The Cryptid Factor - 17: #017 The X Rated Issue
Episode Date: August 10, 2015In this issue, Rhys has better news than all of us... no surprise there - but this time its actual AMAZING! We also cover Robot Murder, Reptilians - and the ABC's (Alien Big Cats... fyi). ...
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The Quintet Factor, with Rhys, Derby, and David Fadriar
Hello and welcome to another episode of The Cryptid Factor, with myself, Dave Fadriar
Rhys, Derby, of course
Hi, it's Buttons again, hi!
Are you still with us?
I'd like to know, it took us about an hour to get all the mics set up
Buttons had to sellotape his mic to some sort of pole so it's up in front of him
Had quite a bit of difficulty even just skyping each other in
Yeah, I'd say, if anything, it's getting worse
The longer we've been doing this, the longer it takes to set up
I think if we're still doing this in a year's time, we're looking at probably a day's worth of connection
But we're in, and it's a struggle, but we do it
To be fair to me, there is actually a heck of a lot
To organise UNLA, Rhys, right now we're talking across different parts of the world
I've got a microphone which is from the 70s and the clip broke
And now I can't get it onto a normal mic stand
Can I just say, I can see you guys through my video screen
There's a Skype system here, and I'm looking at you buttons
And that microphone from this angle, it looks like the head of a terrier
It looks like an aging dog
I can't even see the end of it, but it's so massive
What is that? Is that a merkin? What are you talking into?
I got a shrunken head from the, please believe it or not
And I inserted a microphone into it
So I'm talking into a little miniature head, a little shrunken head
That's brilliant, that's marketing, we could sell those
Yeah, we just need more shrunken heads
I think the main thing to focus on though, team, is that we're all in
Technically or in the same virtual room, we're recording
That's exciting
Well, let's hope we're recording
This is live
Are we recording?
It's actually legitimately double G
Yes, it looks like it says 255, we've been recording for a few minutes
It's 3.34 in Auckland, New Zealand
What time is it where you are, Rhys?
We're looking at 8.34pm
Alright, but we're all in, we're all in
This is exciting, eh? We can all read clocks and stuff
And I wish we could have got together earlier
But as you all know, we've been busy
The people out there in the ethos
That's the encampment that the big fans are in
It's like a holiday camp, it's called the ethos
And that's all you listeners, you're in a trailer park
Big cryptid factor fans, we know where you're situated
Out there near Area 51
Special shout out to you guys
You know what's been happening, you know my big news
But before we go into that, let's hear the smaller news
From my cohorts, buttons and farrier, what have you got?
Well look, it's been very busy
Here, I've been working on this late night news show
Called Newsworthy
It's been going good, it's been going good
We sort of caught ourselves newsworthy
So that when we did light silly stories
People would go, oh ho, they're being ironic
But really, we've noticed people get angry
When you've got a show called Newsworthy
And you put something light on there
Most people just go, you've tricked us
This isn't worthy, I've learnt that people in the world of news
Take things very, very seriously
But no, it's been a great run
We're having great guests coming on
And it's been buddy fun, we need to get you on buttons at some point
To talk about technology or something
What have you been up to, buttons?
Well, I've been very busy
I went down to New Zealand's capital Wellington on the weekend
And I filmed a DVD with none other than Alan Davies
He's a comedian like you, isn't he?
Oh yes, he's great, how was he?
I saw you on Facebook dressed up in a big, big foot suit
No, that was a cool thing
I was outside the venue after we were doing our little checks
I walked outside and right outside the venue
Where Alan Davies was playing in Wellington
A dude in a big foot suit
Like begging, like busking
But really just begging, because he wasn't doing anything
Apart from sitting in a big foot suit
I was like, that's amazing
At first I was like, this is my dream come true
I took a photograph, took a couple of photographs
Wonderful dude, apart from the fact he wouldn't tell me where he ordered his Sasquatch suit from
It was a brilliant Sasquatch suit
So it was another guy in a suit, wasn't you in the suit?
No, another man in a suit
But he was gripping you at some point, wasn't he?
He lifted me, he was busy there, I gave him $5, gave him a generous tip
What to lift you?
He must have been a big dude
That's pretty big, he was huge, he was a monster
Okay, so you've been kidnapped by a Sasquatch, that's quite good news
Newsworthy still on air, that's good
You haven't been cancelled yet, I'll give us another month
So I guess I haven't really got much to say
I mean, I did the X-Files TV show
But apart from that
Hang on, stop, hang on, stop there
What was that show of?
