The Cryptid Factor - 12: #012 The Fashion Issue

Episode Date: September 2, 2013

This show sees a Man try to smuggle live fish in NZ in his trouser pockets, Vampire graves discovered in Poland and phantom smells can predict the weather? Also, some real radio controlled dogs, a Frog that hears with its mouth and false memories implanted in mice.

Hello and welcome to another edition of The Cryptid Factor. My name's David, with me. Buttons, hi. And Reese. Hello, from LA. Reese, how's LA looking? It's looking very warm over there. It's intense.

Yeah, it's hitting over the 100 mark, over the century in Fahrenheit. That's about 40 degrees Celsius for you guys. You can imagine that. It's a real struggle once you're outside. You actually move in slow motion. It's quite weird watching people walking. What's your technique besides the slow walking,

for keeping cool? Stay indoors. That's your top one. If you've got air conditioning, of course. And when you're walking along the street, if you're outside, for example, here in Studio City, walking down the main street, doing my street walking, grooving to the beat in my head.

And what I do is I'll walk in slow motion between shops only because of the power of the heat forcing my limbs to slow down. But when I get to the shop doors, I go in each shop door and just get a bit of cool air and carry on with the walk. So I come in and get a bit of cool air. And then you get the shopkeepers, hey, can I help you, mate?

No. And straight out, straight out again. So they know me as just the cool, cool-air stealer. Just sort of. That's a dollar. That's a dollar, mate. It's a nightmare. That's why I very rarely leave.

Otherwise, you're a sweating mess by the time you get from one end of the street to the other. You get to your meeting and you're drenched. That's sweet. No one likes the look of a guy with massive wet patches. Who's this? Hey, I've got an idea for a show.

Oh, no, thanks, mate. Well. What is it? Over here in New Zealand, much colder. We're in the middle of Fashion Week down here. Oh, I can see that. You know all that. You've got the hoodie on.

Yeah, you've got some pretty good fashion going. Leon, as you can see, is dressed up as well. All buttons here. He's got his pink shirt on. He's got a vest. He's a nice, nice waistcoat. That's cold. That's what I got up this morning.

And I've got a couple of important meetings today. So I thought, I better wear my shirt. And I was like, it's too cold to not wear it. But I've got no skivvy or anything that goes with a shirt. All I've got is a little vest that my wife bought me. The vest is great when your body is freezing and your arms are incredibly warm. So you really solve that problem.

And I've sucked it. Here's a thing to remember buttons. Here's a thing, a fashion tip to remember. If you're going to go for the vest, because that's obviously what you've done this morning, just think of this in your head. Oh, vest, I leave that behind. All right?

Thank you, guys. Now I'm going to go the rest of the day, not feeling terribly confident about my vest situation. But what do I do now? Do I go cold? And I've got a pink shirt on as well. That doesn't help. Stick with it for the day and just think

next time, vest it. My mum always said, vest is best. She says that's what, to tell yourself every time you look at a vest, she says, vest is best. Well, I tell you this buttons, for today, you're just going to have to make the vest of a vest situation. And just stop listening to your mum for fashion advice.

That would be another point. What should I wear today, mum? Look, you're listening to the only podcast we know about, about cryptozoology, the science of hidden or mysterious creatures. We're here to bring you the latest updates and craziness. And we might throw in a few non-crypto related bits of news. Robots often creep in, don't they, Reese?

Oh, yep, UFOs. You never know what's out there. But never ghosts. We don't do ghosts. We're sticking by our guns on that, because that's bullshit. So we're not going there. So look, it's a step too far. That's a step too far in the wrong direction.

So should we kick into it, boys? Yeah. Let's do it. Weekly World Weird News. Crazy, freaky. Watch out. Look, do you want to kick us off, Mr. LA, sweaty armpits? OK.

Well, you've probably heard about this guy in New Zealand who tried to smuggle fish in his trousers. What? Yeah. Yeah. Unbelievable. Many jokes about a codpiece. Yeah, many jokes.

