The Cryptid Factor - 10: #010 The Trans-Pacific Issue

Episode Date: June 6, 2013

This is the rebirth of the Cryptid Factor as a trans-pacific podcast! To celebrate we discuss the worlds biggest mushroom, a Vampire who is back on the prowl after 70 years, Herpes blasting and a Walrus sacrifice. Also, a chupacabra found, 10 million dollar Bigfoot bounty and the beast of Bodmin Moor.

The Quitted Factor, with Rhys, Derby, and David Fadriar. Hello and welcome to The Quitted Factor, the only Quitted Factor podcast on the planet with the best theme song. I'm David. I'm Rhys. Hi, I'm Button. I'm here too. Yes, of course, Button's not mentioned in the title sequence, but nevertheless, the most important man out of the three of us. When does that happen? When do I actually get freaking mentioned? What's the, what's the process? We're mentioning you now. This is it. Yeah, but I'm not in the music.

You get the post-mention. You get a bigger mention because you're not actually mentioned. I think I'd rather be mentioned. It's actually worked out quite well for you. It's worked out great, yeah. It's like the guy who didn't turn up to the party, you know? No, did you hear about John? He didn't, he didn't, he didn't turn up. Didn't he? Of course, on the nights, you know, no one cared, but the next day, he was talking to the town.

Oh, great. Thanks. The afterthought. He was at a better party. Mum and Dad said I was on afterthought as well. It's a theme that runs in my life. This is a Cryptid Factor podcast, and we've been doing this for some time. I'm in a variety of radio stations. We've been on SoundCloud for a while now, but this is the first time we were recording the Cryptid Factor where we are in different places, or at least you are Reese.

Buttons and I, we're in New Zealand. Where are you, Reese? Where are you? I'm in Los Angeles. How's that going? Listeners, this is our first Trans Pacific podcast. This is big, this is big. Listeners won't know this, but we've just spent the last hour trying to make this work electronically through the internet systems and the computerotic, you know, the terms buttons.

What are we doing here? With the Wi-Fi at one stage, we thought maybe a lamp was in the way of your Wi-Fi. So we shifted the lamp. That didn't help. We've been downloading various plugins. But then magically, in the middle of it all, everything just seemed to fix itself. Which is some sort of weird sorcery, but we're into it. It could be an atmospheric thing. For example, over here at my time, we're 11.24 in the evening. And I think most people switch off and go to bed around 11.

Alright, so you think we've got more internet now because everyone's kind of in bed? I think we've got a bit of freedom here. You're in LA, Reese. Nobody goes to bed there. They're just starting to use the internet now. What year do I think it is? Yeah, you've been bed by 11. He lights out by 11 in London. Always has been since the war. It's a blitz thing.

I think the main thing that we should take away from this is that the cryptid fact is back, even though we're in different places, we're together, which is the power of the internet. It's a very exciting thing. It's the power of the internet. We're really relying on it. And this was always our dream if we ever did separate, is that we could still come together and the show could still exist. Tonight's show is really a test. It's not going to be perfect.

It's a rebirth, a messy rebirth. It's a rebirth and rebirths are never perfect. Something always goes wrong. A collapsed lung or a foot gets stuck in the fanny. Anything could happen tonight. But we've got the elements. The other main thing I'd like to note is that Buttons has bought himself a special mixing desk. He forked at it several hundred dollars for this today.

And he has probably about 57 Buttons that he can Twitter with. Wow. Not sure why we need them all. Well, nobody understands. Our shows have been fraught with many technical eras. I know a bad tradesman often blames his tools. But I have had bad tools to deal with. But if you're an actual tool yourself.

So what you're saying Buttons as well is that now you have all the tools. If things go wrong, we can pretty much narrow it down to the operator. I didn't think of it that way. Perhaps. Perhaps at least something goes wrong. Well, look, your first test Buttons, your first test, we're going to get into the show. And we always start with weekly world weird news. Now you've got a sting to play.

If this goes smoothly, well, then it proves that you are a wonderful operator. And we can carry on. Are you ready? Are you ready for this? Stand by in three, two, one. Weekly World Weird News. Crazy, freaky, watch out. Hey!

Hey, who's the tool now? In the show? The tools are in our face. The show is officially launched with Weekly World Weird News. Who would like to start this round? I can kick off from LA. Kick off from LA. Well, the big news this week really has been a movie called Sharknado.