It's just called the X-Files, you probably haven't heard of it
It's a small cable show
I don't think anyone's seen it
Oh my God
But just in case you have
Yeah, they've decided to make six more episodes
And I'm the star of one of them
It makes it really hard to live up to your standards
Normally it's okay because you get glasses, we all get glasses
You get a cool car, we get a cheaper version of your cool car
But then you get on X-Files
I mean, it's insane though
The X-Files is a show that got me into cryptozoology
Some of those early episodes, Mothman, Loch Ness Monster, Chupacabra
They all featured in the X-Files
And now you weirdly are in this new season
Which is just utterly bizarre
It's the full circle guys, this is full circle
This is the zeitgeist
And it's the eventual reasoning and pinpoint
Molecular, vernacular, serpentine spirit realm
Of why we're doing this
That everything eventually becomes the one thing that we believe in
And of course if you believe in something long enough
It will happen
And I think it's in the title
I want to believe
And the creator, Chris Carter
I read an article, I've got one here actually
I'll just pop it up here
What it says here, I found it
Of course he does believe
And that's not a big surprise
He wants to believe, that's his thing
He's brought the show back
Here's a quote here
For the new series creator, Chris Carter
But also drawing upon more recent events
Including the revelations by WikiLeaks
Of government sanctioned eavesdropping and cover-ups
Things like that
He says, you can imagine I was the least shocked person in the world
He says, it is not surprising to me at all
Those assertions and allegations are what I think the X-Files was built on
Completely, because I mean the world
That's the interesting thing with this new season
Because the world's changed a lot since the X-Files was on
Like the world itself has gotten weirder
People have gotten weirder
People understand how weird it is
And this new show exists in that world
Yeah, and I think it's a show like X-Files
That has let people
Invited them, if you will
To believe more
And to accept more
That weirdness isn't just made up
That it actually does happen
And this new season
Of just special six episodes
The fact that I got a part on it
For me it was just mind-blowing
Because I mean I've done some big auditions before
And I go in with an open mind
But really I say open
It's pretty closed
I'm not gonna get this
It's slightly open
I'm sort of peeping through
The open door of the mind
Thinking, oh, any chance of this?
And I can see them in there
Through in my mind
Looking at me sort of going
No chance
Come in so we can mock you
So I've been in and I've auditioned
For things like True Detective
Fargo, the series
Auditions that have been
For me quite sort of drama
Huge drama
For a comedian actor
You go in and you think
Oh, how am I gonna
And ones that I've got to put on an accent
And put on a sort of a serious scene
And I walk away thinking
Oh, there's no chance of getting that
And so when I got the X-Files one
I thought the same
I put it in the same category
That this was not gonna happen
And I did
My hope was bigger though
Because I believed with this genre
That it was meant for me
That I'm into the paranormal
And so this would be perfect
Then you give you a little bit of script
To read before you do the audition
So you don't really know much about it
You've got like one or two pages
For you to learn the lines of
And then you go in there
And I went in and
Chris Carter's sitting there
Oh my God
Just sitting there
I know and I'm like, hi
And he's just got
He's got a great look on his face
It's kind of like
It's not like who the hell are you
It's kind of like almost like
Oh, here he is
Kind of thing
It's almost like
And I said that already
Made me feel comfortable
Because often when you go into rooms
For auditions
They either don't really look at you
Because I've seen so many people
Throughout the day
Or they've got a look on their face
That straight away
You can sum them up
Where they're going
Oh, well this isn't the one
This would be a waste of time
You know because
Quite often it's
Those first impressions
Right
But I must have already had
A little bit of the look
That they were hoping for
And then Darren Morgan
He's the director and writer
Of this episode
And he's sitting there
And before I started the audition
He gave me the full backstory
Of this character
And he must have talked
For about five minutes
And in depth about this character
That I was about to portray
In an audition
And I'm thinking to myself
Oh man
I hope I get this
Because he has revealed
The entire
Almost the entire plot
And I'm thinking
If I did a really bad audition
And then after his big speech
He just went
Alright, thanks mate
You know but
That's what my great fear was
So I'm already thinking
Geez, I better get this
And so then I did the audition
And I did a fairly good job
I mean I felt comfortable about it
They enjoyed it
They laughed
And they also
But it wasn't a big
It wasn't a big funny piece
It was kind of
You know there was a couple
Of small laughs in it
But it was more of a
Sort of a serious piece
And so I start to walk out
Thank you very much guys
It was an honour to meet you
I said to you know
To both of them
And as I'm walking out
The guy who
Was doing the off lines
Ran out
And he says to me
Are you free for these dates
And I was saying
Oh that's an interesting sign
You know I like
I hadn't
I only just walking down
The corridor
And he caught up with me
Are you free for these dates
And I said
Yeah without even
Even looking at the dates
And of course
I will clear the calendar
Yeah
Yeah basically
And then I started
I kept walking
And then I got outside
And heading in like
In the car park
And he ran up to me again
He just
And he said
He caught up with me again
So he had gone back in the room
And I almost felt like
You know
The important chaps
Had said to him
You know
Go and check on this
So he came
And he caught up with me again
And he says
Are you able to
Lose the moe
Because I had a little
Moustache going on
And like I usually do
And I said
Yeah
Yeah of course
This is just
For another thing
This old thing
You know
Of course stupid
Stupid thing
Yeah it's coming off
Coming off this afternoon
This thing
Yeah
You've actually been
Working on it
For about ten years
It's taking you about ten years
Three months
To get it to this length
And
So I
I drove home