I think I started that joke off, actually, the codpiece. You probably. Isn't that annoying when people nick your jokes and just say it like it was their own? Unbelievable. As soon as this news came out, I jumped on Twitter and did the codpiece piece. And the next thing you know, it's all over the papers.

Reese attempts the poorly worded joke. So what was the situation? Well, a man's attempt to smuggle live tropical fish into New Zealand in his trouser pockets floundered when water was spotted dripping from his clothes. The Vietnamese national traveled from Australia to Auckland earlier this week, and airport officials suspected something was fishy.

Oh, here we go. I apologize. I'm just reading this. I apologize. Oh, that's another one of your jokes, isn't it? No, no, no. These are poorly worded puns. These are journalist puns, eh?

They are. It's actually the title of my new book. Yeah, they suspected something was fishy, because liquid was seeping from the bulging pockets of his trousers. The man initially said he was carrying water from the plane because he was thirsty in his trouser pockets. He just wore the water on me.

Well, you're very good pockets, these. Now, just pour it in there, and when I'm thirsty, I'll just put my hands into the pocket there and just scoop up the water. That's how we do it. You know, you can never trust cups or anything these days. Just go for the pants. Straight for the pants.

When you're confronted by customs, it can be a scare, and sometimes you just don't come up with the best excuses. No. It's a panicky situation. You'd think you'd have your excuses lined up. You'd have a plan if you're going to smuggle something. And that was a pretty poor one. I don't want to if that was his top choice as an excuse.

That is awesome. Well, go New Zealand and go Australia for your smuggling habits. Yeah, I think he's got like a $100,000 fine. You can face five years in jail or a $100,000 fine for smuggling that sort of stuff. Don't smuggle stuff into New Zealand. Don't do it.

It's not worth it. I've got to say, he missed a trick there, really, because if they said, oh, what's that dribbling out of your pockets? And he went, I'm busting to go to the toilet. I can't hold it in. It's all, it's wee-wees. It's wee-wees.

What would they do? It's not like they'd go empty your pockets. They'd go, well, bugger off, then go through the gates and run to the loo. Yeah, true. You would make a good smuggler. That's the obvious choice. Wee-wees.

Excuse, yeah, wee-wees. Wee-wees in my pants. Please let me through, wee-wees. I've got wee-wees here. That's what I'd do anyway. That's what I'm going to do next time I go to Australia. I'm going to just try smuggling a couple of goldfish. What's that fish head sticking out of your pocket then?

If you, that's not a fish head. Hey, don't be rude. OK. No, me, though, I'd probably smuggle just ordinary, everyday goldfish that we have here anyway. You can buy for $2.50. Probably very weird. I'd probably go right there somewhere.

I'm not very good at illegal stuff. I'm too honest. Yeah, that's good. That's a good thing. Well, look, I can't really top the old codpiece thing, but I did like a story I came across from Freeport where a capitalist sending up a new business where you can rent chickens.

Yeah. Oh, brilliant. Oh, good. Because apparently, apparently, some people will have got chickens. It's too much all at once. They stink, they're loud every morning. Some people just want chickens for a weekend.

So Jen Tompkins, she graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and with a degree in business entrepreneurship. And the fledgling company she started purely rents out chickens. So you can rent some chickens, you get eggs for a couple of days, then you give the chickens back. You experience that sort of farm living without having to deal with the chickens full time. OK, so it's just chickens?

Just chickens. All she rents is chickens. And apparently, the business is doing OK. What if they have an egg? Can you keep the eggs? Or do you have to give those back? Yeah, you keep the eggs. You don't keep the chickens.

So the idea is, yeah, so apparently, during sometimes they sort of rent out sort of a two month period. And during that time, the hands will apparently lay between 8 and 14 eggs a week, according to the website. Probably cheaper just to buy eggs, but isn't it? Probably easier. Probably.