You've probably heard on the interweb. This thing has really exploded. It's just a movie on the sci-fi channel. And it's really, really bad. So it's really, really good. And it's made by the people that made one of our favourites, Old Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus. I haven't even heard of this.

What's going on? I seriously have not heard anything about this. The internet's gone crazy with it. It just went out on sci-fi. A lot of people, they plugged it. Sharknado and celebrities started watching it. And it really, really exploded on the old Twitter sphere. So it's a phenomenon.

So many people watched it. And so many people really enjoyed tweeting about it. About how bad it was or how hilarious it was. And apparently, it's just fantastic. It's so bad, it's brilliant. I've got the Wikipedia page here. A freak hurricane hits Los Angeles, causing man-eating sharks to be scooped up in water spouts

and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer and bar owner Finn. And that's the guy called Iron Zearing from 90210. A member back in the old days. That blonde guy. He sets out with his friends, Baz and Nova. To rescue his estranged wife, April. And teenage daughter, Claudia.

He succeeds, but April's boyfriend is eaten by the sharks. The group meets up with Matt and the adult son of... I'm basically reading the entire plot now, so I'll stop. Don't ruin it. Essentially, there's a massive tornado, and it whips through Los Angeles, and there's 50,000 sharks inside the tornado. So these sharks end up just flying at people.

And apparently, this is a fantastic scene where a shark just comes straight down on a person, mouth open, and just lands on him. And he's completely devoured by this. Because all these sharks are still alive. It starts chomping on him, but the guy just so happens to be holding a buzzsaw, and he soars his way out.

That sounds amazing. So it's got scenes like that, where literally people are just sitting in their seats going, woo-hoo, yeah! It's just, I don't know, something happened. The stars aligned, and this fantastically bad film, which is right up our alley,

has been a smash hit. They're already talking about Sharknado 2. Of course, another tornado. They get this. It's actually going to get a cinema release for one night only. That's how popular it's become. They're going to chuck it in the cinemas for people that haven't seen it. It's pretty amazing that something jumps from the sci-fi channel

to a cinema release. That is pretty incredible. But this is what I've been telling you guys. We're in the right genre. We jumped on this cryptid factor thing a few years ago, and people are now, the general masses are starting to catch up with what's cool.

And this is right down our alleyway. I told these people. Yeah. Next minute you've got people at Damond Lindelof tweeting about it, and we're watching it. Sharknado. The meme's online going crazy.

I just saw someone the other day post a Sharknado cake, which was a top of the cake. They had this icing of sort of tornado with sharks kind of sharing out of it. It was an amazing cake. But I mean, once something's made into cake form, you know it's part of pop culture. Absolutely.

Sharknado. Alright, thanks. It's throughout through Asylum Films. No doubt it'll be on probably DVD in the warehouse, or if you're in LA, Walmart, I suppose. Somewhere like that. Alright.

That was an amazing bit of news. What tickled me a little bit today was that they've found what's been considered the world's biggest mushroom in China's Yan'an province. It's basically it's basically as big

as describing as big as a tyre. This thing's huge. As big as a tyre. A mushroom as big as a tyre. No, no, no. It's actually a bit of funky. So it's not one big mushroom here. Perhaps, but one big stalk. So technically it's one

toadstool. Hang on. So it's not one big so it's got one big stalk and it's got how many heads? 100. Exactly 100. Exactly 100. And it's the size of a tyre. It weighed 15 kgs

and measured 93 cm in diameter. It was promptly put on display by the man who found it in China and he also called the Guinness World Records who apparently on the way to verify it and hopefully it'll put the small

Chinese town on the map. Oh, good on them. He was going to eat it but he was warned not to because it's not known exactly what funky it is and of course as you know, you shouldn't just wolf down on funky. That's not a good idea.

It's never a good idea. I've gotten some music playing in the background. Because it's like a horror scene where there's a massive Well this massive mushroom, it sounds like it could be part of a horror scene. How did he come across it?

Basically, it just grew in his backyard. He hadn't been in there for a while. He went out there. Yeah, just his backyard in China. He hadn't been out there for a while. Walked out there went holy shit there's a funky as big as a tyre and now it's potentially going to put the small unknown town

on the map. So yeah, that's my main bit of news I'd say. Massive mushroom, alright. And it's definitely not a magic one then. Well, we don't know because he hasn't tried it. Imagine how many people could freak out. Imagine if it was. Good lord. Imagine how many people could freak out.