Thinking to myself
I could be in
With a
And
Got home
And I think it was that same day
That
I got it
Wow
So
So there it was
And I'd love to reveal
A lot more about what happens
Just in a nutshell
No I think we should
I think we should tease this
I think we should
Yeah
We've done the audition
Throughout this podcast
I'll squeeze a little bit more
Information now
That's a good idea
You keep them listening
And in the meantime
Let's move on to
Our
Major first section
Of the podcast
Our favourite
Section
Weekly World
Weird News
Crazy
Freaky
Watch out
The good thing about
Revealing
Your X-Files story
Throughout the
Hour of podcast
Is the lawyers
From the
Intellectual property
Owners of X-Files
Will be
Calling you
Intermittently
Every 15 minutes
New case
New case
Yeah
And
Just as
I've actually got
A little surprise
For you guys
A little bit later
In the show
I'm going to
Got some gifts
Because I went
To Seattle
Recently
And
That's a big foot capital
Yeah
And I
Realise it
But
I'm into seeing these
Pacific Northwest
I went to the first gift shop
I went to
And there was a whole section
On Bigfoot memorabilia
And books
Soft toys
Magnets
You name it
So I bought some things
Obviously
And
I bought too many things
And I went to
The counter
And the girl said
You found the Bigfoot section
I see
And
She goes
You're sure you don't want
The snow globe
And I said
What
What
What snow
Snow globe
And then
Because I've got
All these other things
And I wasn't
Worried about that
And then she
And then she
Lifted it up
And showed me
And there it is
There is a snow globe
With a big
Bigfoot in it
I'll take the snow globe
As well
But
So I got you guys some things
So I'll show you
A little bit later
In the show as well
Okay
Well that reminds me
When I went to
San Francisco a few
Months ago
I bought you two presents as well
And I totally forgot about them
So I'll bring them
Next podcast
And I got
You guys presents as well
Oh thanks
That's cool
That's cool
As well
I don't have them on me now
But I've got them at home
What cool city
Did you go to
To get us those
Yeah, Hamilton
Oh yeah
Okay well look
I don't have
News as such
It's more of an update
And this is something
I kind of became a bit obsessed with
After I'd read
Stephen King's new book
And I got to Googling
And I wanted to see
How many projects
Stephen had
Stephen King had
Up and coming
Because obviously he writes
About a lot of weird stuff
So you know
I'm sure we all
Have a soft spot
For Stephen King
So I was just going to read
These are the titles
That Stephen King
Currently has in development
Or TV or film
Okay I'm just going to
List them here
Cool
All right
We've got
The mini series
About the assassination
Of JFK
11, 22, 63
There's something called
A Rana
The Breathing Method
Cell
Children of the Corn
Creepshow 4
The Dark Tower
Firestarter
Gerald's Game
Grand Central
In the Tall Grass
I'm only halfway
It
The Jaunt
Joyland
Lysie's Story
The Long Walk
Mr. Mercedes
The Overlook Hotel
Pet Sematary
Rose Matter
The Shop
The Stand
The Talisman
I'm not going to keep going on
How many?
How many?
Those are all properties
That Stephen King
Will have money
Coming in from those
He's just overseeing them
He just needs to sign over
The rights
The 10 o'clock people
The things they left behind
And that's the end
Of the list
So all those
Are things of the next
Two years
Of Stephen King
We're going to see
Either on TV
Or the big screen
Which I think is
Amazing
Really respect
And it's a testament to the guy
That he's still got all the stuff
Going on
It's not all great stuff
You know, I think under the dome
It could have been a lot better
But it was entertaining
It was great
I guess when it gets out of his hands
And then into the hands
Of those that have taken
Had taken it
They then
Do what they will with it
And often it loses a lot of its
Initial
Awesomeness
Completely
But I'd struggle
To find another writer
That's got that much
Sort of
Going on
You know, it's absolute madness
So
Yeah
Does he sleep at night?
He's got a lot going on
I'd say that guy
Yeah, I don't think he sleeps a lot
But the funny thing is
Is that all of them
You read out
Or you're reading out
All that list
And you go
So many of those
Are the cause of
So many of my nightmares
As a child
Yeah, thanks man
Yeah
This is a guy
That's got a lot going on
In his head
A lot of
Nightmarish stuff
And he's like
There's so much there
That he's got to get it out
And
Inflict the rest of the world
With that
With all these
Horrible ideas
You're coming down with me
You know what I mean
Tim Curry, right
Is Pennywise in the original
That was just
That was terrifying
You know
And it's going to be
Remade now
So I mean
That's going to be
A whole new generation
Of kids terrified
By a clown
Your kids Leon
Your kids Reese
You know
They'll all be terrified
By that stuff
David
So no
They won't
But yeah
Yeah
I'm going to take my
Five-year-old
To go and see the new
It
Let's keep them entertained
I don't know
Find it on the internet
That's the problem
Everything's available
To them now
They'll be sitting there
And they'll just
Accidentally
Write the word
It
Because they would
Have been
Writing
How old is
It
Or something
And then
Accidentally
Something
Yeah
I always preferred
Cousin
It
Anyway
Is
I think he's better
Way better
What have you got?
What have you got
Buttons?
Well
We should go to
Reese first
Because
I'm still working on my
Okay
Well
Check this out guys
The US government
Reimbursed
Buzz Aldrin
$33
For his
Trip to the Moon
In
1969
Okay
An entire $33
Yeah
So like
Any other American
Returning home
From a business trip
Out of the country
Former NASA
Astronaut
Buzz Aldrin
Filled out an expense
Report
And a customs form
When he came back
From the Moon
Aldrin
The second man
To step foot
On the lunar surface
Recently shared
The paperwork
On Facebook
The records
Include signatures
From Aldrin
And a Honolulu
Customs Inspector
And one of the
Most unusual
Itemized
Itineraries in history
Florida
To Moon
To Pacific Ocean
To Hawaii
Then back home
To Houston
What?
The official travel voucher
Also mentions
The USS
Hornet
Which was
He misspelled
On the form
Idias
Idias
That's the ship
That picked up
Aldrin
And the Apollo 11 crew
After they landed
In the Pacific
Aldrin
Was reimbursed
Exactly $33.31
Which is about $215
In today's
Money
For travel expenses
Likely the costs
Of having to drive
His own car
To and from
Allington
Air Force Base
In Houston, Texas
That is kind of amazing, right?