Just because you don't have to feed them the breadcrumbs and all that kind of stuff. It's like that decision, whether you, when you're overseas, do you rent a car or do you just go out and buy one? You know, you've got to weigh out the costs. So these people are obviously thinking, oh, and I need eggs for breakfast, so we rent chickens on a week by week basis,

having to give them back. Anyway, OK, my one today, what I've got is vampire graves discovered in Poland. Good God. That's right. Vampire graves, guys. Proof at last at vampires. What's the proof?

Well, they found, OK, here we go. Archeologists in Poland believe they have made a startling discovery, a group of vampire graves. Graves were discovered during the construction of a roadway near Polish town where archaeologists are more accustomed to finding the remains of World War II soldiers. But instead of soldiers, the graves

contain skeletons whose heads had been severed and placed on their legs. This indicated to the archaeologists that the bodies had been subject to a ritualized execution designed to ensure the dead stayed dead. Oh, wow. Keeping the head separated from the body, according to ancient supervision,

the undead wouldn't be able to rise from the grave to terrorize the living. Vampires. And? Well, that's one fairy. What about the summer eyes? How do you know they weren't just killed by summer eyes? Yeah, heads off.

They used to just knock the heads off. The Japanese soldiers used to do that to POWs, didn't they? I've seen a few Chuck Norris films where that happens. Yeah, well, true. You raise a very good point. True. But this one as well, they've also found in 2012, archaeologists in Bulgaria, which is not very close to Poland,

but they found two skeletons with iron rods passing their chests, indicating that they had been considered vampires and had been slain by rods going through their chest. And then also just recently in Germany, the same thing at the bottom of a sort of a big building complex. Same thing, big wooden stake through the chest of a skeleton they found. So what is it?

Wow. I mean, people do believe that vampires exist. They do. They do. Absolutely. I mean, there's a reason we have these myths and legends is because they all come from a truth at one point. But you've got to be skeptical.

Those iron bars, they could be just workplace accidents. You know? I think for me, yeah. Well, I know he's got a steel rod through his heart. Quick, bury him. Knock his head off. Make it look like it's a vampire or something. A more telltale sign for me would be a cape.

Look for it if there's a cape by the skeleton or some bat shit. Yeah, or some good-looking corpses as well. Because have you ever noticed in vampire movies? I've never noticed this. Well, have you ever noticed in vampire movies, all the vampire girls are hot, aren't they? They're smoking. They usually are.

Half-naked, yeah. We need some half-naked hot corpses. That would be the proof we're looking for. OK, good point. That'd be the smoking gun. Where the iron rod through the chest, that would be a shame. That's exciting. I believe that, yeah, I mean, there's something in it.

There's something in it. The vampire thing, we should do a bit more study on it. It's not really our forte, but I'm sure there's some vampire enthusiasts out there that really do believe that they exist. And I'm sure they're obsessed with watching True Blood and whatnot. But for me, it's become a bit of a sort of a tweeny, sort of a teenage girl type thing now, hasn't it, the old vampire?

Yeah, all the pot young. Lost a bit of it's cool. Lost a bit of it's cool, really. It's not Nosferatu anymore, is it, an interview with a vampire? It's all young, hot teenage vampires having teenage dramas. Yeah, yeah. Damn those teenagers, they take everything, man. Ruin it.

They'll take Cryptozoology next. Next, they'll be taking all the cool World War Two stuff, making it sort of into a teenage drama. Six drama, damn it. OK, well, what other weekly World War News you got there, Rhys? Well, get this, guys. You're not going to believe it.

A man can predict weather with phantom smells. Oh, god. I didn't even know what a phantom smell is. What is a phantom smell? Well, this man can smell storms before they happen. No. Now, yes, he's suffering from Parkinson's and he's developed this peculiar ability to smell upcoming storms.

Wow. Amazing. How far in advance are you talking, I wonder? Well, this unnamed patients, Phantasmia, Phantasmia. Just trying to get that word right. Yeah, you might want to try that again, maybe. Phantasmia. Phantasmia.

Phantasmia. Depends what school you went to. I was homeschooled, so a lot of these words are foreign to me. Didn't get to that level. I'm more used to the sort of words like, you know, get outside and chase yourself. That sort of thing, you know, don't watch TV. You know, being homeschooled is hard.