Okay, well my piece of news moving on to something a little bit more proper weird rather than just you know large and vegetable weird No, no, no. Don't let me take away from your large vegetable.

It's just I hate mushrooms. I'll be honest. Freaking hate mushrooms. Disgusting, slimy really gross. Okay, here's my one. Not very specific. Wiki World Weird news today. Has the vampire beast of North

Carolina returned? Oh, this sounds incredible. Are you going straight into cryptid news? Wow, vampire. Okay, I could save it for cryptid news. Do you want me to save it for cryptid news? No, I've said it now. It has to be said. I've got

better cryptid news than this. Okay, now let's go into it. This is how good my cryptid is. Stay tuned because my cryptid news is so good. Yeah. Okay, that's good. Okay, it appears that the vampire beast of North Carolina, a monster blamed for dozens

of blood drained animal corpses is back on the prowl of the vampire than ever, than ever, than ever. In 1953. 1953?

No, this is the old article. No, did you say it's returned? It's returned since 1950. Listen. You've got to stop buying those newspapers from Garrett Sales. Mate, those newspapers are old Leon.

There was a pretty dodgy fish and chip shot. I thought it was quite using quite recent stuff, but no. In 1953, the Blade and Borough newspaper The what?

The Blade and Borough newspaper covered a story about a strange I'm going to need that spout. What's a Blade and Borough? I don't know. It's a place, isn't it? It's B-L-A-D-E B-O-R-O Blade and Borough. Is that right?

Blade and Borough. Have you been there? Yeah, not No. Not lately. Okay, the Blade and Borough newspaper covered a story about a strange creature that had been blamed for the deaths of numerous dogs draining them

of their blood. Local eyewitnesses who spotted the beast claimed it possessed the body of a bear, the head of a cat, and when it opened its mouth to growl, it made the sound of a woman screaming. Jesus. How good is that?

The original newspaper articles stood up quite a bit of controversy. So much so, that groups of farmers from neighboring towns came to Blade and Borough to hunt and kill the creature. They never did track the beast down. And fortunately for them, the killings eventually stopped

on their own. But, of recent, the killings have started again in the same town. Oh. Wow. What? Only 70 years later. Well, it's said it's been in hibernation.

Body of a bear. So, June 15th, 2013, speed ahead and back in Blade and Borough. Who's speed ahead? Jesus. What are these people?

That was like, come ahead since 1953. Speed ahead. Oh, man. Stay with me. Sounds like a Nintendo game. Yeah. Speed ahead. What do you have to do to kill the giant mushrooms? Eat the mushroom.

You get to go to Blade and Borough. Okay. Resident Misty Turner and her son Tyler. Misty Turner. Wait, wait, wait. Jesus. No. Speed ahead. Speed ahead. Resident of Blade and Borough.

Misty Turner. Misty Turner. What the fuck are you talking about? Guys, this is on theorderofcriticalbelievers.com. It's real. It's true. You need to break the story down a bit. It's getting very confusing with a lot of names.

Okay. So, back in 19... I've read this books by Spike Milligan. I've read this. Oh, guys. June 15th, 2013. Misty Turner and her son Tyler of Blade and Borough, where the last

sites were in 1953, contacted the local police after something visited their farm in the dead of the night, killing three of their horses in a large ball mastiff. Oh, God.

Laughing still? No. See? Misty's son Tyler found the horses after the barking dog had alerted the family to the fact that something was skulking around the property. The dog continued to bark for quite some time,

obsessed with the dense wooded area alongside the farm. Arriving police and veterinarians were shocked to discover that the horses had died from very deep puncture wounds to the neck. Even more shocking was that it seemed the purpose

of the marks was to allow the blood to be drained from the animals. So this is sort of a chupacallitide diet we've got going. Is it? Who knows. The horses were also reported to have been wet with sweat. Almost as if they had been running hard to avoid

whatever was chasing them down. Right. Interesting. Wow. We got to the conclusion of that story. It was sort of a lead up to that end. Wow. But it's a good story underneath of all those names. It's not a fun until the horrific death

of a horse. And the bull master. What's a bull master? That's a dog, isn't it? Oh, okay. There was another funny name. Misty Turner. Misty Turner. The worst thing is, they said

the name of Misty Turner and her son, Tyler. Tyler, when you put his last name and his first name together, is Tyler Turner. Tyler Turner. That's not a good name, is it? Well, it's better than Misty. Good point. Oh, God.