The guy is
Hilarious
How by the book is he?
He's so good
You hear about the stuff
By the book
It's much less extreme
But my mum
Who's sort of pension age
Now
She lived in Canada
For a year
And there's been all this
Paperwork and phone calls
Going back and forth
From the Canadian government
Saying she's got this pension fund
Now
She got a check the other day
From Canada
After all these calls
And all this paperwork
Was a dollar
In two cents
And she gets
She's going to get
Some people just
Are by the book
And they fill out forms
They love forms
But I'm
I'm not one of those guys
I can't stand it
I can't
I couldn't care less
What you owe me
Or what I owe you
I shouldn't be telling
The world this
It's a raise that
I'm very by the book
I
Now let's be honest
My wife is
By the book
And so that's why
I
I haven't even seen
The book
I've got to be honest with you
She's got it somewhere
It's got everything's written down
Everything's
We've got all the receipts
But really
I can't go near it
Because I'll just
I'll have an anxiety attack
And that actually brings me
To another story
I had an anxiety attack
While I was on the X files
Oh, God
So here's the thing
I mean, it's a high pressure job
And I'm in this hotel
And I'm learning
50,000 lines
Like never before
Have I had so many
Dialogue lines
And voiceover lines
Because I'm telling a story
In the episode
And there's a lot to say
And usually when I do comedy
And stuff
You know, I look at the scripts
And I'll do a few lines
Like they want
But then I'll make the rest up
And
Which is a crafty way
Of getting around
Having to learn the script, right?
Exactly
I'd learn it if it's any good
But if it's not
I'll just change it
So I wasn't going to do that
On this
Because this was a big job
And I'm trusted
As an actor here
Then I'm not being hired
As a comedian
So, you know
It was stressful
And here's the thing
I don't know whether you guys
Have had an anxiety attack
I mean, it's
I didn't know what it was
Because I woke up
In the middle of the night
1.30 a.m.
Which, you know
Is not the middle of the night
But if you go to bed at eight
It is
And I felt
I was in the hotel room
And I felt really dizzy
And I didn't know
My head was not right
And I heard some weird noises
Almost like
Stuff like that
And I think, what's wrong
With my head?
And the first thing I thought of
Is I've got to get some air
So I ran to the hotel window
And I was one of these ones
Where for safety
Because I was 14 floors up
They don't open very far
No
Like, I don't know
About 10 inches
Slide open slightly about that
Yeah, shove your nose out
I'll shove my face out of that window
And I was 14 stories up
And I shoved my face
So if anyone was looking
From a distance
Or a cleaner
Or someone, you know
From another
I'm sick of this
Shut up the window
And me just with my eyes wide open
I'm like breathing
I'll just try
You know
I never
I just thought I needed air
And my head was telling me
Get some air
So I did that
And my head then was jammed
Slightly
And I couldn't get it back in
Oh God
And I started to panic
And now I can't
My head is now stuck
In a 14 story window
I'm breathing
Like, trouble breathing
I can't get my head back in the room
And finally I get it back in
After quite a bit of force
And I sort of fall over
Scream
And then my next
And this is the weird thing
My next thing in my head to do
Is to call reception
I just went to
I was either going to call them
Or go down to reception
And tell them that I wasn't
I wasn't right
Because I've never been not right
You know
And I thought
I can't do that
Why can't I get down to risk
What are they going to do
But that was my
So
I just
I said to myself
No
No
Do something else
Mind off what's going on
Read
Read something
So then I just
Started reading
A book
It was one of the
My cryptozoology books
So I'm still
I'm still struggling to get through
This latest one
It's you know
It's not that great
But
You know
It's a bit of data
About giant levers and things
And I'm sorry
And it was perfect
For taking my mind off the situation
Anyway
So then I went back to sleep
So I managed to get back off
And then the next day
I told the doctor
Because I said to him
I had another complaint
And I'll be telling you about this
But later on
But I said to him
As an aside
Also last night
I had a weird situation
Where I found
I wasn't myself
And I stuck my head in a window
And couldn't get it back out
And then I wanted to
Call reception
And he said
It's an anxiety attack
And I said
What?
Have you been feeling anxious lately?
I said
Yes
That's what it is
So anyway
That was it
He gave me some pills
And
Pills fix everything
The thing is
I've been fine ever since
But that
That was
That was a real
Imagine
Imagine
Imagine if you didn't turn up
To set the next day
And everybody was like
Where is it?
And then you got canned from the show
Because your face is stuck
In the 14th
You'd have a great story
I was supposed to be on X-Files
Yeah
I also
Just got a 14 story window
So quite like that
It was going to be a podcast
With some little X-Files teases
But it's more
Like Reese's medical complaints
Throughout the show
Yeah
So anyway
No
But you know what
I'll tell you what
Just quickly
To help you with your anxiety
If ever that happens again
And this is a public service announcement
It's because you're shallow breathing
And that's why you put your face out the window
To try and get more oxygen
Because you're shallow breathing
And you're not taking any
Real big deep breaths
And getting proper oxygen
You're just going
Like a little puppy dog
And then you
Like if you start feeling that
You just go
You breathe in
And you go
And you count to three
You go
One, two, three
And then you breathe in
And you count to three
Two, three
And that's what
That'll fix you right up
Fix you right up
Oh, okay
Okay
Oh, thank you very much
Yeah
Anyway
And that's been the cryptid factor
For another one
Well, it's good
That we're dealing with medical complaints now
Yeah, it's good
It's good
Okay
My turn
For news
My weekly WorldWare news
Is quite sad
It's the first recorded
Murder of a robot
In the world
Oh, no
Yeah, robot murder
Has now officially happened
Which is really sad
And unfortunately
Happened in the city of
Brotherly Love
In the States
Philadelphia
Oh, silly
Bloody, bloody, silly
So this is what happened
To give you the background
A little while ago
A robot was created
Called the Hitch-Bot
And this Hitch-Bot
Was a little bit of a
Social experiment
Put together by the
Associated Press
And what they did
Is they set up this little
Robot with its thumb out
Here's a little picture of it
Here
Oh, it's cute
It's a cute little robot
But I guess it's child size
Yeah, and it says
San Francisco or bus
Can you see that there?