Just keep watching TV and playing. Put that video game down. So that's, you know, what, five times three? Leave it. Leave it. Just leave it. Leave it. I'm going to be an actor.

Can you just tell me, though, just quickly, did you actually get told to go outside and chase yourself? Yeah, that was one of Mum's favorite catchphrases. That is awesome. It needs to be a T-shirt. That's a really good phrase. I think it's one of the phrases that's actually inspired me to become a, you know, a comic or a one-man-play actor.

Essentially, on stage, I'm just chasing myself. You know, there's been quite a few one-on-one fight scenes where it's just me up there. Anyway, going back to this Phantosmia, it's said to intensely, approximately, oh, intensify. Intensely, approximately. It's said to intensify approximately two to three hours before a storm and ranges from the smell of burnt wood to a chronic stench,

not dissimilar to that of a skunk. Good God. So it's really intense. It's described as the first reported case of weather-induced exasperation. There's not the actual word that's written there, I'm going with that one. Of Phantosmia. Phantosmia. Phantoms smells seem to quickly disappear again once the storm has passed.

Researchers attempting to explain this predictive ability have looked at several factors, such as air pressure, but to date, the exact mechanism through which the man's ability manifests itself is not yet fully understood. Wow. That's incredible. It's a great gift to have. It is. Well, I tell you, we're all linked.

Everything's linked, you know, through smell, through the weather, through the shaking hands. Yeah, taste, everything. But I've got to say, it's not that unusual to me, this story, because my mum, I don't want to make this show all about my mum, but just once more, my mum, she can tell there's a storm coming because her ears start ringing. She starts, you know, you get that like, it gets louder and louder.

It's like, and then big storm. It is actually proper ring. And she says it's really annoying. She hates it. Yeah. We should hook those two up. They should have imagined that. She's like, can you smell something?

No, but I can hear a fucking real loud buzzing. Wow. Those two should be there. Yeah. Well, I think she's connected. Some people are connected to, you know, the other world or an extra part of our world that, you know, your common man can't really fathom or touch. And that's where you get your predictive, your abilities to, you know,

see the future and psychic abilities, you know. And I think this is all linked here. There's the part of your brain that can access things that cannot be seen or heard. And that completes another Reese's theory. I'll end the story with this. Doctors didn't actually test the patient's weather prediction accuracy, which means that he could simply be misattributing his smelly signals. Bit of a let down at the end.

Bit of a cop out. Thank you. OK, well, my last little bit of weekly WorldWare news here before we move on to other stuff. Is unfortunately going to Trump all of yours. You might want to tell your kids about this race, as they're there in the in the BG. Um, scientists have done the ultimate, ultimate sort of in canine development. Scientists have made radio controlled dogs.

What actual factual radio controlled radio controlled dogs. Tell me more. A team of scientists have actually made a radio controlled dogs using a special remote control. It has a micro processor, wireless rodeo GPS receiver and attitude and hearing reference system. The system helps provide autonomous guidance for a canine using the embedded command module, which utilizes vibration and tones

to help guide the canine in the direction it needs to go. That's amazing. I know. How good is this? And then so they say the obedience accuracy while using this using this radio control system has an accuracy of 98 percent. Wow. So you plug in this little system into your little doggy and you get your little joystick and boom, you got a radio controlled dog.

You tell it where to go, what to do, stop, start, run, faster, slow down. So how are you plugging it in? Well, you just like imagine it's like a little body pack and you're just doing a little tones in its ears like so. It's like wearing headphones left, right, left, right. And then all vibrations make it sort of go faster and stop and slow down and what have you. I'm skeptical about this.

No, it's for it's for real. The the ability to autonomously control a canine has far reaching implications, the team wrote in the scientific journal. Obviously, the most obvious one is to for kids who can't afford radio controlled cars because they're expensive. And because I've got to say, radio controlled cars annoying, the batteries run out and you've got to charge them. You've got to wait like three hours to use a radio controlled car for like 10 minutes.