If you're from that weird town, you know, I think you've got to sort of fit in, don't you? Yes. That's fantastic. I think we should get a follow-up on that because that sounds quite horrific. It sounds to me like a chupacabra. So 70 years in hibernation, this creature is back,

obviously. What part of the world is that? In the wild and borrow. I can't. Is that next to Noddy Land? So you're a fairytale. God, okay. North Carolina.

All right, moving on. Okay, well, shall we have a wee little break? The magic roundabout. Jamie and his magic torch can get there. He's the only dude. Weekly World Weird News. Crazy, freaky. Watch out. Now, I've got two items here, but one is very quick.

But I just thought it was a really good sort of a headline. And it's about herpes. That's a great headline, just that. It's about herpes. This isn't an incredibly scientific website and the whole article is way too in-depth for me,

but all I needed to get out of this was the first sentence. It's been found that the herpes virus has an internal pressure eight times higher than a car tire and uses it to literally blast its DNA

into human cells. Wow. Thoughts on that? So back on up again. This is the second story that's about car tires. Seriously? If you hopped on the internet right now and went

news about car tires. Fun guy and car tires. Those are the two stories that you would come up with. Yeah. I don't quite understand how it works, but it uses its internal pressure to literally blast its DNA into human cells.

That sounds disgusting! So there you go. My main bit of weird news was a bit of sad news, really. Now, what happened? There was a tourist in his family

in Greece. And he found a 49-year-old engineer called Labros Hydras from Washington. He was in Greece and he discovered a six-legged octopus.

Now, you go. Of course. Octopus. This octopus had six legs. So you went, oh, this is interesting. A Hexopus. It's a Hexopus. So he didn't find an octopus. He found a Hexopus.

So funny. My favourite is a lotopus. How many legs has everyone got? Just the two, but she's a real girl. So, he found a Hexopus. Which, in hindsight,

just for your information, it's the only the second Hexopus ever found in the street. I'm trying to, my mind's completely racing at the moment as how this is a sad story. Okay, well look, you'll find out. Okay, so he's just found

an incredibly rare Hexopus. He knows it's rare. It's got six legs. I'll just read directly from the article. He pulled the creature from the water and smashed it against a rock and killed it. Right, so he killed it. He then took it to a local

tavern to be cooked for you to eat it. The chef of the tavern refused, saying what you've got there is a Hexopus. It's only the second one ever in history to be found. How did the chef know this? He likes Hexopus. He refused to cook it.

That is a good question. Just struck a lucky, I guess, a chef that knew his Octopi knowledge. His Octopi Octopi? Yeah, so the chef said, I'm not going to cook that thing. What it needs to do, I mean, I'm gutted you've killed it, but you need to take it to a scientist, a museum,

something. Don't eat it. Anyway, this guy, he killed 49-year-old Libros. He got shitty, and he ran off back to his boat and fried it up himself, eating it with a slice of lemon and tomato. Then, after this,

he went online and found out the chef was correct and this was incredibly rare. So the quote he's told the local news, I tasted it and just tasted just like a normal octopus, but now I feel really bad.

So, good. I mean, I guess the lesson from all this, if you find a hexapus or anything that isn't an octopus, you know, don't kill it and don't, mainly don't eat it, because then

when I was studying it, you know, he took photos of it, but... He did actually take photos. He's got some photos, this proof he had it. Yeah, there's photos on the article there, I can see. And also one of his son. Yeah. Holding the six-legged

hexapus as well and his daughter. They're all really enjoying it. They're all holding it up, showing up the six legs. So they're holding it on their fork with a slice of lemon. No, this is just as they call it. Maybe just before death. The last photo in the article shows

what's left of the octopus on a plate. That's crazy. The funny thing is, though, it's kind of a little bit sad that you kind of go the second only hexapus ever found. Guarantee with a little bit of DNA

switching, scientists would be able to make a hexapus tomorrow if they wanted. Not a main. Yeah, I do. I guess naturally occurring hexapuses. Hexapie. Yeah. Anyway, that's the end of my... I just sort of talked about the hexapie

and the octopus and the internal... And typical human nature. Just, you know, selfish. Selfish. Sorry, shellfish. All right. Well, get this, guys. Get this.

All right. Are you ready? We're getting it. I'm ready. Wall rust remains found buried under St. Pancras Station in London. What? Who's been burying their platypuses under there? No one. It was a wall rust.