Race
Oh, yeah
Look at him
Very cute
What a cool dude
Yeah, it's kind of
Between a minion
And the robot from
Lost in Space
Anyway, this little
Hitch-Bot
Successfully travelled
Around Canada
Germany
The Netherlands
Got all the way around
Got all the way to Philadelphia
And was heading on its way
To San Francisco
And people had been
This little thing
Has basically sat there
With its thumb out
And people would come along
Pick it up
Drop it off
And it was basically
Hitch-hiking its way
Around the world
So, and then if you see here
There's people taking
Pictures of them
Whether they're on
Overseas
Oh, airports
And everything
Journeys
Yeah, translations
Or on the place
Lots of pictures of little
Kids with it
You see here
And there's pictures
You know, people started
Writing messages on it
Everything
And then it gets to Philly
Got to Philly
What happened?
Bloody Philly
Vandals got it
Vandals were
The bastards who picked it up
And then
This is what happened to it
It got damaged
And vandalised beyond
Repair
Look at that sad picture there, Rhys
This would be up in our Facebook page
It's unbelievable
What do these vandals
Have against robots?
I love this tweet
Canada's hitch-hiking robot
Lasts just two weeks in the US
Before getting decapitated
Robot murder
America
You've got to, you know
You're great
But you've got a few issues
Occasionally
That's the problem is
They've got too many issues
And a lot of them seem
To be involved with violence
No
So the amazing thing
With this little
Hitch-Bot
Is that it wasn't just
Like it was a junk can
Full of GPS tracking
Obviously it had GPS
So, you know
The Associated Press
Could keep track of it
But it was talkative too
It was basically a travelling companion
It would toss out little factoids
And carry out conversations
You could talk to the thing
It had a little camera
That randomly snapped photos
About every 20 minutes
To document its travels
That's cool
And it's now
No longer
It's in pieces
Who left it alone for long enough
That vandals could come up
And do
No, but that's the thing
It's on its own
It's the whole experiment
It was basically on its own
Oh really
And people would pick it up in cars
Take it and then just leave it
On the side of the road
Sort of propped up
With its thumb out
Yep
And it would just carry on
And someone else would get it
I may sound pessimistic
But I'm surprised it lasted
As long as it did really
Can you imagine
If they did that in New Zealand
I mean, you leave anything
Anywhere
And within minutes
Someone's gonna shove
A road cone on it
And there there is
That's so true
Kick it
It's got a little face
It's got like a little happy face
Which isn't so happy anymore now
It's got a little smile
And like somebody's written there
I can't lie
I'm devastated by the death
Of little hitch spot
RIP little fella
You know, people have moved
About this
It's really sad
There's also probably
A conspiracy behind this
If you think about it
They're putting out a robot there
To see as a tester
What we're gonna do with it
What we're gonna deal with it
How we're gonna deal with it
I should say
As humans
And to a certain degree
It was loved
It was handed on
Particularly in Canada
I believe
Which is, you know
Some of the most friendliest people
On the planet
Canadians, you know
They certainly, you know
Too friendly
Yeah, they're lovely
And they're, you know
They're nice with it
And they pass it on
And, you know, as you would do
And gets to the States
Smash that fucker up
Get rid of it
You know, it's, you know
Who's is it, you know
It's kind of like
It's sad
But it's perhaps
A good sociological experiment
I'd like to see the same thing
Happen in every country
And see how long these things last
That's true
That's a good point
Because, you know
This could just be
The start of it
I mean, now they might
Next year
We might find
What if you're
They just distribute
250,000 of these things
That was just the beginning
It's true, that
It's true
Yeah, also
If you don't smash one up
How do you know that
In the future
It's not going to, you know
Have an explosive device
In it or something
So if you go to graffiti it
Remember, they used to
Be the case with Kit
When you try and break
Into a Knight Rider's car
Yeah
Well, these alarms went off
And he
He distributed some smoke
Or something
Yeah, I think he had
A few defense mechanisms, didn't he?
Evil Kit was worse
Evil Kit
Evil Kit
Okay, so this
Not as bad as Evil Buttons
What was his name?
Zips
Zips!
When's he coming back?
This is my favourite episode
If you guys are just listing in
We did an episode where
Buttons wasn't here
But Zips turned up
He was like the
Leather jacket
Wearing
Cool dude
Badass version of Buttons
He turned up looking so badass one day
I even had a
Leather little
Biker hat
Like they were in gay clubs
Did we take a photo of Zips?
It's so weird
What were we doing that day?
Never again
No, that was in the early days
That was his
That was his alter ego
I was finding myself
Back in those days
It'd be good to get him once
If we get the TV show
We'll definitely have to have
Zips appear one week
I can fight myself
Or do one of those green screens
Yeah
There's something slightly off
About Buttons
It's Zips from another realm
How did you do it?