It's like totally out of proportion. Just had an idea how cool is it going to be when they have radio controlled dog racing? Oh, that would be awesome. All the cool geeks are sitting there with their radio controls in the stands. Yeah. And and off they go. Oh, my God, that's such a good. That'll be amazing. And then, you know, what will happen?

All of a sudden, one of the dogs will go straight off the track and attack a small child and just go, Ape shit. And so we'll be like, what's going on? What's going on? And somebody would have switched their control on on the same frequency. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Oh, sorry. No. Oh, God, you know, that you'd have 25 megahertz. Hey, hey, that's my one. Have you looked at the little chart?

I've got I've got the red tag. You know, no, they'd be like, you know, the dog will have to be all bruised and, you know, disaster, disaster, potential disaster. Also worried they'll be using those radio controlled dogs for crime. You know, like crime, get the dog to go into the bank. You know, oh, yeah. There's that movie like that where they train up dobermans. What's that move?

There's a movie where they train up dogs and to go and rob the bank. No, you watch some really weird movies, man. I'm going to get it for you guys. There's a good movie amount of limited time you have to watch a film and you choose that. Oh, it's real good. No, it's good. Well, I don't mean to look. I don't mean to rush things along here,

but I think we better move into some cryptid news. What do you? Yeah, absolutely. I think we got to. I think we've got to get some cryptid news in. I mean, it is a show about weird stuff, but primarily it's about cryptidology. Give me your money. I think it was just a dream you had last night, but no, I'm going to find it for you.

Well, give the dog that money. Give it to him. He's looking. That's exactly what he wants. He wants all the cash from the safe. I'm going to find a cartoon or live. No, it's real. Find it and play a little taste of it.

Are you thinking of dog day afternoon? You idiot. No, I'm not. That's not about dogs. No, there's a funny you wait. Oh, look, that's a hold up in a bank, but there's no dogs in it. No, this is trained dog. All I want to say is attention, all personnel,

it's time for this week's cryptid buzz. They found a new glue spitting a velvet worm in Vietnam. What? Ah, yeah, that's right. A glue sniffing. Glue spitting. Oh, spitting. Big difference.

I would have been more interesting for me. Small bugs of the rainforest have many things to worry about, assuming they're capable of anxiety. But surely some of the more feared predators are velvet worms, a group of ancient animals that spit and immobilizing glue like material and to pray before injecting them with saliva and chomping down, killing them.

Now, this is a new type of velvet worm that's been discovered. And basically, all the stories about is the fact it spits a glue like substance, much like the Dilophosaur in Jurassic Park that kills Dennis Netri. Yeah, right. Yeah, totally. I wonder what the range is on the spit.

Well, they sneak up and fire out a net of glue from two appendages on their backs. Two appendages on their backs. It doesn't go... How weird is that? Look, it'd be like machine guns on the back. You're like... Oh, it's scary.

So anyway, if you're in Vietnam, just watch out for the glue spitting, not sniffing. The glue spitting velvet worm. Yeah, but what happens? It's not bizarre. Quite bizarre. We live in a world like that. We live in this world now where stuff like that

is still being discovered. Yeah. And that is just... That's alien shit. It makes you wonder whether with all these new species that we keep finding, whether these are things that have just recently been... Recently arrived from another planet or something,

whether all these UFOs that are coming down are actually dropping off other species for us to find. Yes. And that's the secondary theory of the episode, totally. I've got big cat sightings. Oh, brilliant. Yeah. Police investigate big cat sightings and sheep attacks.

Oh. No points. I can't even remember the phrase. I won't even say it. I've got to say, you can guess where this story is coming from. Yeah. It's actually... This is from Northern Ireland.

It's from the BBC website, UK. Police are investigating so-called big cat sightings and county down. So that's called county down. It's not counting down. Reports of a number of animal attacks on sheep in the Hillsborough and Damara areas are also being followed up. According to police, farmers in the Hill Road...

