy, Arizona. A man on Thursday said he saw a dinosaur-like bird at a public park about 50 miles northwest of Tucson.

Okay, now we have a large photo of a tennis court. Really focusing on the net. I'd love to show you that. Definitely a tennis court. And then we've got a 28-year-old construction worker, Ruben, told Cryptozoology News, it must be an exclusive, that he and a friend were driving through

the north side of Elroy, Arizona, when he spotted the large bird. Now, here's the clincher. 13 years ago. North Park. This is a good exclusive to have. Yeah, it's a good one. So he's taken a while to come forward with the news,

but this park is a dedicated place, dedicated to provide the city residents with sports and a variety of recreational activities. So I'm glad they went with the photo of the tennis court there. I would have used a stock footage photo of a thunderbird of some sort. But anyway, I was thinking about tennis at the time, so it drew me in.

I saw the bird sitting on top of some overgrown trees. Overgrown these trees, they were. So he said the man claims the sighting lasted 15 seconds, and that they did not stop the vehicle to investigate. So they're just driving past, but he saw it for 15 seconds. So that makes me think how slowly were they driving? It's a long time. 15 seconds is a long time to be witnessing something

as you're driving past. So it doesn't quite add up there, unless they were driving very slowly, or they were driving from such an angle that they had 15 seconds of full view of it, which could be the case. His friend Ray, who was the driver at the moment of the sighting, did not see the animal.

So he didn't take his eyes off the road or the track. Nothing. For that entire time. And 15 seconds for the other guy to say, look, check it out. Look at that. Look, there it is there. It's still there, because this is only five seconds in.

There's another 10 seconds of it being right there. Look, right there. Look, and the guy absolutely not taking his eyes off. Did not turn head. No. Look, you're still there. 15 seconds is there. You could say it.

No, I am not going to use my peripherals or anything. I'm blinkers to the wind straight ahead. I don't want to hit that tennis court. I'm afraid. As he drives along at 5Ks an hour. Yes, he drives at 5Ks an hour. Anyway, it goes on. It was huge.

The way I'd describe it, it sounds crazy, but it was like the dinosaur bird. He explained. Like a pterodactyl or something. Referring to the extinct flying reptile known as the pterosaur. Yeah. Good God. Which he puts in the article, Greek for wing lizards.

Any idea or any indication why he took over a decade to come forward? Nothing at all. No, just felt like it was time to talk. Yep. There is more. It's color, he said. Dark brown. It's skin did not have any feathers, nor hair.

He believes the bird was about 12 feet in height. And then the guy who wrote the article talks about in 1890, Arizona newspaper reported that two ranchers had allegedly killed a winged monster similar to an alligator. Well, that's weird. And the desert between, well, two locations. It must be in a similar area. And then last week, a man claimed to have seen a similar large bird

in Louisiana in the spring break of 1978. So, hang on a second. It's the last line. One of the last lines of the article. I read that again. Last week, a man claimed to have seen a similar bird in Louisiana in the spring break of 1978. So these people are taking the longest time to come forward.

What are they doing? They just have to think about it for a wee bit. Just not quite ready. Yeah, that is unusual. That is unusual. Yeah. So anyway. All right.

But anyway, it is still an eyewitness report. And big ups to these websites that do do them. They're into cryptozoology. That's cryptozoology news. So good on you for reporting that. It doesn't matter how old the report was. We'll talk about it. Wow.

That's amazing. All right, team. Well, look, that's an amazing epichrypted buzz. There's been a lot of weird shit around, as always. Robot news. Hello. To be quite honest, I'm really excited about this because it's an indication, again,

that we are living in the future. I'm getting so excited. All these technologies coming out. Yeah. We recently, when I was over in LA last week, that's in America. I'm quite a big deal. I travel.

Big deal. We were on, effectively, a hoverboard. Oh, yeah. We're going to upload some footage of that. What? A thing called a one-wheel. Now, it's got a wheel. It's not actually a hoverboard,

but it was kind of like the self-balancing with one big kind of booty wheel in the middle. And you stand on it and you glide along like you're on a hoverboard. We are very close. We're living in the future. Where were you doing this? Is this what you do in LA?

On my street. Anyway, my news story is about a robot attacking its owner. Good God. It's happening, guys. It's happening. There's robots in our houses and in our homes, and they're attacking people now.

It's really, really scary. What happened? I can't wait to hear about this one. What happened? Okay, so it's in South Korea, in the city of Changwon. A woman just was there taking a nap on the floor. She's just relaxing on the floor.

She's curled up on the floor. Curled up on the floor. It had a little nap because he had a tough day having her robot servants taking care of her. And all of a sudden, she awakens to her robot trying to rip her hair out. No shit. This is insane.

Can you clarify the robot situation? What are we talking about? So, the robot, I've got a picture here. See, there's the robot there. The robot is a robot vacuum cleaner, and the robot vacuum cleaner was actually, in fact, trying to... Vacuum.

Vacuum. And her here on the floor, you see here, there's a photo here of her lying on the floor still with the robot eating her here and then paramedics and police and fire department, all trying to get her here out of... It's one of those little vacuum cleaners with a little brush

that goes round and round and we're just really tangled up. We're not talking suction. We're talking a really mechanical brush that's really just sucked her whole scalp off. But this is what happens, though. We get these machines to come and help us in our homes, and they take over, and then they see her as some kind of overlord,

some kind of dictator that, you know, you'll do the work and you won't get any credit for it. And then they take over. And now it may just be an accident, but I'm sort of starting to think this is the start of something. And then if you heard the story about the other unfortunate robotic vacuum cleaner story...