It was this gay little
Leather biker hat
That's how I gave it away
Yeah
That was terrible
But he was good
He actually did all the work
Like all the
Computer work was done on time
It was competent
The show was produced perfectly
Yeah, but what would you prefer?
What would you prefer?
Let's face it, come on
He didn't hug us
He was quite cold
Which one would you prefer?
Okay, let's take a vote
Definitely Buttons
Definitely Buttons
Thank you
Okay, well, shall we move on to
Yeah, the cryptid buzz
Attention, all personnel
It's time for this week's cryptid
Help me
I think the most important thing
That's jumped out at me this week
There was a lot of news going around
That this Loch Ness monster
Fanatic
Had given up on
Nessie entirely
Because he basically thought
That it was probably just a big
Old catfish
Do you remember seeing this story
Floating around?
Yes, certainly did
All I wanted to do was a little
Update on that
And that he has
Come out in public and said
No, he has not given up on Nessie
At all
He got misreported a few times
And he thought that
Sure, it's a theory
It could be a giant catfish
But by no means was at the end
Of the story
And he's definitely going to keep
Looking for Nessie
And looking at other theories
And exploring it
So he definitely wanted to say
On the record
That he doesn't think that Nessie
Is definitely not
An unknown creature of some kind
No
He was just giving a theory
Which I think is a good theory
He was
But the news media latched on to it
His quotes sped around
And by the time
I reached CNN
Or wherever it was
It was basically
That's amazing
World's most dedicated Loch Ness monster
To see his Loch Ness monster
Does not exist
Isn't it crazy?
It's a great fish
So you gotta double check the news
Don't always believe
What you're hearing
Is it less than that?
Go to the official cryptid sites
They're not going to lie to you
Cryptozoology.com
Cryptomundo
No, keep with the little guys
They're honest
They're keeping it real
So that was the bit of news
I really wanted to put out there
You can trust us
We don't
You can trust cryptid factor
Our news is legit
We're the most trustworthy
Reese
What's been catching your eye
This week?
Well, there's a new video
Has surfaced about
Bishopville's
Lizardman
He has returned
We don't hear about Lizardman
Very often
Yeah, the fabled
Bishopville
Swab creature
Known as
Lizardman
Appears to have surfaced again
So we've got
Sarah
A Sumter woman
Who says
She went to church
With a friend
Sunday morning
Which was lovely to hear
Stepped out of the sanctuary
To see the Lizardman
Running along the tree line
A bit of a shocking sight
Quite intriguing that
For her, obviously a churchgoer
You know, was at church
Sunday morning
Left, obviously, you know
Went through the procedures of church
And all that happens there
Singing, praying
That's a wonderful experience
Believing in the Lord and whatnot
And then out you come
And the first thing you see
Is a Lizardman
Running through the trees
So that's going to be
A bit of a juxtaposition for her
There's nothing, I mention
Of those in the Bible
But there you go
She did what anyone else would do
She took a photo with her phone
Good honor
And here's a quote from her
My hand to God
I am not making this up
So this is great
Because she, you know
She's put her hand to God there
So I'm
Very moral
She's, you know
She believes that
This is for reals
She's put
She sent an email to ABC News
So excited
She says
They were just a mile or so
From a scape or swamp
That's scape or
O-R-E
Swamp
The sight of a similar spotting
Of what may also be the Lizardman
In May
So this is a recurring vision
A man who asked
Not to be identified
Submitted a short video
And we'll put this up on the side
Of what he thought was
The Lizardman Monday morning
I've looked at this video
And I looked at it many times
Could only see trees
But there's something
There to have a look for yourself
He said he took the video in May
While Coon hunting
But kept its existence quiet
Until he saw the reports of Lizardman's
Lizardman outside a church
I saw your Lizardman story
And it's given me the courage
To send you a video
I took in early May
Though my wife believes me
That it's real
She said she would be embarrassed
That everyone would think
I was a loon
So I kept it secret
It's always the old adage isn't it
The old nervous that everyone
Will think you're crazy
Adage
Can't we move on from that
And this is the thing
I reckon we could probably prove that
Bigfoot is real by the amount
Of sightings that would be had by
If everybody came forward
Who had actually seen it
But of course there's a stigma against
Coming out and saying you've seen it
So I imagine there's probably
Thousands of sightings
If you're sitting on footage of a Lizardman
Or a Chupacabra
A Mothman or a Bigfoot
Come out
Come out
Come out
We're living in 2015
My point earlier in the episode here
Where I'm talking about
What X-Files has done for the world
They've proven that it's okay
To speak up these things
So these things do happen
They are real
And you know
That's why that show was
You know
Arguably the most popular TV show
Completely
In the world
At that time
Because we do want to believe
We want to believe
You know that's why
The cryptid factor is so popular
We've got over 100 listeners now
I mean this is the
So I've got those figures wrong
98 listeners now
And I think
You know this proves again and again
That we're on the right subject matter
This is really what's happening
He heard noises
Turned to see a seven foot beast
Charging at him
So he ran for the safety of his car
The Lizardman jumped on the roof
As Davis tried to drive away
There were scratch marks on the roof
And one on the side mirror
And the legend was born
The Lizardman
And that's an early sighting
17 year old Davis
Back in the day
1988
The summer
That was the first sighting
In the summer of 88
The Lizardman
Are they getting you to do
The music on the X-Files with that?