This is a full report I'm reading now. How much time we got? Ages. ...have reported to have found sheep killed in what appeared to be attacks by a predator. Other landowners have found that sheep are missing or bloodied and injured. Big cat sightings have been reported by some residents

in the same general area over a similar period of time. Police said local officers were making inquiries. As they should be. As they should be. So, yeah, under no circumstances should any wild or undomesticated animal be approached. That's also a warning there. It's pretty damn obvious.

Well, just watch out if you're in the neighbourhood. Well, funnily enough, my cryptid news, as well as a big cat sighting, also, it's... Well, this one's called the Beast of Troburidge. And Troburidge, it doesn't actually say where Troburidge is. That sounds like the UK as well, doesn't it? Sounds pretty UK-centric.

It sounds quite UK-ish. You might have to do a little bit of research on that while I read this. But anyway, a couple of pensioners were walking through on a little bit of a bush walk. And they came across this image. I'm going to show you this. They took a photo of this large, black beast.

It does look large. It does, doesn't it? Here you go, Reese. Can you see that? Oh, that's large. And they said it was hunkered over, feeding on what seemed to be like a rabbit. So they had a good size of skull,

because a little rabbit was there being munched on. They said it looked like... And then when they took the photo and got closer, it looked up and it ran off straight away with the rabbit in its mouth. Now, they are pensioners, so we can't trust everything they say. No.

Because they may have just, might have been their imagination. You know, because I could have been a bit seen. Oh, they do have a photo. Probably. The photo really seals the deal for me. Okay, good point. Good point.

Yeah, okay, good point. Okay. There's a big cat there. I think it's a dog-gone conclusion now that the big cats in the wild are real. Not real. They're out there. They're out there.

Because we've got police reports. So when I read and I think the word is now, just, you know, when you see something like that, definitely get a good photo for the cryptozoology buffs. But also, yeah, don't, you know, don't go up to it. Because it'll kill you. Exactly. It will likely kill you.

And try and get something in shock that gives some size of the scale as well. Yeah. Scale, that's right. That's important. Get your child to get in shock or something with it. You know, just to get the scale of the cat in comparison to a seven-year-old or whatever, you know.

And if you are gonna catch it, use a big net. I'd go for a huge net. Good idea. Very good idea. Old army camouflage netting, you know, that they cover the tanks with. That'll be quite good. Hang that over some trees.

You probably, I can't say hang it over the trees, then what? Well, then use a child for bait. And then as the cat runs towards him, quickly take a photo for your scale and then drop the net. Genius. Genius. Get the child to run.

Total genius. That's amazing. All right, cats. You hear about the Bigfoot sighting reported by the Kree hunter near Wermondidge, Q? I heard something about it, but pray tell. A hunter in the Kree village of Wermondidge in northern Quebec claims he has spotted Bigfoot

and has the photographs to prove it. This is all over the net, these photographs of the footprint in the snowy. It was a good looking footprint. Ground, yeah. And his red-eyed beast, he was walking along and he saw two sets of red eyes. And... Good God.

Freaked him out and he took off out of there. As you would, I mean, you wouldn't, you know, I think it was at night time. He was driving, he drove on and then he decided to turn back, return to the spot, flashing his lights. But the red-eyed beasts were gone. And then he went back in the next morning

and he found these massive footprints. And they're really quite detailed footprints. You should look it up. The giant footprints in the snowy moss, in the moss ground there. Any idea of scale with those footprints? Has he put anything next to them? He's put his foot in there.

Good, good idea. Yeah, if you look at the website, CBC News, Montreal, that's where I got it from. And you can see he's actually taken his shoe off and he's used his sock. He's got a sock in the... Just put the sock in? Put a sock in there and the footprint

is quite a bit bigger than his own one, but you can even get the definition of a toes. Yeah, right. It's a really good, really good sighting. And he said there's definitely a buzz in the town about it. Everyone's talking about it. So good on him there. Oh, there's people in the town saying,

look, if we don't see it, we don't believe it. That's good! Believe the footprint! Believe it, believe the footprint at least. I can't top that. My last bit of sort of cryptid news is sort of a new feature that's been found in an existing animal.