Who's been burying their wall rust? Same thing, really. Completely different species. And it was a Pacific wall rust as well. From our neck of the woods, it was discovered among a 19th century human burial underneath

St. Pancras Station in London. So someone was buried with a pet, maybe? Well, actually, not just one. There was 1,500 human bodies. Oh, God. Yeah, they found a 4-metre long wall rust

along with all of these bodies. So a share load of people and one wall rust. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why were they looking for them? Were they digging? The renovation of the station for the Eurostar terminal.

The bones were in a coffin with 8 other sets of human remains which are thought to have been used for medical research sometime after 1822. Right, so do we have an explanation of why this creature was buried with all the humans?

Not at all. They locked into it. They tried to find out why the wall rust bones was there. But they really, they're stumped. It's a bit of a mystery. Mr. Emory told The Times. They did some research to see if they could

find any record of a wall rust being dealt with, for example by the London Zoological Society but they couldn't find anything. Mr. Emory said that there was a reference to Prince Albert riding on the back of a giant tortoise but he also added that this was not relevant

to the bones that they found. Oh, man. It's a bit of a deviation. It was possible the animal bones were being dissected as practice back in those days but it does seem to be rather exotic sort of an animal really to be dealing with.

Hmm. Yeah, it does. Oh, incredibly. I mean, you're expecting maybe a cat to be buried there, a dog. Not a Pacific wall rust. But a platypus underneath a train station. No, a wall rust. A wall rust. A wall rust underneath a train station.

You've got platypus on your brain. Oh, buttons. I forgot. I was listening but the thing is can they carbon date it? Well, of course. Are they going to?

Well, I've already told you. 18... What was it? 1832? 1822. Yeah. Yeah, I know. Sometime after 1822. Yeah, they already know buttons if you listened a little bit during the storytelling.

The bones, yeah. When Rhys tells a story, he actually includes all the relevant details, unlike you sort of you mumble through with the least relevant details at the top for about 10 minutes, followed by the actual story for about 20 seconds. It is kind of cryptozoology because it's an animal

out of place. But it's long since dead. It's very, very odd. It would have been great for the archaeologists to come across all these bones and then suddenly find massive wall rust tusks. Yeah, that's certainly bizarre. Just imagine what sort of party

had happened or sacrifice had been made. Honestly, what were they doing with the bloody wall rusts? That's what I want to know. It might have been an exotic party where back in those days, the rich

and the elite they would organise these big parties and they would eat very interesting animals. So if you could never be able to eat in your normal life and they were found from exotic locations and it might have been right. Guess what it is?

This year, folks, it's the mighty Pacific Warress. They would have opened the lid on this ginormous place and there it would have sat like Jabba the Hutt with two ginormous tusks. A bikini-clad lady sort of lying on top of it with a brass bra

playing a tiny harp. A tiny harp. A tiny harp. And then if they kept digging, I guarantee you they would find the platypus then because they would have had the platypus earlier. That would be from an earlier meal that they would have had.

How does that explain all the bodies? They were in the middle of a feast and they were sitting there with their wall rust. They all died. And they all died. What happened? To make them all die at the same time? Well, obviously the waiter came out and they said,

actually it wasn't the wall rust that killed them all. It was the platypus for dessert. And then they tried to eat it alive. Everyone had the platypus. Not many people had the wall rust, but platypus, they couldn't and I tell you why, they came out with the plate

and offered it to a lot of the men and as soon as they say, I play the pus. Jesus. No one turned that down. That wraps that one up. An incredible story, thanks for sharing. The mystery continues.

I like these mystery stories, you never know why there's so many unanswered questions. Someone will get to the bottom of it someday. That's weird news for this week. That's for shizzles. Thanks for listening. This kind of takes us through to the climactic part of the show where we actually

talk about cryptozoology. And there's quite a bit of cryptid news this week. Oh, yeah. We'll be right back after these messages. What messages are they? I've just got a message on my phone. Where are you coming to bed? Alright, let's...

Well, hang on, that's not from the wife. Delete. Alright, let's crack into crypto buzzer. We don't have a sting. We still don't have a sting for that one. You guys should just do one. We'll make one. We'll do one over here. Alright, we'll do one.

And here we are for... And this is... Cryptid... Buzzo! Right, this is cryptid buzzer. Where we talk about cryptozoology news. I'd like to kick things off. With the latest chupacabra sighting.