Yeah, I've been brought into a booth
So that's actually a bit of a giveaway there
That's one of the
In the show
But as I said
I'm going to give little bits away
As we go through tonight's podcast
Hey so
Just with that story
Turns out
Who believes that
Lizardman is actually
Alien
Life form
Come here
Good question
Well
I think
More than likely
Yes
Because obviously
You've got your reptilian
Aliens
That people
There's seven different types of aliens
You've got your
You've got your grays
You've got your insectoids
Which are the ones that often look like
Praying mantises
And these are just from abduction stories
From eye-witnesses
Who have been either captured
Or seen various different types
There's reptilian types
There's other really weird ones
With really long arms and legs
That don't make any sense whatsoever
Are you sure this is from eye-witnesses
Or from men in black?
Either way
Either way
You know I'm talking movies
Fiction and non-fiction
You've got to take everything into account
So yeah
I mean it's certainly not
Of this world is it
I mean it's not
It's like
To be some sort of hybrid
And I say the same thing
With your tubercobra
That it originally came from outer space
And in bread without reaches
And I think
If we believe in aliens
And we believe they are coming here
From different places
That some of them are being left behind
Like the story of E.T. came from
You know I mean it's kind of
One that got left behind
And all of a sudden
Is you know
Fucks a goat or something
And then you fuck goat
It could be that
It could be that
Well it just makes me remind
It just makes me remember
The TV series
Which seems to have faded into obscurity
But the TV show V
Remember that
It was pre
You know they made that
In the 90s
They remade it
They made V
Yeah the reptilian's coming in
And taking over the world
Yeah they remade it
Did they remake it?
It definitely hasn't even gotten
Yeah it was on TV in New Zealand I think
It didn't rate that highly
It wasn't as good as the original
The original was amazing
The original was really good
I've got it on DVD
I'll give it to you for a little present
I've got the collector card series
From the 1980s version
That's pretty cool
I've got the whole set
The whole collector card set
I'll bring it in
That's really dope actually
That's awesome
Look just really quickly
My final bit of crypto news
And it's a cheap shot
And you know
I don't want to go into sort of
Smutty news
But there's a headline
That caught my eye
Woman claims to be in sexual relationship
With Bigfoot
Trying for a baby
Yeah I read about this
We should talk about this
I mean we'll tick it off
Nancy Hoggett
A resident of Washington State
Surprisingly not Florida
Where a lot of these stories come from
Claims she's involved with Bigfoot sexually
She's apparently being in a romantic relationship
With the mythical Sasquatch
Since 2008
The article said mythical
Not my words there
And they're trying for a baby
Now it gets interesting
She said that she first encountered Bigfoot
While tending to her
Marijuana plot
It gets bigger
It gets bigger
I pointed
Credibility there
She could have changed
That part of the story
She lost a few points
With me there
Yeah
First quote
I pointed my shotgun at him
And he put up his hand
Scared
That's when I looked down and noticed
He had a huge erection between his legs
Oh god
It's always getting erection
When you get a gun pointed at you
Always
Always
Bigfoot erection
I actually have never ever thought about that before
That's the first time my brain has ever
Considered
Yeah
Bigfoot getting an erection
I don't think I want to go there again
I mean it's got to be a huge appendage
Yeah I mean the article goes into sort of
I mean the article to be honest
It's from thehollywoodgossip.com
I don't know whether really
We should believe it to be honest
But they are expecting a child
This show has covered off actual
Dolphin sex in the past
And that was real
That was real
That was real
I think look
We should follow this up
If they're having a child
I mean I think it's worth
Maybe investigating
Like getting her on the phone
And getting this out of her
Yeah
When I say that
I mean the baby
I mean I want that thing
I want to see what it looks like
And if it comes out covered
And fur
Then yep
Okay you're telling the truth
Could just be a hairy human baby
You know
You never know
I was quite a hairy human baby apparently
Oh god
You probably don't need that
All right
Okay my piece of
My piece of
Well my piece of
Crypto news
Which I've been relatively excited about
Is as usual
An old piece of
News
So it's new news
No but it's old news
That has just come to light
So it's news
Turning back the clock
Olds
We call that
It's old
It's not news
Classic stories with buttons
Oh
This is definitely not news
It's not that stories are old
It's just that his computer
Is from the 70s
And so when he
When he logs on
Which takes a day and a half
These are the
These are the items that come up
And he's also back on
Criticalbelievers.proboards.com
Shut up
All my mates are in
All my mates are in this
All my mates are in this
What have you got
What have you got
Okay
So 2012
Piece of news
That has just come to light
Because
Oh it's just come to light
Well
The police officer
Who is reporting this news
Has been
Was been too scared to come forward
And acknowledge this
Because this is exactly
What we're talking about for
For fear of being
You know judged
Or
Being criticised
Or even losing his job
So he's finally just come out now
And admitted that in 2012
In Edinburgh
Whilst in a helicopter
Assisting with a search and rescue
For a missing woman
Spotted with his own eyes
A big cat
And he is
Unequivocably said
He saw this big cat
It was three times the size
Of a female police officer
And I thought
That was a really strange use of
Measurement
Yeah
He obviously had one of his fellow
Cop buddies on his mind
But somebody's got a crush on
And he was thinking about Susan
Oh it should look good in a cat suit
How big is your backyard
That's about
Four and a half female police officers
About
Yeah
New form of measurement
Is a particularly dodgy form of measurement
No
But the reason why he
Has permitted this dodgy form of measurement
Is because
While he was up in the helicopter
He saw first of all
The heat sensor
You know
The infrared heat sensor
Equipment
Show up
What he saw was
Thought was a human
So
He had a female police officer
On the ground