And that's that a species of frog, the gardener's sacchella's frog. It's 11 millimeters long. And he is with its mouth as opposed to its ears. That's pretty cool. So I quite like the first opening paragraph of this article on National Geographic. We've told you about an urchin that can eat

with its anus and a tadpole that can see through its tail. And now a frog that hears with its mouth. So basically, it doesn't have a middle ear. You need a middle ear if you're gonna hear. So they did some experiments. And they basically found out that it uses its tongue, picks up vibrations, and that's how it hears. It's not that shocking, really.

It's just kind of neat, isn't it? Don't need ears to hear, just use your tongue. Yeah, it's a vibration. I mean, I think deaf people, they use vibrations, don't they? They do. So it's interesting. It's not crazy, but it's interesting.

It'd be a bastard, though, at dinnertime. You wouldn't be able to imagine dinnertime conversation. You'd just hear little bits and pieces of people talking. You'd be like, who's down? No, no, no. You're eating. It just was eating.

You'd close your mouth, too. You'd just hear your in a mouth. And people imagine a room full of people all listening to like a conference or something, somebody at the front, just like. I'm in their mouth, so. It'd be amazing. Hang on, I can hear something quite intently.

Oh, no, hang on, it's a fly just standing in my mouth. Fortunately, frogs need to deal with meetings and dinner. So the frog's okay for all those problems. Good point. There's no listening during dinner. Which is how it should be, you know. Exactly, just jump that food and move on. It's not to try it on eating.

The team suspects the frog's odd hearing strategy may be due to their long isolation, about 47 to 40, six million years ago. They broke off from Gondwana land, these little frogs, and became isolated, came up with a unique way of hearing. So there you go. Or David, or were they just deposited there by UFOs? See, there is that also.

And dropped in a new species. I mean, this new theory of mine is really getting legs. You're in traction, man, traction. Yeah, I can't discount that at all. No, it's a valid risk theory. It's a valid Derby theory. That's me, that's all I got. Let's finish on this, but why did the alligator

cross the road? Why is that? Well, the mystery remains after a vehicle struck and killed a three-foot alligator in Thrall, Ontario. Is that an actual headline? Is that an actual headline? No, the actual headline is three-foot-long alligator killed on Ontario Highway.

I like your headline better. Your one's heaps better. This is something I've never seen in my career, said AID NRP spokesperson, Derek Watson, later on Saturday. The Lincoln County Humane Society took possession of the reptile and the vehicle involved was reportedly not badly damaged.

Todd Myrnard, an inspector with the LCHS, said they know who the owner is, but are not disclosing it at this time. A person has called in to report his alligator's missing. So it's another classic example of your pet escaping. There's a problem with these exotic pets people have. They always take off. That's why they call it exotic.

And then they get big. Yeah, and then they get big. They're out in the wild, they grow, they get massive, and then they get dangerous. He's gone big, he's gone right, I'm heading off. You know, we've all seen those movies, Madagascar. Eventually, animals leave, don't they? And they want to find out their roots.

So he's taken off and he's hit a car. Damn it. And it's, you know, it's a sad end to a movie. You know, imagine that cartoon, playing that cartoon to kids and it ends with one of the main characters getting run over by a car. That's not a very nice Disney movie, is it?

Good. Which is why Disney probably won't turn it into a movie. I'd say, I do like these scenarios. Good point. Now, I've got some, just quickly, a little bit of robot news or technology news. Is there a segment that we can fit that into? Yeah, man.

Just be quick. Okay, here it goes. Have you got the sting? Yeah. Technology news. There you go. Thank you for the help out there, Rhys. Okay, you know how science fiction

is always leading scientists and that the movies are always going right. The one movie that has inspired a bunch of scientists and they have actually become successful. That movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger and he goes to Mars, Total Recall, that's the one. Researchers have successfully implanted false memories inside the minds of mice.