Now, this was reported in the Daily Mail yesterday. A sighting in Padmarch, North Carolina. Where a local spotted a... What he described as a mangy fox-like creature. With a description that looked a little bit like a devil dog, AKA goat sucker, AKA chupacabra.

Now, of course, chupacabra, it's a Latin American monster that often attacks goats and sucks out all their blood, leaving them completely dry. Farmers often find their creatures dead. So, there's a photo of it. I've got to say,

it does just look like a pretty mangy dog. They often do. They often do. But as I say, the local news reported it. It's got 128 comments on it from locals. Some who think it's definitely not a dog. And, of course, other people who think

it is a dog or a fox. So, there you go. An unanswered sort of question. No DNA analysis going on with that. So, technically, we'll probably never know. So, it's just a photo. It's a photo taken, was it? Yeah, I'll show you that to you.

Buttons. What do you think of that? Definitely a creepy, creepy looking thing. The fact that it's on hind legs makes it look even weirder. Is it on two legs? Well, he's got it sort of held up by two legs, isn't he?

Is it dead? It's dead. Yeah, it's dead. So, it's not your typical sort of dog or fox. It's either something that's incredibly sort of imbred or malnourished, or it is actually a chupacabra.

Reports of chupacabra often say that they've got bigger hind legs, like kangaroos, smaller front legs. Has it got anything weird like that? Yeah, it does have incredibly big long legs and slightly shorter front legs. That is completely true.

Well, it could be a kangaroo. Maybe Piedmont, North Carolina does have a chupacabra sighting. But it's dead, so it's not going to disturb any of the local goats or cows. It's going to be a good body. Rest easy. Keep us updated if there's

DNA. I will. I'll keep an eye on this case. They've got the body. They can do something with it. They're going to scientifically analysis it. Well, analysis it. We're just going to do an analysis on this. Are you going to analysis it?

No, we haven't got the equipment. It's not clear in this particular article whether they're going to do that. They're going to do the DNA. Wow, but they've got a completely unidentified animal. Is it exciting? You probably live in North Carolina.

It's probably not your priority. We're obsessed with this stuff, but this resident probably got it. We took a photo, get on the news, probably bury it in the backyard. Eat it, maybe. Or eat it, much like the Exibus. Let's just hope he isn't eating it

and ruined a scientific breakthrough. Listen to be learned from this episode. If you do find something rare, just resist the urge to eat it. If you're hungry, just go and get a burger. Don't eat it. Just don't eat it. Give it to science. Unfortunately,

a lot of people are hungry in the world today. It's nothing more tasty than a chupacabra or a noctopus. Imagine that. Imagine going to imagine that. Like some kind of a banquet

where there's all manner of Hexapus calamari for starters. Chupacabra hind leg. You know, deep fried cockatick a wild food festival or whatever it's called.

They have that. Okay, Rhys, on to your crypto buzzer news. Well, the big buzz in the crypto world here in America is Dean Cain hosting a new TV show on Spike TV called

The 10 Million Dollar Big Foot Bounty. Holy Max. Of course, Dean Cain being the wonderful Superman in Lewis and Clark for years. He's a great guy. He's not some nerd. This is TV. He's a spunk.

He's royalty. He is. He's got a hot bod and when he talks people listen. So he's hosting this show. But why him and 10 million dollar big foot hunt? I don't know why he's been picked but

he began as a skeptic and this is all started this show. They started filming it and he said, you know, he's not necessarily a believer but he's totally open to something being discovered here and there's a big bounty out. There's 10 million. I'll read what it says here. Got this off

Crypto Mundo. If Sasquatch exists Dean Cain is on the hunt. The Lewis and Clark star has signed on to host Spike TV's 10 million dollar Big Foot Bounty a new competition series that seeks to finally uncover the mystic sorry, can't read

mythic forest creature. I could have gone with mystic. Mystic's good. Stay with mystic. Yeah, probably better. Anyway, in 10 million dollar Big Foot Bounty which premieres January 2014

nine teams of lifelong Big Foot hunters and big game hunters travel through the Pacific Northwest and use a state-of-the-art mobile DNA lab to find Sasquatch. So they've each got a I don't know, I probably haven't each got one but there's a

what they can use is a mobile DNA lab and so when they find whether it be scat or fur or footprints or anything they want to try and get DNA off they've got a lab there at their disposal. That is, that's

very, very cool. Each week they'll travel to different Big Foot hot zones in the US and the cash prize is underwritten by Lloyds of London. So there's 10 million waiting for this is the real hunt here guys.