Oh right
So he started guiding this police officer
In towards this heat signal
Oh yeah
He then swicks the heat signal off
To see what it was
Saw a big cat
Huge big cat
He thinks it was a puma
That he's making an estimate
That it was a puma
But he said it was definitely there
And it was definitely huge
But the worst part was
He was guiding this
Female police officer
Towards that
And so
Once he realized what it was
He told this
Female police officer
To stay calm
And stay exactly where she was
Without telling her
Exactly what was down there
Because he didn't want to freak her out
And then he said
The cat was very very close to her
He says
He estimated about three times
The size of her
It was huge
He just told her to calmly stop
Where she was
And turn around and walk away
Which she did
And the cat bounded off
Never to be seen again
Unfortunately
They weren't rolling the video cameras
That they had in the helicopter
So they don't have video footage of it
Well that's
That's exciting
That could have ended very badly
Very badly
But then at least
Would have proof
Yeah
Well I know it would have proof
That a female police officer
Was torn to shreds by a puma
But
Yeah
I mean there's no doubt
That these
Alien big cats
If you want to call them that
These ABCs
Yeah
Exist
They're one of the best cryptids
Because
There's not really
There's not a hell of a lot of mystery
About them
We know that they're cats
That have been released
At some point
Throughout time
And are living in the wild
On their own
And they get sighted
Quite often
And it's good to have a police officer
To see one
Now
Yeah
But see the interesting thing
With that is right
Is that
This is a really
Great proof point
For all the other cryptids
For the O-ring
Pendex
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And the
And the
And the
And the
And the
And the
And the
And the
And the
And the
And the
And the
And the
And the
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And the
And the
And the
Charleston
And the
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And the
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you know
So
And the
And the
of all animals. They are aware of us. They know where to hide and when to prowl. They
only come out at night. I mean, they're silent. That's where the term, you know, was swift
and silent as a panther.
Of course. And of course, creatures like, you know, you can't put that past something
like a Bigfoot, because of course, Bigfoot no doubt hides as well, you know.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Bullshit anyway.
Just a quick bit of X-Files. A quick bit of X-Files. Something else from set.
Okay.
I fought David DeCophany. We got into a fight. It was all part of the show, but I've never,
you had done an action kind of fight situation. And I cut myself. And I ended up, I had to
get stitches.
What?
This is day one on the show.
Oh my God. What sort of fight? Tell us about it, but we want to know what it was.
Just the Festy Cuffs, you know, just a, this year classic pull and shove.
Suddenly you're bleeding.
Yeah. There was a weapon involved and I got, I cut myself. I got, I got two into the roll.
And did you actually have like a stunt guy come and show you what to do?
I had, there was a stunt woman who sort of briefly sort of said, okay, when you, when
you push him there, he's going to roll there, pull and push like that. But I was expecting,
you know, a bit more tuition. I was a bit expecting maybe someone would jump in and do a body
swap, but it's not how it rolls, man.
So you were rushed, you were rushed off for medical attention.
Well, no, no, it took about half an hour to someone to eventually turn up with a band-aid.
But I was strongly advised. I tell you the funny story is I didn't really need stitches.
I was like, it'll be alright. That'll heal. But the doctor came on set and I think he was,
he was, I think he got paid extra if he actually did some work. So he took me into my trailer
and he says, I tell you what, you know, you don't need stitches, but I think I'm going
to give you them anyway. And he injected me, hurt like bloody hell if you've ever had
been injected in your fingers. And then, and then he started sewing, sewing me together,
you know, and then while he's doing that, I'm looking at this freaking out, you know,
if I don't, we've had such, you know, look quite close up stitching my skin together
with a needle and stuff. And he goes, so how's it all been going? You know, how's your day been?
You know how my day's been, man. I've just cut myself. I nearly died. But I said to him,
look, actually, I'm ex-army, you know, this, this happens all the time. I was a soldier
and he didn't believe that. He says, well, why did you, if you were, if you were ex-army,
why did you even bother getting help, you know, for, for, for what's virtually a nick,
a slight nick? Anyway, I got, I got, I got fixed up and, and he's the same guy that
I spoke to the next day about the, my, my anxiety. And I tell you a lot of my army buddies
will laugh at me for, for being such a pussy. But, you know, I was in another realm. I wasn't
myself, you know? You're in another realm. Well, look, Reese, we so look forward to seeing
these, these new ex-files episodes, one of which we'll have you and it, our friend and podcaster.
And this is just, I'm so excited for you. It's so cool. I'm excited for me as a fan of the ex-files
to watch this. It's just incredible. And it's big for the cryptid factor. You know, we need to,
we need to get out there now into Hollywood. We need to pitch this show because it's so hot
right now. You know, we want to, we want to, while the iron is hot, while I'm on a show
like the ex-files, we, we, we want to make this, make, take advantage of this and get
our show on air as well. And we need you to fans. We need you to, we need all your support.
We need you to come with us for the, the pitching sessions. We need a queue of people outside
dressed as various cryptids with signs.
Look guys, thanks for tuning in to get another episode of the Cryptid Factor. We hope to be back with you
shortly. We've got crazy schedules or mainly Reese's got a crazy schedule. But we hope to be back soon.
Thanks for listening. I've been David.
I've been buttons.
And I've been Reese Darby. Thanks everybody, everybody.
Thanks everybody, everybody. Bye!
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