Oh, God. So you know that movie he goes on holiday but he doesn't actually go on holiday when he goes into a chamber and wakes up and he goes, oh, that was a good holiday and there's bad stuff that happened after that. But it started with a good thing. Well, the study which appears in Thursday's edition

of the Journal of Science has actually proven, they've proven that they've actually put memories into a mouse that they constructed. What sort of memories? What sort of memories about their family history? Please tell me that they're putting memories into these mice that they were famous renaissance painters. Or perhaps a mouse thinks that he was the king of England.

That would, yeah. Lots of clowns around the cage thinking that. It's really frustrated mouse. Yeah, what am I doing here if I joke? No, I'm guessing he had something to do with some sort of. This cheese was simply not due. I say.

Let them eat cheese. I'm guessing he had something to do with a mouse. I'm guessing he had something to do with some sort of maze situation. It's always a maze involved. Yeah. It's a mouse experiment. That's exactly what it was.

They told them where the food was as a memory that they created. Shit, that's cool. And they ran straight to the thing straight away. Let's put them in the maze. Didn't even have to think about it. Boom, straight to the, and gave it that memory. How are they planting the memory in?

What does it say? What does it say? What does it say? We can't divulge that information. No, exactly. I mean, it's amazing. I'm so unbelievable. Yeah.

So yeah, so that's pretty exciting. But also, another news, no, another news, another related news. Floating that scientists have found a way to create levitation, i.e. we will likely be able to get our hoverboards. And the way they've done it was sound waves.

They've actually created levitation using sound waves. Not only have they, they've been able to do that for quite some time, make things levitate using sound waves, but never been able to control it. It's just been like a bit of a power trick. They go, watch this levitate. And it goes, and it just raises up

and it's using really, you know, like base frequencies. So it's gonna happen, but at the end of the day, what you're telling me is they're all gonna have to skateboard with our mouths open. Exactly. No, but what they've done, what they've managed to do,

you'll be happy to hear, is they have managed to make it incredibly controllable. So that when we're on our hoverboard, they'll be able to link it directly to our mind or whatever, and we'll be able to ride our hoverboards and go exactly where we want. Awesome. Wow.

It's finally arrived. I cannot wait, I cannot wait. And that's all gonna happen in our lifetime. Yeah, man. It's exciting times. You've got frogs. Our lifetime is awesome, guys. Our lifetime is amazing.

Got frogs. They can hear with their tongues. You can rent chickens. There's big cats running around. Leon's wearing a vest. These are good days. These are good days. Very good days.

Well, that's fantastic. That's all we've got time for this week. Of course, just to reiterate, I'm in LA and the other two lads back in New Zealand, we've done this Trans-Pacific. And hey, it's been well worth the chat. I'm heading off now on tour for 10 days, and I'm taking my mic so we can do another one next week

while I'm on the road. Oh, brilliant. Great stuff. Have a good tour, sir. Thanks for listening to The Cryptid Factor. You can follow us on Twitter, simply at Cryptid Factor. Send us your news.

Send us your weird pictures from your town that you live in. And we'll may just include it in the show. Thanks for listening. Can I just leave you with this very briefly? Rhys, you may have trouble hearing this, but I just want to make it a little bit. I'll open my mouth. Is unleashed.

Clockwork canines. Oh, he's got the Doverman film. And rip up anybody who gets in their way. This is a hold up. The Doverman gang. Six savage doves with a thirst for cold cash that leaves banks bone dry. The Doverman gang.

Rhys. Rated PG. Buttons has just played a trailer for the Doverman gang, which indeed has Dovermans robbing banks. Yeah. All I'm saying. I'm sorry, Buttons. Do you have any hovering that I've been seeing?

You try desperately find that trailer, this entire podcast. You are validated. I'm just saying. Okay. I'm just saying that's how, that's my, it's a great movie too. It's a great watch. It's called The Doverman Gang.

Go and rent it. All right. Thank you, Buttons. Keeping it real. That's awesome. I apologize. Yeah, so you should. You were right.

Yeah, I was right. It wasn't dog day afternoon. All right. See you guys. All right. Thanks, Mike. The Quintet Factor with Rhys Darby and David Fadriar. The Quintet Factor.