This is what we've been waiting for because as I said to you 2013 was going to be the year that Big Foot finally is revealed. I really believe that and I think this is underway this is not an up and coming thing it's already being filmed right now

it's going to air in January I think we're going to find out as I say this year 19 and these are the there's no time wasters here they've all been hand-picked proper big game hunters and Big Foot enthusiasts proper Big Foot researchers

and hunters are on the hunt here. This is all good, I'm really excited don't get me wrong I have one question though, why did they not ask us? I could do 10 million and we know a fair bit about Big Foot they could have at least got us involved

we could have an email would have been you know at least what's the word? Good? Acceptance It's getting like folks although I will say I did get

a tweet from Mat Moneymaker who wants me to come on finding Big Foot It's amazing I'm very excited about that we're in touch, our people are talking to each other Is there a prize

involved in that? If you find Big Foot, is there a prize involved there? $10 Thanks Rhys If you get on the show just make sure at some point you sadly name drop us I wish

fair and buttons were here, something like that that makes into the cat I'm getting cryptid factor hats made there's a stand down at the mall where you can get a hat made I'm into this I know when you go on finding Big Foot they give you a hat

I'm going to do a hat swap like you do with the rugby teams There's one thing the cryptid factor has got it's a bloody good logo Thanks Electrum That's the only thing we've got going And a theme song And a theme song, we've got the best logo

and the best theme song in the business I don't care what people say about the show about lack of knowledge I hear most people tune into our podcast just to listen to the theme song and then they tune out And the humour, they love the humour I can't get the graphic on the podcast

Those are our big three So that's what I'm taking to the game Okay, I've got my cryptid news Are you ready for this? I'm waiting for the holy dessert Is it buzz? It's buzzy, mate This is full on buzzy

The beast of Bodmin Moa has been spotted in Cornwall once more Oh Still out there, the beast of Bodmin Moa It's one of the classic classic cryptids Certainly in the UK They don't have many cryptids

But the ones they do have, gosh They are awesome They've got such a wonderful sense of mystery about them I mean, the beast of Bodmin Moa It sounds like a novel Okay, so the beast of Bodmin Moa

has been spotted in four lanes near Redooth Sorry Redooth has been spotted near Redooth Here we go Hey, you know who comes from Redooth? No Are they from Redooth?

Yeah, absolutely We're gonna get them a call Absolutely, we should definitely get them a call Casiotone wrappers, let's get them on the line and see if they've seen it This might be from them actually It might be having us on No, Retired Salesman

Retired Salesman Sid Yates said he spotted the wild animal yesterday morning at 9am He explained, I came out of my house yesterday morning at 9am and as I looked up the lane about 50 yards in front of me

was the beast of Bodmin I thought to myself, good god, there's another one Another one, why does he keep seeing them? Another one, my god, there's another one he thought to himself It looked a bit like a black Labrador It had longer legs

and a tail Sorry, longer legs and tail and a flat nose It was definitely the beast of Bodmin and not a dog It then crossed the road and got into the old stables near my house and disappeared I spoke to other people in the village

about it and they said there was a sighting a few years ago on the other side of the village The 72 year old said it was his third sighting during his lifetime Third? Wow He said he saw one two years ago in Townsend near Hale

Misty Yates continued a couple of years ago, I was driving I saw the beast of Bodmin Isn't that a guy from the other story? No, this guy, this one Misty? Misty? No, not Misty, a couple of years ago I was Misty Yates

What? A couple of years ago Misty? I thought you were bringing up characters from your previous stories I'm just making them up The Spike Milligan book you've been reading Misty

Misty Moore Anyway he saw one previously At first I thought it was a bit better than I realised it wasn't It got scared of me and I was only about 10 yards from it I got a really good sighting of it

Only jingos, it's pretty close I think this creature is like a Black Panther Yeah, they think some form But it's been going for such a long time now It's quite exciting I think it could be from another realm like

some sort of mystic Or you could say mythic I'd go with Misty Beast from another realm Like one of the four dogs of the Apocalypse You're so right A lot of people go for horses there

but I think dogs would be more dangerous wouldn't you Yeah The gates, if there's horses there I'd be like oh yeah But dogs Yeah No