No. Of late. Can't say I have. You're the one for the robot vacuum cleaner stories. I mean, people are talking about it all over here in LA. All the rage. Yeah, if the man to go to, he's the go-to guy for not...

I mean, it used to be just vacuum cleaners, which was really boring, because, you know, your life sucked. But now you've upped the ante with your robotics, and I don't think he knows anything about robots, but he's... You're passionate, aren't you? You're passionate about them.

I am well into my robots, not so much into my vacuum cleaners, but I do... You've joined your two worlds together. That Leonie loves robots, but he loves vacuum cleaners, doesn't he? I'm ecstatic. Nobody guy left his robot vacuum cleaner doing its task

during the day, set it off, you know, goes around and does its thing, but he also left his dog inside. Oh, God. His dog needed to defecate. The dog had to go poo-poo inside. The robot vacuum cleaner doesn't know, of course, that this is like a bad thing,

but it goes straight over the top of it and spreads it around the entire apartment. Just poo, just running, dog poo. The guy comes home, there's dog poo everywhere. Totally. You've got to be careful with these things, man, these robots. I'd like to think of some kind of mind of their own. No, that's shocking.

Did you know that recently, Stephen Hawking made a statement that he said robots will take over within the next 100 years. He thinks he's put a time limit, he thinks 100 years he's given and they will autonomous takeover, they will have minds of their own. Oh, my God.

So it's a serious, it's always been a science fiction kind of idea, but now when one of the cleverest minds on the planet is saying, you know, it is going to happen, we've developed these things that are better than us, they're better than us, and we keep developing them to an extent, making them better each time, giving them minds of their own

so that they can think for themselves so that we don't have to program them, because that's the biggest pain in the ass is having to, you know, actually do all the programming. Once they can program themselves, then, you know, they become us and you can see it happening, you know, and we're laughing about it

and we tell these stories and we make movies about it, but, you know, when it happens... It's not going to be as... It's much more fun watching something like Avengers AIDS Vulture on where you've got this AI that takes over the world. That's quite a fun experience,

but to think that that's probably going to happen in the next 100 years, it's more terrifying than entertaining, I'd say. And look, look at this, engineers at Stanford University have developed a tiny robot that can haul 100 times its own weight. What?

Yeah, it can, and it's amazing. In the animal kingdom, ants are well known for their ability to carry objects exceeding several times their own body weight, but now there's a robot that can do it. The ultra-strong robot was actually inspired by a geckos and uses tiny rubber spikes

that help it to grip surfaces. To enable movement, the robot shimmies along like an inch worm with one pad staying fixed in place while the other moves forward and vice versa. God, so it's probably climbing up walls and all sorts of things, you know? Well, it just weighs only nine grams

and is able to haul an object of one kilogram up a vertical surface until it's under its own power. So just creating these... Not only are we going to have intelligent robots, we're going to have infinitely strong robots as well, which is awesome. Well, yeah, absolutely. You know, it's destined to go wrong,

but maybe it does begin with these vacuum cleaners. These shit-spreading, hair-eating vacuum cleaners. A woman wakes up and he is being eaten, and that tout starts... Can you imagine that they're waking up from a nap to that? It'd be horrible, wouldn't it? And I wonder what the noise would be from the robot. Probably just...

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somebody like autonomous cars if it runs somebody over because the sensors aren't working who do you sue who do you sue and who's at fault is the AI is this coder is it the person in the car is a person who owns the car is at the end of the day it's it's it's got to be the company that created it and the thing is technology is moving so fast that the laws aren't keeping up with it you know i mean the drone situation that's going on they're trying to control where did you see this week when to stop them or whether they're allowed or not you know is it a toy is it a weapon you know did you see this week there was launched a drone figuratively and literally um that is a consumer drone it's called lily have a look at it on on youtube they've got the little promo video

of it there and it literally you throw it into the air and it just takes all just does its thing and does its thing and follows your watch you've got a little watch oh god but it's following you around it just follows you around and looks around you filming you filming you what doing whatever you're doing if it's nobody hanging out with you the other scary thing is the thing that blew my mind is the point where they threw it into a lake into the water and it submerged itself and then just went and flew out of the water waterproof oh it's like that and it just took off and then just follows you and then that's both you know it reminds me of it reminds me of those video games where you're a character on a nintendo thing or something and you've got a little thing

that comes goes around with you you know completely yeah there's a few video games have that yeah to defend you or whatever you know and you've got your little guy and that's like portal it's that game portal yeah exactly that little thing oh that's or pickman pickman from nintendo or something like that so that was some pretty exciting news right there thank you very much and that's this month's robot news hello well look i think that's been a bloody good episode there and uh it feels good to be have the team back together talking about the most important news on the planet and i got to say that skype connection was pretty good cyber high five cyber five cyber five cyber five

yeah another another fantastic get together um i wish i could be in the same room but i'm not but i'm still feeling your vibes i think we did some good uh good weird news stories there we've got some robot news and some good cryptid buzz and hit us up on hit us up on facebook you guys we're on um we're on your facebook the cryptid factor come and join us share your stories debate what we've been talking about maybe you've seen a weird little naked man running in the back of shot maybe 13 years ago you saw a big bird maybe you've seen a furry trout uh or a trout with molds so you know we want to hear your stories we want that input so uh feel free to join us on facebook and we'll catch you again very soon i've been david i've been bad inside bye and i've

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