If there's a gate if there is some sort of gate between dimensions The Beast of Bodmin It would be guarded by dogs by something like the Beast of Bodmin And if you think about it He would be Black

and he would be fast He would have big hind legs So it's perfect Makes a lot of sense I think for our first foray into the technology of podcasting between countries I think we've done a pretty good record

Buttons, you've played the Stings You've had some quite rousing background music There was a drum solo in the middle of the news I don't know if you picked it up but you'll hear it on the final version I think we've done bloody well Bloody well

Bloody well Something I just wanted to quickly say Jesus I don't know if you can hear this Buttons has been playing background music and often it'll just be huge Yelp or a drum solo Something will happen, it's quite distracting

Orchestral Stab I just want to say If you happen to be in San Francisco I was there a couple of weeks ago and I bought this amazing t-shirt which I'll just hold it up for buttons That's awesome

It's a stylized picture of Bigfoot They've also got Loch Ness monsters But the cool thing with these t-shirts They're down at the markets in San Fran If you download an app that comes with the t-shirt and you hover your smartphone over the picture of Bigfoot it'll come up with a video

of the Gimli footage or whatever or if you hover it over Loch Ness Monster you'll get some Loch Ness Monster footage kind of adding a bit of augmented reality to a cryptid t-shirt which I thought quite forward thinking and they're very stylish shirts

they're on a beautiful cotton fabric here and I'm very happy with the one I picked up Do you want to put it on for me? Do you want to model it? Not right now, I'm quite comfy sitting here Hey, I'd love to see that t-shirt Can we get a photo of you? Yeah, I'll post it up, I'll tweet it out

on the cryptid factor We are on Twitter of course twitter.com cryptid factor we're just at cryptid factor That's probably the best way to get us We don't really check our email

and we don't have a phone number, so just tweet us If you're not on Twitter, sign up It's easy, just sign up, tweet us, boom We're only on Twitter You can just Here we go What is your Twitter online handle, Leon? Can we take a vote here

because everybody thinks that my Twitter handle is a bit naff Yeah, well, I think we do No, it is It's Leon on the next slide His Twitter handle is LeonOnline at LeonOnline It's the creepiest most outdated

It says what if you're getting hold of me I'm online and that's my name is Leon and also I've got a proposal for you now I reckon you should start a new okay, and you've got a good opportunity here to go with your name from the show Buttons

You've got a lot of fans Buttons online I reckon just, you know, Buttons Yeah, just do Buttons Drop the online thing No, go online otherwise you wouldn't be there you dick LeonOnline

at reeksofpedo and I think you need to get rid of LeonOnline because it's just reeksofpedo Oh, just LeonOnline Buttons, but you know Okay, let me just explain Let's explain just my logic here because I thought it was quite logical

If you take Leon the last two letters of my name is on and then you just add line so it's just LeonLine Is that what I did? No, but your Twitter name isn't LeonLine, it's LeonOnline

Yeah, I guess So the whole story means sweet fuck all I think LeonLine was taken when I signed up when I signed up to Well, I can say he's got 118 followers and his description

that he's filled in for his little profile is just one word happy Jesus Okay, we love you We love you I think that could do it, you could do with a reboot there I'd like to see next week

when we come on, I'm hoping that Buttons is on Twitter and LeonOnline has kicked the bucket Yeah, so you know if you want the cryptid factor and you want to see a beautiful little logo it's at cryptid factor

news coming up We're shooting another pilot, that's exciting Yeah, we're going to do a little bit of turn the sort of radio podcast format into something a bit more visual, so stay tuned Audio

and visual We're also going to be having a we're going to add a prize to our podcast and if you do find Bigfoot, we're going to be offering a prize You get a Twitter handle

I've got ongoing You get the LeonOnline Twitter handle And that comes with 114 followers So Use that however you like It actually comes with a handle which I think is quite good as well

An actual handle Reese, it's very late where you are I think we should let you get to bed We need to get dinner It's been an absolute pleasure, Reese And it's having us all together again Thank you so much Well, this has proved that

it's going to work and all we've got to do now is make a good show Small steps Nah, it was good It was a great show, it was a great first kickoff for the Transpacific International Podcast Edition

Volume 1 I look forward to hearing the edit on this and also getting back together again next week and doing another one This has been the Cryptid Factor I've been David

I've been Buttons And I'm Reese Goodnight The Cryptid Factor With Reese Darby And David Farrar Thanks for watching!